Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

Captain Chester, in command of the
expedition for the relief of the Arctic
vessel GLlnare, has employed the New
foundland sealing steamer Proteus,
which will leave st. Johns as soon as
she is equipped.
- The shore end of the American
Gable was landed Monday at Dover
Bay, N. S. The laying of the cable is
going on at the rate of 100 miles day.
The total values of the exports of
domestic provisions, tallow, and dairy
products during April, 1881, were S.
1873, 164, and during April, 1880, $12,-
800, 672. The total values of dairy pro-
ducts for the twelve months ended
April 80, 1881, were 1913, 1856, 7S1, and
during the same period in 1880, &c.
607,95O
Col. Thomas A. Scott, one of the
prominent railroad men of the country,
died in Philadelphia on Friday. He
was Pennsylvania by birth. He
went into railroading at an early age,
and as Assistant Secretary of War dur
ing the war was of much benefit to
the Government in this department.
He was Superintendent and afterwards
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for many years.
The only liquor saloon in Lompoc,
CAL, was blown up on Saturday night
by bomb placed under it.
The Western Union Office in Chi
cago received on Friday 100, 1876 words,
including the revised Testament in
special dispatches from New York, in
less than seven hours-an unparalleled
feat in telegraphy.
In Now York city at a conference of
the stalwarts it was decided to open the
campaign at once at Albany, and leave
no stone unturned for the re- election of
Conkling and Plat. Messrs. Conkling
and Plat were present at the meeting.
Governor Cornell of New York has
signed the State Charities Aid Associa-
ton bill.
President Garfield and Secretaries
Blaine, Window and Kirkwood will par
ticipate in the ceremonies in the National
Cemetery at Gettysburg on Decoration
Day. Governor Hoyt and staff, with
the heads of departments and both
houses of the Legislature, have accepted
invitations to be present. Mr.. Julius
G. Burrows, of Michigan, will deliver
the address. The Presidential party
will arrive on Monday morning and re-
main until Tuesday evening.
AT conference in New York city
Mr. Conkliug said that he preferred not
to go back to the Senate, but to retire
to private life. If his friends insisted
upon his going, Mr.. Plat must go with
him.
The potato bug is causing great
destruction in sections of New Jersey.
Immense numbers made their appear
ance after the recent heavy rains. The
army worm has also appeared in this
State.
Joseph Stevens, colored, was hanged
in Edgeield, S. c., Friday for the muir
der of Andrew Richardson, colored. At
the last his courage seemed to forsake
him, and waving his handkerchief he
became greatly excited, exclaiming in a
loud voice 81 claim protection. Give
me protection. l command the peace,
peace, peace, peace.
The New Hampshire Press Associa-
ton in June is to go through Hoosac
Tunnel, visit Saratoga, do Niagara
Falls, go through Lake Ontario, visiting
the Thousand Islands and Alexandra
Bay, run the rapids of the st. Lawrence,
tarry awhile in Montreal, and go thence,
through Newport, VI, to Plymouth,
n. II.
Martin Flanagan, the convicted muir.
derer of John Kairns, was sentenced by
Judge Beckwith at Buffalo, N. Y, to be
hanged on July s.
John Tucker, of Jay, VT, who died
recently, made q confession on his death
bed to the effect that he and John Ross,
his brother-in-law, set fire to large
wooden mill at Stanbridge, Que, two
years ago, at the instance of William
Ross, of Jay. John Ross has been ar
rested.
The fast stallion, Monroe Chief, was
sold in Chicago on Friday to San Fran
cisco persons, whose names are kept
secret, for $500
General William II. French, q. S. A.
(retired), died in Washington, Friday
morning, of apoplexy.
"A disaster in the Golden Terra mine,
in Dakota Territory, took place on
Thursday evening. Some sixty men
| were buried in the mine and ten of them
| L.