Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-04-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Market, New York city, have resolved
to oppose the sale of oleomargarine,
either as such or as butter.
Senators Beck, Salisbury, Hamp-
ton, Brown and Harris Democrats,
and Senators Dawes, Burnside and Lo-
gan (Bepublicans), took the chief parts
IN lively debate in the Senate ON Mon
day on the question of the election of
Senate officers. The Republicans were
told that in December the alternative
will be presented to them Of forsaking
Riddleberger or voting for gallant Re-
publican Union general for Sergeant-at-
Arms.
The elections for sachems and off,
GERS of the Tammany Society resulted
Monday evening in the choice of the
candidates on the Kelly ticket.
The Captain of a Halifax brig re.
Gently picked up at sea the abandoned
schooner Annie NJ. Allen, of Providence,
bound from Sagua, Cuba, to New York,
with cargo of sugar. The find is
valued at $4,000.
Forty men repairing a railroad near
East Concord, N. H., Monday were
swept off bridge by a swinging timber
and many of them were badly injured.
A case of trichinosis, in which the
disease developed two hours after the
pork was eaten, is reported from Allie
gheny, Pa.
"A number of wealthy people pro-
pose to establish a colony of colored
people in New Jersey. A tract of 2S,-
600 acres of land in Burlington, Allan
tic and Camden counties is to be bought
for 81 200, 900 and used for the purpose.
1t is thought by those interested that
the money for the project can be easily
raised.
st Julien and the noted stallion,
Santa Claus, will take the circuit the
coming summer. st. Julien's trainer,
Orrin Hickok, thinks his horse will
make a record of 2:07 before the season
closes.
In a test case at Milwaukee to deter
mine the legality of the celebrated anti
treating law of Wisconsin, it was found
that the law was imperative because of
an error in the text of its supposed en-
actment, the bill as drawn specifying the
repeal of an old law that was dropped
when the State Statutes underwent their
recent revision.
A terrible storm swept the northern
part of Drew county, Arkansas, on
Sunday. On the plantation of William
ID. Roddy three houses were blown
down, one of which, occupied by Alden
Hill (colored), wife and seven children,
was torn to pieces. Hill and two chill
dren were crushed to death. A colored
woman was blown into tree-top, where
she was found dead with a baby in her
arms uninjured. Others, whose names
cannot be learned, are reported TO be
killed or wounded.
Shuts, the Brooklyn baker, has
been "boycotted" by the New York and
Brooklyn trade societies for refusing TO
allow his men to join a union. All the
members of the societies have refused to
buy his bread.
Five men, three Americans and two
Mexicans, were killed at Ell Paso on
April Is, in dispute over land claims.
A third Mexican was badly wounded.
Fears are entertained at Baltimore
of the loss of two vessels long overdue
from Rio de Janeiro.
j. G. Unser, a clerk in the Cincin-
natl post-office, was detected in robbing
the mail
One of the largest cattle transac-
tons ever made has just been closed in
Dallas, Texas, by Messrs. Hughes, of
St. Louis, and Simpson, of Weather
ford, Texas, purchasing the famous
Millet Rancho for 100000.
Henry Duerson, a negro, who killed
his wife in the autumn of 1879, was
hanged at Des Arc, Friday, in the pres
ence of several thousand people. He
acknowledged his guilt.
The cattle disease is prevalent in
the vicinity of Fair Haven, n. Y. Sew
eral head of fine cattle, on the place of
Benjamin Douthy have died, and other
fatal cases have been reported.
The reports of April !, received at
the Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, show an increase of nearly four
per cent. in the area in winter
wheat. Kansas and Missouri show
the largest increase Ohio and Illinois
only slight; and New York and Penn
sylvania remain the same as last year.
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia each report some decrease. The
alternate freezing and thawing during
the month of March was the most
detrimental of any weather during the
winter.
In the billiard match in New York
between Schaefer and Slosson the former
was successful. Schaefer's score was
1000 to Slosson's 2,780. Schaefer's
average for the five nights was 80 and
Slosson's %.
Washington Brockner, whose wife
deserted him and subsequently entered
the Orange County IN. " Poorhouse,
where she remained unknown to him
for two years, was sued by the Superin-
tendent at Newburgh for her board and
mulcted in $402 and costs.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention will be held in Harrisburg
on Thursday, September s.
-Jewett, the famous four-year-old
trotter, has been sold to Peter Schartz,
of Allegheny, Pa, for $4,000.
DIR. Patton, of Chicago, has exam
ined 400 hogs taken at random from the
packiDg-houses, and found no trace of
trichina.
-Four persons were killed and
houses, bridges and forests laid waste
by hurricane in Mississippi on Tues
day.
james O'Brien, alias Robert Lind
say, who in the famous Morey letter in
vestigation before Judge Davis confessed
a 4. 4. 4.