The daily gazette., 1880-03-04
General NeiUs.

.su The House committee on PRINTING
agreed yesterday to resolution pro-
viding that the employees of the Gov
eminent Printing Office shall receive
pay for all legal holidays.
WI The Senate yesterday confirmed
James N. Kerns to be U. S. Marshal
for Eastern Pennsylvania e. S. Kear-
ney, U S. Marshal for Oregon, and
y Charles G.. Belknay, Indian Agent at
the Tule River Agency in California.
The nomination of +. Y. &. Colds
borough to be Census Supervisor for
the Third District of Maryland was re-
jected.
The starch manufacturers of the
United States met in Cincinnati, yes
terday, formed an association, and
agreed upon an advance in prices.
The town of Lima, Ohio, yesterday
voted 800, 900 in bonds to the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad, for the To-
cation of its shops i'll that town.
Sixty Of the one hundred men at
work on the Government dyke at East
Corondelet, H., have struck for an
advance of 25 cents per day.
All but fifty of the stone masons
who struck in st. Louis a few days
ago, have resumed work at the
advance demanded.
The strikers of the Harmony Mills
of Cohoes, N. Y, remain out the
employers refusing to advance their
wages.
A telegram from Farmount w. Va,
reports additional strikes among the mi
ners in that region, by which 500 men
are thrown out Of work. The operators
say they cannot afford to increase the
wages oftbe men.
Forty grinders in the cutlery works
at Beavers Fails, Pa, are on strike fol-
higher wages. The fork-m lkers, TWEEN
~ in number gave notice last evening
that they would strike next week if not
granted some advance.
About 1000 employees of the Govern
ment Printing Office in Washington
men and women-were "furlouohedH
yesterday, owing to the exhaustion of
the appropriation. They will remain
out of employment until Congress has
passed the Deficiency bill now pending
before the House Committee on Ap-
preparations.
The Republican members of the
Maine Legislature met last night and
chose delegates at large the Chicago
Convention, instructing them for Sena.
tor Blaine. Eugene Hale heads the
delegation.
The National Convention of the
Union Greenback Labor party tthe
Brick Pomeroy faction will meet in St.
Louis to-day. 1t is said that over 20O
delegates will be present from twenty
States.
NJ. II, Tredway, Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue, was convicted of
embezzlement at Danvile, Va, yester
day.
Judges Rives, at Danville, Va. yes
terday, remanded the negro Reynolds
to the custody of the State authorities
in accordance with the decision of the
U. s. Supreme Court.
The Senate of Rhode Island yester
day, passed bill from the House pro-
hibiting pigeon shooting as a sport.
and 1t was approved by the Governor.
The nomination of John F.. Smyth
to be Superintendent of the Insurance
Department of New York has been
withdrawn by Governor Cornell. No
other nomination has been made in its
place.
A telegram from Kansas City, Mo-,
says great preparations were made
on Tuesday evening for meeting to
DE held at the Merchants Exchange
yesterday. in favor of an organized raid
ON the Indian Territory.
Nineteen empty coal cars were
thrown into the Schuylllin from the
Falls Bridge of the Reading Railroad
Company, yesterday afternoon, by
sudden stoppage of the train One of
the train hands fell with the cars, sus-
tanning slight injuries.