Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-10-26
Dep,rnc,lve ssorus Ia y A,unlcn.

Work on Slnail Soiu pieces.
Des,ractive ssorus iu j a,uaica.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. a.
The severe rains in this island from
the 18th to the 18th. did serious in.
jury to property in Kingston, ST.
Andrew and Port Royal noun
tains. Some thirteen lives were
lost in Kingston, while horses,
mules, sheep, goats, huge trees,
tim bers, bridges, houses, sacks OF
coffee and plantain trees were swept
out to sea. Great distress prevails
among the people. The telegraph
lines have been thrown down, and
communication with many districts
stopped. Business ia almost en-
tireIy suspended.
Jennie II. GinsH's murasrera iom-
v.cfed.
BOSTON, Oct. 24.-The Jury in
the case of Caroline Goodrich and
Daniel f. Kimball, on their second
tiial for the murder of Jennie p.
| Clark, the victim of the notorious
trunk tragedy, returned verdict of
guilty.
Tnr BtuY ana the Gray.
NEW YORK, Oct. pa Sails
bury, N. c., special says: A grand
reunion of Carolina soldiers Of
both armies was held here to-day.
Ten thousand people were present.
The town is gaily decorated with
Union flags. Governor Thomas j.
Jarvis, in a speech, said he had
been q soldier, aud urged Carroll.
mans to earn the devotion to the
flag of our country they had borne
to the other flag which had
been furled forever. Senator
Vance urged realization of
the full significance of the meeting.
"Godspeed,n said he, "the work of
restoring peace, union and harmO-
ny to our country" Daniel G..
and South must be friends. No
nation of equal numb ers could have
resisted the North as did the South;
and no nation but the North could
ever have conquered the South.
Major Hallock, of Michigan, said
he was glad his first public effort
was on such an occasion. lie had
fought for the Union, and now
would rebuke the demagogues who
sought place by reviving the pas
sions of the war
Zen Esni NOT kiopefui.
NEW YORK, Oct. PA WASH
ing on special says: Senator Hill,
of Georgia, passed through here
yesterday. He seemed very much
annoyed at the dismal prospect of
the Democracy. He visited New
York in the hape that he would be
able to reconcile the discordant ele-
ments of the Democracy and his
signal failure has discouraged and
EN- Uttered him. He is represented
as having expressed himself in
very unc0mplimentary language
about the Kelly faction. He re-
CARDS the loss of New York by the
Democracy as n foregone conclu-
sioU.
How JudGe Fi-ia's Gpiai"n IL
Viewed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The Utica
Herald says: The language of JUS
tice Fields dissenting opinion in
the Pacific Railroad case reads
very much as though that gentle
man thought that the catastrophe
to Thurman and the impending
catastrophe to Tiiden in New
York made an opening for him
self in the matter of the next
Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, which it behooved him
to push for. The purpose of his
denunciation OF Capitalization is
so obvious that Its effect will be
absolutely nothing, except possibly
in the way of starting "boomn
for himself.
The East River Bridge.
NEW York, Oct. 24-Two hum
dred and fifty men--a larger num-
Der than at any previous time-are
now employed upon the New York
approaches to the East river
bridge. The first row of arches of
the upper pier for the span across
Gold street were finished yester-
day. All buildings between Rose
and William streets have been torn
down within two weeks. The work
then will be within a block of
Chatham street, from which the
approach will start.
Death of Young Edison.
LONDON, October PAT. Edison,
nephew of the American invent
or, died in Paris, where he recent
~ arrived to superintend his uncle's
patent affairs.
Preparations for War.
BERLIN, Oct. 24.-The cast-steel
works of A. Bookhoff has been or
dered to suspe nd their large private
business, every resource being re-
quired to execute the enormous or
ders for the Government of Russia
for steel cannon and other imple-
ments of war.
Eatab,e suicide.
PARIS, Oct. 24.-Signor Topoli, o
Trieste banker, committed suicide
on account of the impossibiity OF
his filling some large corn con-
tracts. Liabilities. $4,000 forms.
chinese Opposing the Engtish in
ABin.
SIMLA, Oct. 2i.-IDtelligence
from Yarkard to August 3lst an
uounce that $4,000 Iganes, Khargiz
and Kipchaks reached Mingyul.
near Kashgar, where they met a
large force of Chinese. Two de.
cisive engagements were fought;
, the Chinese lost many killed. A
Kipchak who was arrested as a
: spy stated that tho Russians sup
/, piled stores to the invading Chit
nese. Troops from Yansi Hissal
and Var have been dispatched
! against them, another Andijane
! column liz advancing across the AL