Daily Republican., 1881-09-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
WHAT Is GOING ON ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY.
Another Comet DiscOvered-Mas'
sashusetts Republicans In
Convention Yesterday.
other News.

At two o'clock on the morning OF the
2Oth instant, Washington time, Pro.
lessor Barnard, at Nashville, discovered
bright telescope comet. 1t is IN seven
hours forty.six n inutes right ascension
and thirteen degrees twenty-eight MIN
utes north declination, with a daily
motion of three degrees northeast
Professor Swift, of Rochester, at one
o'clock the same morning caught a
view of the long expected Encke's
comet near Beta Aurigr. Four comets
are now visible, by the aid of telc-
scopes in the sky.
The Republican State Convention OF
Massachusetts met yesterday in Boston
and renominated Governor Long and
all the present State officers. Among
the resolutions adopted was one sug,
gesting the further legislation in regard
to W oman suffrage, and one paying a
, warm tribute to the character and ser
vices of the late President, and express
ing appreciation of President Arthur
and of the difficulties of his position.
Attorney Genes Gwinn, OF Mary
land, who is also Solicitor Tor the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, ha'
filed an amended bill in the suit of tha
Company against the Baltimore an
Ohio Railroad, i'll the |, ,. Dlstric
court at Baltimore. The matter III con
troversy relates to the right to contro
Al d operate the telegraph lines along
the lines OF the Railroad Company he
tween Baltimore and WneeinE.
An etiigy of Guiteau, suspended trou
thu. yiaduct at Cana and Sixteenth
streets, Chicago, created lnuch excite
ment in that city yesterday morning.
Crowds of meu and boys gathered
around it. shouting and thrO" ing stones,
and the excitepent grew to such il plicb
that the police had to dlSperse the mob.
While hcnting near lndiantown Gap,
Pa, yesterday, ,Stwo constablcS disco''
cred a counterieiter' den, with mou'd 'ds,
plates and several counterfeit trade dol.
lars, and arrested the counterteiter,
He gave bis name as George Hummel,
brother of Josiah Hummel, one Of he
Raber murderers
President Arthur, while in Washing.
ton during the ohstqules of President
Garfield, is the guest of Senator Jones,
OF Nevada. Mrs. Garfield will reu,ain
at the residence of Attorney General
Mac eagh, rs she does not desire tC
again SEE tue White House, where she
sleht 50 many sorrowtul days.
The dominion Exhibition at Mon'rra
was formally opened Oh Tuesday by The
Lieutenant Governor, in the presence OF
~, 600 people In his address the Lieu
tenant Governor made fitting reference
10 the death OF Presid Mt Garueld.
Among the arrivals n New York
yesterday, by the steamer Galiia from
Liverpool, were Professor Thorold Rog-
ers, Sir. j. Il Mowbray, and the faml-
y of AdoIpl Z. Bore.
a telegram from Montreal says that
Stewart, the ahs%ondiug secrt tary OF
the Brooklyn Board OF Education, was
seen in that city recently. Detectives
are searching for him but without sue.
cess.
William B. Horner for five years
managing editor ofthe Commercial Ga.
zetts, of Pittsburg, Penn, died yester-
uay IN mat CITY.
The London, New York, Boston and
Philadelphia Stock Exchanges have
agreed to hold no session on Monda,
next, the day Of President Garfield.
funeral.
The rolling mill Of the Georgia Iror
Works at Atlanta was destroyed by fire
yesterday. The loss is estimated al
$500