Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-06


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LATEST N1WS By NAIL.
A fire at Marietta, Ga, destroyed sew
eral stores, causing loss Of 81, 1000.
California has quarantined against Chi
oago on account Of smallpox. Z
The Mexican government has contract.
ed with Mexican parties for the establish.
ment Of mortgage bank.
1t is expected that the Spanish Cortes
will adjourn on the Goth instant until
January 18th, 1882.
The loss from the burning of Haight's s
tannery, near Saratoga Springs, will prob.
ably amount to 100000.
The pigeon match at Hendan, England,
between DR.. Carver and Mr.. Stuart Wort
ley, resulted in a tie, each killing eighty
three birds. 49,.
The fly has made sad havoc in the wheat
fields of Southwestern Michigan. Fully
One-half of the wheat in many fields has
been destroyed within few weeks.
A Hide and Leather exchange was Or
ganized by the manufacturers of and
dealers in leather and leather goods at
Cincinnati. Officers will be elected on the
third Monday of this month.
$1,000 damages have just been awarded
by Western court to man who caught
cold while riding in an emigrant car,
when, as he claimed, he was entitled by
his ticket to seat in parlor car.
On the last settling day the French gov
ernment placed $50, ,OOO, 600 at the disposal
of tho Bank of France, to enable it to
meet all demands without raising its rate
of discount.
The entire manufacturing department
Of Cherry, O'Conner s. Co., lessees of the
state penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn, was
burned yesterday. The loss over the in
surance is about $3.50, 900. Six Of the con-
victs escaped.
Tho New York Express appears consoli-
dated with the Nail and under the name of
the HAIL and Erpress. Cyrus w. Field is
tho owner of the journal, and it is his
purpose to mako it leading paper of the
country.
Mrs. Frances Guest, aged 65, while on
her way to church, in Baltimore, was run
over ut North and Monument streets by a
locomotive. Her left limb and arm were
both horribly crushed. She ives taken to
the city hospital, where sho died..
Maude Howard, colored inmate of the
St. Louis city Jail, lit cigarette in her cell
and threw the lighted match over her
head. Her dress was ignited ard before
the flames could be extinguished she was
SO terribly burned that she died.
Yesterday was Planters and Manu-
facturcrs' day " at the Atlanta exhibition
and the attendance was large. Commis-
siOncr LOring will speak at the exhibition
to morrow on "The Mutual Relations of
American Industry"
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, convicted of
manslaughter in the third degree in shoot
ing and killing George F. Cotes, an en-
ployee of Miners theatre, New York, has
been sentenced to state prison for four
years by Chief Justice Davis.
Tho committee appointed to confer with
Colonel DanfOrd respecting the affairs of
his banks at Hunnewell, Kansas, and at
Beldwell and Usage City, have accepted
his proposition and left with him to meet
his friends. This will probably settle the
whole matter.
The deadlock in the silk trade in Japan
has been removed by the practical sub
mission of the foreign merchants to the
Japanese demands. Five millions of dol
lars worth of silk held by the japanese
for six weeks is now on the way to West
ern markets.
All vessels from the United States
bound to Panama should, if possible, ship
colored crews. Yellow fever is now cpl
demic in the colony, and many white sea-
men arc falling victims to it, but colored
ones do not seem to be affected in the
least.
In "Social Circle" Ca, Mrs. Anglin
learned that her husband was at the house
of Mrs. jackson. She took a large,
sharp knife and went to Mrs. Jackson's
house and stabbed her in the abdomen
four times, killing her. Mrs. Anglin is in
Madison Jail.
Jewels valued at eSO,OOO have teen
stolen from Lord Arthur Hill-Trevor's
seat at Brynkinalt, near Chirk, in the
north of Wales. The robbery was effected
while the family was at church. A man
servant Of tho family was arrested to day
rs an acccmplice.
The annual death rate of, London has
increased, like that of New York. For
tho week ended November IL, the death
rate increased to 22.4 per 1000. The
1 ,G3G deaths included Al from measles, 40
from scarlet fever, ~ from smallpox, %
from diphtheria, from whooping cough,
8 from typhus fever, 5 from enteric fever
and two from SimnlQ chO1ora