Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


of about $780, 900.
There is a general strike of dock
laborers at Hull, England, and the trade
of that port is almost stopped.
The proposed International Social
list Congress at Zurich has been pro-
hibited by the city authorities.
The Washington correspondents
contradict the story which has recently
been set afioat that Secretary Blaine is
in ill health, and states that the Secre-
tary has not for months been in better
condition physically than at present.
The whaling schooner Edward Lee,
of Provincetown, which has been cruis-
ing in the Atlantic Ocean, reports, May
IA, in lat. 17.42, Ion. about 46, that
Capt. Sparks and boats crew of six
men were lost while after whales.
General Grant has been interviewed
in Chicago and approves Conkling's
course, predicting his return to the SEN
ate should the question go to the peo-
pie. He lays the blame of the whole
matter on Seen etary Blaine and denies
that he and Mr.. Conklipg ever had any
understanding with President Garfield
after his election.
The Sons of Veterans of the State
of New York held an encampment at
Troy and elected officers. An effort is
under way to hold a national encamp-
ment in July.
The estimated revenues of the
United States postal service for the fis-
cal year ending June so, 1882, are S39.-
SIS, 787.45, and the total amount of
money appropriated by Congress for
expenditures by the Post Office Depart
ment during the same fiscal year is
$40, 955, 432, showing that the amount
necessary to be saved IN order to bring
the expenditures within the receipts Is
81, 376, 642. So. The reductions in ex-
pedited Star service contracts, ETC., eff
fected from the 4th of last March to the
present date, amount to almost exactly
81 900, 600 per annum.
Masked robbers stopped a stage
near Gainesville, Tex, on June 3, and
robbed the mail-bags of 1000.
At Albany Saturday the twelfth
joint ballot was cast with light vote
and no change. Assemblyman Trimble
testified before the Bribery Committee
that the lobbyist Edwards had attempted
to bride him to abandon Conkliug and
Plat.
"A. d. Robson, nephew of ex-
Secretary Robson, YVES killed by light
ming Sunday near Hunnewell, Kan.
AT the General Synod of the Luth-
eran Church. held in Altoona. Pc, the
Board of Church Extension recon-
mended, aud the convention enacted,
that the General Synod shall not grant
permission to congregations to go be-
fore the churches for aid, or to make
appeals through the Church papers, and
that Especial ordination fund should
be created to donate funds where cir
cumstances may require it.
Ten men have been killed in fight
between the Texan rangers and cow
| thieves.
The Kansas cyclone of Thursday
almost dem olished the town of Americas
and did great damage TO the crops.
In Berry county, No., eleven peo-
pie were swept away by bursting
waterspout, but were miraculously res
cued.
1t is rumored that the charges
against Cadet Whitaker have been sus-
tanned by the court martial.
Three men were killed Sunday by
an explosion on the wrecking steamer
B. d J. Baker off Cape Henry beach.
AT Albany Friday two ballots were
taken on each vacancy. Mr.. Depew
gained, his supporters all told number
ing fifty-seven, but therewas no change
in the ConlIling. Platt or the Democratic
figures. Speaker Sharpe was examined
touching the alleged Bradley Sessions
bribery case and corroborated Mr..
Bradley's account of the interview at
which the latter handed him the 50, 600.
MIR. Armstrong gave evidence as TO the
offers made to him by the lobbyist Ed
wards.
The schooner James A. Franklin
was sunk off the Jersey coast on Thurs
day by the steamer Pottsville.
All the railroads around Pittsburg
have suffered heavily by the floods in
the Allegheny River, and the losses to
lpmberinen viii foot up to over mil
lion dollars.
Five persons living near Solomon
| City, Kan. were killed on Thursday by
a cyclone, which also destroyed many
buildings.
Commodore Phelps, who fitted the
Jeanette search steamer Rodgers. says
that his equipment has never been sur
passed by any vessel fitted out for the
Arctic regions.
Hayes White, negro, was hanged
in Arkansas, Friday. for the murder of
a sheriff IL April last.
Mrs. Mary Il. Nash, of Des Moines,
Iowa, who was nominated by the Green
back State Convention last week for the
position of State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, declines the nomination.
Mrs. Jennie Ducy, wife of the Hon.
J. G. Ducy, prominent citizen of Cen
trail Illinois, recently committed suicide
i'll very appalling manner. She burned
herself to death by turning coal oil on
her clothes and igniting them with fire.
In few minutes she was burned to q
crisp. For some time past she had been
suffering from a slight insanity. She
was woman quite well known in Cen
trail Illinois for her literary culture.
The Council of Administration OF
the New Jersey Grand Army of the Re
public has concluded that, if the annual
encampment is held, it will be during
the last week in August, at Monmouth
Park, Monmouth County.