The daily gazette., 1882-03-27
GENERAL NEWS.

L
Senoc Zamacona left Washington
last evening for Mexico.
Charles HenratIn was on Saturday
elected President Of the new Stock |
Board in Chicago.
A petition for the pardon Of sergt. |
Msson 10 receiving many signatures in |
Petersburg, Virginia.
The Republican Convention Of
Northampton county. Pa, on Saturday
elected Beaver delegates to their State
Convention.
Judge Advocate General Swain has
finished his report in the Mason court
martial and expects to present it to
Secretary Lincoln to-day.
| Rev. Jacob shipherd is still confined
to his room, and his physicians say it
will be several days before he can
appear before the Judiciary Commit
tee.
Post-offices were established in
Pennsylvania last week NJ Longville,
Centre county Mckee's Rocks, ALE"
gheny county, and New MahoniD,
Carbon county.
The trial Of the Tennessee Broker
age Association and the Memphis
Board Of Trade, at Memphis, for gam
bling In futures, resulted on Saturday,
in verdict of hot gailty.
1t is rumored in Washington that
the Secretarvship of the Navy has
been Gfered to William Z. Chandler
and accepted by that gentleman.
Cotton shipments are already being
made from Louisiana and Texas to the
Pacific coast by way of the newly
opened Southern Pacific and Texas
and Pacific Railway route.
The 700 iron moulders lnNaugatuck
Connecticut, are to have their wages
raised ten per cent on the 1st of
! April.
The proprietors OF the pipe foun
dries at Burlington aud Florence,
New Jersey, haYe advanced the
wages Of their employees ten per
cent.
Weed, Parsons s. Co., States
. Printers at Albany, have discharged
! about forty of their compositors
]. whom they suspected of being U nior
: hands.
i There Is talk Of conference, within
J. C few days, between the coal compa'
= nies and striking miners of the Cum
!, berlaud region, with q view to asettle-
: ment of the trouble.
= The funeral Of the poet Longfellov
z took place yesterday in Cambridge
!; Massachusetts, and the funeral o
a Rear Admiral Gustavus A. Scott tool
/. place in Washington.
r Four colored men-Gus Countee
:. William OgletoD, Isaac Bailey ant
Q John Sanders-Were drowned yester
day by the sinking of al old boat II
y q the Youghiogeng Rapids, at Lay
Q tons, Pa.
= Governor Long of Massachusett
\ and fourteen members of the Legisla
n ture of that State, among them thI
. Speaker Of the House, spent Saturda,
\ in inspec ling the New Jersey Stat
q Reform School at JamesburR.
), The annual election for Directors o
,r the Pennsylvania Railroad will b
T. held at the company's Office to-morros
t. (Taesday) between 10 A. NJ. and 6 P
IS NJ. The present managers, it is ex
10 pected, will be re-elected without Sc
is rious opposition.
% A meeting OF cotton operatives o
y y Fall River, Massachusetts, has beer
= called for Tuesday evening, to take
3 acton in aid ofthe Lawrence strikr
ers. A strike is expected to occul
sn Fall River soon.
All the builders and contractor
of New Brunswick, New Jersey
= were notified on Saturday that
a general strike of laborers and me
nt hanics will take place on the 1st o.
an April, unless demand OF so cent
increase per day is complied with.
se Captain Whitaker, of the schoone
I'd William Mayo, which arrived a
le Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Friday
s. repor< that during a heavy squall th
be day before he saw q small sloop
If short distance ahead of him snddenl
90 down. There were three men o.
~ board.
~ President Arthur's first public re
,iv ception will be given on Tuesda
Nv evening. J.. General and Mrs. Grant wi
IA leave Washington on Wednesda
morning, and Ex-Governor Morga
and wife will arrive at the Whit
House the same day RS the guests c
nm the President.
lily At q meeting of committees repre-
senting various associations in Me-
Orleans on Saturday it was resolve
to give up the intention of celebratin
the bi-cenLennial anniversary of l
~ Salle's disco very of the mouth OF th
~, .ne Mississippi. The reason for this q
'ns W ton is the distress in the Lower Mi
az. % sissippi valley.
The mysterious dead fish recent
seen floating In the North Atlant
are pronounced by Prof. Baird to !
All "tilo fish''-a new species found
'ue the u. s. Fish Co nmission in ''increc
tty, BILE" quantities along the eastern ed
OF of the Gulf Stream. The Profess
ave thinks tho dead fish were killed by tl
,,S recent severe storm along the sou
tiaI coast of New England.