Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
CURRENT EVENTS

Very heavy snow storms are reported at
the east.
The failure of the grain firm of G. Buck
ingham & Co., at St. Louis, is announced.
The public debt of Canada increased $9,-
500, 600 during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1880.
The British troops in Africa have to encoun-
ter more serious business than dress parades.
The other day 200 of them were killed in
fight with the Beers.
DR.. D. P. Smith of Springfield Mass, profess
or in the Yale Medical school, and the NEST en-
inent physician and surgeon in the Connecticut
valley died on Sunday, aged fifty.
The snow storm of Sunday last extended all
over the northern and southern states, and on
| the Atlantic coast was accompanied by heavy
gales and some disasters to shipping
A telegram from New York announces
the death in Sing Sing of Eugene Fairfax
| Williamson, alias Gentleman ice, the per-
secutor of DR.. Dix.
E. H. Baden, clerk, baggage master and
ticket agent at the Green Bay depot, La
| Crosse, has been missing from his home,
but his accounts are all right.
| The failure of Walch & Bacon, of Albany,
| Ga, is reported. Liabilities $3.50, 900. The
firm did general warehouse, merchandise
and bank business, and was regarded strong.
At Belmont, near San Francisco, Sir Thos.
Heskith, of England, was married to Clara,
the youngest daughter of Senator Sharon.
The reception was the most brilliant ever
seen in California.
| Strong influence has been brought in fav-
or of the appointment of Judge Settle of
the United States district court of Florida
1 to the bench of the Fifth judicial circuit in
place of Judge Woods.
A. D. Akerman died at his home at Car
tersville, Ga, after weeks sickness, with
infiammatory rheumatism. He was attorney
general with Grant during his first term,
and was the leader of the republican party
in Georgia.
The grand jury in session at Fargo have
made report recommending the division
of Dakota on the seventh standard parallel.
They urge this division line on the ground
that it would not interfere with county and
township lines, and for other reasons.
Gen. w. w. Woodfolk, who served in
the Florida and other Indian wars, died in
Nashville the other day, aged eighty one
years. He was the richest man in Tenn
essee at the breaking out of the war, his
property consisting of plantations, slaves
and blooded horses of national fame, but
at the time of his death he was comparative
ly poor.
Gen. E. o. G. Ord expects to 60 to Mex
leo and engage in some business enterprise
He has already had several offers to connect
himself with business ventures there, where
his law, Gen. Trevino, is secretary
of war in the new cabinet. He is no
wealthy, and must do something, having
large family Of daughters. His pay as {
retired officer is about 1000.
Chicago boy named Willie Crawford il
suffering from strange disease, the mos
extraordinary feature of which is that h
sweats blood. He is mentally bright, ant
his father, mother, brother and sister ar,
! strong and healthy. The physicians VIII,
, have taken an interest in his case propos
sending him to Edinburgh and London fo
examination by the academy of surgeons.
Foster Newell, a masonic patriarch at Berlin
Wisconsin, died last week, aged 81 years
, Since he was twenty-one years of age he ha
been a constant worker in the lodge, chapter
council and commandery. He was native O
, Charlton, Worcester Co., Mass