Daily Republican., 1880-01-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
Car shops BuFned-SIysteriOus Dis.
appearance-suit AEainst u Rail.
rOad-Other Incidents, Accidents,
Grimes aud Casualties.

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appearaRce-Suit AEainst n Rail
rOad-Other Incidents, Accidents
Grimes aud Casualties.
The car shed of the South Caro.in
Railroad, in Charleston, was burne,
yesterday morniDg, with IL passengs
coaches and q baggage and freigh
cars. The loss is estimated at $50, 900
The cotton gin of w. A. Sprattey, il
Gresnville county, Va, was burned OIL
Wednesday, with all the machinery
and number OF bales OF cotton.
The young son Of Elder Buck. a Sec.
ond Adventist, residing near New Hamr
ton, Iowa, disappeared last fall. Re
Gently Buck himself left the neighbor
hood, and the people, who bslieve he
has been the actor in religious tragedy
like that Of Pocasset, are making an
Investigation. Buck always said the
boy had run away.
The United States Express Company
has begun suit at Columbus, Ohio,
against the indianapolis, Bloomington
aud Western Railroad Company and
Benjamin L. Smith, to collect $l00,77
on a promissory note execdted in New
York on July 23d, 1873, and payable
In six months.
The Grand Lodge Of Bnai Birth, in
session at Savannah for several days,
adjourned yesterday, to meet in Balti-
more on the Goth Of January, 1881. The
dues of members were increased 40
cents for the benefit ofthe orphan fund.
B. F. Kennedy, Prothono:ary Of AL
legheny county, Pa, arrived in Dem
Yer, Colorado, last night, and contra
dicted the report that he had defaul-
ted and abscVnded. He said he expec.
ted to return to Pittsburg after visiting
Leadville.
The heaviest snow storm Of the pres
ent season In Wisconsin prevailed on
Wednesday and yesterday. In the
northern section Of the State the snow
is from two to three feet deep.
r. l.. Gibson was elected u. s. Sena-
tor by the Louisiana Legislature, and
J. q. George was elected U. s. Senator
by the Mississippi Legislature, yester-
day. Both are Democrats.
On and after January 3lst, a white
light illuminating the whole horizon
with flash every thirty seconds, will
be shown at Laurel Point, in Albemarle
Sound, North Carolina.
The Republican State Convention of
to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, will meet in Freder-
Ck City on the 9th Of May.
Frank Long Of Reading, a brakeman
IN the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
.oad, was drawn under the cars and
tilled, between Limerick and Pottstown
IN Wednesday night.
Major Brownhead, Paymaster of the
J. s. Army was robbed of S20,000 re-
emily on the way from Fort Leaven-
worth to Fort Reno. No particulars are
,iven.
The Exposition Commissioners in
Cincinnati have decided to hold an ex-
libition in that city this year, begin
hing on the Sth of September and clos
ng on October 9th.
An explosion in the boiler room Of
he Veach Coal Mine at Brazil, Ind,
yesterday, killed X. r. Roberts, the
wner of the mine, and fatally injured I
wo other men. q
The Sharpe County Court House, at q
.vening Shade, Ark, was destroyed, t.
nth all the records, by an insendiary
re, on Tuesday night. Loss 100000, a
1t is rumored in Washington that t
x Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana, b
! to be nominated for Naval Officer at a
lew Orleans. g
The Wynkoop trial, at Carlisle, Pa.
s3ulted yesterday in a verdict Of enc u
uilty," AMI tbs prisoner was dis .
larged. ?
The schooner Charles Pierson, from ~ ~
edmond, Va, for Jersey City, With D
g iron, was ashore near Barnegat yes
rday. o,
Senator Lamar has recovered sufi- a.
emily to appear in the hotel corridor A
Jackson, Miss, on crutchss.
Judge McCrary took his seat on the n
'nch of the U. s. Circuit Court in A
d. Louis yesterday.