Democratic messenger., 1881-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

OtdNeS 0euate on MONDAY, ueIenueu n1S
action of voting with the Republicans
by three-hour speech. 1t was heartily
applauded by the Republicans.
The Platte River has overfowed
near Columbus, Neb, submerging miles
of country, interrupting communication,
and causing damage to the amount of
several hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.. Jewett has declined the Presi-
dency of the Worlds Fair, and it is not
proposed to make another selection un-
til the subscriptions are in more adj
vanced state.
Terrible floods have followed the
breaking up of the ice in the rivers of
Nebraska. All the villages have been
flooded, buildings swept off by the hun
dreds and cattle and ciops swept away.
The destruction of property is very
large and it is feared that many lives
have been lost.
The landlords of New York and
Brooklyn having this season increased
their rents from 10 to 80 per cent.
much excitement has been created. In
both cities meetings of tenants have
been held and largely attended. In
some cases the tenants have refused to
pay more rent, and in others refused to
pay any rentals at all. 1t is anticipated
that there will be trouble in the tenement
houses May 1st.
Fifty Indians employed in the quar-
ries near Montreal have struck for an
advance of % per cent on their wages.
A full history of the origin of trichi-
nosis, the hog epidemic, and the means
for its prevention will soon be issued by
the United States Treasury Department.
President Garfield has decided not
to call an extra session of Congress.
"A verdict of murder in the first
degree was brought in against James
Walsh for the killing of Barbara Grun-
enthal, in Brooklyn. The girl refused
to marry Walsh and he killed her.
The Rhode Island Greenbackers
and Prohibitionists held conventions on
Friday and nominated State tickets.
Washington dispatch, that there will
be no extra session at least before next
fall. 1t is thought to be sufficient to
call Congress together early in October,
when two months can be spent in the
proposed investigation of contested
seats in the Southern States, with a
view to having reports ready for the
regular session in December.
Young Kalloch, the son of Mayor
Kalloch of San Francisco, who was on
trial for nearly two months on the
charge of numbering Charles DeYoung,
editor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
last April, was acquitted. The jury
were ont twenty-four hours. When
Kalloch was discharged and got into a
carriage an immense crowd took the
horses from the vehicle and pulled him
to his house, some three miles distant.
-Self-defense was the ground on
which Kalloch was acquitted of the
murder of Charles De Young, in San
Francisco.
General Grant has been elected
President of the Mexican Southern Rail-
road Company, and accepted the office.
He has left for Mexico.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention nominated the following
ticket Governor Horace A. KimbaIl,
of Providence Lieutenant Governor
Thomas W. Segar, of Westerly Sec
retary of State J. G. Perry, Of South
Kingston; Attorney General Francis
i. O'Reilly, of Woonsocket; General
Treasurer-Arnold L. Burdick, of New
port. The following resolution was
passed: ReSOlCed, That the unmanly,
dishonest and treacherous course of
Senator Malone, in aiding and abetting
by his vote the Republican party in d.
rect opposition to the sentiment of the
people of his State, thereby violating
the trust placed in him by the Legisla-
ture of Virginia, merits the condemna-
tion of this convention.
The President nominated State
Senator Robertson to be Collector of
the port of New York Collector Mer-
ritt to be Consul General at London
William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey.
to be Minister TO Austria, and William
e. Chandler, of New Hampshire, to be
Solicitor General.
The total values of the exports of
domestic breadstuffs from the United
States during February last were
1913, ,246, and during February, 1880,
S14, 1854.
The assessed valuation of the real
and personal property of New York
State according to the forthcoming CEN
sus report is 81, ,679, 13S, ,133.
The bill for the removal of the
Pennsylvania capital to Philadelphia
has been defeated.
BY an accident on the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad Tues
day the engineer and fireman were
killed.
The War Department has been
given $4,000 to experiment with new
magazine guns.
The Senate confirmed Henry G..
Pearson as Postmaster of New York
city.
Mr.. Voorhees, introduced a resolu-
ton in the United States Senate
reprimanding the national banks for
their recent action in connection with
the Funding bill.
The glassware manufacturers have
resolved to shut down their works for
eight weeks, between May and Septem-
ber, which will reduce the stocks of
tableware to the extent of 81, 900, 900.
The news that Indians had mas
sacred thirty persons and burned nine
teen wagons at Puerto del Chocolate,
near Janos, Mexico, about sixty miles
south of the United States territory, is
confirmed by dispatches to General
Sheridan from the commanding officer
at Fort Bliss.
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