Daily Republican., 1879-12-24
NEWS SDMMARY.
A Cbropieie Of ths Important
Events which, Occurred hrous n /.
out the Country Yesterday.

sbfOns1io Of ths Important
Events which, Occurred Ihsoush
out the Country Yesterday.
1t is reported thst President Hayes,
in conversation with Representative
Williams, of Wisconsin, yesterday, en-
phatically condemned the action Of the
dovernor and Council of Maine in
"rsvising" the popular vote of that
State. Mr.. Hayes, it is said, express.
ed the opinion that good people of all
parties, as the facts become known,
would emphatically condemn the out
rage"
The Governor Of Ohio yesterday par.
doned Patrick Kaueen, who, four years
sg', was sentenced in Cleveland to ten
years Imprisonment for manslaughter
tor permitting an idiot son to die OF
starvation. Kaneen's wife was not prog
ecuted, as her husband was held &C.
countable for her acts, but the Governor
has become satisfied that she was real.
ly tho guilty person.
A claim of s24, 900, for Transportation
OF home guard troops, and for bridges
and property destroyed during the late
war, filed by the Jacksonville, Madison
and indianapolis Railroad in the office
of the Adiutant-Gene of Indiana,
has been transferred 10 the War De-
partment at Washington, to be filed
there in accordance with new act OF
Congress.
Peter Gilroy, aged "a years, lied yes
terday in Cincinnati from the effects Of
a cut from butcher knife, received
about ten days ago. William Ortner,
an old man, was arrested yesterday on
the charge of having inflicted the
wound; but little is known of the facts,
Gilroy having been unable to make an
ante.nortem statement.
A delegation OF New York tobacco
manufacturers Yesterday protested TO
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
against the proposed change in the
manner Of printing internal revenue
stamp IN 1foil tobacco wraps. The
Commission promised not to make
alterations without consulting the
wishes OF the .fade.
1t is believed in Chicago that the
pork packers strike will be influenced
by letter from prominent Catholic
clergyman advising the Union to re-
scind its order that packers shall not
work with non Union men. The letter
will probably be aided by the fact that
many of the strikers are in great need
Of money.
Rev. Father Dovenhoffer, charged
with severely whipping three boys, his
pupils, for attending, as pail bearers,
the funeral Of a Protestant boy, was
convicted at Versailles, Ind. yester-
day, of assault and battery, and SEN
fenced to pay fines and costs aggrega-
ting in the three cases over $500.
The warehouse, machine shop and
part Of the foundry Of the hardware
works of Rick Brothers, in Reading,
Pa, were burned yesterday morning.
The loss is estimated at a., 200. Sew
eral stores in Waynesboro, Ga, were
burned on Monday night, and several
persons were injured, one fatally.
A public meeting was held in the
Merchants Exchange parlors in Boston,
yesterday, to discuss the question of
Indian citizenship. Addresses were
made by General Armstrong, principal
of the Government School at Hampton,
Va, and by W. II. Lincoln, Of Boston.
The trial OF Royal S. Carr for the rnur-
der of w. w. Murcommuck, at Mont
pelier, w., resulted yesterday in his
The case will be appealed.
Carr has already served term of i'm
prisonmsnt for previous murder.
The City Councils of New Orleans
in obedience to a mandsmus
from the U. s. Supreme Court, levied a
special tax to satisfy a Judgment in ia
vor of Morris Ranger, Charles Parson
and others, for about $3.50, 900.
Hereafter each life, saving station on
the New Jersey coast, between Sandy
Hook and Point Pleasant, will be pro-
vided with team of horses to pull the
ife-car and apparatus to scenes OF ship
wreck.
All the executive departments in
Washington will be- closed on Christmas
md New Years day. On the interven-
ng days the Treasury Department will
,e closed at one o'clock, the other De-
)artments at noon.
A freight train on the Missouri, Kan
as and Texas Railroad, fell through a
burning bridge, near Durant, Texas, on
ionday. Twenty-Five cars were burned,
nd Michael Shelly, fireman, perished
n the wreck.
Nathan Thomas had his head split
pen by jeremiah Ashba, into whose
ouse, at Logansport, Ind, he was try. ,
1g to force an entrance, on Sunday
light. Ashba gave himself up. t
The house Of James Gleason, near L
yerstown, in Burlington county, N. j., S
as destroyed by fire on Monday morn
lg, and three Of his children perished
| the flames.
Hard coal has been found near Emer- t
IN, Manitoba, at a depth Of twenty Il
W feet. n
Attorney General Dsvens has gone to g
oston for the holidays. Il
A WOman's singular Death. N