Smyrna times., 1881-11-16
News Items.

Murderers were hanged In several
Southern States Friday.
Three men ara reported to have been
frozen to death in Colorado.
The President has accepted the resigna-
ton of Attorney General MacVeagh.
An explosion of gases destroyed dis
tillery at Auroro, Ind, and killed work.
man.
Secretary of the Treasury Folger enter
ed upon the discharge of his new duties
Monday.
Cholera is increasing at Mecca, and it is
feared that the caravans of returning pill
grims will carry it to Egypt.
There has been serious earthquakes at
Chios, and the village is sinking into the
earth. The inhabitants have fled.
The first overland train for four days
arrived at Sacramento, yesterday. 1t is
showing heavily in the Rocky Mountains
Owing to the prevalence of small pox in
BiddetOrd, Maine, all of the public schools
have been closed. Over 5000 persons
have been vaccinated.
An accident is reported to have occurred
on the International and Great Northern
Railroad at Riverside, Texas, by which
twenty men were killed.
A skiff containing nineteen persons was
swamped near Troy last Saturday; seven
persons are known to have been drowned;
three are reported missing.
John l.. Fince, of Chicago, a Young
society man." has sued Miss Louisa
Frenzel, of Indianapolis, for breach of
promise, claiming $4,000 damages.
the schooner Crrlinqford and the steam
barge BrHnsWick came in collision OH Lake
Erie oh Friday night; several lives were
lost; both vessels sank; loss S125,000.
Fires last week destroyed the Metropo-
l.tan Iron Works, Richmond, Va; six
summer hotels at Old Orchard Beach. Me-,
and the Orphans Home, Womelsdorf. Pa.
John Brady, one of the persons concern
ed in the recently discovered land swind-
ling scheme, has been convicted at St.
Louis and sentenced to seven years inn
| prisonment.
| The trial of the assassin, Guiteau, began
Monday; five jurors were obtained: Gui-
teau wished to make speech to the Court
but was prevented his address has been
made public.
Secretary Blaine, who will be made the
principal witness for the Government to
prove the shooting of President Garfield
by Guiteau, has been notified to appear in
court to-day.
The ties that were laid for the tempo
rary track to Elberon, at Long Branch, for
the transfer of President Garfield to the
/ cottage, have been constructed into log
cabin by Mr.. o. d. Byron, on his residence
grounds.
The financial failures in the United
States amount to about 81 900 900 per
week. However it may be in the bright
lexicon of youth, i'll the big books of the
commercial agencies there certainly is
such word as fail"
subcommittee of the clergymen's
Michigan relief committee has decided to
issue an appeal to clergymen of all churches
asking them to take collection in aid of
the sufferers by the fire, either on the Sun
day preceding or following Thanksgiving.
The greater portion of the town OF
Woodstock, New Brunswick, was reduced
to ashes last Friday morning. Forty
dwellings ami stores, three churches and
number of other buildings were destroy
ed. This is the third time this town hl,
been swept by fire.
The King of Ashantee, like his neigh
Dor, the despot of Dahomey, is an adept
at human sacrifices; but the latest ex-
plot attributed to him, of killing POO
young girls in order to get their blood for
mixing mortar in the repair of a building,
Is almost past belief.
Four more jurors were obtained in the
Guiteau trial at Washington yesterday
Seventy-hve names have been drawn from
the jury-box, from which the three Jurors
necessary TO complete the special panel
will be selected if that number can be
found who are not disqualified.
The best German authority represents
Prince Bismark as sincerely resolved on
resignation. The Emperor resists, hoping
for an arrangement with Rome under
which the Ultramontanes may support
Bismark in the German Parliament with
out asking for the repeal of the anti-CathO
lie laws, which Bismark steadily refuses
to propose.
President Arthur will take possession o
the White House this month. For hi:
own private apartment he selected th,
room known as "Nellie Grants room,
in the Northwest corner of the building
He did not dare to live in the room USED
by his predecessor, fronting on the Soutl
and known as the Presidents room,
because of its painful associations.
: The extraordinary address which Gu:
} teau attempted 10 lie I'd to the Court, Mon
day, expresses or pretends the most mon
= strOus pride in his act, calls for contribu
tions for his defence from the men whom
, that act has benefited, and demands tha
r the newspapers shall cease to revile tn,
chosen instrument of Deity These ar,
but faint indications of the extravaganza
t and blasphemies of this paper.
! Our special cable dispatches continue t,
, bear testimony to the thopoughnesS of tn,
! Land Commissions work. 1t is STATED
r that every tenant who has set up plausi
/ bic claim has succeeded in obtaining
/ large reduction of rent, and that applica
tions are now pouring in at the rate o
. four thousand day. These two fact
. effectually dispose of the clamors of tn
: bafTled Land League. The Land Act i
. righting the wrongs of the tenants, and il
r virtually accepted by the Irish people a
a satisfactory relief measure.
A Cleveland special to the Erening Pos