Daily Republican., 1881-05-09
NEWS FROM ALL AROUND.
CULLED FROM THE MORNING.
EXCHANGES.
West Virginia Land Litigation
Rates ON Live Stock Reduced
Coal Shaft Fire.

Commissioner Fisk, at Chicago, has
notified railroad agents that, beginning
to-day, rates on live stock will be re-
duced on the basis of 35 cents per hun
dred pounds gross, and q cents net to
New York. The regular tariff rates are
60 cents gross and 80 cents net, On
dressed meat the rate is reduced from
80 to 40 cents. The reason for these re-
ductions is persistent cutting by var
iOuS roads.
A man named Gardener, was assault
ed, and, it is believed, fatally wounded
by Thos. lIolbrook, in a drunken quar-
rel, at North Adams, Massachusetts, ON
| Saturday night. Gardeners skull was
fractured by a stone, and u pistol-shot
wound was also found III the base Of the
skull. Holbrook, who WAS arrested,
admits having struck his antagonist
with u stone but denies having used a
pistol.
On Saturday night three masked bur
glars broke into u building, on Dyer
street, in Providence, Rhode Island,
occupied by manufacturing jewelers.,
poisoned the dog, gagged the wat Gilman,
and then compelled him to open the door
of one Of the shops. Here they spent
three hours in IN attempt to open IA vault
containing $1,000 in gold, but without
| success.
When the Ocean County Bank at
Toms River, New Jersey, closed up its
affairs, the par value Of the stock was
returned, and now, in addition, Il divi-
lcnd of 20 per cent. is being paid. The
dividends paid the stockholders during
the sixteen years existence OF the bank
averaged 9 per cent per annun.
A coal shaft at COrbondalc, Kansas,
caught fire ON Friday afternoon, while
twenty men We're in the mine, and all
the timber at the foot Of tn" shaft was
consumed. Fourteen Of the men were
brought up unconscious but alive.
Three others were found dead, and three
are missing.
The wife of Charles Maury died in
Canton, ohio, on Friday night, from u
mistake in taking medicine Morphine
| powders had been prescribed for her
twice day and Quinine pills every
three hours, and she reversed the order
| She had been married only two weeks.
! The strike of the Pennsylvania Coal
Company 5 leaders, al Hawley, Penna.,
ended on Friday, the men accepted
| 81 l.30 for / hours work, and Is cents
per hour for extra work. They had de-
manded Sl25 for 1O1@ hours and 10
cents for each hour extra.
A telegram from Montreal says Gen
eral Manager SENEGAL, of the North
| Shore Railroad, who became financially
embarrassed some time ago, has private
ly settled with his creditors at 80 cents
on the dollar The amount paid under
the comprise is said to exceed S60OOO
A fire in Patterson, New Jersey, yes
terclay morning, supposed to have been
the work Of an incendiary, destroyed
the livery stable Of James Carroll, with
five horses, and damaged the Delaware
House and three other buildings.
The engine in the Union coal shaft at
La Sale, Illinois, broke down on Satur-
day afternoon, leaving 900 miners in
the pit at least half OF whom, it was
expected, would have to pass the night
in their Subterranean prison.
A freight engine and ten cars broke
through % trcstle bridge, which had
been set on fire, on the Green Bay and
Minnesota Railroad, near Elm Lake, on
Saturday morning. The engineer was
seriously injured.
Eliza Tet1tS, aged Is years, commit
ted suicide, at Adams, near Watertown,
New York, on Saturday afternoon. She
WAS engaged to be married to p young
man who was arrested week ago for
betraying II young woman Of Water
town.
The Duke of Sutherland and party
arrived in Boston on Saturday morn
ing, accepted the CourtesieS OF the city
from Ex-Governor Rice, Mayor Prince
being i'll, and subsequently were taken
on Il tour of the city and harbor.
There are now thirty cases Of small
pox in Adams Massachusetts and hos
pital is being built half mile from the
town, to which all the patients will be
removed.
Charles Sandeen was fatally Shot by
his son George, while the latter was eX-
amining u loaded revolver in Hyde
Park, Massachusetts, yesterday.
Eleven persons, seven of them chill
dren and a woman were bitten by a
mad dog in the streets of Springhill,
Nova Scotia, on Saturday.
Albert Clousker, aged 80, being I'M
successful in business, took Paris Green
in New York on Saturday, and died yes
terday from its effects.
If 10 ranortpu in Ottawa that the Gov
ernor General of Canada, after coming
back from his trip to Manitoba, will re-
sign and return to Eng land.
The Colorado beetle is reported to be
doing greet danlageto the potato vines
in Norfolk county, Virginia.
George G. Harding, editor of the Sat
urday Review, of Indianapolis, died yes
terday morning in that city.
The Duke or Sutherland and party
left Boston last night for Montreal and
Ottawa.
John Hopkins, aged 70 years, was
suftocated by a leak i'll gas-pipe in his
room, in Chicago, last Friday night.
The revenue of the Dominion of Can
ada for the ten months ending April 80
was 81, 226, ,0H in excess of the eXpendi
lures.
Ice Cream, Cakes, Confections, NC,
are advertised at low rates, at No. 726
Market street.
Call Not Accepted.
Rev. Charles p. Mallery, pastor of
n1:,,o+ Dravhytariou phurph this city |