Democratic messenger., 1881-10-08

Il. r. Sproul, who mistook Andrews for
j. b. Espey, for whom he was lying in
wait.
The steamer Anchoria, which arrived
Wednesday, reports that on the night
of the Goth inst. she was in collision
with an unknown bark which disap-
peared and no trace of her or her crew
could be found afterward.
Secretary Blaine, it is alleged, in
tends to retire from the Cabinet forth
with, but it is generally believed that he
will continue for the present at least to
give the new President q generous sup
port.
Frank and John Mcdonald, who
had murdered two half-breed Indians at
Menominee, Mich, were killed by a
mob last Tuesday night.
Most of the forest fires in Western
New York have been extinguished by
rain.
The ship Alice Buck was wrecked
on the California coast last Tuesday
morning and ten of the crew were
drowned.
The fund for Mrs. Garfield and her
family has increased to 1924, ,675.67.
An attache of the Surgeon Generals
Department at Washington alleges that
on Monday night he heard two men on
the street plotting the murder of Presi-
dent Arthur.
The Scotch cutter Madge won the
second contest in the Seawanhaka Club
series, against the cutter Wave, beating
ser by eleven minutes fifty-one seconds.
irrespective of time allowance, which
was thirteen minutes forty eight seconds.
William Ryan, one of the Glendale
(Mo. train robbers, has been convicted
and sentenced to twenty-five years i'm
prisonment.
The Massachusetts Prohibltionists
held their State Convention Wednesday
and nominated Charles Almy for Cover
nor.
1t is reported from Washington that
suite of rooms has been fitted up for
the use of the President and his private
secretary at the house of Senator Jones,
and the President himself is authority
for the statement that they will remain
there at least until after the adjourn
ment of the special session of the SEN
ate. He prefers these quarters to the
White House offices, as being more con-
venient. The clerks at the White
House, however, will remain where they
are, and papers to be submitted to the
President for his consideration and sig
nature will be carried to him daily. The
White House force of clerks will remain
under the charge of Mr.. Pruden.
FOREIGN.
The London Standards Vienna
dispatch says two women, suspected of
preparing to make an attempt on the
life of the Czar, have been arrested.
"A project is mooted among the
Americans in London to build church
in memory of the late President Gar
field.
In Tunis the insurgents have de-
stroyed the French railway at Wad-
aZeerah and massacred some of the en-
ployees, one of them British subject.
"A telegram from the Chamb bers of
Commerce at Yokohama, dated Satur-
day, says the silk business of Japan is
suspended, owing to the new and op-
pressive conditions of sale imposed by
the Japanese guild, which the foreign
buyers resist.
In England the Farmers Alliance
has drafted q Land bill which aims at
establishing complete security for the
tenant, the sale of the enant-right in
cluding the improvements, the landlord
to accept the purchaser as tenant for
at least seven years, and the creation of
a land court for fixing rents and adjust
ing differences. The Pail Nal Gazette
thinks the time when Parliament must
vote urgency for an English Land bill
is not far off.
Harvesting in Scotland and in the
north of England is still going on. The
wheat threshed in the south is discolored
and light and brings very poor prices.
AT Liverpool, Mr.. Morris Ranger
and his associates have cleared e500, 600
by the cotton corner, and overcome the
efforts of the brokers and spinners to
break the corner.
In Ireland, Father Conway, parish
priest of Clonbur, County Galway, has
been sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment with hard labor for assault
ing process server who was serving a
writ upon him at the instance of Lord
Ardilanr's agent. Ulster end Leinster
are comparatively quiet, but Connaught
and Munster are still greatly disturbed.
The London Lancet condemns the
late Presidents surgeons for having
issued bulletins making the best of the
case.
In Ireland it has been ascertained
that cask of powder was used IN the
attempt to blow up Captain Lloyd's
house at Pallas Green, County LINER
ick. Two inmates were injured.
Agrarian outrages are still common
in Ireland. The house of Captain Lloyd,
of Pallas Green, County Limerick,
brother of Mr.. Clifford Lloyd, the fam
GUS or notorious stipendiary magistrate
at Kilmallock, has been shattered by an
explosion of dynamite. The foreman of
an Orange emergency expedition has
been fired at and wounded in the
County Louth.
AT the Electric Congress at Paris,
DIR. Siemens, of the celebrated firm of
Siemens Bros, cable manufacturers, has
brought up the question of the rights of
property in submarine cables. AS no
government has jurisdiction beyond
three marine miles off its own coast, the
cutting of cable in mid-ocean would
not be criminal offense. The French
Government will discuss the subject