, 1881-04-29

0bI0 Immigrants landed at New ork
on the l9th
Benjamin Disraeli, generally known as
Lord Beaconntield, England's most prom
inent statesman, died on the 18th
{. c. Nelson a banker of Usage Mission.
Nebraska, has disappeared, and it is be
lieyed that he has taken large amount
OF money belonging to others.
Fire at Governeur, New York, on the
18th, burned the Van buren Hotel, First
National Bank, McAllister's block and the
Baptist and Presbyterian churches.
The John Kelly ticket WIS elected in
Tammany by majority of 80 in a total
vote of I'll. The election was the most
exciting held in many years in the Tam
many society.
The president has nominated Gen.
James LOngStreet, now minister to Tur-
key, U. >. marshal of Georgia, and Philip
ii. Emerson associate justice of the su-
preme court OF Utah.
S. K. Redmond, a North Carolina
moonshlner for whose capture a reward
was offered, has been arrested by revenue
officers after fight in which Redmond
was wounded.
The manager of the Chestnut street
opera house, Philadelphia, has been in
structed to begin suit against Anna Dick
inson for refusing to appear according to
contract as Claude Melnotte.
Mrs. Mutt, living near Camden, Ark,
while in fit of insanity last Saturday,
killed five of her children by throwing
them into well The elder was - wears.
the youngest ii months.
The ship Bedfordshire from San Fran
cisco Oct. ~, 1880, for Queenstown, was
spoken off Cape Horn January lst, but
has not been heard from since, and fears
for her safety are naturally entertained
The London Times says the promoters
of the movement for the release of Mich
ale Davitt have determined to circulate
throughout Great Britain and the United
States memorial setting forth grounds
for his liberation.
While circus men were loading ears at
railroad crossing at Ennis, Texas, three
men, leaving town, insisted on crossing
at that particular place. a fight caused
i'll which Campbell, one of the showmen,
was seriously shot through the body.
Reports of ST. Louis journals Indicate
an unusually fine grass crop. Herds are
entirely free from disease, except a case
or two OF blackleg among young fat
stock. Many cattle are now very thin.
| Prospects are that more will be marketed
| and the quality of beet will be better than
last year.
A gentleman who has been along the
line of the Hastings and Dakota railroad
says that farmers along the line have ex-
amined wheat left in stacks and ind it in
first-ciass condition. Fears had been
entertained that it would be total loss.
Owing to dry air and winds it will be
preserved.
The steamer W. 7. Wheeless with 500
bales of cotton and general freight, burned
TO the waters edge at Savannah on the
18th. No lives were lost. The steamer
ran between Savannah and Augusta and
was only In service three months. She
cost $50, 900 and was insured for $4,000. A
warehouse on the wharf containing guano
and several hundred tons of cotton seed,
was also destroyed The Wheeless drifted
to the opposite side of the river, setting
fire to two schooners and several tugs.
Congressman Jorgensen of Virginia
called at the Republican office at WASH
ington recently, spelling for a fight He
had card which he wished inserted in
answer TO reflections on his course toward
Virginia liberals. George C. Gorham,
editor in chief, refused to give the card
place, whereupon Jorgensen said that he
denounced Gorham as a slandeTer and
dirty dog. He was hustled out of the
office by his friends, who were uncertain
as to where the matter would terminate.
A peculiar and heretofore unknown
disease has broken out among the horses
in Chicago. 1t begins with swelling just
below the fetlock, which, after Il little,
testers and becomes discharGing sore.
1t yields slowly to Skiilful treatment, but
unless taken early the poisonous matter
spreads itself upwards and infects the
blood, causing death. The horses are, in
any case, laid up two or three weeks.
Netrinary surgeons attribute the disease
to long period of winter, during which
the animals have been obliged to stand
and travel in cold and wet slush. The
disease has been slowly gaining ground
tor some days, and z large proportion of
the South Side Car companies horses are
under treatment, as also are 200 horses of
the North Side Company, and 10 OF the
West Side Company. The buss line re
ports that one horse has died and that
forty are laid up. The express companies
and individuals also suffer.
Washington special: A prominent Vir-
ginian says thai during the last presiden-
tial campaign the democrats made Ma
hone several offers. Last May, only two
or three days before the funder democrats
held their state convention, Chairman
Barnum of the national committee in
duced Malone to meet him in. Washing
ton for a conference. Barnum was i'll
Hy siCil'S olI oISOuiiG Oi IiidI XII
den would not get The Virginia delegation
to the Cincinnati convention. He asked
General Malone if Iilden would not
carry Virginia if nominated. Malone re-
piled that he would, although he Was y,ry
unpopular in the state. Then Barnum
proposed that Malone should try to cap
Cure the funder convention and send
set of Tilden delegates to the Cincinnati
convention, and offered to furnish funds
for this purpose Malone refused 10
make the attempt or have anything what
ever to do with the Bourbon funders.
The success of the anti-monopoly party
at the recent municipal election in jersey
City, was only partial, but it nevertheless
has much significance. The city in which
this organization had its origin is simply
railroad ridden. 1t is a railroad center
and the rights of the citizens are not
weighed at all, when the demands of the
corporations are i'll question. 1t is alleged
that the Pennsylvania road pays no taxes
whatever to the Jersey City treasury,
while the other railroad corporations
contribute only fraction of what they
ought to. A correspondent says that the
growing feeling among the masses, not
only in Jersey City, but also throughout
the state, is that corporations have gone
far enough, and that il is now high time
to teach them the rights of the people.
This feeling Is shared by the bulk of the
republican party Just as much as it is by