Daily Republican., 1880-12-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

i Csnvensfon Of CoIeFea Emigr anti
-Rum and the Besneld-NOfs q
C0nse ADMINISTRATIONS, Acct
dents, Orfnes and CasIalties
A convention Of solored immigrants
from North Carolina was hela yestsr'
day in Greencastls, Indiana. Wills
Burr, lately q member OF the North
Carolina Legislature, presided, and
Rev. H. A. Burton was secretary. AT.
ter several speeches long address was
adopted, setting forth the grievances
which drove them from North Carolina,
and expressing the highest satisfaction
With their condition in Indiana.
William Gray was hanged yesterday
for the murder OF Thomas Muiligsn in
Sherbrooks, Quebec. He said on the
Ecaffold that he WAS innocent Of the
murder, his only offence being the steal
ing OF the articles belonging to the mur-
dered man, which were found in his
possession, and he advised all young
men to ''svoid rum and had women,"
which had brought him to the gsllows.
Bowie, Dash & Co., coffee merchants,
OF New York, suspended yesterday.
Their liabilities are estimated at
&sl ,i00, 600. The failure 10 ascribed TO
the effect on the coffee trade OF the
death Of 0. g. Kimba Il, of Boston, and
the suspension Of B. G. Arnold & Co.,
Of New York.
Judge Parker, of the Supreme Court
Of New jersey, on Thursday granted an
order for q recount Of the votes f1r As.
semblymen In the Second District Of
Gloucester county. Thomas N. Farrell,
the Democratic candidate, was given
the certificate by the County Canvass
eIs.
The foreman Of the Boston and Albany
Railroad machine shops, in Albany.
Boston and Springfield, have been or
dered to reduce the pay roll of the
shops is per cent; and the shops at
Hudson will be closed at once for the
winter.
Charles &. Leland. OF the Delevan
House, in Albany, N. Y, has been no.
titled that the subscriptions TO build the
American Palace Hotel" in London
have been secrred. He will take
charge of the hetel when it is compile
ted in 1882.
The body OF James Mason, aged 59I
years found frozen stiff in the woods,
near Frsmlsy, New Jersey, yesterday
morning. Nathan Woods, injured by
the Ksarsarg0 Mills hre,in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, last week, died yes
terday.
? The trial OF John Finkbohne for the
murder Of his father. was begun yes
terday in Sunbury, Pa. The trial Of
JOhn W. Raney for the murder OfDen-
mis- M0ronsy, commenced in Danville,
Va, yesterday.
Two more of the election judges Of
Manchester, Virginia, were indicted
yesterday Tor refusing the votes of per-
sons who presented tax receipts issued
from the State Auditors Office.
f. The widow of General e. T. Sumner |
disd in Charlottesville, Virginia, on
Thursday. She was the mother Of two
sons in the regular army, and of tour
all married to army officers.
Tbs steamer Hathaway, from Balti-
more for Rochsfort, which grounded
last Saturday near the mouth Of the
Patapsco river, it still stuck fast, and
1t is not believed she can be fOSted IN.
Ill there are fuller tides.
Jones, the cololed man on trial be.
fore the Circuit Court Of Warwick
County, Virginia, for the murder OF
Captain Frank, of the schooner Migno-
nette, was acquitted on Thursday.
DR.. Charles Earl, convicted of NAL.
practice, which resulted fatally, was
sentenced, in Chicago, yesterday to Eve
years Imprisonment in the psnitentia-
".
Henry williams, mis- wife and child,
lied since Sunday on a farm near Bry-
IN, Texas, from eating poisoned beef.
Four others are sick from the same
,ause.
The citizens Of West Hobsken, New.
Jersey, took measures yesterday for the
ormation of q Vigilance Committee for
against burglars and rob
Ders. lI
The Electoral votes Of Massachusetts,
md New York were presented to the
1ice President, estsrday, by the mes
engers Of the Colleges of those States. a
Mr.. p. T. Barnum, the great show
nan, is sick in New York. but, though
cry weak, is not considered in immsdi- '
to danger. ID