Smyrna times., 1881-10-19
NRWR Items.

Ex-senator Conkling is confined to his |
'oom. in Utica, with malarial fever. {
The "pink eye' disease has assumed {
alarming proportions among New York {
horses.
The Mississippi has been greatly swollen
by the recent rains, and ut Hannibal,
Quincy and other places the levecs are
The members of the family of Hiram
Wastefull were poisoned with arsenic by
colOred servant at Hannibal Missouri, on
Wednesday.
Twelve persons were burned to death
and twcnty-one injured during the destruc-
ton Of Philadelphia mill by fire last
Wednesday night.
1t is reported from Tucson that General
John c. Fremont has resigned as Governor
Of Arizona, and that General y. p. Banks .
is spoken Of as his successor.
The total amount of subscriptions for
the Mrs. Garfield fund received in New
York and paid to the United States Trust ,
Company, OF New York, is $3.50 0,345.74.
DIR. Holland, the wcll-known writer and
editor Of ScribnerS Monthly died suddenly
at his residence in New York last Friday
morning lie was in the G3d year of his
age.
The mayor Of Philadelphia Saturday
issued an order requiring the owners Of
factories, manufactures and hotel Keepers
to place ut once fire escapes to all such
buildings.
The President has asked for the resig-
nation Of Assistant Postmaster-Gcncral
Tyner Frank Halton of the Burlington
Hawkeye is to be appointed to the vacancy
when it occurs.
| Haynes & Sanger, wholesale dealers in
cloth and importers of wOOlene, New
| York city, made an assignment Saturday
to Chas. Waite. Their liabilities are re-
ported at Sl50.000.
John Kelley's foes, the Monopolists.
seem to have controlled the Albany Con-
vention Wednesday by Il large majority.
Tammany will have to change its paint
and adopt Il new war cry.
r. p. O'ConnOr Land Lacquer. had an
enthusiastic reception i'll SteinWay Hall,
New York city. Sunday night, when 300
people crowded into the building and 500
turned unwillingly away. DR.. Dillon
and Mr.. Eagan were also present.
The returns of the condition Of the
cotton crop received by the Agricultural
Department up to the lst inst, show a
condition of IS, being decline OF four
per cent since September 1st, and fifteen
per cent less than in October lst. 1850.
Records show that the longest drouth
which, this country has ever struggled
through was in the year 1852, when for
123 days in succession, ending September
1st, no rain fell over a considerable part Of
what was at the time settled territory.
The corn grown in the United States in
1880, as stated recently amounted to about
! ,7S0. .46l 900 bushels, and the estimated
crop for 1881 is ,193, ,641 600. OF wheat
the product in 1880 was 4S0.000,000 BUSH
els; in 1881 it is estimated at 368, 1862. 900
bushels.
An attempt was made to set fire to the
Cunard steamship BOthnia while lying at
her pier at New York, on Sunday night.
Suspicion points towards the mysterious
"skirmishers," who are supposed to be in
tent upon driving British shipping from
the ocean.
Guiteau is undoubtedly the most des-
picable coward this country has ever pro-
duced. The tortures he is suffering now
through his fear of violence are viewed
with satisfaction by everybody as being in
some slight measure punishment for his
atrOciOuS crime.
A heavy rain storm is prevailing
: throughout Wisconsin. Serious washOuts
5 exist on the Prairie du Chen, Racine and
: Southwestern, and the river divisions o.
the St. Paul Road. The breach at Bosco
bel, on the Prairie du Chen Division il
c five miles in length.
: 1t was reported Monday in Philadel
: phia that the paper of Thomas Bradley
). the extensive beef butcher, went to pro
q test on Saturday. Amount was not given
;, He is an indorser for Washington Butch
er's Sons to the amount of $135,000. Hi
5 other obligations are represented as small
/ The relations between Mexico an,
" Guatemala are reported to be critical,
It owingt to boundary dispute. The Guete
n malan Government has asked mediation
! of our Government, which has consented
= but Mexico refuses arbitration. The dis
y putc, now becoming threatening, ha
&c lasted fifty years.
t A New York broker advertises for 81
e 100000 worth of Confederate bonds, an
expresses a willingness to pay for them 4
=, the rate of one quarter of one per cen
. He says he is buying them in accOrdanc
III with orders from correspondents abrOaC
S. Several other New York brokers are buy
+. ing at the same figures.
st OF the 6,476 couples married in Phila
ID delphia last year, according to the Offici;
II returns as made by truthful minister
- none of the women married had passe
oO the age of thirty years. Either til
widows and old maids are not in deman
in in Philadelphia, or there has been SON
>; loose transactions in the granting of ma
riage licenses.
The arrest of Senator Malone on Satu
day evening was caused by Col. Stron
as of Virginia, who was induced to take th
N, step by positive information that Il
id Senator was on the point of fighting du
with General Jubal Early. Senator Mahol
left Washington Sunday for Virginia, ar
lis Colonel Strong was apprehensive that
es would be killed. 1t is stated, hOweve
ON that Senator Malone has never had al
intention of noticing the abuse of Gener
Early.
M The nitro glycerine magazine belongir
=. to the Roberts Torpedo Company, two al
10 half miles from Bradford, Pa, cOntai
in ing 300 pounds of nitro glyoerine, blew I
ON last Thursday evening. 1t is believed Il
,is explosion was caused by an attempt
- burglars to rob the safe, and there is eV
M' dence that two men were blown to atom
od For several rods around the ground W