Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-25
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

A boy named Snyder was drowned in
the Natatorium in Baltimore last night.
General Sherlnan's letter to Hancock,
written in December in 1885, is to be pub
lished in 4 forthcoming life Of Hancock.
Abram Davidson, aged 90 years, brake
man on the Hudson River railroad, was
ten Duyvil yesterday.
Five buildings near the Bay District
racing track, near San Francisco, occupied
as saloons, concert halls, restaurants. etc.
were burned yesterday morning. Loss
$50, 900.
Hafiz Paslla, the dismissed Turkish min
lister of police, is now being tried by court
martial for his arbitrary arrest of young
girl for wearing too thin veil and also fol
his peculations.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, tho owner of the fam
Gus trOtter Maud s., has withdrawn the
mare from the track. He has bought St.
Julien for $50. 900 and will drive this team
himself in order to give Mr.. Bonner the
dust.
Tho Brooklyn Thirteenth regiment has
sued the Brooklyn hotel company for $50,
600 damages for failure to carry out it's
contract to supply food to the regiment
while cncampcd on the beach. Dodsworth's
band has also sued the company COr So
600 for breach OF comfort.
Prominent Wall street financicrs. who
are en- rapport with high officials in Canada,
express the belief that Sir John Mac
Donald will succeed in somehow Obtainin.
loan in London to enable him to push on,
for a, brief period, his Pacific railroad
scheme.
Marvin Cline, who disappeared from
Buffalo few days ago, and was believed
to have " ",iumpcd'' his bail, returned home
on Monday. He had been wandering
around the streets i'm fit of insanity, but
it is thought will recover after few days
rest.
On Monday night revenue officers dc
stroyctl, about twenty miles from Green
Vile, S. c., an illicit distillery, containing
an So gallon still, cap and worm. and 1, 500
gallons of mash and beer. The officers
were fired upon, but no one was wounded.
Baseball. At Chicago-Chicago, ?.
WOrchester, 1. At Cleveland Cleveland,
o. Providence, 5. Rain stopped the game
after half tho seventh inning. At Buffalo
Boston, II. Buffalo. 2. At Cincinnati
Troy, II. Cincinnati, 1.
The first bale of the new crop of North
Carolina cotton was sold in New York
yesterday by auction at thirteen cents per
pound. Grade, strict low mitldling to mid
ding, and it is about ten days earlier than
the first bale Of last year from North Caro-
lima.
In sisterly quarrel in Wilmington, Del,
yesterday, between Bridget and Kate Gal
laghan, sisters. aged respectively sixteen
and thirteen, Kate struck Bridget with 4
heavy strap across the forehead, causing
depression Of the brain, which is likely to
prove fatal.
The Democratic state committee of New
York will meet next Friday afternoon to
decide upon the calling of state cOnven-
tiOn to nominate a chief justice of the
court of appeals, and upon the appoint
ment of an advisory committee from the
state at large. to assist the executive COM
mittee in conducting the political cam
paign.
There has born and died in Annapolis,
Md.,:a child of cOlored parcntagc, which
when born had white curly hair resembling
sleeps wool. The eyes were of pinkish
color and the complexion was snow white,
with a slight tinge of red on her cheeks.
1t worry closely rescmblcd large wax doll
which has been exhibited in shop window
and which the mother of the child had fire.
qucntly admired and expressed an anxious
desire to purchase, but was unable to do