Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-16
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Ncv. Dr. Wlill1m fauSer, clergy yn3il,
physician and musical author, died yester-
day in Wadley, Ga, aged 6S years.
- Official returns from all the counties in
Arkansas except five give Churchill, the
Democratic candidate for governor, 52, 900
majority. s..-;'.''.. -.
Hayes and party. left San Francisco yes
terday for Monterey. The party were re-
ceived at San Jose, on the route, with the
usual hOnors.
The stockholders of the Nashville &
Chattanooga railroad met yesterday in
Nashville and re- elected the old directors.
who reelected the old officers. .s.i5'
The strikers of tho Linden mills, at
BayOnne, N. J., have all resumed work,
their employers taking off one hour of
labor per day. The wages romain as be-
fore.
The "Sclect Castle of the Knights of
tho Mystic Chain" in session. at Harris
burg, yesterday reelected most Of its
present officers and will install them
to-day.
Colonel John G. Clark, bridge contrac.
tor of Baltimore. was killed by train
making a flying switch while walking on
the Erie railroad near the depot in Pater-
son, n. j.
John !. Davenport, L. s. commissioner
in New York, yesterday sent to Judge
BlatchfOrd his resignation as clerk of the
U. S. circuit court, to take effect Oh o.
tOber 1st.
Mrs. Oliver Jolly and her three children,
aged respectively one, six and ten years,
were drowned in the St. Lawrence river, al
Berthier, Quebec, yesterday afternoon, by
the upsctting of a boat.
The work of taking the census Of ths
Indians in the United States will begin or
October 1. 1t will be under tho supervi
sion of Major John w, Powell, director o
the bureau Of ethnology of the Smithson
ian institution.
The Louisville (Ky.) Post company hal
purchased the Bowling Green Mtelligencer
Ex-Governor Underwood, proprietor of til,
latter journal. will be associated will
Messrs Sears and Madden in the manage
mcnt of the Post.
A new silver field is reported to hav,
been discovered on Battle Mountain, thirty
miles northwest of Leadville, Colorado.
new road and telegraph line arc being CON
structcd from Leadvillc to the place, ant
miners and capitalists are flocking there.
The cases of Henry, Virgil and Houston
Gully, for killing Gilmer, were taken III
on Tuesday in the circuit court of kempcl
county, Mississippi. A severance wa
granted at the last term Of court, ant
Virgil and Houston Gully arc now ON trial
Tho jury consists of eleven whites and on
colored man.
Tho rival wings OF tho Virginia Demo
| Mt ot Soh, cfnr rlo1y far I'll,
purpose of cffecting 4 compromise whereof!
but one Hancock electoral ticket may re
main in the field and poll the full Demo
cratic vote The terms of the agreement
if any is effected, will probably be as ::out
lined in these columns some days ago.
a car Of the Union passenger railway
company was struck last night by loco
motive on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
& Baltimore railroad, ut Twcnty-thirt
street and Washington avenue, Phila., ant
eight passengers and the driver of the ca
were injured. One of the horses was killc'
and the car was demolished.
The Great Western national fair, il
Lawrence, Kansas, was formally opened
on Tuesday, in presence of about ten thou
sand people. J.. F. Keency, president q
the association, delivered the opening al
dress. Other addresses were made b,
Mayor Usher and Alexander p. Brown, o
Philadelphia, the latter OH behalf Of Colo
mel Forney's excursion.
The national convention of hattcrs, il
Brooklyn, N. ", adopted resolutions yes
tcrtlay condcmnins convict work in TIN
state prison rs IN injury to their intlustr.
and calling OH the Legislature to abolsl
convict labor also protesting against th
employment of children by manufacturers
and urging the legislatures of the diffcren
states to appoint commissioners to investi
gate the subject.