The daily gazette., 1881-06-17
GENERAL NEWS.

U1HN GAsAA ~ ~ w Ne
esterday's ballots in joint convention
of the New York Legislature we're as
follows: For the short Lerm-Jacobs, 81;
Wheeler, 38; Conkling, 81; Cornell, II;
Lapham, II; scattering, II. For the
long term-Depew, 81; Herman, so;
Platt,27; Cornell, II; Crowley, 5; scatter
Ing, 8. " "i' tHt
The Democratic State Convention of
Iowa m t yesterday in Des Moines.
Colorel Il. D. Fenn,of Story county, was
chosen temporary chairman. w. A.
Shaw, of Fremont, was chosen perman-
ent chairman, and q ticket was nomina-
ted headed by l.. G.. Kline, of Tama
county, for Governor. #fai
j. A. Bentley, Commissioner of PEN
sions, has resigned, and w. W. Dudley,
at present U. 5. Marshal for Indiana, has
been appointed bis successor. Judge N.
G. Farland, OF Kansas, has been appoin-
ted Commissioner of the General Land
Office to succeed Williamson, resigned.
1t is stated "authoritatively" by a
Washington evening paper that Custc-
dian Pitney, OF the Treasury Depart
ment, will retire at the close of this
month and be succeeded by General e.
w. Whitaker. The latter was chief Of
staff to General Custer during the war,
and is now Q real estate agent In Wash
ington. - +.
The President yesterday appointed
Henry Cox to be Pension Agent at San
Francisco,in Place of William II. Payne,
removed. si... - 4 :,
The correspondent of the Times at
Dublin says 1.-THE desire to emil
CRATE continues. The South Dublin
Guardians have resolved to send
away thirty-seven able>bodiei paupers
who desire to emigrate to America.
They have been in the Workhouse
from three to twenty-five years."
1T is raid that the twenty young
men who yesterday graduated at the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
N. Y, have all been offered lucrative
| professional situations in various parts
Of the country. There is demand
for educated engineers. 3
A colored man named Ruse, sharg-
ed with feloniously assaulting awhile
girl, was taken from the Jail al Wes.
ton, Missouri, on Tuesday night and
| lynched' After being hanged his
head was cut offand thrown into the
Missouri river. Juan Monterea, I
| murderer, was lynched by a mob in
in Taus county New Mexico, en- Sat
urday night. 4a4
| A man named Larkin, was shot
dead by his cousin, George S. Larkin
Deputy U. d. marshal, while re-
sisting arrest for violation of ths
revenue laws, near Rogersville
Tennessee, ,on Wednesday afternoon
Geo. 8. l.arkin was arrested ant
lodged in the Rogersville jail Al
threats of flynching were made th,
Governor ordered q guard for thu
Jail. te
According to the census reports, ther
were engaged In the fisheries of Califor
mia, Oregon, Washington Territory AM
Alaska, during 1880, 1914 persons. an,
DAT vessels and boats; valued at S583, 40
The total capital invested rn the sish
cries was $2,748, ,383, and the total yalu
of the product was Us, ,54o, ,277.
John Cummings. of Licking county
Ohio. was Yesterday fined S25 and cost
for having punished his child by "put
ting split stick, with q tack In H., OF
It's tongue" iH us )
The Adams White Lead O0mpanyi
Works, near Baltimore were destloye'
Yesterday by fire. Loss $75, 900. Tn
lire is attrl buted to the aspontauoOns com
bussion OF l,nseed oil. Papineau's mill
near Monnreal, were burned yesterday
Loss $50, 200. Fifteen houses and 400
: cords of wood atlktngsley's Falls, Cue
beo, beloning to the Grand Trunk Rail
1 MARI. hnrnad vest ardaV
IL Ia reported from Tuscan, Arizon,
that seventy CO " boys, well armed an
equipped, have lett Wilson, IN that Tel
rltory, to attack Frintares, In Chihus
, hau, in revenge for the killing of sevei
al Of their comrades in that villag
! about three weeks ago. The Mexiea
authorities have been warned and wi
resist the expected. assault. eg
Il The suit OF the w,fe of Elkins,
well-kuown artist in Chicago, Against
: saloon keeper, named Cudney, for SzO
> 900 for selling her husband liquer anu al
sistlnR In ending his career III an tneDr
!, ste ASYLUM, resulted yesterday in tn
), discharge of the jury for failure to agret
: The tiial lasted ten days. II was In ev
|. dence that the work OF Elkins' brush
when hs was soaer, was worth abot
$50 per day.
AT uoou yesterday, John Griscom III
e Chicago faster, weighed i7la pounds,
70 lows OF i of N pourd duslng twenty-fot
. hours, In which he drank " ounces
d water. HIS pulse was 6t, respiration
= tempersture 9S 30.
q The tirst annual examination OF Il
= = pnpis of tho Indian Training Sonooi,
~ Uarilsl-, Penna TOOK place SestefaAy
+ A su, prlslng progress was shown by y
8 Iudian children. tiss9