Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-05-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Hluc6 anu Only Itccutly TeSukncu,
stopped payment Monday and will wind
up its business.
Five men who attempted to destroy
bridge ON the Mexican National Rail-
way were caught, and, by order of the
Governor of the State of Mexico, they
were Immediately shot.
"A postal card was found in the New
York City post Office, addressed "Presi-
dent Arthur, Washington, ID. c.,
Private" On the other side was writ
ten: president Arthur-If you do not
recall the Minister from England and
ask for the unconditional surrender of
all Americans in English dungeons you
shall be shot and killed" There were
also written across the above: "This is
no idle boast. We mean business. You
are no American"
The Attorney General of Massachu-
sets has condemned Walt Whitman's
"Leaves of Grass" and Osgood & Com
pany have given up the publication in
obedience to his official command.
Further details have been received
from Quebec confirming the loss of the
ship Western Belle, caught in the ice,
with thirteen souls. Several vessels have
been lost with large loss of life.
An expert now estimates that the
defalcations of ex-Secretary Stuart, of
the Brooklyn Board of Education, reach
$3.50, 900.
The Alaska has just completed the
fastest voyage yet made from Queens
town-seyen DAYS, four hours and twelve
minutes, thus beating her own record.
The New York Herald has the fol-
f~.1 l. n
press may rest satisfied that, with or
without the action of Congress or the
public, care will be taken of the widow
and orphan of De Long, and not of
them alone, but of every widow and
every orphan of the men who sailed
with the Jeanette and have persisted.
The Pennsylvania Greenback Con-
vention nominated Thomas A. Arm
strong for Governor; I. V. Powderly,
Mayor of Scranton and Grand Master
of the knights of Labor, for Lieuten-
ant-Governor; J. Lowery De Wolf for
Secretary of Internal Affairs; J. Adam
Cake for Supreme Judge; and Robert r.
Tomlinson for Congressman at. large.
"A 5000, 600 fire occurred at Lead
vile on Friday. Several lives were lost.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee, of Indiana, has fixed August 2
for holding the State Convention.
DIR. Kendall, who was shot while,
as is supposed, he was about TO rob a
grave near Syracuse, N Y, has died.
The City of Owen Sound, a Cana
dian passenger steamer, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on Lake Huron. Two
persons lost their lives.
The Peruvian Minister presented
to the President letter from Vice
President Montero, of Peru, expressing
the gratitude of his country to General
Hurlbut.
in the Massachusetts Legislature
the rejection of the bill for dividing
Boston into aldermanic districts was
reconsidered, and the bill will be sub.
mitted TO the people.
-Colored men are being employed to
take the places of striking coal miners
near Pittsburg, Pa.
The platform adopted by the Penn
sylvania Greenback- Labor Convention
is of strong anti-monopoly character.
Its financial plank insists that all money
must be issued by the government and
that there shall be no banks of issue
whatever that labor shall have the
same right before the law of combining
to resist the encroachments of capital
as capital has to combine against labor
In relation to the public land question
1t says that the public lands should be
reserved for actual settlers, and all grants
made to corporations, any provisions of
which have been violated, should be
declared revoked.
Moses 81. Grinnell, eighty years of
age, was convicted at Newport, r. J..
of the murder of Charles ii. Thomas,
November 10, $780,
The steamer r o Grande, of the
Mallory line, from Galveston, Texas,
Tor New York, with a cargo of cotton.
put into Delaware Breakwater with her
cargo on lire. The steamer was scuttled.
"A dispatch to Chicago from Osh-
kosh, Wis, report great scarcity of
cattle In that vicinity and fears of
beef famine are said to be felt.
The Women Suffrage Bill failed to
pass the New York Assembly by a vote
OF 81 yeas to 50 nays.
-Governor Long sent to the Massa-
chusetts Senate veto of the bill to
regulate the practice of dentistry.
William Richards, who was arrested
at Hartford, Conn, on a charge of muir
dering Joseph jackson, near Montreal.
has, 1t is said, confessed that he COM
mitted the crime.
AT Sheffield, Ind, on Sunday, four
men were drowned while fishing.
WASHINGTON NOTES
The Postmaster General has sent
letter to the Speaker Of the House in
which he recommends the postage on
second Class matter (papers and maya
zines) be abolished. He SAYS that the
tourth-class matter merchandise is
carried at loss to the Government, and
II the Government is to be taxed for the
transportation of either class it should
be for the second-class instead of the
fourth.
The decision upon the Guiteau
exceptions has been rendered by the
District Supreme Court, and is a unani-
nous one The court overrules all the
exceptions and consequently aflirms the
sentence OF the court below. The court
holds, ia addition, that there are several
grounds on which the jurisdiction. as
exercised might be maintained if it
were necessary to decide the case:
First: That this il United States
Court, with all the powers of any Cir