Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-10-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


Ontario, through quantity of unslaked
lime having produced spontaneous COM
bustion.
A protest from the Irish National
Land Leagne of America contradicts the
report that it is dead.
At London, Ont, thirty persons
have been poisoned 10y eating head
cheese prepared by local butchers.
The tota values Of the exports of
petroleum and petroleum prodrc's dur
ing the month # August. 1882. were
So $50 44a ard during the month of Au-
gu,t. 1881, IS go 949; for the eipht
mouths ended August 81. 1882, So. =
$40 SO; and for the c1rr.pondn e
period of last year, $50, 19l 80.
George f. Huntington, his wife aud
four children, were drowned in Plum
Island r yer, Mass, on Saturday.
General b. /. Butler accepts the
Democratic nomination for Governor Of
Massachusetts,.
-Advicts from Arizona state that the
Indians at the San Carlos Agency are
greatly dissatisfied with the existing
state of affairs, and that their depreda-
tons are of fre quent occurrence
Five men we're killed ami six others
seriously injured by the premature ex.
ploslon of blast in Missouri.
Professor Morton saws that there is
absolutely no danger to the public from
the use OF the elec re light, the en-.
p'oyes, Who are supposed ID he protect
ed by their superior knowledge, being
the only persons who run any risk.
"A semi-idiotic hoy went TO Police
Headquarters, in New York CITY. 10
ask for permit to carry pistol with
which to shoot Pres dent Arthur.
"A conspiracy TO steal bonds and
plates from the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing has been unearthed at
Washington.
The Secretary of the Navy has APP
pointed the advisory boards on the sale
If navy yards and the construction of
vessels required by recent act of Con-
gress.
The iron workers at Newport, Ky,
and Cincinnati, Ohio, have inaugurated
a new strike.
"A youug woman blew out the gas in
her TO, m in New York at hotel and
was found dead in the morning.
At Lowell, Kan, girl of seventeen
attempted 10 rescIe her nttle sister from
their burning home, when both lost
their lives.
Three more bodies have been re-
covered in tire Midlothian coal shaft in
Virginia, victims OF an explosion last
Feb uiry.
Tine testimony at the Coroner's in
one gears the WI t. ii IL ms from
blame IN the matter Ct the La caster.
3 T., riots, III which several colored
men were killed.
Mr.. Platt Carpenter has written
letter ting the nomin, on for
Lieot snant G. vernon of New York.
The vote in Arkansas on the liquor
license question stands 1850 for
license aud IS 04l against.
-Bat k'up'cy being punishable of,
Tense in Pniladeph G. orge Turner,
who failed aud fed in 1876, but who re
tnrned IN custody, was sent TO prison III
default of bail.
A p,mh # New York City milk
dealers who hsd been cow cted Of eel :
ing The adnl Grated article were fined il.
sum> ranging f'om 81 to 800.
frank James, the highwayman, has
surrendered to the authorities of
Nilsson l. His band is brokeG up, and
he is discouraged.
The United States Signal Service
estimates that at least thirteen million
dollars of property and many persons
remained safely 10 port on account OF
warnings pr.or to the recent cy clone.
The jury investigating the tunnel
disaster VII ch took lace on the Harlem
road in New York City, returned a
strong Nerdcs. holding RAwson, the
contractor and others guilty of culpable
ntgli yence, implic lting thu railroad
companies, and censuring them for a
mistaken economy which makes travel
dangerous.
Comm 'ioner Price has notified the
Indians whose support is not provided
for by treaty stipula'Inns that I will
be expected to labor for livelihood.
Governor John L. Ba stow, of Yer
mont. was inaugurated on Thursday.
His inaugural states that the debt of the
State Is S2y9,5S3. 1t considers the
subject OF railroad legislation at length,
and says that the power of the State to
regulate railroad corporations cannot be
denied, though il should be used with
caution.
The reported discovery that the
nucleus in the newly discovered comet
has separated into three uueqnal frag.
ments is aBDonnced from Nashville,
Tenn, and Cincinnati, Ohio The
longest fragments are from Is. 900 10
$4,000 miles long. AMI the distance be-
tween them rom 900 to 3 00) miles.
Joseph Stamans, a workman for
the Brush Electric Light Company, was
instantly killed by shock of electricity
while at work connecting the wires il
New York City.
Daring the progress OF q street
pageant at st. Louis, Mo-, several per.
sons were injured by the falling of a
platform on which they were seated.
1t is reported that the Dominion
government of the Dominion of Canada
has decided upon the formation of two
new provinces in the northwest.
Fraudulent bids for star route
contracts have been unearthel 10 which
= notary and postmaster OF Kansas are
implicated.
AT Prospect, Tenn, a negro having
been adj1dgsd guilty Of brutal crime,
was taken and hanged by mob.