Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


the recovery of the President on the
ground that 1t is not consistent with his
Office to direct religious services to be
held.
1t is estimated that the emigrants
from Germany to the United States this
year will number $4,000. Between
January and June 80 $4,000 had left
Hamburg alone for New York.
The paymaster of the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad and his servant were killed
at Napala, Mexico, on Sunday.
Wallace Ross has challenged Han
Ian to race for the championship Of
America and purse of 81 900.
During the seven days from July
10 to July Is inclusive there we're 264
deaths in Cincinnati from sunstroke and
$50 from the excessive heat.
Miss Jennie Anderson was killed
and Rev. John Brook was badly hurt by
Hudson River Railroad train Sunday,
as they were walking on the track near
Fishkill, N. Y.
"A gang of outlaws, supposed to be
the James gang, on Friday night cap
tured train on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific road between Gamer
on and Winston, No., killed the con-
ductor and passenger, robbed the
United States Express Companys safe
of several thousand dollars and then
escaped. The passengers were saved
from robbery by the sudden stopping
of the train.
Shortly before 5 o'clock Friday af-
ternoon cyclone ofmost tel rife violence
struck the town of New Ulm, Mimi. de-
molishing over one hundred buildings
and killing or wounding upwards of
thirty persons. The loss IN property is
$500, 900, and as there is no insurance
the disaster causes much suffering. New
Ulm was settled and built up by Scan
dinavians and most of the settlers had
accumulated little fortunes for them
selves. Many lose their all by the dis
aster. The storm lasted only twelve
minutes.
The wife and daughter of George
Thomas, of Plymouth, Mass, were
drowned Sunday evening.
President Garfield's mother is seri-
ously i'll with fever and it is feared that
she cannot recover. She is over sc
years of age.
AT Albany, N. Y, on Saturday,
Congressman Warner Miller was elected
to the United States Senate for the long
term in the room of Mr.. Plat. There
were 145 members present, and he re-
ceived 70 votes-three more than the
number required.
Masked robbers in O wagon stole
$40, 900 from brewers clerk in Licking
ton avenue, New York, in broad day.
light.
Nineteen men and girls on an estate
in Koorsk, Russia, who refused to work
were shut up in barn by the steward
the buildings were fired by his agents
and the inmates were burned to death.
The body of Mrs Stewart, of Sill
yer Greek, n. Y, who committed
suicide at Niagara Falls, has been found
Reports from the flooded districts
in Iowa report unprecedented damage
to crops and railroad property.
The long missing whalers, Vigilan
and Mt. Wollaston, have been found by
Indians in Behring's Straits. Three
corpses were found on the Vigilant.
The Ohio Democratic Convention
on Wednesday nominated J. w. Book
walter for Governor, Z. NJ. johnson fol
Lieutenant Governor, E. F. Bingham
for Supreme Judge, A. f. Winslow fol
State Treasurer, T. @. Dougherty fol
Attorney General, and John Grove fol
Commissioner of Public Works. The
platform denounces the spoils system
and declares for civil-service reform,
tariff f r revenue and a commission II
reform the tariff.
The Confederate General Pember
ton is dead. He was born in Phila
delphia, entered the Confederate army
early in the war and was in command
of Vicksburg when it surrendered t.
Gen. Grant.
Eighteen houses and two million
feet of lumber were burned at Pottsdam
N. Y, Wednesday.
Maud S. beat her record at Pitts
burg, Wednesday, by a quarter of (
second, and trotted mile in g 101.
FOREIGN.
Dean Stanley died of erysipela.
Monday evening. The sacrament was
administered to him by Canon Farrar il
the morning and the Archbishop @
Canterbury reached his bedside jus
before he became unconscious. He wa.
buried beside his wife in Westminstel
Abbey.
Eighty ladies of distinction ar,
forming an association to encourage til,
use OF British goods in preference to for
eign goods, it being believed that the
wooden trade is depressed because Brit
ish wooden goods have been abandoned
/. for foreign fabrics.
The French report that 400 Arab.
were killed at the capture of Sfax
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