Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-21
DOMESTIC.

The Hon. Thomas Bayle Potter, M F. for Rochdale, arrived. last week, by the Scythia. The Iowa Greenback Convention has ad-
 journed without making any nominations. The New York counterfeiters of Brazilian currency were released, on Wednesday, and then rearrested on charge of fraud. A convention of Maryland taxpayers has
 been held at Baltimore and reform was de- manded.
 On the 18th, six deaths and twenty two new
 cases of yellow fever were reported in Mem- phis. 1f '-' The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company sold coal at auction on Wednesday, at lower prices than ever before known at public sale. The California Republicans are making &C., tive efforts to elect at least three Congress- men. ~ '--'* Twenty three new cases of yellow fever are
 reported from Memphis, on the 18th inst. The deaths number twelve. ". S Congressman Hendrick B. Wright address ed large assemblage of workingmen in San
 Francisco, Wednesday. 3t The Mormons are quite insoleut an their con-
 duct is watched vigilantly by the War Depart ment.
 Negotiations have been reopened for the re- | covery of A. T. Stewards body; 8 quarter of 8
 million is asked for it, and tenth of that sum l offered. .41!"5
 The New York tenement-house inspectors
 had visited 3, 133 houses on Wednesday even- l ing, with five Inspectors to hear from. The investigation of the charges against
 Postmaster Tyler. of Baltimore, is in prog 1 ress. +<'. t'}'' @t ' ,~ Thirteen new cases of yellow fever and seven deaths are reported from Memphis, 1 Monday. ga TT
 Five persons were killed, Thursday, by a
 railroad collision on the Atlantic City, N. J.,
 narrow -guage line to. Philadelphia. The Rev. Dr. William H. Odenheimer, Bishop of Northern New-Jersey, died at Bur lington, N. J., last week, At Memphis, Thursday, forty new cases of yellow fever were reported there were ten ! deaths.
 The Lake Shore hne has acquired control
 of the Canada Southern Railroad. The writ of prohibition in New York Police Commissioner Wheeler's case was argued be- l fore Justice Van Brunt, Thursday. Tn National Cotton Exchange closed it's con- ] ventiOn, Friday. '9.a The Barring steamship line, of Boston, is | about to discontinue sailing. l The New York Democratic State Committee agreed on Syracuse and September 10th as the place and time of the Democratic State Con- vention. The Locust Grove Hotel and Pavilion on
 Long Island were burned, Friday, and four l lives were lost. Fourteen new cases and seven interments l are reported from Memphis, Friday. The jury have censured the assistant super intendent of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway for the collision at Clermonton, ! N. J., Thursday.
 Joseph F. Frye,a dealer in leather and hides,
 was murdered and robbed Thursday night in Boston; two Italians have been arrested under
 suspicion of having cognizance of the affair. l A young girl who landed in New York from
 Havana, last week, was attacked by yellow fever on Staten Island and died on Swinburne l Island.
 | The next contest for the Astley belt will be- gin at Gilmore's Garden, September %. Ellis Mcdonald, an engineer, was killed in
 a railroad collision near Cumberland, Md l A young woman named Roche jumped from
 the Sound steamer Bristol on Saturday even- l ing and was drowned a- 3
 The fire at Parker's Landing destroyed 65, 900 gallons of oil. V T II ]. l The Nebraska crops promise great produc- \ tiVeness.