Daily Republican., 1882-05-24
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TEAU-OTHER ITEMS,


mission was again considered in Cabi-
net meeting yesterday, but the list was
not hnally determined upon. 1t was
developed in the discussion that ex-
Secretary kirkwood is constitutionally
ineligible for membership of the Com
mission because Le was elected as a
Senator in the Congress which passed
the Tariff Commission bill. The onlv
names mentioned with any assurance
OF certainty in connection with the
Commission are those Of ex-Census Su-
periptendent Walker, Henry w. Oliver
of Pittsburg, and John L. Hayes, of
Massachusetts.
Severe frosts occurred in the West
and North west during Sunday and
Monday night, and snow fell in por-
tions OF Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and
Illinois on Monday and yesterday.
F-Om kalf an inch to four inches Of
snow fell in portions of Iowa and in
North Illinois. Tender vegetation, such
as young garden stuff and fruit bios
SONS, suffered great damage, but the
wheat and corn, being backward, APP
peared to have escaped iDjur in nearly
all localities.
| Bishop Gilmour, of the Catholic Dio-
cese OF Cleveland, Ohio, during his SER
mon last Sunday, made an onslaught
! upon the ladies' of his congregation and
the Catholic Church for identifying
themselves with the ladies' league.
| His point was that women should not
go into politics, lest they lose their
modesty and delicacy.
Mr.. Reed, counsel for Guiteau, visit
ed the assassin's cell yesterday with a
notary, and got Guiteau's 3 signature to
three afhdaYits to be used in further
legal proceedings, the nature of which
ls not disclosed. Guiteau appeared
cheerful during the interview, read the
papers carefully, and made several yer.
bal corrections in them.
There is still great scarcity of labor
in Victoria, British Columbia. Seamen
are especially scarce two large vessels
| remain in the harbor unable to 20 to
sea, because of want of hands, and $50
per month is offered and refused. 1t is
said all but one of the men of the q. s.
revenue Cutter at that station have de-
serted.
On Monday last all the wires of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company,
between New York and Boston, were
tampered with at a point near New
YORK. Fine wires running into the
ground were attached to the pole wires,
thereby destroying the current. The
perpetrators of the act are unknown.
The Republican State Central Com
mlttee OF Georgia met yesterday in Ma
con and elected John II. Deveraux, Of
Savannah, to be chairman. A resolu-
tion approving Alexander H. Stephens
tor Governor was tabled and it was re-
solved to hold convention in August
for the nomination of State officers.
Alexander 81. Stephens contradicts
the report that he will accept the In
dependent nomination for Governor of
Georgia. He says he has no aspira-
tions for the Governorship, but will &C
cept the regular Democratic nomination
for that position if offered to him.
So far rs known, fifty farms were do
vastated by last weeks tornado in
Polk and Yell counties, Arkansas, and
| the loss is roughly estimated at $780,
900. Three persons were killed and q
number injured, two or three perhaps
fatally.
The spring meeting of the Pennsyl-
vania Board OF Agriculture began last
evening in Allentown. Mayor Martin
made an address of welcome, to which
d. ii. Foreman, of Williamsport, re-
ponded. Governor Hoyt was prevented
from being present by illness.
Six Steamships crowded with immi-
grants from Great Britain were yester-
day reported going up the St. Lawrence
river to Montreal. Every vessel bound
from British to Canadian ports during
the coming season is expected to be full
of passengers.
The Senate Committee on Finance
yesterday began consideration of the
bill to extend the charters of the ma
tional banks. The committee will hear
Comptroller Knox on the bject this
morning.
Thomas NJ. Marshall has mailed to
ex.Attorney General Lear his letter de-
cinipg the Republican nomination for
at large. The letter, as
telegraphed from Pittsburg, is publish
ed in another column.
The twenty-fourth annual General
Assembly Of the United esbyterian
Church will meet in Monmouth, Hi.
nois, to-day. The most interesting
topic of discussion will be that of in
music in the churches.
Miss Amanda Silliman, Postmaster
at Pottsville, Penn a, died on Sunday
night. She succeeded her mother in
tho Postmastership, the old lady hav-
ing died several weeks ago.
At stated meeting of the iron
of Pittsburg, yesterday,
il was decided to close all the mills on
June lst, rather than to grant the
increase demanded by their working
men.
Messrs. Trebcott and Walker Blaine,
our special ENJOYS to the belligerent
South American republics, arrived at
Panama yesterday morning on their
way to Washington.
The steamer Peruvian reached Que
bee yesterday afternoon in tow. She
seems to have suffered little during her
perilous detention in the ice, excepting
the loss of her screw.
The latest reports from the wreck OF
The burnt steamer Manitoulin, in the
St. Lawrence indicate that from 20 to
Is lives were lost. There is no list Of
he victims.
Preparations are making In the Cum
Coal region to receive the new
miners who are expected to take the
places of the strikers, on the 1st Of
Tune.
The House Committee on Naval At
airs decided yesterday to make an ad-
7erse report on Mr.. Calkin's bill an.
100000 for another Arctic
expedition.
The Governor Of New York yesterday
vetoed the bill relating to the employ.
nent of children by contract in houses
" refuge, reformatories and similar in
titutiOns.
Postmaster General Howe has writ
on letter to Speaker Keifer, COM