, 1882-03-10
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEG rArm TO DATE.

4 dispatch says there is no doubt of
Conkling's appointment being reported
favorably.
The appointment OF VI. Roustan, as
minister to Washington from France has
been gazetted.
Good harvest returns are reported and
large shipments will be made from
Australia to England
Rose Eytinge has applied for divorce
from her husband, Geo. Ii. Butler, ON
the ground of adultery,
Grand preparations were made for the
Garfield memorial services, which were
held at Washington on the 9th.
Two Mormon emissaries Barton and
Easton, have been preaching in two Ohio
villages, and have 80 converts.
1t is now said that the land committee
OF the house of lords cannot arrive at
any useful conclusion.
A bill has passed the chamber OF
deputies prolonging the present CONNER
cial treaty with England until May 10Th.
The Washington Post says that Gar
field intended to appoint Conkling to the
supreme bench. Doubtful.
Judge Charles Mason, an old and
prominent citizen Of Burlington, Iowa,
died recently.
The Virginia general assembly has
elected the five judges of the supreme
court Of appeals nominated by the read
justers.
Ex.District Attorney Murphy, of San
Francisco, will probably recover from
the effects of his wound received by
would-be assassin.
Capt. Hall, of Burlington, Iowa, has
been appointed inspector of the Office of
delivery service by First Assistant Post
master-General Hatton.
The Southern Pacific and other roads
extending west have come to satisfac-
tory arrangement and made q combina.
tion of their interests.
Hargrave's cotton mill at Patricroft,
Lancashire, burned on the 25th, with o
loss of e50, 900. Five hundred hands
are thrown out of employment.
A Belgian, who landed at Castle Gar
den on Saturday. has pair of horns an
inch long protruding from his forehead
and seems proud of his popularity.
The st. Paul and Grand Forks rail
road company has been incorporated, the
road to extend from st. Paul to Grand
Forks, Dakota, tapping the great wheat
fields Of that territory.
At the needle factory Of Crabb & Co.,
at Newark, recently, Adam Leet, boy
13 years of age, was passing coil of
wire through when the wire broke, cut.
ting the boy in two
A Vicksburg dispatch says that the
steamboat Bessie Claybourne has been
burned with her cargo of cotton and cot
ton seed. Loss $685. 900. One negro
man and three children were drowned.
The senate has confirmed Bruno
Tzschuk, of Nebraska, consul at Vera
Cruz; Thomas Wilson, of the District of
Columbia, at Nantea; Theo. ID. Wilson,
Of New York, chief of construction and
repair in the navy.
1t is understood the cabinet has
changed the Gladstone press resolution
declaring an inquiry into the workings
of the land act would be injurious to the
workings of good goyernmentin Ireland.
Preparations for the hanging of Eskit-
sha, Dandy Jim and Dead Shot, the three
Indian scouts who revolted at Cibicu,
are completed at Fort Grant. The execu-
ton is fixed for Friday next.
Robert II. Pruyn, minister to Japan
under President Lincoln, died suddenly
at Albany, n. Y. on the 9th. Mr..
Pruyn ut the time of his death was presi-
dent OF the National Commercial bank
and Dudley observatory.
Tiffany, OF the San Carlos agency, tele-
graphs the Indian Bureau that Indians at
that agency are uneasy and excited in
connection with the approaching execu-
tion Of the three condemned Indian
scouts, fixed for the 3D. of March.
House committee on militia have
agreed upon bill to amend the military
law in accordance with petitions OF the
National Guard to increase the annual
appropriation to 81 ,000, 900 and disburse
it to the States in proportion to the num-
Der of militia they maintain.
Secretary Hunt has received a cable
from Hoffman at st. Petersburg as fol-
lows: Your orders Of January 18th have
reached Melville. He answers as fol-
lows: On the road to the Arctic ocean
January 31st. Telegram Of January 10Th
received. Am now on my way to Arctic
ocean. People will be found.
A Richmond dispatch Of recent date
says that last night the western-bound
pay train on the Richmond and Albany
railroad was ditched by a land slide.
The engine, tender and pay car rolled
into the river, and the train was badly
wrecked. David McMinn, paymaster's
clerk, was killed, and five others injured.
Jane B. Mantrope was in the Toombs