The daily gazette., 1881-09-12
GENERAL NEWS.

On Saturday night, refreshing rains
fell in portions of Missouri, Ohio, In"
diana and Illinois. Rain fell at Cairo,
Illinois, for the first time since June
26th.
The trial of Rev. DIR. Thomas for
for heresy, in Chicago, resulted on
Saturday night in unanimous verdict
that he was guilty of Disseminating
ideas contrary to the doctrines Of the
Methodist religion, as specified in the
general Indictment" His case will
now 60 to the Conference for trial.
General Sherman, on Saturday, Wis
tied the fair of the New England Me-
chanics and Manufacturers Associa.
ton in Boston. There was a large
gathering in anticipation of bis pres
ence, and he was enthusiastically well
coined.
Sitting Bull and his band have been
removed from the Standing Rock
Agency to Fort Randall. He said he
would die rather than go to the For,
but an overpowering force of troops
surrounded the Indians and forced
them, step by step, to the bank at
Standing Rock and on board the
steamer General Sherman, which ar
rived at Fort Randall yesterday morn
ing. A nephew of Sitting Bull made
some resistance and was knc cked
down with the butt end of a musket.
A squaw, made desperate by the re.
moval killed her child and attempted
suicide. 1t was believed there will
BE- no danger of an outbreak at the
Fort.
A gentleman named Crow shot an
eagle on the Brandywine above Rid
dies mill, on Saturday afternoon. 1t
measured feet 6 inches from tin to
tip.
Mayor Almond aud VIM. Baxter
went cunning on Saturday and sue
ceeded in bagging three hundred and
fifty railbirds.
Bailiff Brady is looking after those
who are engaged in selling liquor with
out license, and selling on Sunday.
The special committee of Council to
investigate the charges against Street
Commissioner Lynch will meet this
evening.
A temperance meeting will be held
IN the Asbury NJ. E. church this even-
ing.
A horse belonging to Mitchell &
Beck, undertakers, ran away yester.
day, and in turning tine corner of
Fourth and King streets upset the
wagon, badly breaking it.
Andrew Cahill, a respectable citizen
of tho Tenth ward, died at his Iesi-
dence yesterday. He had been en-.
ployed in the blacksmith shop of the
HARLAN 81 Hollingsworlh Company for
the past thirty years.
Tomorrow is the day set apart by
Gov. Hall for prayers for the recovery
of President Garfield.
Rooms to Rent" a new com sdy
now being performed in New York,
VIII be presented in the Opera House
during the present month.
About seventy-fivs tramps yesterday
morning boarded freight train on
the pennsylvania Railroad near Mid
dietown, Penna., and threatened the
crew with violence if they were not al
lowed TO ride. A special train with a
posse Of officers was sent from Middle
town, and twenty-one of the ruffiaus
were arrested. They are supposed to
De part of gang which has been dep.
redating in Lancaster county.
Yesterday afternoon, Sergeant Ma
son, OF Battery b, Second Artillery.
Mher relieving the quad at the jail in
Washington, shot at Guiieau through
the window Of the wreteh's cell, and
came near killing him. The ball
grazed The assassin's head, ana lodg-
ed In the cell wall. Mason was at
once arrested and confined at the Ar
senal.
A violent storm of wind and rain set
IN 81 Danviile, Virginia, at six O'Clock
last evening. Trees were blown down
and fences and houses damaged. The
Ola Confederate military hospital,
lately used as a colored public school,
was demolished, and a colored man
was seriously injured. Several others
We're injured by falling timbers. Rain
leu IN torrents, occasionally accompa.
MED BY hail, and damage to the grow
ing tobacco is feared.