Daily Republican., 1879-10-30
NEWS Summary.

R@AArOoO ACe10eDe -
4 Unveiling a Confederate Monu.
snent-The Yellow Fever-Osher
Il Fscfs. Accidents. Incidents ana
Grimes. Raf g{-Y . r, ,-u
In the American Missionary Associa-
tion at Chicago, yesterday, President
Morrell, of the Ripon, Wis, College,
made an address to show that the ne
gro race in America was intended for
the evangelization of Africa. DR.. Ray
read paper entitled "a Field View"
showing the condition of the colored
people in the South. Rev. J. H. Their
etchell, of Hartford, Conn.,, spoke upon
the Chinese question, and Rev. M. x.
scrieby, of New York, the Secretary of
the Association. read q paper on "Provi-
dental Calls" Fa'
U. s. Commissioner Mather was arres-
ted In Nashville yesterday on an in
dictment by the U. &. Grand Jury,
charging him with presenting fraudu-
lent accounts to the Government and
Swearing to the same. His commits
sion was revoked and he was held in
$25O0 for trial. Mather has been very
active in the suppression of Illicit dis
tillation.
The Confederate monument at Macon,
Ga, was unveiled yesterday, in pres
ence of about Is, 900 persons. Thirty
military companies marched through
the principal streets to the monument,
and then fred salute, after which
Colonel Thomas Hardeman delivered an
night.
Two new cases Of yellow fever were
reported in Memphis yesterday, and Dr..
W. B. Winn, inspecting officer Of the
National Board Of Health, who returned
from Forrest City three days ago, was
stricken in the afternoon. He contrac-
ted the fever in Forrest City A yellow
fever patient at Harrison, Miss, w.s re-
ported dying last evening. ba-
TIE Episcopal Convention ofNorthern
New Jersey yesterday took five inetfsc-
tuai ballots for Bishop, no candidate
receiving the necessary two-thirds vote.
On the fifth ballot, Rev. DR.. Starkley,
Of Paterson, received 20 clerical and 20
lay votes and Rev. DR.. Potter of New
York, rs clerical and q lay votes, two
lay votes scattering. The Convention
adjourned until this morning.
Thomas Ambrose, q clerk of the U.
s. District Court in Cincinnati, will be
arraigned before the U. s. Commissioner
to-day on the charge Of collecting ille-
gal costs. The Enquirer" Newspaper
Company has also brought suit sgainst
him to recover alleged excessive fees
paid by them to him.
A. B. Wakefield, who testified before
the Grand Jury in st. Louis in certain
gambling cases last spring, and used
the names Of Governor Phelps and
other prominent citizens with great
freedom, was convicted last night of
perjury and sentenced to two years
imprisonment.
Standing Bear, Wood worker and
Bright Eyes, Of the Ponca Indians, A.
rived in Boston yesterday and were
received by the Mayor and about one
hundred citizens. In the evening, a
given to the Standing
Bear, who made speech his interpre-
ter, Bright Eyes, detailing from the
wrongs Of his tribe.
General Paine. the Commissioner Of
Patents, says there is no foundation
for the report Of his resignation, ex-
sept a remark made by him on accept
lng Office, and occasionally repeated to
friends, that he "could not afford to
hold it permanently or for any length
If tim4.'
R. A Patterson, President of the
Biughamton, N. Y, College, has writ
'en to the New York Baptist Conven-
lion, now in session at Rochester, Offer
ing the privileges Of the College free to
rom so to 100 female candidates for
and temperance work.
The severest storm ever known on
Mount Washington, at this time of the
rear, ragged there yesterday morning.
'now had been falling for twenty-four
lours, and at ten o'clock in the morn
ne, the wind attained velocity of l32
niles per hour.
A Conference of Church of England
;lergy is in session in Ottawa, Canada.
bishop Lewis, in his charge to the Con-
erence, devoted much spacs "to the
uestioD of the relation of the .Sacra.
lent of the Eucharist with the attacks
modern thought
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