Daily Republican., 1881-05-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
IS GOING ON ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY.
Extra Session of the California Q
Legislatare-United States Sen.
ate--Mrs. GariieldWorse, &c.

will make the rate of State taxation
about u of one per cent, and an ap-
preparation bill providing for an expen-
diture about S500,000 in excess of last
years. The Congressional and State
Apportionment bills failed to pass, be-
ing opposed by the Democrats and a
section of the Republicans.
WThe President yesterday nominated
Charles E. Henry, of Ohio, to be U. S.
Marshal for the District of Columbia,
place of Frederick Douglass and Freder-
lex Douglass to be Recorder of Deeds
for the District, in place of George A.
Sheridan, resigned. The President
withdrew the nomination of Lewis
Wallace to be Minister to Paraguay, at
Wal!ace's own request.
A general strike.ofnnthe employe, in
the Grand Trunk Railway car shops at
Montreal took place yesterday, $50 men
quitting work. 1t appears that the re-
cent advance in wages extended to only
ID of the men: hence the strike The
superintendent says that if the men do
not resume at the old wages the shops
will be closed for two months.
The U. S. Senate, Immediately after
assembling yesterday, went into expcu-
tive session, and when the doors were
reOpencd adjourned until Monday. In
executive session the nominations Of
Don a. Pardee to be L. S. Circuit Judge
FOR the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and George
X. Gilmer to be Postmaster at Rich"
mond, Virginia, were considered.
Sir Edward Thornton has nnofficially
informed the State Department and his
colleagues of the Diplomatic Corps of
his acceptance of the British Embassy
To st. Petersburg His formal leave
OF the President will be postponed until
after he has been advised when he will
be expected to leave for his new post
There wcretwo deaths from sunstrolle
in Brooklyn on Thursday. Six deaths
from sunStrOke have occurred in New
York since Wednesday morning. An
drew johnson, a Swede, only ten days
in this country, died Of sunstroke in
Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday.
In the Illinois House of Representa-
tives yesterday, bill was passed pro
hibiting under heavy penalties all rail
roads in the State from changing their
rates of freight without first giving 60
days notice Of the change, by posting
the same in every station along the line.
The body Of w. w. Wilson, q tobac-
conist of Sunbury, Penna who diSap-
peared on the night of March 10Th, was
found yesterday in the river. His
watch and money We're found on him,
and IA verdict of accidental drowning
was rendered.
Several persons having been sickened
by water from a well near Merchant
vile, New jersey, an examination was
made, on Thursday, which resulted in
the finding Of an infants body, in an
stage of decomposition, in the
well.
Annie Myrtle, aged 13 years, died in
Racine, Wisconsin, on Thursday, after
terrible suffering from the effects of
in dumping the rope, "
She jumped 1902 times. Another girl,
Mary Faber, is very sick from a simi-
lar cause.
1t is stated, in Milwaukee, that the
Western Union Telegraph Company
has absorbed the Northwestern Tele-
graph Company, and that the formal
of the merger will be
made by the end of this month.
The police of Jersey City have shot
3 dogs found running at large within
he last week. During the last week
If April eleven person were bitten by
logs in that city, hence the order to
hoot all dogs found in the streets.
Darwin Starkweather, being drunk
Iuarrelled with his family, in Phelps,
New York, on Thursday night, and was
lnOcked down by blow on the head
II struggle with his son. When lift
ID up he was found to be dead.
No motion was entered at yesterdays |
session for reconsideration
If the vote confirming Stanley Matthews
Is Justice of the L. s. Supreme Court,
md, as the Senate has adjourned until
Monday, his confirmation stands secure.
Two vessels arrived at st. Johns
on Thursday, with
arge loads of Goldfish, and reported fish
bundant on the Banks. Terrible
weather. was experienced during the
week. :
The Secretary of the Treasury will +
i've hearing on the morning of the }
Sth inst, to importers and manutac-
lrers of iron on the subject of the duty
n iron tank plates and car-truck chan
els.
The Union Moulders of the James
mart Manufacturing Company, at
ockville, Ontario struck yesterday
5ainst the employment ofboyS and non
Mon men. y
The Quebec Assembly, on Thursday, V
ter an exciting debate, granted the t
otion for u committee to investigate !,
le charges against Provincial Secretaty r.
Oquet. o
The blacksmiths and wheelwrights of u
ew York, at meeting last night, de- h
ded to demand at the end ofthe month
l advance in their wages of % per
mt
Maria Montressor Patterson, wife of
ear Admiral Patterson, and daughter 4
the late Colonel r. d. Wainwright, of
10 Marine Corps, died yesterday in p
'ashington. n,
John O'Horn and David Dougherty cl
ere fatally burned by an explosion of .,
llpher in colliery near Pottsville yes NJ NJ
rday, 2t
Seventeen hundred immigrants ar =
we'd in Baltimore yesterday from Eu-
ne, Most of them are Germans.
Mrs. Garfield was worse yesterday af- tr
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Tered dangerous. -
Commencement.
at the Wesleyan col
re, in this city, takes place on Thurs b,
V, the 23d proximo. Miss Susie p. Fish
'nf Hillshoro Md will deliver the Y;