Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-24
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| Colonel James lOun, recently sold his
farm netr kc!'cy's Corner, on the Cole
brook road, Lebanon county.
A negro lespclado, named Henry Trayi:
was killed on Sunday by another negro al
Frectown. st Charles parish, La.
General Skobeleif has sent Il deputatiol,
OF 'iUrconlan chiefs to St. Petersburg tc
announce Their submission to the Car.
\ crcyasse twenty feet wide is reported
at White and Gonzales plantation, ON the
Iiyht bank OF Bayou La Fourchc thirty.
five miles below Thi5odeaux.
Nineteen of the prisoners charged with
conspiracy to murder the European resi-
dents OF kalapore have been found guilty,
but sentence has been deferred.
Tic Nelly furnace at Middletown. now
owned by tic Cnnewago iron company.
was blown i'll Il few days ago and is now
working splcnditily.
| A Gravcstone in q Wnonsockct cemetery
bears, besides the ordinary inscription. the
words ''Th;S stone is not paid for," cut
iii by the i!.,tc MI kcr.
California vine growers say tha5 the
wine nroduccd in that state will ere long
| drive French wine out OF the market in
| tho Eastern states.
| n school for teaching chambermaids and
other house servants has been established
| at lillian: So far it has worked very
smoothly, and Milancse house keepers
have high hopes for the future.
| Thirty-six successive shocks of earth
! quake have occurred at St Miclael's in the
Azores The church and 200 houses have
fallen IN ana several persons have been
killed.
The deadlock in the New York board
OF aldermen over the election OF pc-ma-
rcnt presiding officer was broken yester-
day, when Alderman Patrick Keenan,
was elected president.
The Commercial national bank OF Albany
has taken steps to retire all its circulation.
The bank will keep $50, 900 in bonds on de-
poslt i'll Washington and thus remain
national bank, but without circula ion.
There are between seven and eight hull
'lrcd professional models in Paris. thirty
three of whom arc Americans. They are
Of every age from children of six to men
and women OF sixty.
An Italian offered to bet :; German in
st. Louis $40 that he could not drink ten
schooners of beer without stopping the
bet was accepted and the beer duly drunk
les: one Of his children.
Rink Pitts, negro, 81 years old, is to
be hanged in Marietta, twenty miles from
Atlanta, on March t. for an assault on a
negro girl IS years of age. The streets of
Atlanta arc flooded with dodgers announc-
ing the fact that an excursion train will be
run to that point for the accommodation
of all who desire to see tbs hanging.
The enterprise is got up by two Atlanta
negroes.
Two children of Henry Cohn, near
Chicago went t" the barn on Monday even
ing to play, when they discovered their
sire dangling from a cross beam. In his
right hand was cienchcd Il discharged re-
volvrr. Standing on box with a rope
around his neck he had fired q shot into
his head. It did not produce death, but
as he fired he kicked the box away and
dicd.frOm strangulatiOn.
Additional atrocities have been perDc-
trated by the natives in Oceanica. A
Chinese junk, owned in Cooktown. has !
been seized near New Guinea and the crew
slaughtered. The sooner Zephyr. of Sgd |
ney, met the same fate at the Solomon
Islands. A French man-of-war recently |
visited Basilsk Island. where the French |
were murdered, and destroyed |
many buildings. The ship was unable to
ct any capture any of the islanders.