Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-12-24
NEWS OF THE DAY
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A schooner belonging to Placentia Bay
was coming home out of Fortune Bay,
carrying large sail, endeavoring to
clear around point OF land during a
fearful snow storm. When the snow
storm blew over, the schooner was seen
on her beam euds with the crew cling
ing to the weather chain plates. In q
few minutes the unfortunate vessel
sank, carrying all hands on board down
to an ocean grave.
"A special from Mount Union, Pa,
says that John 4. Ingram, n miner,
placed n can of dynamite on his cook
ing stove to dry. The package ignited
and exploded with dreadful force, tear
ing the building to pieces and killing
Ingram, his wife and their four chill
dren. But one child escaped.
On November % Captain Roach, of
the British schooner Doris, sighted a
water-logged and dismasted vessel that
had signals of distress flying. He bore
down some nine miles upon her, but
although he remained two days and two
nights alongside, he could not succeed
in taking off the crew. No boat could
live amid the waves that divided the two
ships, and he was reluctantly compelled
to aband on the unhappy vessel and her
crew to certain doom. He failed even
to discover her name or nationality.
The conduct of the Guiteau trial
is almost universally considered dis
graceful IN England, and Englishmen
do not wonder at the prevalence of
lynch law in the West.
The town of Caldwell, Kansas, was
in the hands of a mob of cowboys Satur-
day, and the marshal of the place and
several cowboys were killed.
As a result of the investigation of the
charges against members of the Ninth
Massachusetts, regiment while at Rich
mond, Va, and Yorktown, twenty of the
offenders have been summarily dismissed
by order of the Commander-in-C Chief.
Two large hat factories, five dwell
lings and a coal office in Orange Valley,
n. J., were burned Friday. Loss, $780,
900. Three hundred persons are thrown
out of work.
The application of Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain for Canadian copyright
has been refused.
The Sioux Indians who did not sur
render with Sitting Bull have come in.
They are very poor.
In Indiana party of masked men
took young woman from the house of
her stepfather and hanged her to tree
until she was almost dead for the pur-
pose Of having her reveal certain secrets.
The Excise Board of New York
City has reported to Mayor Grace that
8 SCI places are licensed to sell liquors;
that % whose application for license
was refused on account of their bad
reputation are still selling, and that II
are selling whose application for license
was rejected for other causes.
Mr.. GoetteI, an Austrian by birth,
but a naturalized American, has sub
scribed $50, 500 to the Vienna fire fund.
1t is said that man who attempted to
carry candles into the Ring Theatre to
light up the passages was arrested by
the police.
A mob known as "Knights of the
Switch" in Harrison County, Indiana,
took Philip Borden from his bed at
midnight. and, after tying him to tree,
fiayed him from the shoulders to the
hips with hickory switches. They cut
large gashes all over his body. The
whipping was kept mp until their victim
tainted. Borden is q respectable citizen
and an old soldier. He can hardly re-
cover.
The Chief Arragate and thirty of
his tribe have been captured by the
Mexican troops. These are the main
remnant Of Victories desperate band.
"A party of highwaymen re bbed a
railroad train OF SIS, 600 near FL Paso,
New Mexico, Tuesday night. and escaped
across the border with their booty.
"A Government scout has reported
to Gen. Pope that he fears there viii be
an Indian uprising i'll New Mexico in
The spring. He says the Mormons are
at the bottom of it and are furnishing
the Utes with firearms.
The directors Of the Mechanics
National Bank of Newark, n. j., have
submitted a plan to the shareholders
and depositors on which they propose
to resume business.
incoming steamers report terrific
gales on the Atlantic, and it is feared
that many disasters have occurred.
Many lives have been lost.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Mr.. Elmore, the Peruvian Minister
at Washington, has received information
from the Peruvian Minister at Paris that
President Montero is now recognized by
the whole of Peru and that Pierola is re-
siding III Lima as a private citizen.
-Secretary Blaine, in q report which
was sent to the Senate by the President.
questions the constitutionality of our
consular courts.
Mr.. Elmore, the Peruvian Minister
at Washington, has received information
from the Peruvian Minister at Paris that
President Montero is now recognized by
the whole of Peru and that Pierola is re-
siding In Lima as private citizen.
In the Senate Thursday Mr.. Ca
land, of Arkansas, engaged in the Pres
idential succession debate, supporting
his own bill as against the bill intro,
duced by Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky.
Up TO the adjournment Of the Sen.
ate and House Saturday there had been
introduced in the Senate 500 bills and
16 Joint resolutions, and in the House
lob bills and joint resolutions. It is
supposed that nearly o thousand OF
more bills and joint resolutions will be
introduced this session.
The joint committee of the United
States Senate and House has invited the
Hon James Ct. Blaine to deliver the on