Daily Republican., 1881-07-02
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
TERRIFIC TKUNDKR STORM AND
loss or LIFE.
Retirement Of Adjutant Fry-Ter'
rfbie Railroad Collision i'm
the Wesf-Other Items.

There was q terrific thunder storm
with furious wind. lasting nearly an
hour, in Tangier ScInd, Chesapeake
Bay, on Thursday. The schooner J. j.
Fail was capized of Taxes Island, and
her crew, consisting of Captain George
Il. Davis, Edward Eiggin and William
Ward, are supposed to have all per-
ished Wards body has been found
Vessels were blown high upon the
beach on Smiths Island. AT Watts
Island the schooner Priscilla +. Leach
was capsized and two colored men
were drowned. Captain Mcdonald
and his son perished by the capsizing
of the schooner Sunny side farther mp
the Sound, and Il colored man was
drowned from another vessel.
The President yesterday signed an
order retiring Assistant Adiutant Gen
eral James B. Fry. General Fry is
native of Illinois, "a years Of age,
graduated al West Point, and was Pro
yost Marshal General OF the army dur
iur the most critical period of the late
WA. BY General Fry's retirement
General robert Williams will become a
full Colonel, and General Thomas M.
Vincent Lieutenant Colonel. The va
caucy male by the promotions Will ht
filled by the advancement of Colonel
William q. Mitchell, an aid OF Major
General Hancock. His promotion by
the President is made AZ Gen. hancock's
personal request.
At noon yesterday, John Griscom
weighed l:ISst pounds, loss :. pounds
since Thursday at noon. HIS pulse
was -, respiration Is, and temperature
9S 80. Grisco,n threatens TO take to
the lecture platform when his last is
ended and he has sufficiently recovered
his voice and strength.
Joseph Davitt, under twelve years of
age, was dangerously shot by Neil k-n-
nedy, OF about thss same age, while
playing together in Jersey City, on
Thursday night. After Kennedy fired
the shot h,thrcw the weapon, u six
harrellrd revolver, in the canal and ran
l'sway.
The Secretary ui the Treasury yester-
! day issued a call for the redemption ot
the remainder of the Five Pei Cent.
bend, which have not been continued at
threr-anu-a- half per cent. II Is tstltn;t,
Ted thai the amount to be retained
] will! not exceed $12 ,00O,OO0.
Charles Mansfield, stabbed iu Chicago,
two weeks ago, by Wing Lee, China
man.is considered beyond recovery. The
physicians attending him say that the
blade Of the knife with which he wa
| stabbed had poison upon it.
John Burnside, reputed the wcaithiesl
man in leui&xna, died at the White
Sulphur Springs cu Thursday, aged 81
years. His eSta'e is estimated at from
S5, ooO, 800 to s. 600, ,O0N. He was a bache
lor, ard it is said leaves no known heirs
Ais,ut 200 granite cut in Concord
i New Hampshire, nearly all those work
ing in that city, struck yesterda,
morning fer increased wages. Th
strike does not incl,lde the quarrymen
bur those employed in the finishing
shed.
George W. Lee, Df RosSvillc, subur
of Newark, New Jersey, fell dead o
heart disease, at his daughters wed
ding, on Thursday evening, just rs h
w;ts about 10 con aratlllate her after tn
ceremony.
The pap"r mill Of Russell, Averill 4
CARPENTER, at Minneapolis, was burnet
on Thursday night. Loss $40, 900. Th'
giotsfor,l elevator, at Port Huron, Mi III
iran, was burned yesterday morning
Loss S4O,e0
The total coinage executed at the L
| :. Mints during June was S., Al ,S42, in
Irluling 2,4i3, 800 silver dollars. and :,
Ill3, 200 silver dollars, and 2,25s, 500 one
cent pieces
The boat race between the Yale an
Harvard crews at New London, yester
day afternoon, was won by Yale b.
two lengths. Time, 22 li
! In Dolly county, Georgia, on Thursday
Elijah Tyson accused of murder, wa
shot dead l.. the sheriff while rcsis1in
arrest.
IN the International regatta at Otlaw
yesterday, She first class sculllng mate
was won by Ross, with Gaudaur Secon
and iIoslner third.
, Adam Thompson, cOored, convicted
Of murder, was hanged yesterday il
Dallas, Texas.
Commodore Sicard entered yesterda.
u,On his duties as Chiefot the Buea'
of Ordinance of the Navy Department
Seventy men, employed in the con
struction division Of the Brooklyn Nay.
Yard, were discharged YESTERDAY.
The switcamem on twelve Of the rail
roads centcling at Kansas City, struck
yesterday for higher wages.
The public debt statement for J"',
shows a decrease of ST., ,323, 3j.
Religious Services.