Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

ton on the President on Monday has no
doubt inflicted some temporary injury
upon the patient, and it is quite prob
able that for a few days to come the
terrible movements will be little in
creased. But for this" he adds, "we
shall think there will be an adequate
compensation if we secure hereafter a
free and uninterrupted discharge of pus.
I think now we shall be able to enter
the canal or track of the wound with
drainage tubes, without having to over
come the great angle in the fexor of the
canal which existed when the tube was
introduced above the twelfth RIB. This
new incision was, in fact, prolongation
of the old incision downward and for.
ward to point below the twelfth rib. ~
He says the Presidents condition is
better.
William Gale, the long-distance
champion walker of England, COM
pleted in New York at 6: 40 p. m. Mon
day his self-imposed task of walking
5000 quarter miles in 5000 consecutive
periods of ten minutes.
MIR. Orville Grant, who was the sole
surviving brother of ex-President Grant,
and who for some time past has been an
inmate of the State Asylum for the In
sane at Morris Plains, died on Friday.
Two nail mills at East Taunton,
Mass, were destroyed by fire Sunday.
The loss is about 100000.
General Robert Patterson died at
Philadelphia, Sunday. He was SO years
of age. and fought in the three last wars
of this country. He was native of
Ireland and came to this country when
child.
In Darlington county, s. c.. twenty
white men who had been at work on the
public highway, stopped under an oak
tree to rest and shelter themselves. The
tree was struck by lightning and four of
the men killed. Twelve of the others
were seriously injured.
On Saturday and Sunday the Presi-
dent suffered considerably from the heat
and fever set in, but it abated during
Sunday evening and he rested COM
fortably without the use of morphine.
Trustee Chaffee has closed all the
mills of the Sprague estate. About
5000 hands are thrown out of work.
- Nathaniel Orlando Greenfield was
hanged at Syracuse, N. Y, on Friday,
for the murder of his wife at Orwell,
Otsego county, October 81, 1878. The
case was remarkable for its stubborn
contest in the courts. There were three
trials, the jury once disagreeing and
twice finding a verdict of guilty, two
death sentences and five stays of pro-
ceedings and reprieves. He died by
strangulation, declaring his innocence
to the last.
The census returns show that the
number of working collieries in the
Pennsylvania anthracite region has in
creased during the last ten years from
225 to 273, and the output from 49,
500, 600 tons in 1870 to 81, 433, 900 tons
in 1880.
Admiral Porter will have charge of
the naval part of the Yorktown celebra.
ton, and Gen. Hancock of the military
The Conservative d emocratic Con
vention of Virginia nominated the
following ticket: John A. Daniel, of
Lynchburg, for Governor; James
Barbour, of Culpepper. for Lieutenant
Governor; P. W. Mckinney, of Prince
Edward, for Attorney General.
The Mesculero Indians in New Mex
leo have crossed the Rio Grande, and are
killing herders in old Mexico. Troops
and settlers are in pursuit.
The majority against prohibition
in North Carolina is 10000. The
whites divided; the negroes did not, but
voted solidly against the proposed meas
ure.
The election in North Carolina.
Thursday, resulted in the utter defeat of
the Prohibition ticket.
The Indians In the San Mateo
Mountains, N. NJ, are on the warpath
and settlers are being murdered.
Leo Hartmann, the Nihilist, is said
to have gone to Canada for fear that he
would be arrested by United States au-
thorities.
Typographical Union No. 6 of New
York City, is preparing for strike OF
printers to take place September l.
The necessary capital, $4,000, 900,
has been obtained for constructing a
ship-canal across the Maryland and Del
aware peninsula. Six millions of the
amount were taken in France.
The Democratic Convention of the
Second Congressional District of Maine
held at Lewiston Thursday nominated
Mr.. Franklin Reed Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the Cincinnati plat
form, the administration of Governor
Plaisted, and execrating the attempted
assassination of the President.
The Ohio State Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Columbus, and Endorsed the
State ticket previously nominated and
adopted the usual platform.
William G. Fargo, President of the
American Express Company, died at
Buffalo Wednesday.
At Portsmouth, N. H., Tuesday the
Republicans reelected Mayor Sise for
the fourth consecutive term by MAORI
ty of 65 and plurality of Sc, over John
s. Tocot, Democrat. The Greenbackers
had a ticket. There is a Republican
majority in both branches of the city
council.
Ambrose Lomprax, who witnessed
the massacre of the surveying party
south of Ell Paso, says the party was
armed and had q pitched battle with
fifty Indians. Six Indians were killed.
The Kentucky Legislature elected
on Monday is largely Democratic and
in favor of the election of Senator Beck.
The latest reports from Alaska are
that the country is in peaceful condi-
ton.
Commissioner Raum reports the