Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

although general arraignment of the
Executive, was not violent one.
General w. T. Sherman has prom
ised to attend the reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac, in Hart
ford, Ct, on the Sth of June.
The Judiciary Committee of the
Senate, on Monday, voted to adversely
report Stanley Mathews nomination,
and the adverse report was made in the
executive session.
1t is reported in Ottawa that the
Marquis of Lorne is shortly to resign
the Governor Generalship of Canada
and return to England.
Eight murders have taken place at
Cedar Mills, Tex, within a year.
Three miners were killed and three
are missing from a fire in one of Greer's
shafts at Carbonate, Pa, on Friday.
The Eads railway has been unani-
mously approved by the Mexican Cham
Der of Deputies.
1t is reported that General Grant
has arranged his business with the
Mexican Executive subject to the APP
proval of Congress.
Joel Taylor, with one exception the
oldest letter carrier in the United States,
died in Manchester, n. FL. He entered
the service in 1910.
Postmaster General James has
adopted a new method of opening bids
for postal service in order to prevent
collision or tampering with the bids.
AT Spring Hill, N. S., on Wednes.
day, mad dog ran through the village
and bit an old woman, three men and
several children, all of whom are pros
trated. It is feared that several of them
will lose their lives.
Charles Sandeen, at Hyde Park,
was fatally shot at the dinner table on
Sunday by his son George, while the
latter was examining loaded revolver.
The Madison levee on the Missis-
sippi has been cut by some malicious
persons, and the river has since been
pouring into the bottom through an
opening some fifty feet wide.
Three persons were arrested in Phil
adelpkia for executing worthless bonds
for Star route contractors.
There were i, 461, 1913 tons of iron
and steel rails made III the United States
in 1880.
The constitution of Spain was ex-
tended to Cuba on May l by royal de-
cree issued April 7. The affair was
celebrated in Cuba with much display.
An attempt was made Thursday
night to blow up the barracks of the
troops at Chester, England. It is
believed that the perpetrators are some
soldiers who have been punished.
Mr.. P. Lorillard's horse Iroquois
won the Newmarket stakes Friday.
The United States Senate con-
tirmed William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria.
The Senate, in executive session
on Thursday, confirmed the Chinese
treaty. By the provisions of the treaty
the United States control the number
of Cinnamon arriving i'll this country,
though it cannot prohibit such immi-
grafton.
The mayor of Elgin, ILL.,, and Alder
man Jencks. Chairman of the Commit
tee on Streets, have been censured by
the Coroner's Jury for negligence in
connection with the recent disaster ON
the Fox river.
jay Cookies country seat. Agontz.
has been sold at Philadelphia for SI13.-
500.
AT Milwaukee 105 switchmen of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, and st. Paul and
Chicago and Northwestern railroads
struck for SO per day, where they have
been receiving 80 so.
In April, the citizens of Fairhaven.
n. j., voted 81, 800 for a school house for
colored children, but the Attorney Gen.
eral decided the meeting illegal, because
ten days notice had not been given.
AT another meeting the sum of 81, 700
was voted for the same purpose.
President Garfield has Withdrawn
from the Senate the New York nomina-
tons for district attorneys and marshals,
supposed to have been made In the in
terest of Senator Conkling.
The United States Senate went into
executive session on Wednesday, con-
firmed a number of nominations and
discussed the Chinese treaties. Mr..
Dawes, who on March oath withdrew
the resolution for the election of officers,
made speech. in moving the executive
sessions, saying that the Republicans
would not give up the fight over the
election of officers.
The next reunion of soldiers takes
place at Cincinnati, Ohio, September
Is, 16 and II.
The appointment Of a negro upon
the police force at Auburn, n. Y, has
caused great excitement.
By the fall of building at Little
ton, n. H., Wednesday, two men were
killed and seven Others were severely
injured.
FOREIGN.
The Tunis campaign is practically
over. The Kroumir tribes are sur
rounded on all sides and have evacuated
their stronghold in the Medierda Valley.
The report that the French Ambassador
at Constantinople informed the Porte
that the dispatch by Turkey of an armed
force to Tunis would be regarded as q
caSus 6etH is confirmed.
King Kalakaua has been very cor
daily received in China.
"A native company Is forming in
Japan to build a railway nearly a thou
sand miles long.
The British Board of Trade returns
for the month of April show decrease
of 95, 379, FOB in the value of imports as
compared with the same month last
year, and a decrease of Ct, 493, 029 in the