The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1879-12-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
Easlern and Midd,e States

One of the interesting features OF the election.
in Boston was the appearance OF women at
tho polls, the new law allowing them to vote
for school committees. About 1000 women
registeredin Boston, and nearly that number
voted.
Reports from Gloucester Mass, show an
unprecedented loss of life in the fisheries from
that port during the past year. There were
thirty vessels, valued at S118,7S9. and 24U
lives lost. Two other vessels are still miss
ing
! AT meeting in New York about 100 dele
gates, representing more than twenty States,
formed national society in the interests of
farmers, TO be called &c The American Agrieul-
luIal Association" The aims of the associa-
! ton are similar to those of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society in Great Britain, which are:
l, The dissemination of knowledge relative to
the best methods OF agriculture. 2. Testing
OF competing agricultural implements. 8. In
vestigations into diseases OF animals. 4. The
education OF veterinary surgeons, tenants and
land owners 5. Exposure OF frauds in the
sale OF manuIes, feeding stuffs and seeds.
6. Embodiment, of useful Information con-
tanned in agricultural publications.. Z. 70 en-
courage men OF talent in their attention to
agriculture. s. The destruction OF insects and
weeds
The house OF Miles Tuttle near Rochester,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire few mornings
ago, and Mr.. Tuttle and one child that he was
trying to resede were burnedto DEATH
The National Agricultural Association, or
ganized in New York, elected the following
board of officers: President-John Mer1iman.
OF Maryland. Vice-Presidents at Larse-N
I s. Townsend Ohio; Moses Humphrey, New
Hampshire; j. G. Stevens, Ohio; j.. B. Bard
we'll Maine; G. Gregory Smith. Vermont;
David Taggart, Pennsylvania; Z. II. Hyde
Connecticut; John Scott, Iowa; George II.
Cook, New Jersey; Ashbel Smith, Texas; G.
V. Riley, District OF Columbia. Vice-Presi-
dents L. L. Polk, North Carolina; Dr.
Henry M. Ridgley, Delaware; G. W. Thomp-
son, Minnesota; j. d. Gillett, Illinois; Daniel
Needham, Massachusetts,; Edward d. Pearce,
Rhode Island; J.zW. Avery, Georgia; Ezra
Whitman, Maryland; John D. Adams, Ar
kansas; D. Wyatt Aiken, South Caroline;
Governor George f. Drew, Florida; F. L.
Francis, Alabama; Governor Alcorn, Missis-
sippi; Colonel j. B Killebrew, Tennessee;
) Cassius NJ. Clay, Kentucky; j. Floyd King,
Louisiana; Roger w. Woodbury. Colorado;
John Bidwell, California; S. G. Reed, Ore
gon; John F. Jones, Nevada; Henry G..
Davis, West Virginia; General Gilbert S.
Meenl, Virginia; Claude Matthews, Indiana;
Chester Hazen, Wisconsin; II. G. Welis
Michigan; j. H. Scofeld, Kansas; D. II.
Wheelers Nebraska; Professor G. C. Swal
low and Lawson Valentine, New York
Directors tor one year--N. f. SpTague, YER
mont; pm. Pulfofd, Maryland; Thongs NJ
Holt, North Carolina; t. E. Gould, Illinois
and j. N. Coleman, Missouri. Directors for
two years-Major Alvord, Massachusetts; A.
L. Kennedy Pennsyl yania; J.T. Henderson,
Georgia; Mr.. McGrath, Kentucky; Mr..
Trilupy, Michigan; j. B. Grinnell, Iowa;
Powell Clayton, Arkansas. Directors for
three years = Governor Fred Smyth, New
Hampshire;s General N. W. Curtis, New
7 orls Robert Beverly, Virginia; III. Law
son, Ohio; William S. King, Minnesota;
Henry Hubbard, Colorado; General a. L. A.
Torbert, Delaware. Mr.. j. III. Reall was,
chosen general secretary, and constitution
wasadopted, 30 E ETs
e Hanlan, the Toronto oarsman, at an inter-
view in New York, offered to row Courtney
the race tor the $4,000 prize that was to have
taken place at Washington on the 9th, any
time within the next five weeks, and signed
an agreement to that effect.
