Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-01
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL,

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The Kentucky state election will be ned
tomorrow.
English and Italian residents at Sfax de.
mand g., 600, 900 damages on account Of
the French bOmbardment.
| O'Donovan Rosa says the new Fenian
torpedo boat cost 500, 600 and would not
sell for s., 900 for old iron. 1t is failure.
Near Wellsville, n. Y, in quarry
twenty-six feet below the surface were
found two young hickory trees, petrified.
The completed census totals for the
dominion shows population of 4, $50, 933,
against $3.50, 435 in 1871, an increase of
ESQ, ,49S-about 10 per cent.
Sir John Mowbray. Bart, NJ. P. for Ok.
ford University, sails in the Cunardcr
Gallia, leaving Liverpool to-day, for a tour
in the United States and Canada.
Four boys, from 9 to 12 years of age,
attacked an old German woman named
Mrs. Hannah -Davidoch in New York,
robbed her of $50 and made their escape.
Around Mendoza. ILL.,, harvest hands are
SO scarce that the oats is over r-ripe and men
cannot he found to cut it at from $3.50 to
$500 per day.
A block of ice melted at Connersville,
Ind, wasifound to contain 4 frog weigh
ing a quarter of a pound and in good
| health.
Three, employees at the White House,
among them Mr.. Cramp, who has been the
presidents nurse, were Frustrated by ma
laria OH Saturday.
| A heavy rain storm did much damage in
Denver, Colorado, on Saturday. Cellars
were flooded and walls and buildings in
course of erection undermined.
The Memphis, Paducah & Northern
railroad and it's rights and franchises have
been sold to c. p. Huntington. John
Eccles and II. E. Huntington, for. SO, 300,
600.
| James RObb, at one time banker in
Cuba, and head of the banking system of
the Cuban government, died in Cheviot.
near Cincinnati, on Saturday morning.
aged 6S years.
| At Brighton, England, which is the
largest watering place on the globe, will,
above 100, 900 permanent residents, the
chief duties of hotels arc performed by
women mainly, theportcrs work excepted.
A shark seven feet long went into the
dry dock near Fort McHenry with a
steamer, and was not discovered until the
| very savage and lived for nearly all hour
after the water left it.
James w. FallOw, Of New York, "a
| sugar grader, who went to st. Louis in
search of work and failed to get it, com
mitted suicide with laudanum. He has
two brothers practicing law in Piedmont
city.
On the Old Colony railroad in compli-
ance with the Massachusetts, law, over
forty engineers, firemen, conductors and
others have been dismissed because they
have defective sight. Among this number
is a conductor who has served for thirty
two years and never had III accident hap
pen to his train.
AT kecnc, New Hampshire, 4 young
man was badly poisoned from using his
tongue i'll wctting stamps while applying
them to about two hundred envelopes.
The poison had been taken in sufficient
quantities to produce violent pains in the
abdomen aud limbs and other symptoms
of quite an alarming nature.
P. w. Grove, of Peoria, no longer de-
nies, but proclaims, his manufacture of
the internal machines discovered at Liver
pool. He says more of them are being
made in Peoria, and that the members of
the order which he represents, believing
themselves not liable to prosecution, will
continue their work until England shall
do justice to Ireland.
Gilbert Gordon, u grandson of Daniel
ID. TOmpkins, once governor of New
York. and Vice President of the United
States, has been arrested in New York on
charge of larceny. He confessed to va
rious other crimes. He was once 4 pay
master in the army and made money very
rapidly. Drink caused his downfall.
Among the sensations at Saratoga Fri
day, was the claiming by two
women of the remains of the late
Thomas Busteed of New York city, who
died suddenly early Thursday morning
while seated in Il Broadway liquor shop
Each claims to be his wife. One is from
Baltimore and the other from Rochester.
The $40 New York train on the Read
ing railroad struck a carriage at Ninth
and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, demol-
ishing it, and severely injuring the driver,
Reuben ROsenheim. and its occupants,
Mrs. Mary Kopp, Mrs. Sallie Zoll and her
son Robert, Mrs. Samuel Wolf and Mr..
John Wolf. They were returning from a
funeral.
+. RaiOuni, blacksmith in the Hanni-
bal and St. Joseph shops, got mad at his
helper, green hand, and talked pretty
roughly to him, The helper, a big,
brawny fellow. finally lost his temper,
and picking up the little, old blacksmith,
threw him into the fire on the forge
Raioum scrambled out. with brushed
arm as worst injury, and the master me
chanic gave him new helper.
A negro women in Lynchburg was pre-
sented with goods for a dress for her two
year old Fannie, but the mother ont of
the goods made dress for her two weeks |
old baby. A few days ago Fanny recog-
nized her dress on her infant sister, and at |
once struck the little thing Oh the head
with all her might. The blow happened |
to fall on the baby's neck. and death re-
suited instantaneously. The child was
nursin & ut the time.
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