The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-12-05
From Almost Euerysohere.
THURSDAY.

6OO uciCS1tCc aitCbNC0 tAC y pcuApS
of the Methodist Conference at Selma,
Ala, yesterday. Bishop Simpsoo and
Pierce were among the delegates. The
second day of the National tariff Con-
vention in New York was mainly &C.
cupied by brief speeches favoring an
il creased tariff.-Sectetary Folger
issued call for the @ ntinued 81 per
cent bonds Of April IL, 18S1.-The
coinage last month at the Philadelphia
mint amounted to 1888, AGO.
Yale has accepted the Harvard chal-
lenge aod named June 20, 1882, fr
the Loaf race There were three
railroad collisions 90 the Pennsy Iva
mia Railroad yesterday a canal
across France, connecting the Atlantic
with the Mediterranean, is q project
mooted in Paris.-Thirty eight un-
armore1 vessels are recommended by
the Naval Advisory Board to be added
to our present navy; also five steel
rams, five torpedo punboats aud teu
harbor torpedo gunboats, at a total
cost of $29, 100000. Ironclads would
also be needed if we should have war.
FRIDAY.
Another Irish farmer assaulted; his
wounds are probably fatal; he had paid
his rent.-The Irish convention as
sembled in Chicago with over 700
delegates.--Mr Biggs, bookkeeper
and chemist of the Alice Furnace at
Ironton, Ohio, was murdered and two
men were arrested on suspicion. -
A telegram from the treasurer Of the
Irish Land League was read at the
Irish Convention in Chicago yester-
day; it said that the No-Rent manifesto
is being largely obeyed.-Charles
Sharp, an alleged murderer, was killed
in Louisiana by the Sheriff who vent
to arrest bim.-Two negroes, who
had committed an atrocious murder,
were lynched at Oxford, N. ca
marble tablet was placed in the ladies'
waiting room Of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad depot yesterday to
mark the spot where President Gar
field was shot. The tablet is of Amer
lean ststuary marble, and consists of a
sill resting on two pilasters represent
Jog the axe and fascea. Two draped
flags for canopy over the inscr, ption
in gold letters "James Abram Gar
field, President of the United States,
Shot July 2, 1885," and the whole is
surmounted by an eagle with out
stretched wings, holding 10 his talons
a bundle of arrows and laurel leaves.
SATURDAY.
1t 10 reported in Washington that
the President will nominate ex-Sena-
tor FreliDghuysen, of New Jersey for
Secretary Of State, and Chauncey T..
FiIley, Of St Louis, for Postmaster
General. No other Cabinet changes
are expected until after the Christmas
holidays.--Ihe report OF the Secre-
tary of War, and a partial report Of
Controller Knox were made public.
The body ofthe Earl of Crawford
aud Balcarres who died in December,
1880, has been sfolen from The mortu-
airy chapel in Scotland. -Sylvest r
+. Wilson, the ticket scalper, has
been sentenced to one years imprisoo-
ment and $500 fne. - Secretary
Lincoln's estimate of the army expen-
SEES for the coming year is S44, 54l,-
276.--Ths total foreign commerce
of the United States during the late
fiscal year was 81 ,675,024 318. Ex-
ports were s902,377, 3f6 !; imports,
S642 1854, 62S.-Secretary Lincoln
advocates tho extension of the West
Point course to five years.