THE oficial count OF the vote in New York
rs tound by the board of State canvassers
gives the following result for governor: Cor
nell, 4lS,567; Robinson, 375,79o; Kelly, II,
500; Lewis (Greenbackl, D., 286; Mears (Pro.
hibition), 4,437; scattering, 1885, For lieu
tenant-governor IIoskins hasa plurality Of
29) over Potter. The only Democrat elected
on the State ticket is Seymour, State engineer
and surveyor, whose plurality over Soule is
I2,44I.
Standing Bear, a ciefef the Penca Indians,
and Bright Eyes, well-edncated Indian girl
appeared before o large audience in New
Aork the other night and made plea for their
people, depicting the sufferings of the III
Fonca Indians in being forcibly driven last
winter from their reservation in Dakota to
the Indian Territory,
Three miners-Fr ederick Hoy, John EckleI
and William Johnson-were crushed to death
by falling coal in mine near fremont, Pa.
Courtney, the American oarsman, SAYS he
will not row Hanlan this winter, as he is in
10 condition, but proposes to row the Canadian
champion race next June.
%. P. Stinson, engineer, Edward Markham,
fireman, and D. f. Lyman, bridge tender,
were killed by the wrecking of a train at
Larrabees Point, vt.
Western and Southern State
Raymond Knowles, superintendent of the
Thistle mills, at Leicester, Nd, met with
terrible death while ascending to the sixth
story of the mills with his foot in the rope
hook which was used to elevate cotton. The
rope ascended with great velocity, and
Knowles head struck the roof of the building
His skull was fractured, and the body turn-
bied 200 feet to the ground floor. 1t was
found that the hip bone had been driven into
the femorsal artery, and he bled to death in a
lew minutes.
The American Poultry Association holds its
annual exhibition OF poultry, pigeons and pet
stock at Indianapolis, Ind, beginning January
9Th and continuing to the 18th.
dispatch from Petersburg, Va, says that
large numbers of colored emigrants have
passed through that place from Goldsboro,
\. c., the last few days, en- route tor Indiana.
f,1-o-.,l -, - ,.,,e,
diality by the citizens OF Louisville, KY, and
CINCINNATI
Several relatives OF Mrs Dorsey have be.
gun a suit at New Orleans against Jefferson
Davis, te.whom she bequeafhed the whole'oi
her estate. The object OF the suit is to have
Mrs. Dorsey viii set aside on the ground
that when she made it she was of unsounJ
mind and was unduly influenced by the de-
fendant.
Two workmen were instantly killed and
seven others injured-twO. mortally-by the
caving in of the side of deep railroad cut
near Plattsmouth, Neb. ssis si
J. C. Birmingham, of Louderdale county.
Penn, refuses TO recognize the abolition OF
slavery, and since the war he has claimed to
own two colored girls because he had owned
their mother. The conduct of Birmingham
excited the indignation of his neighbors, and
at their instigation the United States grand
ufy.r6celtly tOunu an Indictment against him.
Judge Hammond, OF the United States circuit
court, has quashed the Indictment, holding
that the offense is one not provided 4or By any
act of Congress aud not punishable by ihdict-
ment in the federal courts. The defendant
was discharged.
The Rev. w. H. Pledge minister OF promi-
hence, recently appointed by the Methodist
Episcopal conference to take charge of church
IN Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide in that
city q few days since by cutting his throat
No cause for the act was assigned.
Mrs. ellis was burned to death and her
husband and two children were badly injured
at a fire which destroyed their residence in
Little Rock, Ark.
saM y From Washington 70 20
Hhe President has appointed ex-United
States Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, to sue
caed Judge McCrary as secretary of war, and
the Senate in executive session has unani.
mously confirmed the nomination. Alexander
Ramsey, the new secretary OF war, is a native
of Pennsylvania, aud is sixty -four years old.
He held the Office Of register of his county
when only thirteen years old. In 1910 he
was secretary OF the electoral college OF Penn
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