Smyrna times., 1880-11-03

Considerable wreck stuff has washed
ashore along the New Jersey coast.

Considerable wreck stuff has washed
ashore along the New Jersey coast,
There were lSG British and foreign
wrecks reported last week. Of these l6l
vessels were lost on the British coasts.
Senator Blaine, whose voice failed him
after his arduous labors in Ohio, cannot
yet, it is said, speak much above a whisper.
Hon. John T. Keen, mayor of North
Danville, Va, was thrown from his buggy,
Sunday, and died from his injuries on Mon.
day.
The President and Mrs Hayes arrived at
Fremont, Ohio, Monday morning. The
President will 60 to Washington probably
on Thursday.
T. K. Bargar, for many years confiden-
tial clerk of John Jermyns, at Scranton,
Pa. has been found guilty of appropriate
ing $4,000 to his own use.
The residence of John Dillingham;, at
New Prospect, N. j., was entered by bur-
glars Saturday and robbed of $500 worth of
silver, jewelry and clothing.
Hon. Peter Mccall, leading lawyer, and
mayor of Philadelphia in 1874 and 1845,
died at his residence at Overlook, Mont
gcmery CO., Pa, Saturday, aged 70 years.
Sophia Ingrenito, who arrived in New
York from Italy Saturday, blew the gas out
Saturday night at her stopping place, and
Sunday morning she was found suffocated.
Two fatal accidents occurred Friday night
growing out of republican and trades
procession at Providence, Il. |. Mrs.
Robert Purkis was killed by rocket and
E. Pottsey was crushed under the wheels
of a railroad car.
A young man named Long, of Northum-
berland county, Pa, has been arrested for
the murder of his aged father, whom the
court had ordered him to support. The
body Of the old man was found with the
skull crushed as if with q club.
The rain last week has enabled the Della
ware and Hudson canal to resume naviga.
ton. Seven hundred boats with 10000
tons Of coal were waiting for water at Port
! Jervis, n. Y. Six thousand tons will now
reach tidewater daily until ice closes navi-
cation.
! August Navarro, a gymnast, fell from a
balloon when 900 feet above the earth,
near Courbevole, France, Sunday evening,
and was crushed and mangled almost be-
yond recognition. His body made hole
in the ground two feet deep and rebounded
four yards.
In the suit commenced by the State OF
! Michigan some weeks since against the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail
road to collect back taxes, verdict has
been rendered in favor of the State for
! $S3,4S4. The case will be taken to the
Supreme Court,
The internal revenue agents in Campbell
county, Ca, seized last week from Illicit
distilleries and destroyed 5000 gallons oil
mash and beer Within thirty days there
have been seized in Georgia thirty illicit
dstilleries, two teams and about ! 900 gal
Ions of illicit spirits.
In San Francisco, Saturday, Wilhelm
Fritsch, a German shoemaker, killed his
wife by cutting her throat. She made a
desperate resistance, and received u mum
Der of other wounds Fritsch then stab
stabbed himself a dozen times, inficting
fatal wounds. Domestic trouble caused the
tragedy.
At o'clock Monday morning Mrs. Sarah
McManus entered low drinking saloon al
Seventh and Baker streets, Philadelphia
to look for her husband. Frank Carol
denied that the husband was there, but a
Mrs. McManus was persistent, Carroll drew
a pistol and deliberately shot her. The
ball struck her in the abdomen and til,
doctors say she cannot live.
At Fort Dodge, Iowa, the First Nationa
Bank, Morgan's drug store and Beth Vim
cents store were burned Sunday. Los
$4,000. At Bayou Sara, La, Picard
Wells store and dwelling, John F. Trvne's
Alexander's, Harris, Brown e. Co.'S an,
Martines's stores and the telegraph offic
were burned loss 100000. Hamilton
Co.'S mill, at Shreveport, La, was burne,
Sunday night loss $4,000.