The daily gazette., 1882-04-13
GENERAL NEWS.

The trial Of William Kennedy for
embezzlement was continued in the
Quarter Sessions yesterday.
The large additional buildings TO K.
Q. knight g. Co.'s sugar Refinery, on
Delaware avenue, above BainbrIdee
street Phila. will be opened to-day, and
work In them begun. The capacity of
the refinery will now be 400 barrels Of
sugar daily.
Yesterday at OAkdale Park, the
Athletic Bass Ball Club defeated the
Manhattan College nine by q score OF
ID TO 4, and the Philadelphia Club de-
feated the Atlantic, Of New York, by q
score Of 10 to 1, at Recreation Park.
George X. Taylor, senior member of
the firm of N. 6S q. Taylor Company,
importers and dealers In tin plate, 300
Branch street, Philadelphia, died yes
Lerday, In the 01st year of bis age.
A delegation of eolored Methodist
ministers, headed by Bishop Brown and
accompanied by Frederick Douglass,
called yesterday upon Attorney General
Brewster, la Washington, aud entered a
complaint against the U. 8. Attorney
for Northern Flor da for failure to en-
force the Civil Rights act. The partlc.
ular case alleged was the election of
Bishop Paine from q railroad train at
midnight, several miles from the nearest
station, and the application for redress
to the Attorney without avail.
A man who registered as Frank Evans
Of New York, committed suicide on
Tuesday night or yesterday morning at
the Great Western Hotel, on Market
street, where he had been stopping for
over a week. He shot himself In the
head with revolver. 1t is thought that
bis Identity will be established to-day,
as parties in New York, who had been
inquIriDg for him, were noLhed.
The Presbytery of Chicago has passed
resolutions thanking President Arthur
for bis veto of the Chinese bill.
Judge Loomis, Of the County Court at
Chicago, has refused the petition of Mrs.
ScovilIe for the appointment of q oon-
servator for Guiteau. The Judge held
that the matter belongs properly in the
Probate Court.
The session Of the National Land
League Convention In Washington, be-
gan yesterday. John Rooney, of New
York, was elected temporary chairman.
Resolutions offered by John Boyle
O'Reilly we're adopted severely eensur-
log the course Of Minister Lowell and
demanding his recall. A letter was read
from WeOdell Phillips, and speeches
wele made by General Rosecrans and
Congressman Robinson, after which the
Convention adjourned until this morn.
ing. t
At a meeting Of tue Western Nail
Association, yesterday, in Pitteburg, the
card rate Of So 40 was reaffirmed. The
old officers of the Association were re-
elected for the ensuing year.
Isaac p. Osterhout, President of the
WIlkesbar:e Water Company, died sud
denly in WilkssbarIe yesterday after
noon.
Charles N. Davenport, prominent
lawyer Of Vermont, and twice the Dem
ocrstic candidate for Governor of tha
State, died yesterday in Brattleboro
aged 81 years.
B. A. VIckers, President of the Marine
Bank of Baltimore, died yesterday IL
that city, at the age OF SO years.
The American ship Republic, from
Liverpool for San Francisco, picked VI
} In the Pacific on the 21st uit., boa
containing the second offic'r and fou
men OF the British ship Novarro, will
coal for Sau Francisco, burned at sea oil
the 18th ult. Two other boals contain
Ing the captaio, first mate and seventeen
men we're still adr IL.
The schooner Clayton Bell was suDl
, At thee O'Clock yesterday me rnirg b.
: collision with the schooner Thoma
Palsons, near Port Huron, Ontario. Tht
captain and three others were lost. Th'
Clayton Bell and her cargo Of pig iroI
, were valued at $25,O0O.
Three soldiers were seriously injuret
: by the demolition Of the barracks build
Z inPs, at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the re
5 cent cyclone.
! Thirteen deaths from smallpox wsr
\ reported IN Chicago and IL in Pittsburi
4 last week.
: At a special meeting yesterday of Lh'
Il Book Grade Association of Philadelphia
Z a resolution was adopted endorsing Lh'
bill of Mr.. Hill, Of New Jersey, now be
n fore Congress, reducing the rate of post
!, age TO two cents. A general meeting
!. to be called Of the Publishing aud edu
. cational interests to disluss the mai
ter.
!; The Morgan line Of steamers, carry
y = ing the ma IL between Havana an
T New Orleans, has been withdrawn
: All letters for Cuba will, therefore
% % have to be mailed from New York.
y The managers Of Harvard Collegl
y y by vote of Is to 12, have decide
- against the admission of female stI
- dents to its medical school.
- The Comptroller of Currency hs
70 authorized the following banks to b.
gin business The Watertown Ma
y y tional Bank, of WATERFOWL, Ne
y y York, with capital Of $i00, 900; MI
y chanios' National Bank, of Knoxville
!. . Tennessee, capital, S100, 900; Fir
- = National Bank, of Bangor, Pennsylv
~ ss MIA, capital, 100000; Lebanon N'
10 tional Bank. of Lebanon, Indian
capital $50, 900; .Millerton Nation
Bank, of Millerton, New York, capt.
Il $4,000.