Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-08
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The trade returns in Great Britain for
February show that the imports: increased
e3, 400, 242 and the exports e331 900 as
compared with February of last year.
J. A. SIT. Williams, wholesale grocers
| of Detroit, closed their doors with liabili-
ties of about s34, 600 and assets of s1G,-
600.
Jacques Seebo, of French descent, who
was born six miles from Mount Clemens,
near Detroit. and had always lived in that
neighborhood, died yesterday, at the age
of 10j years.
The Missouri river at Fort Buford has
risen twenty feet and is still rising. A
| freshet from the extreme northwest will
| force the ice and inundate the country if
the warm weather continues.
The coroner's jury in Nashville which
viewed the body of Ananias White wife,
returned verdict that White killed her.
The principal witness was WhitA,s son,
years old who described the manner Of the
murder.
Robert G. Pate, Of St. Louis, sold his IA
nous racing mare Matte Hunter to John
Splan, who gave an order OH F. G. Emery
of Cleveland for the purchase money s12,-
600. Mr.. Pate bought the mare two years
ago for $1,000.
All of Haycs's nominations in the Senate,
from Stanley Matthews down to DravO and
Anderson, fell through the efforts of Conk-
ling and Cameron who prevented an exec
utive session, although Herman and Wal
lace both sought by every means in their
power to bring one about.
G. A. Reemcnsnyder, treasurer Of the
Toledo board Of water works, is 4 de-
faulter and has abscondcd. 4 letter re-
ccived from him acknowledges his defalca-
tion and states that he was about to sail
for Europe. The amount of the delalca-
is variously estimated at from Sc, 600 to
$4,000.
Canton, o. lately the scene of a triple
| execution, is now excited over Il horrible
case of infanticidc. Appearances
plainly showed that the child had been
killed by wringing it's neck, and deep
! gashes on the neck and shoulders indicated
an attempt to chop the head off with a
hatchet or similar instrument.
In CraigEead county, Ark, Matte, the
beautiful young daughter of BENZ. Ishnall.
has been found horribly murdered. and
| evidence was left Of terrible struggle for
her life. Negroes are supposed to have
butchered her because she would not re-
veal where her eccentric faith cr had large
sums Of money hidden about the house.
The snow storm in Scotland has now
abated, but it will be some days before
railway communication is restored. About
nine vessels have been lost on the Abcr-
deenshire coast and about one hundred
persons have been drowned. The ship
Benrhyd, from Calcutta to Dundee, has
been wrecked near Aberdeen, and thirty
persons were drowned. Two or three small
vessels were lost with all hands Oh the
coast Of Northumberland.
Members Of the Sophomore class at
Cornell sought to break up the Freshman
class supper by kidnapping the toast mas
ter, historian, and prophet. One they in
weighed from his room on some protext :;
the others they took from their beds and
carried away by main force. They took
them to a hotelin another town and stood
guard over them, but the Ithaca police
came and liberated them and captured
their kidnappers.
An old oak tree on the MacdOugall
place, near the Livingston county, ILL.,,
was chopped down, and as it fell with q
crash, out of its top was jolted bunch of
snakes in a torpid condition. The most
remarkable thing, however, was the dis
covery in the trunk of the tree of an old
white lead can, over Which was tied a piece
Of cloth, and in which was found S4l5 in
coin. The money was wrapped in piece
of Chicago newspaper OF 1861. 1t is
supposed that the money was secreted
there by old Mr.. Macdougall, now dead,
who owned the place during the war and
who feared raid Oh account Of his rebel
sympathies.