The daily gazette., 1880-09-01
General NelUS.

President Hayes and General Garfield
have arrived at Canton, Ohio, to attend
the Soldiers reunion there to-day.
Daniel Ermentrout was nominated,
yesterday, for Congress on the first bal
lot, to succeed Heister Clymer, by the
Democratic Convention of the Eighth
Pennsylvania District.
Sapovonari was elected to succeed
Ouray at the grand council OF Ute In
dians, held at Los PiDos, Col, on the
2Sth ultimO.
Rev. DR.. William Adams, the eminent
Presbyterian divine, died yesterday, at
Orange, N. j., aged 70 years.
1t is generally believed in Worcester
that Ex-Governor CASTOR will be nomi-
mated for Governor by the Massachu-
sets Democratic Convention which will
| meet in that city to-day
The Democratic State Convention of
New Jersey will meet in Trenton to-day
| to nominate a candidate for Governor
| and Presidential Electors. George G.
Ludlow, of Middlesex, and Orestes
Cleveland, of Hudson, are the principal
| candidates for Governor. 1t is thought
Ex-Governor Bedle will be one of the
Electorals at large.
The Tammany Hall State Committee,
yesterday, revoked its call for State
Convention, and issued a card to the
Democratic electors, requesting them to
join in the election of delegates to the
State Convention called by the Faulkner
(regular) Committee, to be held in Sar-
atoga on September 2SLh.
The returns of the Clearing House
in Chicago for August were S137, 000,-
600, against S96, 900, 900 in August Of
last year.
The total population of Kansas, ac-
| cording to the census just completed,
is 100000.
The wheat crop of Minnesota is esti-
mated at from forty to fifty millions of
bushels.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beck left with Thos.
Klink, from West Philadelphia in
April last, taking with her Lille Beck,
her thirteen-year-old daughter. Last
Saturday the girl returned to her
father in Philadelphia from San Fran
cisco, and said that Klink had mur-
dered her mother in that city, where
they had all gone after leaving here.
All the entry books for the Pennsyl-
yania State fair, which opens in the Per-
manent Exhibition Building on Monday
next, have been closed. Every foot OF
available space in the building mas oeen
assigned to exhibitors.
The oyster season, which opens to-day,
is said by dealers in this city to give in
dications that larger business will be
done this year than ever before, and that
the supply will be abundant, cheap and
of good quality.
1t is reported that brig bound for the
Delaware Breakwater for orders, was
abandoned oft the coast, in latitude 30,
In sinking condition, on Monday, and
that her crew have arrived at Lewes.
Willie Emmons, aged eigh. years, was
killed by tom hstone falling upon him
while playing in marble yard at Long
b anch on d0nday.
The Sheriff returned to LOwville. NJ
Y, from Sing Sing, yesterday morning,
with Harriet Merrihew, sentenced to
Imprisonment for life for poisoning her
brother.in.law. The sheriff was inform
ed at Sing Sing that no female convicts
have been received in that prison for the
last three years.
One of the most violent transforms
ever known in Richmond, Va, visited
that city on Monday night. The eralnfall,
nearly all within two hours, measured
3:29.inches, and portions of the city were
Inundated. A number of poor people,
mostly colored, were driven from their
homes, leaving their household goods to
be swept away. The thunder and light
ming were incessant, and the lightning
struck in several places, but no serious
damage by it is reported. The storm
was also severe in the surrounding coun-
try,