, 1881-11-12
NEWS BRIEF.

The Boston Michigan relief fund now
amounts to S59,1o9. Il. =. =
Rain aid snow, followed by clearing
and colder weather, for this region today.
An Irish National Convention has been
called to meet in Chicago Nov. 80 for: a
tlree-days' session..
The brush fires in Ontario during the
past season destroyed between $1o, o,000, 600
and S15, ,00o. 600 worth Of property.
1t is expected that Judge Folger will
make q good many removals on assuming
his place as Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Atlantic FIGURING Mills at Denver,
Colo, valued at $4,000 and insured for
$4,000, were destroyed by fire yesterday.
~ Official returns from all but thirteen
counties Of Pennsylvania and estimates for
these give Bailey, Republican, G, $50 majority
over Noble: g.
Tho schooner Norton was waterlogged
and capsized about thirty miles northeast
of Milwaukee, yesterday, The, crew was
taken of by the Goodrich steamer AIuske-
|! gon. :.
Speaker: Brand, OF the English House
of Commons, unveiled monument to the
late Thomas Clarkson, English philanthro-
pistand abolirionist, at Wisbeacl, Cambridge
shire. yesterday.
THE sixteenth Legislature OF the Hay
ton Republic has presented purse Of S50,-
GOO to President Saloinon, ''the illustrious
patriot" rs a mark of the gratitude of I" his
grateful country
--The Episcopal Convention Of the West
ern Diocese of Michigan has leposed the
Rev. ". ". Fellows from the ministry. The
Rev. Mr. Fellows now breaches In an opera
house, and has organized Peoples Church.
Yesterdays gale on the lakes was the
iercest of this season. The wind blew at the
rate Ut forty-tiyo miles per hour. Several
vessels that had started out put into port It
is feared that there have been several dis
asters.
Gen. Sir Patrick MacDougall was
sworn in at Ottawa yesterday rs Admins
TRAITOR of tho Government Of Canada during
the absence Of the Marquis of Lorne. Lie
will reside in Montreal until the return Of
the Marquis. -
y Testerday's Chicago market for De
cember and January wheat opened some
what higher, and closed at SL31]@@1.s155 e
December to s1.Sa95 January. Corn also.
opened stronger, and closed five-eishths
OF cent better.
The State Commissioner for the adj
ministration of diocesan property at Breslau
has resigned, and the Roman Catholic Bishop
will attend to that matter in the future. The
law withholding the salaries OF the Catholic
clergy has been abrogated as far us Breslau
is concerned.
-District-Attorney Rollins, of New
York, who has just been elected Surrogate
of=that city, has declined an invitation to be
Of counsel for the Government in the Gui-
teau case. Hc cannot act. as the trial will
probably outlast the, leniar yeur, and thus
interfere With the duties of his office.
A fire at Modesto, Stanislaus County,
California, yesterday morning destroyed
S1O0, 600 worth of property. ". Z. Tanner d
Co.'s manufactory at Richmond, Va, valued
at 100000, and insured, was destroyed yes
terday. Four hotels at Old Orchard, Me-,
valued at ST, 900, were reduced to ashes yes
terday.
The Mayor Of Hull said yesterday that
arrangements were about to be made by
which direct trade between Hull and Baitl-
more would be opened. lie intimated that
when certain deep-water docks were con-
structed Mt Hull the Inmans would send
some Of their large steamers from Hull to
America
Joe Harris, colored, was hanged at
Greensboro, Ga, yesterday for the murlcrof
Ezekiel Langston. Henry jenkins was
hanged at Fayetteville, VIVA. for the murder
Of Winfield Saunders on the 10th Of May last.
Felix Munshower was hanged at Frederick,
Nd, for the murder Of J. l.. Wetzeu in Au-
gust, 1879.
Mrs. Duusmore, at one time the wife of
Guiteau, and now. residing at Leadvlile,
Colo, has been summoned as witness III
the trial Of the assassin. The Rev. DR.. Masee,
Of Albany, VINO has been summoned, says
that when he knew Guitcau ten years ago lie
saw nothing about him inconsistent with
sanity.
-James I. Ward, son of the proprietor OF
a hotel ut Blue Mound, near Decatur, ILL.,,
quarreIed with DR.. Roswell W. Shaw at
that place yesterday about Il family matter.
The quarrel was ended by Ward shooting
Shaw dead. Ward is yet at liberty. Ills
victim was about Gu years Of age, and
practiccd at Macon.
The cable man, in his great anxiety to
keep the American public well Informed,
announces that the Grand Duke Of Baden is
suffering from gastric fever, and that tie
transaction Of affairs in the Grand Duchy has
been temporarily transferred to the 'hered-
itary" Grand Duke, whoever he is.
A committee OF the South Water street
commission merchants, consisting Of George
E. .Gooch, J. n. Adams, Philip Alexander
W. w. Dexter, John Macomber, and a. e.
Knopf, proposes to prosecute every retail
grocer Of this city who sells butterine for
butter It is believed that one-fourth Of the
retail men are liable to prosecution.
"A great part Of the Town OF Wood
stock, n. g., was destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. The con1lagration is believed to
be the work of incendiaries, as the fire broke
ont ut several points Tar apart. About eighty