Smyrna times., 1881-06-15
News Items.


News Items.
Unlawful trespassing on the Southern
Ute Agency is reported.
Political feeling in the Cherokee Nation
has led to several murders.
Twelve vessels are fast in the ice at
Oregrund. in the GUlf of BOthnia.
Two hundred men are al work construct .
ing the Mexican National railway.
The American dory Little Western is /.
about to leave England on her return vOy-
age.
Farnum's cotton mills, at Norristown,
Pa, shut down on account Of Il scarcity of
hands.
The PENNSYLVANIA National Grcenback
Labor party meets in convention at Potts
vile. to-day.
The business portion OF the village of
Ludington, Mimi, has been burned; loss
about $200,000.
Edwin Booth wishes to cancel his en-
gagements in England on account of his
wife's sickness.
Ten men were killed near San Antonio,
Texas, i'll an encounter between rangers
and COW thieves.
1t is estimated that the savings effected
i'll the Post Office Department will amount
to 81 ,OO0O0O annually.
A man was shot and killed in a shooting
scrape III church at iIulstrings. Ellis
county, Texas. Monday.
Mrs. Garfield sits up two hours or more
at time, has good appetite, and is
rapidly gaining strength.
The two Rumbergers, recently convict
ed of murder at Harrisburg, Pa, have
been granted new trial.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co..
! will build an elevator at Richmond. with
a capacity of 3,000,000 bushels.
The Grecian Minister to France has re-
| signed; his name is mentioned i'll conncc-
! tion with the Treasury frauds.
A colored man named Morocco was
! Monday arrested ut Trenton. y. j., charg-
ed with the murder of his wife.
Captain Sparks Of the whaling schooner
| Edward Lee, of Provincetown. Mass. and
five men were lost at sea on May II.
Acyclone passed near Montague. Texas
Monday, carrying away houses, fences
&c. The crops were badly damaged
Patrick Ridigan, boy who was bitten
i'll the lip by dog two months ago, died
i'll New York Monday of hydrOphobia.
Two Irishmen have been arrested il
Liverpool, for attempting to blow up the
Town Hall. Only slight injury was done
by the explosion.
A plot to kill two wOrkmen in Chicago
iron foundry by placing gunpOwder in 1
mould about to be used is said to be the
work of strikers.
A boat containing five young men wa.
carried over the dam in the Iowa river. a
MarshalltOwn, Iowa, Monday night, anC
TWO of the party drowned.
The boy preacher, Thomas Harrison. il
now conducting a revival in Indianapolis
Ind. The total number of converts is re
ported to be nearly 1000.
A law recently passed in Pennsylvani,
makes it unlawful to make distinction
between persons seeking admission to tn,
public schools account of color.
The Kentucky commissioner of agricul
ture reports that owning to the drought il
May, there can not be more than two
thirds wheat crop in that State.
John H. Howard, of Burlington, Vt.
Monday, gave to the University of Yer
mont $50,O00 for the endowment of tn,
HOword professOrship of natural history
The republican members of the New
Hampshire Legislature agreed on Monday
night to vote for Senator on Tuesday
The anti-election members refrained from
voting.
A very heavy rain storm, accompanied
in some districts by hail, passed owe
Western Ontario Monday evening, Con
siderable damage is reported to the grow
ing crops.
Michael Connolly was killed, Patricl
r Burke seriously injured, and John Haw
l ins his leg broken Monday, at No. min
of the Delaware and Hudson Company, n
Plymouth, Pa.
e During the sixty days between the mid
t die OK March and the middle of May, tn
value of seals captured and killed in n re
e latively small area of the Newfoundlan,
. fisheries was about 100000.
A corOner's jury of Rockingham county
Va, has found a verdict involving Mis-
Elizabeth Schultz in the death of her child
> which was found in field under som
, brush and briers, where it was born.
At the second trial of Clarence Clay, a
Redwood City, Cal, under a charge @
venue, for killing Theodore Clancy, edi
. tor Of the Santa Barbara Press, the jur,
found verdict of murder in the seconl
? degree.
. Two brothers, known as Rube and Sid
| ney Patrick, living near Golden City, Col
Y quarreled ON Sunday over the OWNERSHIP
j of dog, when Sidney shot and instantl
}. killed his brother. The murderer wa
t arrested.
: General Grant, laying aside his usual re
{ ticence, talked with Chicago reporte
n Monday with much freedom concernin
r the situation in Albany, and expresse
himself as being in entire sympathy wit
e Mr.. ConkliRg,
= 1t was reported in New York Monda,
night that the brewing firms of Phili
SChOAfen and Eckert a. MintaY had aurao