Daily Republican., 1881-12-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
HOW. TIMOTHY O'HOwE To BE
POSTM MASTER GENERAL.
Tennessee POlitics-KepOrt .Or q
southern Revenue Collector
An old Man shoots His
Son and Vile.

southern Revenue Collector
An old Man shoots His
Son and Vile.
The President yesterday nominated
and the Senate confirmed Timothy o.
Howe, of Wisconsin, to be Postmaster
General. The Senate also contirlned
Horace Gray of Massachusetts, to be
Justice Of the Supreme Court William
H. Trescott, ofSouth Carolina, Special
Envoy to the Republics Of Chill, Peru
and BOLIVIA ; Tnomas G. Acton, Assis-
taut Treasurer at New York George
NJ. Duskin, United Safes Attorney for
Southern Alabama, and N. A. Adams
Pension Agent at st. Louis.
A caucus of the Republican Senators
was held yesterday to consider Il pro-
position by Il number of Democratic
Sen ltors that Neil Brown, ofTennessee,
lately Reading ,'lerk OF the House, be
| elected to similar position in the
Senate, now practically vacaut by the
assignment OF Chief Clerk Shober to b.
Acting Secretary of the latter body.
There was mucn difference OF opinion
as to the advlsabilitv Of selecting "a
Democrat and the caucus adjourned
without a decision.
Andrew Clark, revenue collector at
Atlanta, reports that since the 1st inst.
he has seized ten diStilleries, 10, 600 gal
Ions Of beer and mash 200 gallons OF low
| wines, iJ gallons of whiskcy and 80
bushels Of malt, and arrested persons.
r. +. Patterson, collector at Memphis,
reports that revenue raiding party In
Carroll aud Henderson counties, Ten
nessee, have destroyed four distilleries
and u large quantity of material.
During q family quarrel in New Cas-
tie, Penna., on Monday evening, Will
liam Alexander, an old man, shot hi
son in the bead and his wife in the arm
He was about to fire again when his
wounded son seized an empty gun and
struck his father on the head with such
force as to cause mortal injuries
Mother and son are in Jail.
Daniel Hale Haskell died in the al!us
house, at San Francisco, on Saturday
Years ago he was manager OF the bank
ing and Express house Of Adams q Co.
and had an income of SO, 900 year
The bank becoming embarrassed, h
gave all his means to save it, lost all
and became eIrunkard and a pauper
More than thirty costly parlor ant
sleeping cars, belonging to the Pullman
Palace Car Company, were seized yes
terday, in Montreal by the Dominion
authorities, to satisfy claim of $50,
600, alleged to be owing as customs du
ties on Canadian cars rebuilt in tn
United States and then sent back Il
Canada for use.
President Arthur and Secretary Fol
, ger will spend the Christmas Holiday
in New York, the former III New Iori
. CITY, the latter at his home in Geneva
Secretary Lincoln will spend Christ
mas in Chicago The other Cabine
= officers will probably remain in Wash
ington.
The members of the Kentucky Lagis
lature and the Kentucky Press AssC
citation visited the Exhibition i'll Al
: lanta yesterday, and We're formal
welcomed The members OF the oout
Carolina Legislature wall visit the El
g hibtiOn to-day.
The President yesterday signed bill
( giving the tranking privilege to tn
:, widow of prrsient Garfield, and de
a claring that whrn y legal holiday fail
+ on II SUNDAY the succeeding day sha
. be observed rs auch IL the District {
4 Columbia.
: Thomas Mealy, Francis Dornan an
Patrick kllburue were severely burn
=, ed, and Michael Cavanaugh was bad!
injured in the fac" by II gas exploSlo
/ i'll the otto Cnlii1ry,in SchnylkiIl coul
. ty, on Monday afternoon.
President AEthur's first public recel
+ ton will he he'd at the White HOu'
+ on the u of January. He will DO a.
A sisted in ecriving callers by the wivt
or MS Cabinet officers.
Twenty-Five deaths from small po
4 were reported in Chicago last weel
. Thirteen new cases OF the disease wer
/. reported on Monday.
Mr.. Howe, the new Postmaster Gle,
eral, who is now at his homein WiscOi
sin, is not expected to assume the dutit
: of his Office until alJcr New Year
u
day.
4 Ja cob Cramer, father of the Jenni
4 Cramer, who was murdered At Ne
Haven in August last, died yesterda
Of consumption.
James Campbell and William Cru
q were botn drowned yesterday by II
n upsetting of their boat III the canal 1
. CatasauIua, Penna
h Silenstein's clothing store in Plair
!. neld, New Jersey, was robbed of $50
q worth OF goods on Monday night.
1t is announces" ION excellent utho
r ity" tina. Secretary Hunt is TO renal
4, head of the Navy Department.
Robert Rawley, one Of the convicte
1 Texas stage robbers, died in Jail at Sa
q Antonio, Texas, cn Monday.