The daily gazette., 1882-04-25
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Deaths IN PhiIudelphIa f)r the week
ending April 22nd we're 800. 40 eompar-
ed With 423 the corresponding week of
last year, aud 42o for The previous week.
Ihe main causes were Consumption of
the lungs, 90; BhghL'a ditease, IA; ~
phoid fever, 10; Inflammation a the
lungs, 43; old age, 10; small pox, 8.
Large forest fres are again reported
10 the Blue Mountains, near Slallneton,
Pa. and 10 New Jersey, opposite Mil.
ford, on the Upper Delaware.
There were heavy frosts yesterday
morning on the DelaWare peDiuS aud
Ice formed in several places, but 1t is
not believed that any serious damage
has been dome TO the 4 uit crop.
A fire started In Eau Claire, Wiscon-
sin, yesterday af.ernoon, was still rag
Ing at midnight, and 1t was feared the
whole town would be destroyed. AT
midnight 0S buildings bad been burned,
and the loss was estimated OF $780,
900.
Two buildings Of the Barker Fettiliz-
ing Works, In Elizabeth, New Jersey,
were Destroyed by fire yesterday morn
Ing. Loss, 100000.
The tannery Of Robert Mccullough,
at Salladesburg, eighteen miles ffom
Wllllamsport, PenDa., was burned Oh
Sunday. Loss, $75,O00.
The mttion for new trial Of the suit
OF Hallet Kilbourn agaiust ex-Sergeaut-
at Arms Thompson, in which verd Ct
for 100000 damages was given, was
filed yesterday. Awong the grou1ds as
| signed are that the veTdlct WIS contrary
10 law and evidence, that 1t was obtain.
ed by surprise, and that the damages
awarded ars excessive, excrbtant and
outrageous"
'fhe steamer City Of Sauflrd was
burned Eve miles above jacksonville
Florida, At four o'clock yesterday morn.
ing. Nine persons, all Floridans, aIC
believed TO be lost. The survivors were
rescued by q passing steamer.
Montford U. RerdelI, charged with
completely In the Star Route f,auds, who
was discharged because lfa technical
flaw In the Indictment, was rearrested
on Sunday mornikg, and was arraigDed
in the Police Court at Washington yes.
terday. The Meet was to have his case
sent again to the Grand Jury, which
meets to-day. Judge Smell said he would
begin the hearing this morning.
Mr.. Stephen Fiske has resigned the
editolship Of the New York Star.
Though Ralph Waldo Emerson con
tinued very 0nwell yesterday after
noon, there was no expectation of al
1 tGisr1 Htatalxy fofn1 ,rcos.lkp -
The President yesterday nominated
Alfred @. Cox to be U. b. DistricI
Judge for Northern New York Jas.
8. Rattan, U. S. Marshal for Western
Pennsylvania Henry III. McMullen
U. 3. Marshal for Delaware, and VIM
Warne U. S. Attorney for Western
Missouri. ....
Rev. ]. K. Burr, d. D., one of thu
revisers Of the New Testament, dice
yesterday in Trenton, New Jersey, il
the 9Th year Of his age.
w. b. Allen, author of "Allen's His
tory of Kentucky" and Que OF th'
most prominent Masons in that State
died yesterday, at the age of 80 years
The Chicago Tribune says that the
crop reports from large number o
localities in the West "present an al.
most uniformly gratifying and favOra
BILE showing"
The pressNen employed by Johl
Scott, in Spruce street, New York
have been granted an increase of tifII
cents per night.
Ono hundred machinists employed
in the carpet factory of E. s. HigglD
u Co., In New York, struck, yesl erday
Tor an increase Of 10 per cent, anC
being refused, resumed work at thu
old rate.
The Harmony Mills, at Cohoes, werl
closed yesterday, and the employ &,
who have ''worked their notice. viii
be paid off to day. A platoon Of police
is on duty near the mills. Public
opinion Is with the operatives. The
mills employed $500 operatives, ol
whom $500 we're women and boys.
Argument ON the bill of exceptions
in the Guiteau case was fixed yester-
day for Monday, May 9th.
The latest reports from Monticello,
destroyed by Cyclone few days ago
put the list of dead at IA, and of in.
jnred at 30. Many OF the latter are
not PXpected to recover,