The daily gazette., 1882-11-07
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MORNING SUMMARY.

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| An earthquake shock was felt at Panama
at O'Clock yesterday morning.
A large cylinder In the jackson cotton
| compress at jackson, Mississippi, exploded
yesterday, severely injuring three employees.
By the capsizing of a boat in Coos Bay,
Oregon, four days ago, the mate and sea-
man of the schooner j. G. Wall were
drowned.
James Queen was struck on the head and
killed by a woman of bad character named
Ann Barrett, near Sheely, N. c., on Sunday
evening.
The funeral of the late James w. Simon
ton took place in San Francisco, Sunday,
with Masonic ceremonies, from the Unita-
rian church.
The grand jury at Danville, Va, yester-
day indicted John Henry Johnston, Mayor
of that city, for the murder of John f.
Hatcher, ex-chief of police.
At Harrisburg, yesterday, the Williams
port & State Line Railroad was chartered,
with capital Of $2,000,000. The Certaldo
Marble Company, Of Pittsburg, was also
| chartered, with II capital of 81 100000.
Mrs. Mary Parsons, wife of the manager
Of the Willow Glen plantation, near Delta,
La, fell dead on Sunday while standing be-
side her husband, and 1t is believed she
committed suicide by swallowing poison.
James E. Anderson, editor of the Leader,
in Eureka, Nevada, who was shot at that
place last Friday, in quarrel with G. j.
Reck, Republican candidate for Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, died yester-
day morning.
1t is reported that the steamship Oregon,
from Avonmouth for Montreal, went ashore
off Anticosti Island on the night of the Sd
instant. Railway iron was thrown overheard
but at last accounts there was little hope of
getting her off.
The committee appointed to investigate
the charges of misconduct In Office against
Superintendent Crawford and Chief Clerk
Hofer, of the Carson City Mint, has reported
that the charges "were not sustained in any
single particular"
The large corn crop of Kansas is being
rapidly sent East, owing to the scarcity Of
corn in the Eastern markets. The elevators
in Kansas City are kept running night aud
day and on Saturday and Sunday 400 cars
accumulated at that point
Bishop Fabre OF Montreal has forbidden
the priests OF his diocese to administer the
sacrament to readers OF the Courier deS
Flats Unis, which has large circulation in
that city and province. The reason is the
publication by the Courier OF French stories
of an immoral nature.
The Bi-Centcnnial Committee of Phila-
delphia City Councils met yesterday and ap-
proved schedule of bills amounting in the
aggregate to S22 ,561 81, There was some
talk as to the cost of the Councils dinner
81 ,625, it being alleged that many persons
who had been invited were not present. The
item was however agreed to.
The puddlers In the Terre Haute Iron and
Nail Works and the Wabash Iron Com
pany's mill, at Tcrre Haute, Ind, struck
yesterday morning for SO per ton until the
mills are at work. All the men in the
yesterday Ind the works are closed.
Carlos r. Ortez, the recently deposed
Governor of Sonora, passed through Dallas,
Texas, yesterday, on his way to the City of
Mexico, via New Orleans. He told a re-
porter that "the opposition to him origina-
ted in his favoring the introduction of
American railways and capital into Sonora,
and his ambition to make it an enterprising
and prosperous State.
In the Supreme Court Of the United
States, yesterday, decision was rendered
in the case of John NJ. Bailey, Collector,
against the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company. It was a suit
to recover back S547 600 paid under protest
by the company as the tax upon certain
stock certificates issued IN December, 1868.
The judgment of the lower Court In favor
Of the company for $49o, ,432 was affirmed.