The National tribune., 1881-10-15
NEWS ITEMS,

| the Chamber of Commerce Guard LAFAYETTE and
Historical Society, who rendered a banquet to
them 1t was accepted, but the date was not
fixed, and it will not take place until after thew
return from Yorktown. The party next visited
! the Union Club after which they were shown the
| practical workings of the fire department.
The President has recognized Domenico Ginoc-
| chic as consular agent of Italy at st. Louis Mo-;
! Francisco Spies, consul of Ecuador at New York:
! Alexander OlOrOwsEy, consul general of Russia
| at San Francisco; c. Wilson, consul of Denmark
at San Francisco; A. J. Landauer. consul of Bel
| GUM at New Orleans; Francis Wells, consul of
! Paraguay at Philadelphia.
| Mr.. LIE Dues tea farm turns out to be even
greater failure than was at first supposed For
the $4,000 put into the venture the Government
has an iron safe which cost $500 and some no
account tea-plants
Mrs Jennie McGraw Fislle, who lately died at
Ithaca, left a fortune of So, 100000 She was
building residence to cost 50 100000, intending
to make it the finest in the United States While
in Europe last year she was married to Professor
Fiske, of Cornell University.
Practical jokers at HemlOck Lake, New York
waylaid a guest-supposed to be bOastful cow
ard-while he was riding through the woods with
young lady. They demanded his money or his
life, and what got was a bullet in his body,
while the other was rewarded with broken arm
General William B. Franklin, of Hartford, Con-
nectlcut, is great grandson of Captain Jonas
Simonds, of the artillery at Yorktown
Mr.. Walker Blaine, the son of the Secretary.
intends, it is reported, to be candidate for nomi-
nation to Congress in the Third District of Maine
next year
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, is Grand
Commander of the Knights Templars of Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island.
President Arthur has asserted that the whole
years salary of the Presidents office shall 90 to
Mrs. Garfield. He will thus serve the Govern
ment for six months without pay. His gift is the
largest and noblest that has yet been contributed
to the fund.-KjngstOn n. y Freeman.
Mr.. Reuben Clements, the last survivor of the
company of Petersburg volunteers in the war of
1912, died Thursday night at his residence in
Petersburg in the ninety-first year of his age.
A gentleman in Richmond advertises for con-
federate bonds, and offers the following rates
One dollar for 81 900 bonds fifty cents for $500
bonds, and twenty-five cents per hundred stamps.
Additional reports from the tobacco sections
confirm to the fullest extent the information of
the disastrous effects of the recent frost on the
crops. Letters and kilograms received on Satur-
day state that very little of the crop had been
housed, and all that was out was more or less in
jured, much of it killed outright. This has had
the effect of causing holders to withdraw their
stocks in large measure from the market.
Tba Of
by his staff, the members of the Legislature.
judges of the Supreme and lower courts, the
mayors of the various cities of the State and the
Pennsylvania National Guard, numbering 700
men, will leave Philadelphia on Tuesday, Octo-
Der Is, for Yorktown ON board the steamer Gal
eatea, arriving at the latter place the following
day The militia will go into camp at York
town, but the Governor and party will remain on
the boat
1t is said that New York company has paid
$3.50 for the exclusive privilege of selling news
papers on the Temple farm grounds, Yorktown.
A photographer paid $500 for the privilege of
operating his instruments on the grounds. Other
privileges have been sold by the association for
about $500.
Another of the great patent monopolies of the
CouHliS Tilt Mchdy Ieatner sewing macnlne-
has expired, having been in operation since 1860
The number of pairs of shoes made in America
by this machine is estimated at 5OOOOOOOO and
of late years ninetenths of all the shoes made in
the United States have paid tribute to this pat
ent, the personal income of the inventor of the
machine having been about S1,0OO,OOO yearly.
In no country are inventors so fully given the
benefit of their labOrs as in America
The survivors of the Forty-seventh regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers are to hold Reunion
at EastOn, on the Goth of October.
The men who robbed passenger train ON the
Iron Mountain Railroad pleaded guilty to four
teen indictments, making the term of punish
ment seventy-seven years for each man.
The following army officers have been ordered
for duty on the staff of Major-General Hancock
during the Yorktown celebration: Lieutenant
Colonies II. F. Clarke ". d. Craighill A j. Per-
~, and c. G.. Sawtelle; Majors W. g. Mitchell
Richard Arnold, A. B. Garner, and H. c. Corbin:
Captains S. S. Wharton, J. p. Sanger and L. c.
Forsyth; First Lieutenants T. H. Barber Eugene
Griffin, E. M. Cobb, G. S. L. Ward H. w. Hub
DELL, jr. and assistant Surgeon H. S. Turrill
The first ylgnette of the late President which
Will appear among the Treasury issues will be
Upon the checks for the six per cent bonds con-
inued at 3! per cent. These checks embrace the