The National tribune., 1881-11-12
NEWS ITEMS,

neapolis. He has no hopes of another term from
that district
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany have executed mortgage to the Merchants
Trust Company of New York for 100000.
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Minister to Spain,
and wife, Miss Blaine daughter of Secretary
Blaine and ex-senator John Scott, and wife sailed
on the 9Th from Philadelphia in the steamship
Illinois, of the American line.
General StOneman, the famous cavalryman,
has raised $4,000 worth of grapes on his vine
yard at Los Angelese, Cal, this year.
Judge Folger was, in 1867 one of nine men in
the New York Legislature who voted in faver of
giving women the ballot
Secretary Blaine, Justice Swayne, and Justice
Bradley have sons in the civil service Secretary
Hunt has four in the service of their country
Snow storms are reported as having occurred
last week in Pennsylvania, New York and New
Hampshire.
Jack Kenott, ex-assistant postmaster of Little
Rock, Ark, pleaded guilty to charge of embez;
element in the United States Court and was SEN
fenced to the Detroit penitentiary for two years
and six months.
Commanders of whaling vessels which have
arrived at San Francisco report the sea opened
to an unparalleled extent in the Arctic Some
whalers went further north than their charts ex-
tended. The news that the Rodgers had steamed
around Wrangell Land was at first received with
incredulity on the Pacific coast
Captain Hooper, of the revenue cutter COrwin,
in his preliminary report to the Secretary of the
Treasury, expresses the opinion that no accident
could have happened to the Jeanette in the
vicinity of Herald Island and Wrangell Land.
Captain Hooper hope for the missing
whalers Mount Wollaston and Vigilant
In San Francisco it is the belief that Captain
De Long pushed the Jeanette far to the north of
Wrangell Land in the season of 1879
Rich deposits of gold, it is reported, have been
discovered on the shores of Lake George
No light has as yet been thrown ON the motive
for the murder of Colonel Smith. of Omaha, Ne
braska.
The Atlanta Cotton Exposition has thus far
proved eminently successful
Pennsylvania Railroad Company S round house,
at Princeton, n. j., destroyed by fire.
Henry j. Gully, one of the assassins of the
Chisholm family, is running for the Legislature
in Mississippi.
In the lower house of the Washington Terri
tory Legislature the bill giving the right of
suffrage tO'women passed by vote of Is to H.
similar bill was defeated in the upper house
on the Goth ultimO by vote of to 5. but it
will come up in another shape, and it is believed
will pass.
The report of the Government examiner of
he Of 10
Mechanics National Bank shows the assets to be
s2035 295 and the liabilities 81, 446, 253.43
The proposed soldiers monument at Bath,
n T., Is an assured fact Its location in the
most conspicuous place in town has been dec ded
upon and the necessary funds are being raised
quite rapidly.
The ladies Of Woburn are taking great interest
In aiding the Soldiers Home at Chelsea. by
raising funds for the soldiers bazaar to be held
in Boston.
About four hundred milkmen were required
to stand IN line at o'clock on the morning of
November 9th, in jersey City, " J., in front
OF the Erie railroad depot while the State nspec-
tors OF milk and a detective force examined their
cans About two thousand gallons of milk was
dumped into the street, and five mllkmen-aIl of
New York-were arrested and taken before Jus
tice Davis, who fined them S55 each
Augustus p. PleasOnton, who died last week in
England, was formerly an officer in the First
United States Cavalry and nephew of the Gen
tral Alfred PleasOntOn who commanded the cav
airy corps at Charlottesville and during the
gettysburg campaign, and who was afterward
Commissioner of Internal Revenue during Cen
aral Grants first admins tratiOn His r,+ba- 10
General Augustus j. PleasontOn, of Philadelphia
IF blue-glass" fame.
The jury in the trial of ex- Governor Scott of
south Carolina, for the murder of young Drury.
IN Christmas morning last, at Napoleon, Ohie,
brought in verdict of not guilty.
In the United States Circuit Court Judge
has made permanent the temporary
Injunction restraining Samuel J. Tilden from
lsposing ~ his stock in the New York iron
nne.
The Eagle Dock, Hoboken, y. J., was burned
n the night OF the 9th inst. Loss estimated at
1 100000
Mr.. Algernon SartOris and his wife the daugh-
er OF ex-President Grant arrived in New York
aturday, on the German steamer Elbe Of their
lree children they brought two the Youngest
eng lett at their home in England
Attorney Rollins, of New York city, has written
) Acting AttOrney-tieneral Phillips and also TO