Daily Republican., 1881-08-13
PRICE ONECENT
A DAYS GENERAL NEWS
CARTRIDGES ON A BURNING IA.
MAICA STEAMER.
DR.. Thomas Charged With Hora
esy -IwO Han y tMxs-EGs
Reading Maulders.

Advices from Kingston, Jamaica,
state that while the mail steamer Nile
was on her passage from Southampton
to Barbados, her Goals were found to
be on fire. Being short of cargo her
bunkers were filled with coal sufficient
for the return voyage. Crates of earthen
ware packed in straw were on top Of
the coal, "and among the passengers
baggage cartridges were found" For
tunately the fire was soon extjnguished.
Rev. Drs Jewett and Hatfield, ap-
pointed by the Rock River Conference,
in Illinois, to formulate and prosecute
The charges Of heresy against Rev. DIR.
Thomas, have performed their work,
and the trial will take place ia Chicago,
next month. DIR. Thomas 10 charged
with denying the inspiration Of the
Scriptures and the doctrine OF the
Atonement, and teaching that there is
a probation after death.
| Benjamin Bird, colored, convicted Of
the murder Of Policeman Nelson, col
ored, in June of last year, was hanged,
| yesterday, in the Jail. yard at jackson.
vile, Florida Shortly before the ex-
ecution be confessed his guilt to the
sheriff and others, but on the scaffold
he declared himself innocent.
About seventy of the moulders EN-
p.oyed in the stove works of Orr, Pain
ter q Co., at Reading, scruck, yester-
day, for an advance of ten per cen.
1t is said that majority of the stove
mouldersil the Schulykill Valley are
on the strike for similar advance.
The miners in the Colket Colliery, at
Piedmont, Penna., struck "gas feed
er" yesterday morning, which ignited
from the open lights, causing an ex-
po5ion. Jonathan Reihnoel, William
Brennan, Peter Greager and George
Hoverocker were badly, but not, 1t is
thought, fatally burned.
Two boys, aged respectively and o
years, were missed in Coventry, Rhode
Island, on Thursday. Search was maize
all night, and yesterday morning their
bodies were found in a sand pit, buried
by the caving of tie bank.
The dead body of Captain Edwin
Weynant, of Stony Point, New York,
was found, yesterday morning, on the
long bridge over the Navesink river. 1t
is believed he wandered on the bridge,
and was run over by trains.
An ex-Confederate Association, COM
posed of ex-Confederate Missourians re-
siding in Texas, Louisiana and Arkan-
sag, was organized in Dallas, Texas, on
Thursday. The next meeting will be
held in Sherman in August, 1882.
Mr.. George w. Riggs, the banker, of
| Washington, has had hemor age of the
stomach fJr several days, but was re-
| ported much better, yesterday, and it
is thought he may recover.
The Bankers Convention, at Niaga.
IA Falls, has at last concl uded it's labor
and adjourned yesterday. Jacob ID. Yer
milye, OF New York, was chosen Presi-
dent Of the Executive Council.
Henry Bolton, aged Is years, was kill
ed yesterday, at Harrisburg, by the
falling of al embankment III trick
yard, under which he took shelter from
the heat.
Hymen Mehado, a young man of
roughkeepsie was drowned Off an ex
curs on steamer, at Stony Point, on the
Hudson, on Thursday night.
Two Young men were drowned by
the swamping of their boat while trying
to row across the bows of the steamer
Mary Powell, at Poughkepsie last night.
The steamer Despatch with Secretary
Hunt and the Presidents two sons and
daughters on board, arrived yesterday
afternoon in Hampton Roads.
The Governor of South Carolina has
offered u reward OF $500 r'ur the arrest of
the murd"roAat Deg niy Collector Bray
ton.
A telegram from pittshurg, says the
Permanent Exhibition Building was
purchased for the New Jersey Central
isailroad.
Grow Dog, the murderer of Spotted
Tail, has voluntarily surrendered him
self at Fort NeoDrara.
GeorgA Griffin, colored, was hanged
in the Jail at birmingham, Alabama,
yesterday, for a felonous assault upon u
woman.