Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY

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at $500, 900.
On Monday an insane woman was
found in bed in Iowa with the bodies
of her two children whom she had
killed.
The Bank of Prince Edward Island,
a small institution, suspended payment
Monday. The cashier, Mr.. Brecken.
who has fed, is said to have permitted
worthless overdrawals to the amount of
$1,000
The controlling interest in the Pa
cifc Coast Steamship Line has been
sold by Goodall, Perkins & Co. to Henry
Willard.
The Usage City (Kan.) Savings
Bank suspended Monday, owing to COM
plications with the Danford banks, which
closed on Friday. There is rumor that
the principal officers of the Danford banks
have been arrested.
The Pacific National Bank of Boston
is to be put into the hands of a receiver.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Lamb,
who made the autopsy on President
Garfield's body, furnishes an account
of the finding of the bullet in answer to
criticisms that the autopsy was con-
iucted in careless manner.
President Arthur and Secretary
Blaine are agreed as to the importance
of the Issue forced upon this country
by the Chilian seizure of President
Calderon, of Peru, and steps will be
Immediately taken to meet this issue in
q proper and dignified manner.
The decree prohibiting the importa-
ton of American pork into France will
be shortly annulled.
Special Agent Tingle, of the United
States Treasury Department, reports
that it cost over sc, 0O0,0 900 to collect
$500, 900, 600 in customs revenue last
year, that twenty-five ports of entry
did not collect dollar and that thirty
two other ports did not collect enough
to pay expenses. An increase in the
sugar duty has resulted in a gam of
revenue amounting to nearly 81, 1000, 900.
Secretary Folger has not yet de-
cided what action he will take relative
to the outstanding bonds. He has as
certained, however, that four and four
and half per cents cannot be bought
at market rates without loss as COM
pared with call of three and half per
cents.
Director Burchard reports that the
United States produced last year $751;
600, 900 in gold and silver, of which over
S13, 000, 900 was consumed by manufac-
turers. The production of the world
was Sl07, OO0, 900 in gold and $50, 500, 900
In silver.
Henry Johnston, the negro who
fred o bullet charmed by q Voudoo
doctor at the man whose wife he coveted
and killed him, was hanged Friday at
Sumter, s. @. Richard James, colored,
was hanged at Marion Court House, S.
@. Sang Armor, negro, was hanged
for murder Friday at Charlottesville,
Ga, the gallows being erected on his
victims farm. Joseph Harris was
hanged at Rogersville, Tenn, Friday,
for the murder of two men in November
last.
More frauds have been discovered
in the Philadelphia Tax Receivers Of
fee.
1t is asserted in Washington that
Mr.. Blaine, ON leaving the Cabinet, will
neither assume the Presidency of the
Kansas and Texas Railroad
nor make tour through the South.
William Jones, the man who is &C
cused of having fred a shot at Guiteau
in the prison van on Saturday last, was
on Friday indicted by the Grand Jury
for assault with intent to kill
= The Chilian authorities have seized
President Calderon, of Perm, and con-
veyed him, some reports say, toSantiago,
and others on board a Gillian man-of-
war at Callao. The alleged reason for
bis arrest is that he disobeyed the
Gillian decree suspending his admins
trative functions.
The former wife of Guiteau is ready
to testify against him and does not
think him insane.
The schooner Mary Jane, of st.
has been wrecked on Lake
Erie, and it is feared that all hands have
persisted. An unusual number of dis
asters, accompanied with loss of life,
have recently occurred on Lake Erie.
AT Panama, work on the canal has
been suspended since the death of NJ.
Blanchet. nj. Dauzars, Chief Engineer
of the Suez Canal, is on his way out to
continue the work.
A report to the Attorney General
on the star mail frauds, by one of the
counsel engaged in the prosecution,
gives at great length the proofs of sys-
tematic swindling, which the investiga-
ton has developed.
The application of their counsel to
admit the Malley boys Charged with
the murder of Jennie Cramer) to bail
has been denied.
MIR. Scoville closed his opening for
the defense in the Guiteau case We'd
nesday, amid continued Interruptions
by the prisoner. A number of witnesses
testified concerning the mental condi-
ton of Guiteau, among them DIR. Rice,
of Wisconsin, who pronounced him in
sane.
The flood in the Sangamon River
has damaged the corn crop in that Sec
ton of Illinois to the extent of nearly
$3.50, 900.
The Jeanette search expedition on
board the Rodgers have gone into win
ter quarters in st. Lawrence Bay, hav-
ing left an exploring party of six on an
island off the Siberian coast.
The jury sitting on the body of Max
well, the alleged outlaw who was lynched
at Durand, Wis, rendered verdict that
he came to his death by falling from the
Court House steps and breaking his
neck.