Democratic messenger., 1881-09-03
eau from Jail and hang, shoot and tor
ture him until he dies.


Gavan Duffy's letter praising the Land
act, says the English Government i'm
prisoned number of respectable mer
in order to induce people to stop the
agrarian agitation in order to secure theil
release.
"A rumor that Guiteau, in case o.
the Presidents death, will be taken from
the Jail and placed on board gun-boa
is not wholly credited.
The drought in the West has beer
partially relieved by rain.
The United States steamer Alliance
has arrived at Dommerfest, Norway, or
her cruise in search of the Jeanette.
The excess of exports from the
United States over imports during July
was $40, ,699, AGO.
Captain Payne, the leader of the
celebrated Oklahoma colonists, alleges
that he has discovered silver mines in
the Indian Territory.
The Massachusetts, Greenback Con.
vention nominated the following ticket
For Governor-Israel W. Andrews, oi
Danvers; Lieutenant Governor-Geo.
Dutton, of Springfield; Treasurer
George Foster, of Lynn Secretary-A.
B. Brown, of Worcester Auditor
WILDER T. Whitney, of Ashburnham
Attorney -General-D.O. Allen, of Lynn.
The platform repudiates and stigmatizes
the two old parties, monopolies general
ly. national banks, railroads, etc., and
generally conforms to the previous
greenback platforms.
The New York Greenback State
Convention nominated full State ticket
as follows: Secretary of State, Epenetus
Howe, of Tompkins; Comptroller, John
Hooper, of New York; Attorney General,
Dennis @. Fealey, of Monroe; Treasurer,
Allen G. Woods, of Steuben; Surveyor
General, J. 81. Gould, of Cattaraugus;
Associate Justice of the Court of Ap-
peals, L. G.. McParlan, of Niagara.
The Convention adopted the platform
of the National Convention held in
Chicago June Q, 1880.
Three hundred workmen on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad have
struck for an advance to $1.5O per day,
with ten hours work and weekly pay.
The long-continued drouth is Sc
verely felt in Morristown, N. j., and
vicinity. Many of the old wells and
cisterns are being filed with auueduct
water from the fire hydrants, while the
lawns and market truck gardens are in
numerous instances total failures.
"A steamship line, under the auspices
of French capitalists and the Dominion
Government, has been established be-
tween Brazil, Canada and France.
Abby F. Goodsell. of Chambers
burg, Pa, has accepted the position of
lady principal of Vassar College. She
is the first graduate of the college who
has reached place in the Faculty.
Mr.. George W. Riggs, the Wash
ington banker, is dead.
Troops are being dispatched from
Fort Assiniboine to drive back the Cana
dian Indians who are in the habit of
crossing the line to hunt buffalo and
steal ponies.
The National Board of Health has
issued warning against vessels from
Havana, some of which are said to have
yellow fever ON board.
AT Evansville, Ind, Wednesday, a
man was killed and property of the
value of 5000, 900 destroyed by a fire
which burned down several wholesale
stores.
Mr.. John F. Reeve, United States
Consular Agent at Port Limon, Costa
Rica, is dead.
An Ithaca, N. Y, paper publishes
detailed charges to the effect that Shin
kel, the Cornell stroke, was in league
with certain betting men and that he
threw the Vienna race in accordance
with that arrangement.
"A fire in Philadelphia, Pa, Tues
day, destroyed Warner Il Merritt's fruit
warehouse in North Delaware avenue,
and the falling walls of the warehouse
crushed several adjacent stores. The
total loss was about $500, ZOO.
Additional embezzlements to the
amount of $780, 900 have been discovered
against Captain Howgate late of the
Signal Bureau.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The English harvest is almost ru-
ined. Even if the most favorable
weather set in not more than half crop
could be saved. The farmers and land.
lords are in despair, and hundreds of
farmers will emigrate and more suffer
ruin. The price of land, already seri-
ously deprecated, has gone down dur
ing the past fortnight. Prayers were
offered for the harvest in all the churches
in England on Sunday.
"A landslip has occurred at the vii
lage of Tatarani, in Moldavia, during
which sixty-five houses disappeared. No
lives were lost.
Two Russian officers have been ar
rested as spies in Austria. They were
examining the fort;fications of the va.
rious towns, and maps and descriptions
were found upon them.
AT Berlin the Evangelical Alliance
has passed resolutions favoring the re-
striction of the rights and privileges ex-
tended to Jews in Germany.
In Peru, General Hurlburt. the new
American Minister, presented his Gre
dentials to President Calderon on July
26. Pierola's forces are mutinying and
disbanding. The Montaneros are raw
aging the country and lowering in the
neighborhood of Peru.
--Asiatic cholera is raging at Bang
kok, Siam, two or three hundred ma
tives dying every day. The foreigners
have escaped SO far.
"A Russian staff-officer has been ar
rested at st. Petersburg for betraying
the secret measures Of fha Govarnroanf