The Morning herald., 1878-05-24
suHMARY OF NEWS.

Wheeling, W. Va, on the 3Oth Of the pres
ent month. f gFs
> Trsmps who seek the hospitali.iss Of
vsnango county, Pa, are compelled to dig
wells for public use.
There Is no abatement in the Fenian
scare on the Cansdian border.
The strawberry crop about Altoona, Pa,
was destroyed BY the recent fir st.
The Centenary Of American Methodism
whieh win take place in 1854, is to be held
IN Baltimore, instead Of Boston as at hrst
announced.
Over 1,100 persons participated in the
miners' exclrsion from schuylkill county,
Pa, 70 the permanent exhibition at Phila-
delpbia, Wednesday.
John Bright said in o recent speech that
one third Of the whele Land of the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain, being no less
than q, 600 eco acres, belongs to OS5 men
There 10 no foundation for the report,
originating in Canada, that the Dominion
roysrnmest has been notified from London
shat war bstweeu Russia and England 10
Inevitable.
Six hundred thousand pounds of buffalo
hides were rscentlT shipped from Fort
Worth to Lesvenworih, Kansas, and this
was the product Of only portion Of the
winters slaughter.
Stephen Girard's 12Ssh birthday was
celebrated BY the students at Girard Col
legs, Philadelphia, yesterday, with appro-
pirate ceremonies, the most imposiDg OF
which was the annual collation..
A Philadsphia coal nrm has concluded
contract with an Eastern railroad company
10 furnish them with lis, 600 tons of btu
minous coal. This 10 the largest contract
for coal ever made by any one Philadelphia
coal firm.
Agents of the British Government are
said to have purchased upw ards Of three
thousand horses in Northern New York ans
Vermont during the past two months, sc
lectipg then according to their fitness for
the cavalry service.
A special dispatch from San AHtonta.
Texas, says news has reached Gen. Ord that
the NexicaHs are preparing for another ex>
tensiye raid into Texas. A session OF the
Second Artillery, with 200 rounds of anmu-
milton, is held in readiness 10 move.
The Philadelphis Evening Telegraph, ib
spesking of senstor Bayard as candidate
In 1880, says: There are two Obstacles to
Mr.. BAyard, both of which are fatal. He
comes from Q small Southern State, and he
Is TOO good naa ior his party.
Kansas City expects soon to be lighted By
natural gas. In various places round about
the town people who have sunk artesian
wells have sl uck gas veins. At Wyan'
do,te, two miles of, there is an abandoned
salt bore that for five years has given q, )"
900 feet of gas day.
Fifty Thousand children took part 10 lhe
parade OF the Brooklyn IN. - Sunday
Seheol Union Wednesday The city va.
in holiday garb, all public buildings beins
elsborately decorated with flags and stream
ers. and nearly Every private building oI
the route of march being heavy with flags
III, Russian government, through ii
agent, Captain Grippenburg, has orencc
negotiations with 'the South Bosom Irol
Company for the manufacture OF heavy
ordnance, and q special price list, with full
particulars ss to the capacity Of the work
as at present operated or under !he hiehes
pressure, has been submit d at the reques
Of the Russian agent.
The Messrs. Collins, OF Phil delplia, T.
have the contract for building thu Madei:,
AMI Namors railroad, have an agent il
Washington and the adjoining portions o
Virginia employing colored laborers - /
to Brazil. Rev. Alevsndfr Cromwell,
we'll -knoa q colortd mil. er OF Washington
has INTERESTED himself IN the m rvemer
AVID has advised eoored m t. enter ist
contract with the Messrs. Co!lIs.
Grace P. E. Church, New YORK, has bet
enlarged and third organ of mammot
Dimensions added; at the same time =
electric attachment has seen proyiit
whereby the Organist can operate any Oh
or all three efthe instruments together fro'
the same keyboard, notwithstanding the
sre $50 feet from each other. There al
twenty miles of wire in the various circuit
The bellows and steam engine are bot
placed in building outside of the churcI
The Catholic clergy Of Philadelphia a
much concerned over what appears to be 8
organized raid upon their churches. Witt
IN the past three weeks six places of wo
ship, Including the Cathedral, have be'
broken in and despoiled of their ornsmen
and vestments, while attempts at rsbbe
have been made in four other edihces. T
poer boxes were rifed In every case, pi
fure frames demolished, the candlesr
rudsly tossed on the foor, the sacred silv
stolen ard the sanctuary maliciously d
faced. At 81. Mary's Church the burgla
forced an iron safe set In the wall In erd
to ret at the silver, and In addition to
chslice and two ciboria they carried OF
religuary of St. Philomena. Two attemI
were made to rob the Cathedral. On o
ooaasioa the thieves set fire to q door lea