The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-08

ments to oppose his now powerful foe.
The Welsh national festival, the
Eisteddfod, was held At Merthyr Tydvil on the
S1st nit. Resolutions Of sympathy with Mrs.
Garfield and with the American people, on &C.
count OF the continued prostration Of tho
President were adopted with great unanimity.
At the annual meeting Of the Property
Defense Association, sort Of union OF Irish
landlords, held in Dublin, 1t was resolved TO
levy tax Of per cent. on tho valuation Of the
properties OF members in order to defray
ths expenses Of fighting tho Land League.
lGIsCELL.ANE0Us oLEANINos.
The champion hammer-thrower Of
America is Mr.. McKinnon, Of Belleville, On
tario. He threw heavy hammer 95 feet 8
inches, and light one 121 feet 10 inches, beat
ing all previous records.
Mr.. Robert r. Campbell and Mr..
James G. Scott are lawyers OF Warrenton, va.
During heated political discussion Campbell
called Scott lier. Nothing but "goah" would
satisfy SCOTS wounded honor. Pistols were
the weapons chosen, the distance was ten PAGES,
the shots were exchanged, enc Of SCOTS hands
was hurt Campbell shook the other, and the
two men Of "honah" made up.
The dory Ihttle Western, sixteen feet
in length, has reached Hslifax from London.
The colored Baptists have just held
their forty-third annual convention in Chica-
90. Thirty-two churches were represented
President Barras, Of Guatemala, has
dispatched special envoy to Washington vitha
message OF sympathy for President Garfield.
After consultation with Secretary Of
War Lincoln the Governor OF New Mexico has
decided to recommend the formation Of militia
companies oil over the Territory, which he will
arm and equip, to prevent Indian raids.
The continued dry weather has had
very disastrous effect on the crops in nearly
every part Of the West and South. In Central
Illinois aud Indiana cattle are suffering much
from scarcity Of water. Drinking water has to
be hauled for miles.
Toronto, Ont, is filled with dense
smoke caused by the brush fires raging through
out adjoining country.
Two thousand one hundred and nine-
teen immigrants arrived at New York in ono
day. last week.
Jay Gould and Maj. De Gress have
organized in New York the Mexican Oriental,
international and Interoceanic Railroad Com
pany. Three parties Of engineers are now run
ming surveys.
Brush fires are raging in the region
~o,,c1 .;,,,,< Mor<roel
The past month was the hottest Au
gust since 1872, and the rainfall WAS less than
for any August during the past ten years.
Work proceeds on the Panama canal
under great difficulties. Yellow fever has
played dread havoc among the workingmen.
| Most OF the captains Of the brigades have been
| stricken by the dread disease, and the men en-
| ploved ON four sections have been forced to
abandon the work. The mortality 10 very grea,
! among the sufferers Two-thirds OF those who
have been taken to the hospitals have been
taken therefrom dead. None but persons &C.
customed totropical life, its heat and rains, car
venture to work on the canal with any degree
or safety.
| Over thirty families in the neighbor-
hood Of Pembroke, Ont, have been rendered
homeless and destitute by bush fres. Bush
nres continue to rage IN the vicinity OF nlngs
ton The air is filed with smoke, and rivel
navigation is much interrupted in consequence
Gustave Richter, q celebrated artist
and professor in the Berlin Academy Of Art, il
dead.
The total number Of lives lost in the