Daily Republican., 1881-08-05
NEWS OF A DAY.
TIL f CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT.
CONVENTION OF VIRGINIA.
A Number Of Violent Derds-The e
Catholics and Tesnlerance-A
chapter Of Incident, Acct.
dents, & r IN o ., &C., &c.

: Catholics and Tesnpersnce-A
Chapter Of Incident, Acct.
dents, g m o ., &C., &e.
Ihe Conservative Democratic Stat,
: convention Of Virginia, met ycsterda,
IN Richmond, and permanently organi
: Hed hy electinS Thomas :. Bocock, fnl
; chairman Resolutions were adoptc,
declaring among othor things, for tn,
maintenance Of the public credit of Vir
glhla dcnouncing Repatriation, and fl.
Norins rcfunding of the public dcbt o
he State in ; per cent. bonds. A rr,o
iltlon OF sympathy with President Gar
I,r!t was also adopted unanimously
AFTER nominating j, W. Daniels, to,
Governor, the convention adjourned
until this morning.
Edward McMouigle, aged So wears
was drowned at Chester, Penna., las,
night, while attempting to land from
an excursion boat Bridget f. Nc
Ca'illey, aged GG years, was killed yes
ierday morning in Brooklyn by falling
down stairs. Thomas Donnelly, OF
Trenton, New Jersey, a sailor ON the
steamer Wilkesbarre, died in the hos.
pital at Providence, on Wednesday
night, of injuries received by the falling
Of n block Oh the vessel.
| The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
OF America, in session at Boston, yes.
terday adopted resolutions in favor of
tosal abstinence, expressing sympathy
for the Land League, and for all tenn
perance organizations, and urging that
Inmates of prisons and reformatories I've
| allowed to worship God according to
| the dictation of their consc ence. Eev.
). B. Cotter, of Minnesota, was elected
President, and Mr.. Philip \. Nolan, Of
Philadelphia, Secretary
The blast furnace of the South Pueblo
Steel Works, the first ard only works
ot the kind III Colorado, will be- ready
10 bow i'll about three weeks. The
works cost Sl,oOO,O0o. The company
has contracted 10 furnish 80, 900 steel
rails for the extension Of the Denver
aud Rio tirande Rniiwty, and will
h' ready 10 turn them ou. hy The first
OF December.
a telegram from WilkcSbarre SAYS
tiie Aidrn Coal Company, consisting Of
I'hign capitalists, has been chartered,
and viii at once begin mining operations
near Wanamic. About the time their
works are completed the North and
West Branch I;ailroad will h. in run
nlng order, and they will ship their
coal to market on that road.
Peter {. Ranssm was yesterday in |
dictcl i'll Metamora, Illinois, for the
murder oi Walter ii. Bullock, commit /!
ted last May. Hiram MAYNARD, who |
while Marshal of EtlinghaM, Illinois, a |
year ago, killed a man there, has been
brought back from Colorado to answer
the charge Of murder.
John W. Wright, a patent medicine
peddlrr from Philadelphia, was com.
mltted in Lancaster, Pa, last evening.
IN default OF $1,000 bail on the charge
vi teIoDiouSiy asSaulting Mrs. Elizabeth
futter, whose house he entered at noon
yesterday, on the prettXt of selling
goods.
News has been received of the total
wreck Of the Ship Calcutta, trom Cuba
tor Boston, on the coast OF Cafraria. |
In" vessel was owned in Bu>ton, and
had a cargo Of sugar, hemp and sapan
wood. There is an estimated insurance
Of 100000 on the ship and $50 600 on
her cargo in Boston.
A large number of butchers employ.
I'll at the abaltoir in Jersey City struck
"3t Monday for higher wages. Anun-
'ar Of the employers refused the ad
'anc", and oblaincd new hands yester.
lay evening In anticipation Of trou-
Ne, u force Of reserve police was kept ,
N duty lday.
Policeman Daniel Crowley, stabbed {
n the night of Tn" 2Jlh uIt., in Chicago,
While making an arrest, died on We'd .
taday night. His nun dcrer is still at !
'rgc. William Howell was shot dead
y James Baker, a farmer, near Shel. ,
IN, indiana, Yesterday morning. Ba- +
er "a, drunk ut the time.
Secretary Lincoln returned /" Wash .
I.ton, Yesterday, and resumed hi,
rtieS at The War Departments Secrt-
lry kirkwuod. who has been unwclI :
II several days, was So far recovered
r,trr,lay, that he spent two hour, At y
i Interior Department. 4
Santa Fr, New Mexico, is without
Ii lroad connections, owing to numrr- !,
Is wa>hout> on the Atrlin>on. Toprka a,
nd Santa Fr Railroad. As the heavy
lin> continue, making new breaches, ia
is impossible to say when the danlagr "
i'll be repaired. "
Tho temperature on the beach ut
oug Branch, yesterday, reached 95 de- IA
zee, in the shade, and two persons
ere sunstruck. In Chicago, yes,er- ~
ny, the temperature reached a6 in the Sy of
,ada: at Clinton, Iowa, 100; St Louis, &c
10; keokuk, %, and Des Molnes, ".
The yellow fever is increasing in Ha- On D.,
ma, ihe deaths from that disease last #, stu
eek having numbered 81. A cclnlnu- ,
cation to the National Board of Health tic
ggrsts that Omitted States puaran. au
n" officers cannot be too careful in ex- al
mining vessels from Havana"
1t is reported from Palmyra, WiScpn- r." it
!, tl.at The Williams brothers have er er
been in thar town and in
t. DeighboIins woods and bluffs for an
veraI days. Yesterday they wel. Pr
iced to Eagle by detectives, and an Ga
ger hunt for them is kept up,
The remains CT Ex x.Governor Baglcy, nT, mr.
Michigan, arrived at Chicago, yester- wa
y, from San Francisco. They were cha
4 by coihmittee of the Mayor and
cnty.fve citizens of Detroit, who es- wo
ted them to thai city last night. wS wS
The Mississippi Democratic Conven- vii
H. Yesterday hnI lntru for (,nyprnnr 4
'hout choice. The sixth ballot stood: to ot
me, lO6; Barksdalc, 81; Feather ket
ne, "A Calhoun, H. The Convcn- ,.ro M,