Daily Republican., 1879-06-26
NEWS SUMMARY
,o,leye Comm enc ements-. Dish onest
Au0rneys-GOOd CrOps-The Gal
lows-A Record OF Crimss, Ac.
c,deuts. Inct dents, Failures. &c.

o,lege Comm ence IT,. Dish onest
auorneys-GOOd CrOps-The Gal
lows-A Record OF Grimes, Ac.
ctdeuts, Incidents, Failures. &c.
Yesterday was the 55th anniversary
f Yale Law School. The degree OF
/, D. was conferred on twenty-thres
Graduates. At the meeting ofthe Yale
Alumni yesterday, the annual state
hent showed that the expenditures of
The Academical department for the year
Ware $l44, ,054, and the income, $780,
b9o. Owing toincreased expenditures,
I had been found necessary to tempor-
prily reduce the salaries of the profess
rs.
The Committee on Claims of the City
Council of Boston, on Tuesday evening,
unanimously voted to debar James W.
FOX and John J. McDavitt, attorneys,
rom appearing before them in future.
appears that these attorneys retained
BOO of an award of 1880 made by
lie committee to a poor woman who
Fas crippled for life by falling on an
cy sidewalk last winter.
The commencement exercises of Har-
lard College were held yesterday. The
.raduating class, 222 in number; Is the
largest ever turned out of the college.
[he honorsd degree of Ii. D., was con-
erred upon Governor Talbot, Of Massa-
husetts, and Sir Edward Thornton
he degree Of D. D. was conferred on
lev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston.
The crop reports from the Dominion
Province of Ontario are favorable, the
ne weather of the past few weeks hav-
made up for the lateness Of the
ping. The hay crop will be unpre-
.dented, and the grain crops above
be average. Thus far the potato bug
as not appeared.
Robert Jones, colored, convicted Of
be murder of Rudolph Eaton, white,
Fas publicly hanged at Tarboro, N. c.,
esterday. He laughed and joked on
is way to the gallows, and said he
as "going straight to heaven"
Bxilda La Chapelle and Fanny Ed
Fards completed the task of walking
600 quarter miles in 5000 quarter
ours in San Francisco yesterday MORN
tg. 1t is said they looked as fresh as
hen they started.
The new Gaion steamship Arizona,
Fhich left New York at 5.35 A. M. on
lie 18th inst, arrived at Queenstown
-sterday at 7.20 A. NJ, making the
hssage across the Atlantic in 7 days,
hours and % minutes-the quickest
record.
The liabilities of McGibbon & Baird,
Montreal, who failed recently, aggre-
ate Sl79,513 of which $50, $50 are in
rect. J. R. O'Neal, dry goods mer-
ants, of Montreal, suspended yester
y for $4,000.
James Groody and James Kale were
Friously injured, the latter perhaps
tally, by the premature explosion of
blast at the Shenandoah Colliery, near
Pttsville, yesterday.
The Supreme Cor-. at Harrisburg
fused yesterday to interfere in the
se of Nimrod Spattenhower, sentenced
be hanged at Lebanon on the Sd of
fly.
The captain and two seamen of the
hooner Cumminger, which arrived at
rw York yesterday from Para, died of
low fever on the voyage,
An incendiary fire in Buffalo, y. Y,
sterday morning, destroyed the En-
re and Marine elevators, an ice house
ID several small dwellings. The loss
nearly $4,000.
Ex Governor Hartranft had an inter-
ew with the Postmaster General in
ashington yesterday in reference to
creasing the force of letter carriers
Philadelphia.
Hugh Hempsey, a night watchman
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near
tnkhannock, fell asleep on the track,
Tuesday night, and was killed by
sing train.
PThe Senate of New Hampshire yes
fday adopted resolutions approving
vetoes Of President Hayes.