Daily Republican., 1879-11-18
NEWs sUMnARY.
CBIMEs AND INCIDENTS.

CnIMEs AND INCIDENTS.
Conde densed up frsn I.ast
Nights Dlspatches.
General Grant has accepted IN invi.
tation Of the Grand Army Of the Re
public Post Of Harrisburg, to visit that
city on December 18th, the day before
| his arrival In Philadelphia. General
Grant yesterday visited the Exposition
building IN Chicago, where thousands
OF school children had assembled u
greet him. He made brief speech In
reply to an address OF the President Of
the Board Of Education.
The various Government Depart
ments in Washington will be closed TO-
morrow, to enable the employees to par
ticipate in the ceremonies attending ths
unveiIing Of the Thomas statue. The
Treasury building will be illuminated
to. morrow and Thursday nights. The
Richmond Light Infantry Blues. o.
Richmond, Va, under command Of
Captain John s. Wise, son Of Henry A.
Wise, will attend the military cere'
monies tomorrow.
A telegram from Rochester, N. T.,
says that Courtney arrived there yes
terdsy morning, and obiscted to row
ing with Blaikie as referee, "claiining
that he did not authorize another par
ty to assent to the change of articles"
II is said he "wants Eustis, OF the At
lantic, to act as referes." Hanlan's
friends say they will insist on Blaikie
as referee: so the chances of a race--il
t here ever were any-seem at an end.
A telegram from Little Rock reports
that few nights ago John and George
Hudson and Robert Layton, from Gran
by, Mo-, "undertook to take possession
of the town Of Batesville, Ark" They
were defeated by the inhabitants, and
the two Hudsons were arrested next
night. Layton was recognized on the
street, and refusing to surrender, was
shot dead.
The Readjusters Of Petersburg, Va,
had torchlight parade and mass meet
ing last night, in jubilaton over their
success In the recent election. A few
private residences were illuminated.
Captain J. II. Neill, colored, presided
az the meeting, and among the speak
ers were General William Malone and
Colonel William f. Cameron.
Typhoid fever Is reported to be
alarmingly prevalent in the west end
of Montreal, and there are strange symp-
toms in many Of the cases which cannot
be satisfactorily diagnosed, and which
give the physicians, it is said, "a good
deal of anxiety" They are taking
every precaution, however, to stamp
out the disease.
A fight, growing out Of a question OF
wages, occurred at the rolling mill in
Atlanta, Ca, yesterday. The combat
ants were, on one side. David Reed,
foreman Of the pattern department, and
young man named Harris on the
other, two brothers named Sheats.
Edward 5heats was fatally, and Reed
severely wounded.
Last week President Seelye received
a gift of SlO6, 900 for Amherst College,
Of which $55, 900 Is in stock and bonds
given by Chester W. Chaplin, of Spring
field, Mass; 10000 will be given from
the Stone estate of Maiden, and $1,000
from another source to establish schol-
arship.
Heavy masses OF rock from the cliff
Immediately above the place where
General Montgomery fell, at Quebec,
tumblsd down during Sunday morning.
The rock had been loossned by heavy
rains. There are no buildings in the
locality.
Representative Atkins, of TenDes-
see, Chirman of the Committee on Ap-
preparations, will not arrive in Wash
ington before tho 29th inst., and there
will be no meeting Of the Committee
until after the assembling of Congress-
A coroner's jury at Brownsburg,
Indiana, yesterday found that Mrs.
Mary Jones had poisoned her little
daug ghter, Minnie, by giving her arse,
mic in her food. Mrs. Jones was ar
rested and lodged in jail.
Eliza Pinkston, Of Louisiana Return
ing Board notoriety, was arrested In
Canton, Miss, on Saturday, charged
with the murder of her husband, who
died very suddenly on that day.
Col. Richardson, who has arrived al
Winnipeg from Ba:tleford, contradicts
recent rumors regarding the disposition
of the Indians in the Northwest.
Yesterdays "Graphic" publishes 8
rumor "from well informed sources,
that Mayor Cooper, of New York, ii
about to be suspended.
Anna HoG, who deliberately killed
Scheuer, her betrayer, in Newport, ny.
was discharged by the magistrate yes
terday.
JUST RECEIVED BY rHE ELECTRIC LINE
FROM New YoRK.-5,0OO pieces Of wall
paper, comprising all the latest design'
and tints, which we are determined ia
sell lower than the lowest. $l.OO gold
embossed paper reduced to Is cts. por
piece; soc. gold papers to 4Oc. per
piece 25c. satin papers to 22c.; zoe.
heavy grounded papers to l7c.; l5c.
white back papers to l24c.; l24c. sec
ond grade white back papers to loo.
1Oc. brown back papers to &c. per piece.
We have lot Of 500 pieces of brown
back papers, last spring styles, which
we are selling at &c. per piece, which
would csst me, including freight, the
same money to replace them in fall
natterns, Those who have small tenant
houses 70 paper will save money by
buying these goods. In our labor de.
partment we are determined not to be