Daily Republican., 1879-12-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
Nominate ms and Gonarn, ~ ions-
The Virginia Lrgislatare--Jnbu.
niaDity to q B0y--Murderer Re
prieyed -' Grant In LOnisviIIe--
other lscidents, Accidents.

prleved -- Grant in LOnisviIle--
other Incidents, Accidents.
Grimes, &c.
The President Yesterday nominated
aud the Senate at once confirmed ex
Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, to b,
Secretary OF War. The Senate confirm
ed Horatie G. Sickel TO be Pension
Agent at Philadslphia; Wm. II. Heys
U. s., District Judge for Kentucky; C.
r. James, Associate Justice for the Dis
trict Of Columbia; Charles Beardsley
Of Iowa, Fourth Auditor Of the Treas
ury; Albert Johnson, Surveyor Genera
for Colorado, and Edward S. Tobey
Postmaster at Boston.
The Virginia Legislature yesterday
elected Corbin N. Reynolds, State Trea
urer; r. +. Walker, Superintendent o
Pablo Printing, and Sinuel C. Viii
liams for Superintendent of the Peni
tentiary. More than three hours were
consumed in debate on the choice o.
Superintendent of Printing, hence the
election of the three remaining officers
was postponed until to-day. When
these offices are filled the Read iustars
will have entire control Of ths Govern
msnt of Virginii.
A hoy of II years being stricken with
small. .pox in Hull, Ont, his family de,
serted him, leaving him alone without
food or attendance. Some nsighbors
hearing of the matter at last, went to
the house with q bowl Of soup, and
found the poor fellow at the point Of
death from disease and hunger, he hav-
ing gnaged one of his arms. He raw
enously swallowed the soup and died
10 few minutes.
Nathan Orlando Greenfield, sentenced
to bs hanged at Syracuse, on Friday, tor
the murder OF his wife, has been re-
prievea until the Goth of January.
Greenfield has been three times tried,
convicted and sentenced to be hanged,
and his friends falling to secure him a
fourth trial. have obtained the respite
with a view to having his sentence
commutsd to imprisonment for life.
General Grant arrived in Louisville
yesterday. He was received by a great
concourse of the citizens and escorted
by civic and military procession
to the Court House where he was
formally welcomed by the Mayor and
Governor. During the afternoon he
held a reception at the Louisville Hotel.
He goes to Cincinnati to-day.
"The hardest storm in the history of
the Northern Pacific Railroad" is re-
ported to be prevailing along that
road from Bismarck to Duluth, covering
an area Of 400 miles square. The snow
is already one foot deep on a level, with
fonr feet drifts, and all the trains are
delayed. Casualties to settlers in ex-
posed districts are feared.
Fleichnan, schell & Co., hardware
dealers, OF San Francisco, have made
an assignment. Their liabilities are
about $65, 900; assets, S35, 900. Thefts
by their bookkeeper, Ernest Loewen-
berg, who had been Leading fast life
and speculating in stocks, caused the
firms embarrassment.
The Directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad lat their regular meeting,
in Baltimore, yesterday, unanimously
elected John W. Garret. President of
the Company. Mr.. Garrett now enters
on his twenty-second consecutive year
of service in that position.
The dressing rooms of Emerson's
at the Royal Opera House in
Toronto, were entered on Tuesday night
by thieves, who riaed the pockets of
most Of the performers Of money and
watches, and also took some clothing.
A severe wind storm passed over the
town of Renick, in Randolph county,
Mo-, on Tuesday evening, demolishing
three dwellings and damaging several
others. A number OF persons were in
jured-two fatally.
Thomas +. Callahan. indicted for the
murder Of Luke Darby, at Worcester,
Mass, yesterday pleaded guilty Of muir
der in the secoad degree, and was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
At New Brunswick, N. j., yesterday,
the trial Of Hart More, ex-County Col
lector, for the embezzlement of $40, 900.
resulted in verdict of guilty, with a
to mercy.
The hearing Of the application for
against the Secretary Of
state of Maine was begun yesterday by
Judge Virgin in the Senate Chamber at
Augusta.
Miles Tuttle, gate-keepsr, and two
child, perished by the burning
If a toll-gate house near Rochester, N.
T., yesterday morning.
Barbara Gordon, aged about 1901
vears, was killed by the railroad cars
It Neyburgh, N. Y, yesterday. She
cav es a husband.
The Treasury Department yesterday
purchased 260, 600 ounces of silver for
he Philadelphia Mint.
Secretary MoCrary expects to leave
Washinet ton next week to assume his
luties as Judge Of the Eighth U. ).
circuit.
Repeal Of the Legal Ten dor Clause
Senator Blaine is reported to have
laid on Monday tina. he would vote
lgainst Secretary Sherman's 5 recommen-
lation that the greenbacks be divested
If their legal tender quality. Mr..
Blaine thought it would be best to
lave each bank in the country redeem
coin as soon as there shall be
uiflcient accumulation of it, and he
would let the legal tender notes alone
or the present rather than provoke an
.ngry financial excitement when the
ountry is awaking from its business
ethargy.