Daily Republican., 1879-10-25
NEWS sum NARY.
More Gold I'm Circuiation-Heavy
Ratns - Wiae's Companion sup
posed 10 be FOund-Oiher Incl.
dents, Accidents, Grimes and Cas-.
uaiiffes.

Gent IN hnultlODal tsh mliilonS III B0iu
20 the Assay Office, at New York, to
facilitate foreign exchange. 1t is be,
lieyed that the Philadelphia Mint can
soon be relieved of the dollar coinage,
ana it will then work on the small
gold pieces now in demand.
There were heavy rains and disas,
irons floods in the island of Jamaica
from the 18th to the 14th inst. Tele-
Graph lines were levelled, trees, cattle
and dwellings were swept out to sea,
and in Kingston alone thirteen lives
were lost. There is great distress among
the poor.
The body of a man was found on the
Lake shore, near Toloston, Ind, yes
terday afternoon, ,decompesed and bruis-
ed beyond recognition, but npon his
clothes and slseve-buttons were the
initials of the man who accompanied
Wise in his last balloon ascension.
James r. Edmunds, of Newton, Mass,
arrested in June last for forgeries on
the Maverick Bank, ,aggregating $50, 900,
yesterday retracted his former plea,
and pleaded guilty. He will not be
sentenced until after the settlement OF
the civil suits to which he is party.
The jury in the case Of Caroline G.
|Goodrich and David f. Kimball, on
their second trial, at Boston, for the
rnurder of Jennie P. Clarke, yesterday
morning rendered sealed verdict of
guilty. Goodrich was found guilty of
malpractice, resulting in death, and
Kimball of being an accessory after the
fact.
Argument in the suit between the
city Of st. Louis and the St. Louis Gas
Company closed at Jefferson, Mo-, on
night, aud the case was TAX
en- under advisement. The suit in
wolves over 81, ,000,0 900, and has been
going on for nearly three years.
General Grant dined with Senator
Booth at Sacramento on Thursday even
ing. Governor Irwin and about fifty
Californians were pres
snt. The General and Mrs. Grant re-
turned to San Francisco yesterday.
Sir Charles Upper, the Dominion
Minister Of Public Works, said yester-
lay, in reply to an address from dep
ntation, that the feeling throughout
Canada was that the duty on iron
lhould be 50 instead of So per ton.
The police of Evansville, Ind, have
recovered about $1,000 worth of goods,
tolen by Alley, the trunk robber.-
Among the things recovered are arti-
les Of clothing belonging to John T.
Raymond, the actor.
1t is again rumored in Washington
hat the President wishes Secretary
warts to accept the English mission.
70 appointment, however, will be
hade until after the meeting of Con-
Iress.
A National Guard encampment, at
,elleville, ILL.,, broke up yesterday
gith sham battle. During the bat
le four men we're wounded, one NOR ,
ally, by the premature discharge of
annOn. {
Smith Herriott, aged 90 years, was
rrested near Delaware, Ohio, Thurs
ay night, for a tempting TO murder
lis father by shooting him. They had
een quarreing for some time.
Secretary Sherman left Washington {
afternoon. He will spend l
oday in New Jersey, and address a {
,epublican meeting in New York on
londay night.
The Artisans Building Society of .
lontreal, has resolved to go into ilqui
at!ou, with $l75, 600 of assets against
PSI 600 of liabilities. ..
The schooner Narcssa, laden with s
bal, for the district of Columbia, was d
INK in the Chesapeake, near Annapo-
is, on Thursday night. Her crew are
bic.
TIE schooner II. Rooney, of Kingston, |
mt, was sunk during a gale near 1
harlotte, N. Y, yesterday morning. f
TER cook was drowned. |
The men employed in the Chatfield J
10 mine, at Ore Hill, Conn, struck I
esterday tor higher wages.
Calvin J. Horn, aged 3S years, was +,
filed, and FRI derrick Sampsel seriously +
blurred, at Eastop, Pa, yesterday by :
be fall Of a scaifold, on which they a
ere working. .
Enoch Briggs, Of Hebronville, R. L.,
las killed at that place, yesterday,
pile walking on the railroad track.
|e was rs years of age. "
The schooner Nancy, recently wreck t
on Cariboo Island, N. S., lost her a
hcle crew consisting Of four men and o
|boy. Ii
a special dispatch to the Philadel-
bia "Press" says: While great II
kIy Democrats here are somewhat in "
fned to ridicule the idea Of Senator "
ovid Davis for the Democratic Presi- u
fntial nomination, there are others IL
ho have always had much weight in
(e ccunsels Of their party who assert
lat in the event of Mr.. Tilden being
lelved by Republican victory in New X
Prk, Senator Davis would be q candl- s.
Fte who would have greater strength 81
the Presidential race than either Al
eyard, Hancock or any one else who t,
hs been discussed in this connection. e'
is asserted that Mr.. Davis would bring d
lt full Democratic vote in those Nor W
fern States were another candidate NJ
puld fail of majority; that his record OF
9TH as a in atica of the Supreme Court pI