The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-07-17
goods. Four years ago American dry goods
were scarcely known on the Island. The pro-

goods. Four years ago American dry goods
were scarcely known on the Island. The pro-
visions consumed are from the United States
Thomas Carson, OF Angola, Ind, an old gen.
tleman of fifty-seven years, committed sui.
eide by taking morphine, on Friday ght.
temporary insanity, causeo oy III heaiCn anu
financial embarrassment, is the supposed
cause.
The pork packers of st. Luis, several of
whom have large trade with the German
Empire, are considerably exercised over the
recent Imperial decree preventing the impor-
tatiOn of the hog product Into that country,
simply on sanitary grounds.
The weather all over Ireland, up to the pres
emit, has been most favorable. 1t is expected
that the potato crop will be enormous 1t
promises to exceed anything seen in Ireland
since The period anterior TO the famine OF lS4T.
The root and cereal crops are also luxuriant
Rev. Barnas Sears, DID,, LII D., for many
years President of Brown University, Provi-
the George Peabody fund io r edScationai pur-
poses In the SOutt, his home being at Stanton,
Va, died at Saratoga, N. Y, on Wednesday,
aged seventy-seven.
The North Carolina Republican State Con
vention met at Ri ,ign rhursdsy, 1000 del
egates being pres mt. j Young presided.
The platform indGrses Garfield and Arthur.
Judge Ralph p. Buxton was nominated Tor
Governor and General Rufus Barringer for
Lieutenant Governor.
Sara Bernhardt sails for New York from
and viii make her debut at Boo.h's Theater
November 3, in adrian LecOuvreur." Jeanne
Bernhardt is In her sisters company, whose
stage manager will probably be Belvaux, the
stage mansger of Rachels American troupe.
Mrs. Slime Seton, the wife of farmer living
NORTH of Greensburg, Ind, ran rusty nail in
Friday night, after ABOUT fOrty-eight hours OF
most int nse suffering. death came to her re-
lease. She mad only been married about
" ar and half, and leaves husband and one
child.
The census of Chatfano ga is estimated at
thirteen t. ousand three hundred. In 1870 the
city contained only six thousand and ninety
three inhabitants, having increased liz per
cent. in the last decade a iarker increase than
any ether city south of the Ohio. The County
now contains twenty three Thousand souls, an
increase of so per cent. since 1870.
The official census will probably give st.
Louis less than $4,000 population. While the
supervisor has made DO authoritative state
ment to shat effect, IL is generally believed to
be the fact, ard no deniai of 1t is attempted
The additional list of q 600 names, collect d
by the letter carriers, has not been adj q
the official enumeration by the Supervisor
Miss Susie Peary, seventeen years old, stu
dent in the Normal College, New YORK Satul-
day swan from the foot of Ninety-stxth stree I,
| North River, TO the dock above Fort Lee, "a
| distance OF more THAI five miles. The tide
| and wind were against her. She had not been
| In the water for two years to swim any consid-
| cradle distance. Before long she is TO make a
| ten mile swim up the Hudson to Yonkers.
During terrific thunder storm Wednesday
afternoon the house of NJ j. Deyton, between
Sea Plain, N. j., and Ocean Beach, was struck
| by hgh thing pTostrating most of the inmates.
1t Is feared Mrs. DeysOn received fatal injuries.
ALI were in such condition that IL was nee
essary to carry them out of the house, w dich
| soon burst into flames. The fire, however,
| was soon eXtinguished.
| Judge Lawrence on Saturday officially noti
| fed the Treasury Department that he declii. ed
the Office of First Comptroller of the Treasury,
| recently rendered him, The In crence here Is
that Lawrence believes he can de eat Keller
| for the Congressional nomination in the
/ Springfield ID strict. The Office is now vacant,
| Porter's resignation having taken effect on
! Saturday.
Saturday morning at 2 o'clock one of the
| batteries of seven boilers in Painters Iron
Mill, on the South Side, Pittsburg exploded
| with a loud report, killing Fred Cradle, the
| engineer, and VIM. Black, the fireman. They
| were both buried beneath the debris and terri.
| bly, mangled. Cradle leaves a family. Black
was only eighteen years old. The mill had
not started, and there were only three men in
| the boiler room. The other man escaped.
| Saturday afternoon Mr.. Nymphus Bassett,
| an elderly farmer residing five miles north OF
Sheloyville, Ind, was struck by lightning and
| instantly killed. He had been blowing near
his house, aud no icing the comm OF 6 sudden
| thunderstorm, unhitched to return home.
| While letting down the fence gap near his
barn the fatal bolt descended, and ne was lett
dead, while his horse walked leisurely to the
| stable. Shortly afterward his body was dis
| covered by his family.