Daily Republican., 1880-09-02
SECONo EDITION.
NEW , SUMMARY.

Receipts for August-NsWs Clean
ea Prom vari0us sources.
The pubic deb. statement ! = August
shows q reduction Of sl2,O27,l ,l67.
The total coinage for the U. S. Min
during August, was $6, s49, 900, includ-
lug 2 253 600 standard silvsr doilars
The statue of Ex-Governor Gear
authorized by act Of the Legislature
vss erecttd 4 over his grave At Harris
burg yesterday.
The steamship Hsrder br night sl,-
765 900 in foreign gold coin to New
York Yesterday. The CauadA, iroo
Havre, brought 100000 francs Il
gold.
Charles Hi.es was shot dead BY his
b other ip-lsw, John Hittrick, iu Day.
TON, Onio, yesterday morning, because
he asked for the repayment Of small
loan.
The customs receipts for August were
in round numbers, SIS, 800, 600 an in.
crease of $1,000, 900 on the July re-
oeipts.
Anthony Clayton, aged "a years,
while fishing near z izabethport, N. j.,
yesterday, fell out Of his boat and was
drowned.
Two freight trains were badly dam
age by collision a. Morgan Station,
on the Baltimore Central Railroad, on
Tuesday, bat no persons were injured.
Three children of Charles Wilson, q
farmer OF Surrey county, Va, have
died within q week from eating the ber-
ries Of the deadly nightshads.
The deficiency in the accounts of
jackson Landers, who was County
Treasurer at IndianaI oils in ls75-S,
has found by experts 10 he $l4 ,3o4.
Henry Casey, aged 10 years, son of
Colonel s. F. Casey, of Washington, D.
c., was drowned while bathing at
Narragansett Pier yesterday.
The hosting works of the Quinn
Mine, at Silver City, Cal, took FIRE on
Tuesday night, and were destroyed by
an explosion of giant powder. The
watohman, Victor Laundery, was killed.
The actor J. K. Emmett Is missing.
Detectives think he is at Waverly, New
Jersey, and officers have gone there
to arrest him on a charge OF habitual
drunkenness.
Secretary Schurz was at Fort Custer,
Montana, on the 3lst ultmo, in good
health. He expected to reach Fort
Keogh in few days.
The War Department order assigning
Adjutant General Drum, in addition to
his other dnties, TO service as Acting
Chief Signal Officer of tbs Army, was
promulgated yesterday.
Commander Edwin NJ. Sheppard has
been detached from the command Of
the United States ship Constellation,
and ordered 10 resume mis- duties at the
Naval Academy.
All the available mounted service
recruits have been ordered TO b. sent
TO Fort Smelling, Mimi, for assignment
to the Second Cavalry.
Simon Gregory, inside foreman, was
killed ana six others were injured, by
an explosion in the Keeley Run Col.
liery, at Shenandoah yesterday. The
men engaged in the work of suppress.
ing the ire which is burning in the
mine.
The bark Malay has arrived at Vic
toria, B, c., in eight days from Ouna
laska. she trings no tidings of the
Jeanette. At 0uualaska the jeanette
i, given up for lost on account Of the
severity Of last winter.
The State Department is advised thai
on account Of the disturbed condition
of affairs in BIsnos Ayres, the Centen
nial Exhibition, which was to have
been opened there this month, is post
poned until next year.
Four sehooners, lying at Port Hope
Ont, which employed non Union men
had their rigging hacked to pieces dur
ing Tuesday night. This Harbor Com
missioneTs offer a reward of $500 fo
the detection Of the perpetrators.
The exam nation of the class at tn
Torpedo Station, Newport, CONTINUED
yesterday, practical evidence Of eff
ciency being given OF the towing, plac
ing and firing of torpedoes, etc. Tn
Board were well pleased with the re
suit,
Since the passage of the Silver &C
thefe have been coined 6S,lS8,75
standard dollars. Of these, 10, ,S66,
443 are outside the Treasury, and As
303,3O7 within its vaults. During Au
gust the mints paid out 1885, ,43
standard silver dollars, against 3l4. 81
in July.
DR.. Rice, Medical Inspector Of tn,
National Board OF Health, and Dr.
Reilly, also of the same body, pro
uounced the sick cases taken from tn
tow boat Raven, and KEEP under obs II
vaten at Vicksburg, not to be yello'
fever.
Eighte' n man from the Brazilian wa
vessel Vital de Oivera were aGmitte
10 the Marine Hospital, at San Fran
cisco, on the 2lst MT. Sixteen Of ther
were sd1irring from rare diSeas
known as the "bsri beri," or "ba
sickness Of Ceyl lon."
A teleg a from San Francisco pre-
nounces the story OF Lille Beck 10 b
Wit! out t2e foundation of att" Th
records of the Coroner's office, in tbs
city, show that the csuse Of Mrs
Beck's death, as disclosed by tn
autopsy, was serious apop}exy supel
induced by chronic alcoholism an
that no traces of violence were discerni
bls ugoa her body.
A StaSe Prohib t on Reform Couver
tion met in Trenton, N. j., yesterday
Seven counties were represented b