Daily Republican., 1881-10-25
NEWSSUM UMMARY.
DEATH vP Al BMINENT PRESBY
rsRIAN .CLER6YMAN.


srhe Blas ana Gray ~ Charl eston-
Nessllne work mons Wa1es-
Presidential nominatisns-
Other Items Of lnteFest.
Rev DR.. Eoenezer Platt Rogers, form.
erly Pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia, and for ~ years in
charge of the South Reformed church
in New York, died at Montclair, New
Jersey, last Saturday night, in the 64th
year OF his age. DR.. Rogers had ser we'd
as a ilember of the Publishing Com 1T.
tee of the American Tract Society, had
published "a number of sermons and
other discourses, and was a frequent
contributor 70 the religious press.
The proprie5ors Of the Iron mill at
Cincinnati were in conference yester.
day with representatives Of their work
men with view TO Il settlement Of the
differences between them. The work
men agreed to accept Pistsbirg prices
in the slabbing and scraping depart
ments, and the proprietors agreed to in.
crease the number Of men ~ the fur
Laces to equal the number employed
at Pittsburg in q similar way.
There was partial suspension q
business in Charleston, South Carolina.
yesterday, most of its inhabitants de-
voting til .mse!vss 70 the festivities at
tending the entertainment of Governor
Bigelow and the visiting soldiers from
Connecticut. The principal feature of
the day was parade and review OF
troops by the two Governors, of Cou-
necticut and South Carolina. The visit
ors leave Charleston to-day.
The President yesterday nominated,
and the Senate confirmed, Edwin ID.
of the Treasury, in place Of Mr.. Window,
resigned. Among the other nomina-
tions by the President were Henry
Highland Garnet, OF New York, to be
Minister to Liberia, and John NJ. Bal
ley, Of New York, TO be Consul 4: Ham
burg.
The French and American Claims
Commission met yesterday in Wash
ington. nj. Grimaud de Caux has been
appointed permanent agent Of the
French Government. The Commission
granted counsel the privilege Of filing
an additional brief on the question of
the lights of executors before the Com
mission.
James f. Anderson, who achieved a
national notorlety in Lo lisiaua during
the Electoral troubles of 1875, and who
hnu lnt Al hnnr altt INA -
called the Leader, in Eureka, Nevada,
was assaulted there on Sunday night,
by w. j. Penrose, and so badly beaten
on the head with a revolver that his re-
covery is doubtful,
The Pennsy lvania Railroad Company
has given notice to shippers in Chicago
that on and after to-day the 25th inst.
the rates by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railway will be advanced
on grain, -four and provisions to the
following figures; Chicago to New
York, 20 cents Fer hundred; to Phila-
delphia, IS cents; to Baltimore, II
cents.
When the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States met yesterday, Attorney
General &acVeagh presented resolu'
tions adopted by bar meeting last
week, in reference to the death Jus
tice Clifford, and TIE court, as mar I
of respect to the memory Of deceased
adjourned.
For some time past the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has been robbed at
Jersey City of pieces Of baggage check
ed to 20 over the road. Yesterday
morning, John Aigny, a baggage man,
employed by the company, was caught
in the act OF stealing small trunk
checked to go west.
In yesterdays session of the Synod of
Phil adelphia, at Wilkesbarre, the dis
solution of the SynOdS was voted on
and carried. On the lst of January next
the two bodies will be united into the
Synod Of Pennsylvania. The session of
the Synod of Philadelphia closed last
evening,
Ex-Governor Morgan has not signif-
ed his acceptance of the Secretaryship
OF the Treasury, and it is said that his
physician has advised him not to ac-
cept at his time of life an office which
will impose upon him such arduous
duties.
General Francis A. Walker, has re-
signed his position as Superintendent
Of the Census, and it Is understood that
Colonel Sexton, his chief clerk, will be
appointed his successor.
At o'clock yesterday morning the
river at Burlington, Iowa, reached the
<,S haA Vh ant
since tho spring Of 1881. At noon the
river had risen another inch.
Most Ct the French and German
guests, accompanied by Secretary Hunt
and Assistant Secretary Walter Blaine,
visited the Naval Academy at Anna
polls, yesterday.
General Graut left Washington yes
terday morning for New York. He
was accompanied to the railroad depot
by President Arthur.
Rev. Mason Noble, Pastor of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church, of Wash
ington, died yesterday in that city, of
maiarial fever.
A woman named Hckock, died in
Chicago oil Sunday, while under the in
fiuence of chloroform, administered by
a dentist named Tagert
The long drought in Virginia was
ended on Sunday evening by n copious
and general rain, which continued fall
ing yesterday.
The copper mine at Dorchester, New
Brunswick, has been purchased by
Boston capitalists, fog S27O, 900.
Tho new luman steamship City Of
Ro1ce, arrived at New York yesterday
from Liverpool.