Daily Republican., 1880-02-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ala for Ireland - Striking SPIN
nors - Majsr Reno Wants 10 Re.
sign - The Virginia ReaaJusters
- Other Ihcidents, Accidents,
grimes. Casualties &C., tle.


sign - The Virginia. ReaaJuster
- other IRcidents, Accidents
crimes. Casualties &C., Ee.
| Alexander II. Smith, President O
Merchants exchange OF St. Louis, yes
terday appointed $50 of its leadini
members q committee to solicit sub
scriptions to fund for the purchase o
supplies for the poor In Ireland. Tn
collections for Irish Relief Fund in thu
Catholic diocese Of Albany, N. Y, ex
ceed $4,000. The Mayor Of Halifax
N. B., yesterday forwarded $25, 200 I,
Dublin for the Relief Fund.
The strike Of the spinnsrs and card
ers In the Monument Mills, ct Housa
tonic, Mass, continues, aud the mill
which is "full of orders for cottor
warps," will probably bs compelled
together with the bed spread mill o.
Crane Il Co., to stop for few days
The spinners demand an advance Of II
cents.
Major Reno having learned Of the
approval Of the sentence of the court
martial dismissing him from theservice,
has telegraphed to the President ask.
ing to be allowed to resign. The orders
Of the War Department are delayed
pending the Presidents decision.
A caucus of the Read ulster majority
Of the Virginia Legislature agreed yes
terday on bill, which was subsequent
ly presented in the Senate, reducing
the debt of that State fr ON S32, 00O, 900
TO $l9 665, 200, and the rate of interest
to three per cent.
Tho Methuem Company's bagging
mill, at Lawrence, Macs, which closed
week ago owing to a strike, resumed
yesterday. About two thirds Of the
strikers returned to work, and the
places of the others were filed by new
hands.
A telegram from Albany, N. Y, says
the First and Second Districts OF that
city yesterday elected delegates to the
Republican State Convention, instruct,
ing them for General Grant.
Urban Boyer, bitten by a dog at
Weissport, Pa, last summer, is report
ed to be suffering from hydrophobia.
Two Of his little daughters, bitten at
the same time, have shown no symp-
toms Of the disease.
General Beauregard passed through
Washington yesterday on his way to
New York, and the House Committee
on P0st-otLices consented to postpone
his examination on the lottery question
until next week.
The saw mill OF Bradley & Under
wood, at Port Edward,N. Y, was burn
ed on Monday morning. ltis suppos-
ed to have been fred by an incsndiary.
Loss, $40, 200.
One hundred gallons of Illicit whisky
two mules, two horses, wagons, ETC.,
we're seizAd, and one man was arrested,
in Gwtnnette county, Ca, last Sunday
morning.
John Lloyd and Patrick Brennan
were burned, the latter seriously, by
an explosion of gas in the Eagle Hill
oolliery, at POttsville, on Monday.
Several colored families emigratine
from North Carolina to Indiana arrived
at Petersburg, Va, yesterday. They
Will remain In Petersburg a few days
before resuming their journey.
Governor Mcclellan, of New Jersey,
Yesterday nominated Joel Parker, OF
Monmouth county, and David A. Depue,
Of Essex, 10 be judges Of the Supreme
Court OF that State.
A Western Union telegraph operator
named kiddioh, in Charl3l.e, N. c.
committed suicide yesterday. He was
in robust health, aud had lately been
and no cause is assigned for
The act.
About 500 longShoreman on the East
liver wharves, in New York, struck
against reduction Of wages. Their
places were filed by new men at the re.
iuced rates.
Pentecost Sweet, fireman of the ma
hins shop at the QIi1neck Mills, at
R. l., was struck by the arm
If pulley, and killed yesterday morn
ng.
Her Maj.sty's training ship Atalanta,
t Bermuda, on the 10Th ult., from
'arbadoes, had had two cases of yellow Q
ever on board, one Of which proved
atal.
Colonel John Newton estimates ths
ost OF the proposed ship canal across G
bergen Neck, N. j., to connect Newark a
lay with the upper bay in New York c
arbor, at So, 332. 4i2. 8
An earthquake was felt three miles /
asst Of Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday f
veniEg. t