Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-07-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

eighth ballot was taken with no change
in the situation. Before the voting Mr..
Spinola protested in behalf of the
Democratic members of the Legislature
that the voting ON Saturday was illegal,
inasmuch as there was not quorum of
one branch of the Legislature present.
Later advices from the scene of the
great railroad accident on the Morelos
Railroad, Mexico, show that floods had
undermined the bridge over the San
Antonio River, and that when the train
plunged down one hundred barrels of
brandy in two vans took fire and added
to the horror of the calamity. Seven
teen officers and 1877 men of the Third
Mexican Regiment were killed, besides
many civilians. ag
The Harvard crew defeated Column
bia by thirteen seconds at New Lond IN
Monday.
1t is claimed that the excursion
steamers in Massachusetts harbors and
on the little strip of New Hampshire
coast last year carried more than H.
600, 600 passengers without accident to
any one of them.
The Census Bureau gives us the
grain product of the United States for
the year 1879. From these tables we
learn that from 60, 326, 952 acres planted
in corn there were raised /, 772, 800, $40
bushels from 35, 4S7, 065 acres in wheat
the yield was 287, 745, 626 bushels &c.
1901 acres of oats produced 407, &c.
712 bushels; zoos, 466 acres devoted
to barley gave us "A, 149, 479 bushels;
the / ,S44, 321 acres sown in rye brought
forth 1913, 795 bushels, and the $780,
304 acres of buckwheat gave return of
1891, 721 bushels. The total acreage
for cereals in 1879 was 118, 665, 619. and
the yield nearly three thousand millions
of bushels, or an average of 81 bushels
to each individual of our 100000 of
population.
The comet is now movingawa from
the earth (this is the conclusion at the
Cambridge observatory at the rate of
300, 900 miles day. 1t will probably
be visible for several months, and be
conspicuous during that time to the
naked eye. 1t reached its maximum of
brightness on Thursday night. It's nu-
cleus is probably 1000 miles in diam
eter, and the inner head at the envelope
$4,000, while the coma is vastly more
than that. The tail is at least 4, 000, 900
miles in length. These computations
were made by Mr.. S. G. Chandler of
the observatory.
The white settlers in the Indian
Territory who are being expelled by the
Indians and United States troops have
appealed to Secretary Kirkwood for aid.
"A whole train of cars ON the More
los railroad was precipitated into the
San Antonio river. near Cuaulta, Mexi-
co, Friday night, by the giving way of
stone bridge. Nearly 200 persons
were killed aid a great many were in
iured. Most of the passengers were
soldiers
w. G. Whitney, son of Myra Clark
Gaines, was shot dead in a hotel at
Washington by J. 7. Christmas, her
son-in-law. The two men had quar-
relied over their business relations.
"A number of cattle men who
started out to avenge the murders by
the Pah Ute Indians have been cut off
and killed in Utah.
The Greenbackers of Minnesota
have nominated G. e. Roberts, of Ohm
stead county, for Governor, and full
ticket fol the other State officers.
The Rev. Moses How, the Oldest
preacher in New England, died on Sat
urday, at Cambridge, at the age of 90
years.
William Z. Eustis, of Pittsfield, has
of the Second Maine Congressional Dis
trict to succeed VIM. P. Frye.
The visiting members of the Ten
nessee Press Association were given a
reception ut Long Branch on Friday by
the Pennsylvania Editorial Association,
whose guests the Southern editors
were.
In the New York State Senate on
Friday, bill was introduced to prevent
pigeon shooting contests.
The new comet has been observed
at many points and is attracting great
attention.
The stalwarts of Illinois have begun
a war against the Administration party
In the interest of Logan as Presidential
candidate in 1884.
"A dispatch from the Spanish Con-
sui at Oran intimates that q hundred
| SpaIdards were mastered by the insur-
gents during the recent raid on the Es-
parto factories at Saida. Four hundred
persons were wounded or taken prison
ers.
-Silas G. Herring, the noted safe
manufacturer, died on Thursday in the
seventy-eighth year of his age.
IIEJohn ]. Davenport testified before
the Investigating Committee at Albany
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