The daily gazette., 1880-08-19
General NelCS.

II is stated that The coal companies at
an informal conference in New York
have agreed to further advance prices %
cents per ton on all grades, except
steamer, during September
The proposals To sell bonds to the
Government, yesterday aggregated &c.
S23, 400, of which the Secretary OF the
Treasury accepted S2,5O0,O00 at 102-45
for series of 1850, 1919 to l04-S5 for
series of 1851, and l02-69 to 1O2-TS for
5s of 1881.
1t is reported that gold has been found
in Mitchell county, Texas, the ore, it is
claimed, yielding $4,000 per ton.
The judges Of the knights Templar
drill, at Chicago, H., Yesterday made
the following awards: First prize, an
elegant sword for an Eminent Com
mander, to Raper Comnandery, of In
1ianapolis; second prize to De Molay
CommanderJ, of Louisville; third prize
10 Reed Commandery, of Dayton, Ohio,
and Tie fourth prize to Damascus Com
mandery, of st. Paul. The special prize
for mounted men was awarded 10 The
De Molay Commandery of Grand Ra-
pids. Monroe COmmandery, of Roches-
ter, n. Y, was ruled out, for not hav-
ing drilled in the required movements
Jacob Anderson was arrested in
Hampton county, 5. e., yesterday, on a
charge of numbering two men, named
Collins, at ReidsvllIe. Ga, about thee
months ago.
The inquests on the bodies OF the
Philadelphia victims Of the Mays
Landing disaster was continued YES
terday, and will be concluded to-day.
Libbie Grace, who was injured by the
accident, died yesterday a. Mays Land
ing.
j dge Butler will to-day hear testi-
mony, in the United States District
Court, upon the motion TO forfeit the
bail Of "Dr." John Buchanan, who is
lleeed 10 have committed suici lie.
Gen. Sherman received yesterday a
| telegram from NJ Mai0r General Mellow
| H. detailing the measures taken for the
| apprehension ot MeXicans, who fire.
| quently cross the Mexican frontier into
| Arizona, taking refuge there from the
Mexican authorities.
A despatch from Fargo, d. r., SAYS
| hat the storm of Tuesday evening.
| southwest OF Fargo, was :eyr bic. Houses
were blown down, one man WAS killed,
| 'nd three were severely injured.
| Gen Myer, Superintendent of the U.
| = gnal Service, kn1wn as cold Proba-
| plllties, has been ordered home 10
| Michigan 10y his physicians
Among the death returns yesterday at
he CITY Registers office, Boston, NJ ass
vas that of Michael Barrett, a native OF
lreland, aged 101 years and four months
Several cases of typhoid fever have an.
cared aboard the United States tram
NC ship Portsmouth, which arrived al
portsmouth,, n H., yesterday.
Rennie and Joe Frick, aged and II
ears respectively, while playing on
'oat Oh the Susqnehanna, at Pittston
"a, yesterday morning, fell overboarC
nd were drowned.
boy fishing in the river at Carthage
y. v, yesterday morning, hauled uD III,
BODY OF man abou 80 years Old, SUP
'osed to be that OF Pauick Miller. III,
'ndy had been In the water api aren't,
Il about ten days.
Hon. Thomas Taylor was renomina,e
Or Congress, yesterday, by the Demo
rats Of the Ninth Kentucky Distinct.
The State Democratic Convention o
colorado met yesterday at Leaivllle
nd after ths appointment of tempurar
'ihcers and the usual committees, took
recess.
The Connecticut Democratic Conyen
lon adopted yesterday the Ctncln
: | nai platform, endorsed Hancock an,
English, charge d that the Republican
'arty Is responsible for the "uniust law
n color blindness passed by the las
Repubhcan Legislature, and declare
a hat legislation should be- so framed as I
preveut the sacrti Of the Interests G
/, he honest, industrious ami non Grim
val classes by self.supporting penal II
I utauOns. The nominations made wer,
4 ION. James E English TOR Governo
Ion, Charles NJ Pond for Lfcutenai
IA Governor; ID s Blake, Secretary {
a state; Merrick A Murray, Treasure
e 'nd Charles X Fagan, Comptroller.
= The races yesterday at New Bedfor,
Mass, over 40-mle course for the II
y officers prize of the New York Yacl
)lu5, open to Eastern clubs, also frs
I, class schoOners, was won by the CruSg
ler; second-class, by the Peerless: fir.
- lass sloops, by the Mischief, and secon,