Daily Republican., 1881-08-27
SECOND EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Republisans Of Virginia who VIII
not Support She Coalition Ticket
-xBaher 1T ms Of Interest.

General William T. Wickham, the
"Straight" Republican leader in Nir-
yinla, has announced his intention to
support the Democratic candidates Oh
she State ticket, against the Malone
Repuuiators Two local leaders in the
Republican party, Messis. Thomas, Of
Henry county. and Cur!ett, of Lancas-
ter, have Made similar announce
ment. 1t il believed, however, that the
great bulk OF the negroes and all the
white office holding Republicans Will
support the Malone ticket.
The wife of c. T. Burke, Of Little
Rock, committed suicide by taking
lauianum in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday.
She went to Dallas with her two chlid.
rem after her husband, who arrived
with another woman several weeks ago,
and it was The discovery Of her hus-
bands fai;hIessness that caused her
suicide.
The hacking establishment of John
G. Hateley, at the Union Stock Yards,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire last
night. Four hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of bacon and large guam
ties OF lard and provisions were stored
in the warehouse and the loss is esti-
mated at 70 or three millions.
The Health Officer at Key West has
been dismissed for refusing to give clean
bills of health. His refusal was based
on the fact that a case of yellow fever
existed in that city, as certified by
four prominent physicians after an ex.
animation Of the patient on the 22u and
23d inst
Three boys, James and JoEn ktne
and Alexander BaIlentine, aged from ,
10 s wears, were drowned AT Steuben,
ville Ohio, on Thursday evening They
were riding upon "s.abs' floating iii
the river, when the "slabs" tilted and
threw them into the water.
One of the buildings of Watson Bur
rill Il Co.'S. powder factory at Warren,
Maine, blew up on Thursday, 1t CON
tanned a ton of fine powder, and two
other buildings were damaged by the ex-
piosiOn. Samuel Monk Of Warren, was
killed.
The Dominion Postal Department
has given considerable new orders
for mail bags and pouches to manu-
tacturers in Ottawa, Toronto and else
where-possibly in consequence OF The
recent mail bag difficulty with the pos
tal authorities of the United States.
1t is officially reported that 10 miles
Of the Central .iailroad Of Mexico have
been completed, and that IA, 900 men are
mpoyed in the work of constructing
the road. Nearly 5000 men are EN-
pioyed on the Tehuantcpec road, eleven
miles of which have ben completed.
Lewis X. Redmond the notorious
'moonshiDer, "who had so long detied
the Government officers in Georgia and
the Carolinas, was convicted at Couln-
bia, South Carolina, on Thursdag, OF
conspiracy and violation ot the lHttrnaI
revenue laws.
The boiler on hossing sloop at fIav-
,eIhili, Massachusetts exploded yesger-
day morning, injuring Two men, one
seriously. The boiler was Old and un-
safe and there w~re eighty pounds of
steam on.
The Secretary of the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, just returned
from Manitoba, reports that the crops
in that province will be very large this
.ysa1.
Five house painters were injured, ,one
named Louis Balchelder seriously, by
the tall of scatfold in Fall River,
Massachusetts, yesterday morning.
The safe of Lewis Burgess, at Hague,
New York, was blown open on Th,ra-
day night and robbed of $500 in money
and $1,000 III inte.e certificates.
A telegram from Boston says that in
case Of the President death, the news
will be announced in that city by the
tolling Of bells.
General f. b. Styles, a prominent
Democratic politician, nied yesterday,
in Chicago, otparalysis ofthe neart, aged
81 years.