Daily Republican., 1881-06-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL TELEGRAPH INTEL.
LIGENCE OF YESTERDAY
President GariieId's Uncle KILLED
Reading and Chesapeake IL.
II. Charter Batch OF Acei.
dents.

A telegram from Ottawa, Canada,
says that IAN ASTRONOMER" (whose name
is not giTen) writes to paper of that
city thus: LAS the moon will be at her
interior conjunction on the 10th, and as
the planets Will be but q few degrees
ont Of conjunction, ] would advise sea
men to get their vessels into safe har.
bors until that date be passed Terrific
gales, accompanied by hail, will blow
from The southeast all along the Allan
tic COAST, Brilliant showers of meteors
vii. occur, especially within the tropics.
Lne tides viii be unusually high in the
west Indies, and 4 hurricane will pre-.
vail on the east side Of the Rocky Noun
tains. The month of July will be ex-
cesslveLy hot, owing to the heated at
mosphere returning from the equatorial
regions"
John Griscom, the faster. at noon
yesterday, weighed l6ai>. pounds, "a loss
| OF one pound in tweuty-four hours,
daring which he drank A. ounces of
water. When lie awUke in the morn
ing, after nearly eight hours slccp, he
complained ct feeling cold and ID fire
had to be lighted. His pulse was 56,
respiration II, and temperature yS l-5.
At the Recorders Office in Lancas-
ter, Pa, there WAS received yesterday u
mortgage Of s., 500. 900 from the Read
ing and Chesapeake Railroad, recently
incorporated, to two New York capital
ISIS. The new road Is TO run from Read
ing, through Lancaster county. to
Havre de Grace, Maryland.
A telegram from Victoria, British Co
Iumbia, reports that scme Alaskans re-
Gently attacked trading sloOp and
captured three men aud q woman. Two
OF the men were killed by the Indians,
aIl4 the other was made a slave. The
woman escaped, and after great hard
chips, arrived az Yukon.
It is stated that a number of keepers
OF life saving stations on the New Jer-
sey coast have resigned because OF in
sufficient pay. the keepers who are on
duty all the time, receive only 800 a
year. The Surtmen. who are only on
duty eight months Of every year, re-
ceive $500,
Mrs. Garfeld's strength is 50 far re-
riage riding. The President who will
remain at Long Branch for several days,
will attend the reunion Of the New York
Seventh Regiment at the West End
hotel to-day.
The Washington Star of yesterday as
Serts that before Assistant Secretary
Upton left the city che placed his resig-
nation in the hands of Secretary Win
dom, 10 be acted upon as might be de-
sized by the Secretary and the Presi-
dent,
A hack was demolished by collision
with railroad train, near Brockton,
Massachusetts, yesterday morning. Mi
rhael Early, the driver, was killed, and
the occupants OF the carriage, James
Bennett and James Shields, were Sc
rio7lsly injured.
The ,>harter Of the Sabine and Wes-
,ern Railr, Nd Company was fled yes
.erday at Aus Ein, Texas. The roa1 IS
o extend from sabine Pass to Houston,
/ distance of eighty 'diles and the capt
al stock is fixed at 81, SNV,O
Mrs. Amelia Sommer, age'l 6S years,
While suffering from acute infamation
t the stomach, threw herself fro n a
window OF the Mount Sinai Hospital,
New York, yesterday morning, and
yas killed.
At picnic at Decatur, Georgia, on
tuesday,, thirty-tive persons We're poi
med by eating chicken salad, which /
All been prepared in u brass kettle.
rcmpt medical assistance prevented ]
ny fatal results.
The schooner Julia L. Pratt, from
for Boston, with coal, =
as run into by another schooner, off
antucket, last Monday evening, and 7
damaged that she put into Province
Wn for repairs. O
The wharf laborerS' strike in Mon
cal continues, but there is no distur- o
lnce to report. The police will not
low the strikers to congregate at the l.
harves.
At East Cambridge, Massachusetts, L.
sterday morning, Homer Wellington, A,
nVlcted OF attempting TO poison his
he several months ago, was sentenced VI
seventeen years i'll the State Prison. to
The trial Of Colonel Cash for the muir
of Colonel Shannon, in duel at 81
arlington, South Carolina, resulted, ~
Tuesday night, in verdict of not ~,
ilty. ci, '
Mrs. Henry Dixon, Of Camp Hill,
II Harrisburg, was killed on Tues il
Y evening, by falling from a cherry ~.
e and breaking her neck. Il
\Ibert Slowm, straw hat manufacture lar
of Milwaukee, has made an assign \
mt. His liabilities are estimated at Lo
1000, assets at $l0l,000 for
eneral Grant arrived at Long Branch 'pI