Warren sheaf., 1881-04-06
CURRENT EVENTS,


damaged by fire and water.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Mr. Hugh ]. Jewett has declined the Presi-
dency of the Worlds Fair.
Thomas M. Halpin, aged fifty-eight, widely
known Irish leader, died in Chicago, on Sunday
last.
An Iceland girl in Marshal made a trip of if
teen miles over the drifts on snow shoes in five
hours.
Nearly ZOO seekers after new homes in the
great republic were landed at Castle Garden,
New York, Saturday morning last
Mrs. L. Virginia French, the well known ar-
thoress and poet, is lying at the point of death
at her home, near McMmnvile, Ga.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, has been
chosen as the orator Of the ceremonies attend
ing the unveiling of the Farragut statute, April
25 next
A rumor is in general circulation, which is
tolerably we'll authenticated, that the families
of the present cabinet officers do not intend to
return calls.
Mahone's organ, the Richmond Wing, has a
leading editorial on The Solid South, urging the
necessity for breaking it from a southern and
democratic standpoint.
Gen. Patrick, of the Dayton Soldiers Home,
refused to allow James Redpath to lecture at
the Home, declaring him to be an agitator. The
refusal created great excitement among the
Irish soldiers.
Mrs Oswald Ottendorfer If New York, pro-
notes the German school system to the extent
German Teachers seminary in Milwaukee re-
ceives $4,000.
Senator Robertson received the compliment
| of unanimous vote from his associates in the
senate at Albany in favor Of his confirmation
for collector of the port of New York by the
senate of the United States.
Miss Frances Grow of Winfield, Kan, and
Mr.. Jefferson A. Denning Of Lexington, Illinois,
were married by telegraph. Rev. s. Merrill
otficiated at Lexington There were the usual
illterrOgatiOns and responses over the wires,
and the twain we're pronounced one.
The famous Wisconsin eagle known as cold
Abe" and alleged to be the veritable bird which,
in conjunction with their good fighting, made
| the Eighth Wisconsin regiment famous, died at
his rooms in the capitol in Madison, Saturday
evening, after a long and eventful life.
The Norwegian ship Juno of Antwerp has
one of the most remarkable voyages on record.
She expected to arrive at New York in a few
days, and if she ever does get there it will be
| great relief to the ship and cargo. She left
Antwerp on May Is, 1880, and will have tax
en- nearly year to make the trip.
Dr. Levi Ober, died at La Crosse of cancer
of the stomach, after long and painful ILL
| ness. The deceased was over sixty years of age,
| a native of Vermont, and lived in La Crosse
nearly quarter of century. He was one Of
the most prominent homeopathic practitioners
| in the State and a member Of the State society.
Justice Clifford has left for his home in Port
| land, Me. There has been no meterial change
| in his mental and physical "co ition, and he is
| entirely incapacitated from further judicial
service, and there is no prospect Of recovery.
| It is rumored that his resignation has been
written out, and that ex-Attorney General
Ioo ,%oI l,oe
| There is a rumor of another watering of the
at rate of one to nine-that is, raise the capi-
tai stock from 800, 600, 900, to 800, ,OOO, ,OUO
| and then make it an per cent stock under a
lease to the Lake Shore. The Lake Shore will
take Michigan Central, too, on the same arrange
ment, guaranteeing it 6 per cent the rate which
it has paid for the last year.
Lieut. R. NJ. Berry, u s. N, has been Or
dered to command the steamer Mary and Helen
on the proposed Arctic expedition in search of
! the Jeanette. Secretary Hunt furnished Lieut.
Berry with list of naval officers. who have
volunteered for the service and will be guided
by any preferences he may entertain in making
up the detail of officers who will serve under
him.
Chicago has developed Tannerite in the
person of VIM. Cooney, who came from Stur-
| geon Bay, Wis. He claims to be the Holy Ghost,
| the successor of Christ, and is remarkably in
telligent lunatc. He has tasted twenty five
days, only drinking water during the time, and
says he will live on faith until Easter. April
II. He has been in an insane asylum at Wor-
cester, Mass, where he indulged in a nine day
fast on one occasion.
The worlds fair commissioned at New York
resolved that the executive committee deem II
expedient to take no action in relation to a per
manent president until after April Is, when
the finance committee will report the subscrip-
tions to the capital stock. The members are
determined to use their utmost endeavors to
raise the required amount, ,$3, ,OOO, 600, by April
Is, provided transportation companies sub
scribe s ,OOO,' 90 and the citizens of New
York ST. ,OOO,O' 0. The commission has al
ready raised their 81 100000.
A Protestant Episcopal Temperance Society
has been organized in New York. with Bishop
B. r. Smith for President. The constitution
Emphasizes the fact that the church was already
committed to temperance work, and it's bap-
tismal VOW constituted temperance pledge
The means of promoting temperance were to
consist largely of lectures and pamphlets set.
ting forth the physical as well as moral evils Of
intemperance A total abstinence pledge will
be recommended to the Incorporate as mat
ter of policy and selfpreservation, as well as .
matter of obedience to religious vows. A tota
abstinence pledge is also recommended to per
sons who believe their example will be of value