Daily Republican., 1880-12-04
VS. sU MMARY.

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Fraud-Raitimore GraIn Trouble
Settled - The Fast Mare. .Other
Incidents, Accidents, Crines and
Casualties.
The officers OF the mill in the town of
Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,, whsre the
Government fibre paper is made, say
that the paper found in possession of
Brockway and his gang sis not even
an imitation, or at best q very poor
one, of the distinctive paper used ten
years ago, and that, owing to the pre-
cautions used at the mill and on
the conveyance Of the paper to Wash.
ipgton, it would be impossible for out
side persons to procure it.
It ia announced that the controversy
between the Baltimore Corn Exchange
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has been satisfactorily set.
led. On the assurance that outside
storage will be provided for the excess
of grain in the elevators, the order to
advance the rates Of storage on and
after the 9th inst. has been Withdrawn
by the company.
1t is reported from New Orleans that
ths "fast mail servics'' on the Louis.
vile and Nashville Company's New
Orleans and Mobile Railroad, has
proved a failure. For the last sixty
days the mail trains on this road have
generally been from two to five hours
behind the schs iuls time.
Judge McKsnnan, of the U. S. Cir
cult Court at Pittsburg, yesterday ap-
pointed George De B. Keim Receiver Of
the Reading Railroad, in place of
Franklin B. Gowen, during the latter's
absence in Europe. The appointment
will cease on the return Of Mr.. Gowen,
who will then resume his position.
Fifteen of the forty.fve collieries of
the Philadelphia and Reading Company
have suspended operations for Deem
ber, owing to the Poor market for GER
tain sizes of coal. This throws about
5000 persons out OF work. All the in
dividual operators ara working.
The brigantine CSlderbank, as st.
Johns, Newfoundland, from Sydney
Cape Brenton, reports having passed
last Sunday morning, the spars Of
vessel Of about 200 tons, and soon after
her hull, bottom upward and deep in
the water. She is supposed to have
capsized in the late gale.
The Peninsular Cigar Company in
Detroit, Bernard street, President,
made an assignment yesterday. The
assets are estimated at $22. 800, and the
liabilities at $50 400, Of which $l2, 900
are due to parties in Philadelphis.
The Grand Jury ia rev York ysster-
day indicted 8. Q. MoEey for perjury,
and Joseph Hart, Louis A. Post, Ken
ward Philip and Charles Byrne for pub
lishing, in Truth, a criminal libel on
General Garfield.
The Official canvass gives Cults. tho
Republican candidate for Congressman
in the Sixth District Of Iowa, los ua-
jOrity. This is the District now repre-
Sentsd by Weaver, Gssenbaoksr.
Thomas ColmaD, aged 40 years, of
Fall River, Masssch usetts, bic y out the
gas before going to bed, in a hotel in
New York, on Thursday night, and
died yesterday morning.
Diptheria, in very malignant form,
has been prevailing recently in Grayson
county, Virginia. In SONS families Eve
or six parsons died, and in one instance
the whole family were carried of.
Mrs. Casey, whose two children were
burned to death while she was drunk,
in Montreal, on Thursday, died yestsr-
day in the hospital.
Cleophas LachAncs, convicted of the
murder of a young woman, has been
sentenced at the Arthabaska assizss, in.
Quebec, to bs hanged on the 2S.h Of
January next.
John Callahan, aged % years, was
hanged yesterday, in Wooster. Ohio,
for wsnton murder, committed in
October, 1879.
A man, named Lewis, and his son.
we're drowned by the upsstting of a
boat in creek in Chesterfield county.
on Thursday night.
John Ford, aged 35 years, and
Charles Bufns, aged 9s, were killed by
IN explosion of gas in New York yes
erday.
franklin W. Rice was killed by
ohm Cook, in Lansing, Michigan, yes
erday, in a quarrel about the right of
n alley-way.
A man named Shilling was shot dead
y Pooten Sooy, in quarrel about a
oman, in Knoxville. Tennessee, yes
srday.