Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


GENERAL ITEMS.
"A private letter from MaZatlan,
Mexico, gives the following details of
the explosion there: One hundred and
fifty pounds of powder blew up. On the
first day thirty corpses were removed
from the ruins, and on the following six
days four or five daily, when the au-
thorities interdicted further removals,
considering the work dangerous. 1t
was presumed that more corpses were
under the ruins, consequently the first
report of seventy-fve lives lost seems to
be verified. All of the windows in the
town were crushed.
Richmond is suffering from a severe
water famine
Mrs. Peter Stanton, the mother of
nine children, was arrested at Pittston,
Pa, by Officer Miller while attempting
to drown her little boy, two years of age,
in a pond. 1t is thought he cannot re-
cover.
Patrick Glenn, a special policeman
of Cohoes, N. Y, who claimed that
Michael Duerdon, q news-dealer, had
insulted his daughter, went to Duer-
don's place of business and calling him
to the sidewalk shot him before he could
speak. Duerdon's wound very much
resembles the Presidents.
John Redington, ten-year convict
from New York City, committed suicide
Monday in the Elmira Reformatory.
Oregon expects to export 300, 900
tons of wheat.
Lieutenant Smith, four soldiers,
and Geo. Daily, Colorado mine owner,
have been killed in an Indian fight in
New Mexico.
General Leslie Combs died at Lex
ington, KY, on Monday.
The Treasury has called in the ont
standing per cents of the loan of 1881.
Mrs. Daisy Oaks Dudley, wife of
Mr.. Francis III. Dudley, and daughter
of ex-Judge w. J. A. Fuller of New
York City, committed suicide by shoot
ing herself through the brain on Satur-
day evening at her residence on the
summit of Orange Mountain, N. J..
The cause of the act was disagreement
with her husband as to whether they
should drive in basket phaeton or a
covered buggy.
Mr.. Austin Corbin is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of the
Shinnecock Indian reservation on Long
Island with view to establishing new
summer resort.
The Anchor Line steamer Elysia,
which arrived in New York Saturday.
from London, reports that she sank the
brig Emily during fog on the 10Th
infant.
A water-spout has done great dam
age to railroads in Colorado, and there
are fears of loss of life.
An American and Canadian steamer
belonging to rival lines raced down the
st. Lawrence on Tuesday last and en-
dangered the lives of all on board by
shooting the rapids above Montreal
locked together.
The new comet has been seen with
the naked eye in Cincinnati.
-Four little boys have been arrested
in Wheeling, W. Va, for starting a fire
that caused 500, 900 damage.
Sunday morning two dead bodies
were taken from the canals in Lowell,
Mass. One, found in the Hamilton
Canal, was that of Edward W. Hasey,
aged sixty-seven years. He either fell
accidentally or committed suicide. The
other body is that of young woman,
apparently about twenty years of age,
and was taken from the Suffolk Canal
The will of the widow of the late ex-
President Willard Fillmore, of Buffalo,
n. Y, leaves public requests to the
amount of $500 among which is one
of $40, 1000 to the University of Roches-
ter.
"A little girl nanny Lewis Amy, near
Sugar Grove, Pa, was burned to death
on Thursday while trying to light fire
with kerosene. Mrs. Albion and her
daughter were burned to death at
Comanche, Tex, on Wednesday, while
attempting to fill lighted lamp.
The August estimate of the Ohio
Board Of Agriculture. compared with
1880. is as follows: Wheat, 70 per cent.
or 3S,000,000 bushels, against 50, $780,
600 bushels; corn, 20 per cent. or a. :
600, GOO bushels. against los, 600. 600
bushels; cats, LOT per cent. or %, $780,
600 bushels, against q, 000, 600 bushels.
The wheat estimate is based on actual
measurements of the yield per acre from
1000 tbreshing machines for three
weeks, threshing in all parts of the
State, and is an exceedingly accurate
estimate.
Columbus Hill, colored bootblack,
was fatally stabbed Saturday night at the
Hanover Street Market, Baltimore,
Nd, by Daniel Sullivan. The
murderous act was unprovoked and
wanton, and was done almost in the
presence of policeman, who stood
near by.
On Tuesday, Frank Hudson, Ter