The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The Cotton Exhibition at Atlanta will
close on Saturday.
The streams In southwestern Indiana
are reported to be greatly swollen, flood
ing the low land and seriously damaging
the wheat crop.
Two horses and wagon loaded with
Illicit tobacco were captured by revenue
officers last Saturday, near Hamlet, In
Richland county, North Carolina.
A heavy food was expected IN the
West branch of the Susqaehanna river
last night. The river at Willamsport
was ten feet above low water mark last
evening, and still rising.
Funds have been deposited at Mobile
and New York to meet the January lu-
terest on the Alabama bonds. 1t is said
that more than half the bonded debt of
Alabama Is now held by citizens Of that
State.
In the U. s. Circuit Court at Pitts
burg, yesterday, Ju dge MeKennan grau-
ted the petition OF Samuel Dickson to
dissolve the injunction against the Lee
high and Wilkes barre Coal Company,
and lake Its business out OF the hands of
the receivers.
Nearly 800 colored persons from
Edgsfield county, South Carolina, yes
terday passed through Augusta, Georgia,
on their way to Arkansas. They were
led by colored preacher named Ham,
mond. 1t is believed they will be fol-
lowed by several hundred other colored
people from the same county.
The Naval Board of Survey, in the
matter of the collision of the flagship
Tennessee with the steamer Western
Texas, in New York harbor, find that
all the blame fs- the collision lies with
the Western Texas. II will require five
or six weeks and cost about $1,000 to re-
pair the Tennesseee's damages.
Secretary Lincoln expects to be-
back in Washington next Saturday
The rev Chinese Minister will be
formally presented to the President
next Saturday by the Secretary of
State.
Rev. James E. Smith, Pastor of
the Uniyersalist Church, at Abing-
ton, Massachusetts, has embraced
Congregatlonalism.
William G. LIE Due, Ex- Commits.
sioner OF Agricultul has been elect.
ed member of the National Agricul-
tural Society Of France.
The President has signed the COM
missions of Jacob B. Eckfeldt, as
Assayer at the Philadelphia Mint,
and Pierre Van Wyck,a Superinten-
dent of the Assay Office at New
York.
ExsSupervising Architect Mullett
has applied for the position of
Superintendent of the Federal build
ings now in course of erection. He
is said to have the support of Gen.
sral Grant for the position.
General Sherman has returned TO
Washington from an official visit to
the military school at Fort Leayena
worth. He praises the school and its
and ''is more than e, er
convinced that it will prove great
benefit of the army of The future"
1t is stated that Governor Long
has offered William G, Russell a
prominent lawyer OF Boston, the
Chief Justiceship of the Supreme
Court OF Massachusetts, to succeed
Gray, appointed Justice of the Su.
preme Court of the United States.
Mr.. Russell is 60 years of age.
The United States steamer Essex
will leave Norfolk, Virginia, about
the 1st of January for the Pacific.
On her way she will visit Liberia to
investigate certain matters between
the Liberian authorities and the ma
tiyes, and settle any disputes tn at
may have arisen since the Alaska
was there.
Las weeks issue of the Patent Of
fee In Washington was $40 patents,
10 designs and "a trade marks. Of
the patents 25 were issued to
Thomas A. Edison alone-and this
is said to be ''the largest number of
patents ever issued at one time by
any Government to one person.h
Edison's patents now number nearly
06n