Daily Republican., 1881-06-08
NEWS BY THE WIRES.
TELEGRAPHED NEWS FROM ALL
QUARTERS.
Grant on his way TO New York
Tinkcring the New Jcssey
COnstItutfOn-Oiher News
Items of Interest.

AteInS Oi Interest.
General Grant and party arrived in
~. Louis yesterday morning, from
New Orleans. The General says he does
NOT know how his badges coUli have
got into the hands Of King and FItzpat-
rex, now under arrest for stealing
them. Though very anxious to 20 to
New York at once, he will remain in
st. Louis, if it is deemed necessary, to
prosecute the parties. lie declines 10
talk about politics,
At East Saginaw, Michigan, on Not
ia% night, a gang Of rDUghS attached ON
a circus attacked u crowd u, u dance
house, using clubs TO Drar them with.
Augustus Emery, policeman, was
beaten to death. Frederick WruSrlI
WAS fatally INJURED. Tea or twelve
others We're cut aul bru Sod. Thirteen
OF the roughS were arrested.
The New jersey Constitutional Com
mission met yesterday in Trenton, seven
Of the nine members being present.
Ihe Commission agreed to give pcr,ouS
interested in municipal government an
opportunity to be heard in regard to TIE
amendments 10 be proposed 10 the Con-
Stitution, and adjourned until July 2d,
ut Long Branch,
General triSbic yesterday obtained a
railway concession in the City Of Mex.
leo, which is considered the most valua-
Die yet granted there. sit connects
with the southern Pacific and Rio
{ ,r1 nIn aud to /,
branches to the Gulf and The Pacific"
The John p. King Manufacturing
Company has been organized in Angus
ta, Georgia, with capital Of l,0OOOOO,
and the privilege Of increasing it to g.
OOO,0O0. The object is the manufacture
of cotton goods. John +. King is Pre-
silent Of thc company.
General sherman, Van Wit and It'd
bail left Washington yesterday after
noon to attend the reunion Of tie Army
OF the Potomac at Hartford to-day. See
rcta1y Lincoln left Washington for
Hartford and West Point last evening
President Carrie Id, Secretary Hunt
and Admiral Potter will leave WASH
lngtOn this afternoon for Annapolis, to
attend the graduating exercises at the
Naval Academy. Senator Morgan, OF
Alabama, will deliver the address to
the graduating class.
The adopted daughter Of Mrs. Dauph
inc, 1T st. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia,
drowned herself last Saturday, in Il tit
of insanity caused by grief for the death
of her adopted mother. The suicide
was married, and leaves an infant four
months old.
The strike ofthe beer brewing employ
eS i'll New York continued yesterday.
1t was reported that some Of the brewers
were employing green" hands; also
that several additional firms in that and
the neighboring cities had yielded to
the mems demands.
The Second biennial convention of the
Women'S Missionary Society OF the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Church met yesterday, in AItoo-
IA, Pcnna. The General Synod will
meet in the city to-day.
There is some doubt whether the Leg
iSlatnre Of New Hampshire will choose
Il United States Senator. Many Of tho
members believe that Il Senator cannot
leg Sly be elected at this session.
The erection Of II sugar refinery, to be
$50 feet square and II stories hign, was
begun yesterday at the foot Of Polk
street, in Chicago. Five hundred work.
men will be employed in its construction.
The several reports to the State De-
partment, on the trade and manutac-
lures Of their respective districts, for
May, were issued yesterday. The pork
question is treated in them with much
detail.
At Edgewood, near Pittsburg, yester-
day, William Murphy Shot his divorced
wife, Mrs. Newton McCIarran, and then
committed suicide. 1t is thought she
will recover, although Shot in the back
and breast.
One of the most essential conditions
Of pelf feet health is perfect rest This
can bc assured to the baby by ,judiCiOuS-
ly using DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. Sold
everywhere for % cents.
1t is reported that a fight occurred re-
Gently near Fort Walsh, between Black |
foot and Creek Indians, and that sixteen
of the latter was scalped. The Greeks had
been stealing horses from the Blackteet
By authority of the War Department
General Terry, on the 4th inst, trans
ferred the headquarters of the Depart
mcnt of Dakota from St. Paul to Fort
Smelling, Minnesota.
DR.. Joshua b. Chaplin, formerly State
Commissioner of Public Schools in
Rhode Island, was found dead in his
bed in Providence yesterday.
Robert Ball, prominent stock own
cr, was drowned while trying to cross
the Big Wichita River on horseback,
near Henrietta, Texas, on Monday.
The Republican State Convention of
Ohio will meet in Cleveland to-day.
Senator Sherman is expected to attend
and make q speech.
An incendiary fire in Dallas, Texas, ;
IN Monday morning, destroyed several
stores, causing loss ofS40,0O0
The Postmaster General yesterday Or $
Tered free delivery service at Augusta, !
Maine, to begin July 1st. :
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