Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-02

--LATEST NEWS By MAI.
Baseball yesterday : At Bufalo-Troy 4;
Buffalo, o. At Albany-National, 10;
Albany, Q.
The third district Republican convsntion
uVermont, has nominated w. w. Grant
for congress.
Ann Mitchell, homeless woman. lock-
ed up in the station house, Brooklyn, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself to the
cell door with strip torn from her shawl.
w. r. Chamberlain, convict, was
killed at Carson, New, yesterday by John
Darling, his accomplice in a robbery four
years ago, who struck him with pick
axe.
Of 1877 deaths reported in New York
during the twenty -four hours which ended
at noon yesterday, it is stated that 81 re-
suited directly from the heat. A heavy
shower cooled the atmosphere in that city
last evening.
Hon. John A. Kasson, minister at
Vienna has been nominated as Republican
candidate for Congress from the Fifth Iowa
| district. In the sixth district Hon. NJ.
| r. Cults, Of OskalOOsa, who was attorney
general from 1878 to 1877 was nominated.
Letters of administration on the estate
| Of the late George Opdyke, ex-mayOr of
/
the surrogate's Office yesterday. Personal
| ty was sworn to as 81, 200, 900. The widow
renounces her right to the letters.
| The court of appeals of Kentucky de-
cided yesterday that the law of that state
excluding all except white persons from
| service as jurors is unconstitutional, and
that no person can be lawfully excluded
from any jury on account Of his ACE or
color.
A cOlored man named Moss, employed
in the congressional library at Washing
ton, yesterday struck Russell, white en-
ployee, for having removed from the for
mer's desk picture of Garfield, where
upon Librarian Spofford dismissed Moss
from his position.
Beaumont Buck, the wOuld-be West
Pointer indicted for shooting young
Thompson, the son of the sergeant-at arms
of the United States House of Representa-
tives has been released in 81, 500 bail to ap-
pear for trial in September. Meanwhile he
will return to Texas with his father.
The two hundredth anniversary of the
institution of the order of Christian
Brothers by Jean Baptiste de La Sale was
celebrated at St. Patrick's cathedral, New
York, yesterday. Bishop Gross, of Savan-
nah, preached the sermon. About 200
priests were present.
A severe wind storm with rain and much
hail, passed over Danville, Va, yesterday,
partially unrooting the tobacco factories OF
F. F. Burton & Co. and T. G. Williams s
Co. and other buildings in Danville. Many
trees were uprooted, fences demolished and
crops damaged in the surrounding coun-
try.
Certificates of deposit for s18,S have
been handed over to Gen. Clarke, chief
clerk of the internal revenue department,
in full settlement of deficiency found in
the account of ex-Deputy Collector
Boone, of Brooklyn. Mr.. Boone has been
missing for some time and he has not yet
been heard from.
An enthusiastic meeting to ratify the
Democratic nominations was held last night
in Tammany hall, where speeches were
made by John Kelly, George w. Miller, OF
Albany, S. S. Cox, John B. Haskin. and
Others All favored harmony in the Demo
cratic ranks and forgetfulness of past
troubles. The Irving hall Democrats also
held a meeting at Irving hall, and appoint
ed committee to ask Tammany hall tt
unite with them in the support Of thu
ticket.