Daily Republican., 1882-01-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
LOSSES by Fire - BOthertng the
President--Failt that Proved Fa-
rsl-rhe HltpDer Court Martial.


Joseph Passey and two of his children
were burned to death in their house,
near Knife Falls. Minnesota, on last
Monday night. by a fire in the saloon
of MIR John Nebb, at Newark,
New Jersey, last evening, the mother
OF the proprietor was snothered TO
death, and grand daughter, IL years
of age, No badly injured that her recov-
ery is doubtful. Thomas Parry, injuI-
Ell by the mine explosion at Green
wood, near Munich Chunk, last Satur-
day, died on Tuesday night.
The lumber warehouse of Coho a.
Wiley, in Lancaster, Penna., was de-
strOyed by tire yesterday morning by
an inoendiary fire, Loss $4,000. The
Charlottesville Woollen Mills at Char
louisville, Va, were burned on Tues
day night with a wooden bridge adj
Joining. Loss, SAC, 200. About 20 per
sons aIr thrown ont of employment. A
fire III Weatherford, Texas, on Tuesday
night, destroyed hotel and two stores,
causing Il loss of so, 0tO.
A delegation from Kentucky called
upon the President yesterday to urge
the appointment of Genera Burbridge
to foreign mission.-A delegation
from Louisiana, headed by Taylor
Beatty. called at the White House, to
urge the appointment of Ex-Governor
Pinchback as Collector at New
Orleans.
The special committee appointed by
the Virginia Legislature to examine the
books and papers of the Second Audi,
tors office, report that S0l bHh lace
value Of coupons are missing, hnJ they
have had no means of asCertalning how
they disappeared.
William f. Powell, Assistant Clerk
of Newark, New Jersey, was arraigned
yesterday on the charge of forgery,
based on information given Ivy Palmer
and was held in $1,000 bail Powell
emphatically denies that he was guilty
of The offence.
| 1t is understood that there will b,
about % discharges of employees OF the
Post-otfiCe Department i'll Washington
The dismissals will not be confined tt
those ON the temporary roll, but viii
Include several of the superanuated
| class.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Jos
\ eph Bell, of New y ork Ito be Associate
Justice for New Mexico; Samuel G
Parks, of New Mexico, Associate Jus
tice for Wyoming, and ",lack" Whar
ton L, 5. Marshal for Eastern Louisi
ana.
General Edward F. Newton, VIII,
fell down stairs At his residence, II
Newport, Rhode Island, last Monda,
night, died yesterday. He was abou
10 years OF age,
| Edward Warlield, one of the principa
planters in the laZoo River district U
Mississippi, was crushed to death ii
the machinery of his ginning hous
last saturday.
W. S. Power, a young man, fatal
shot himself while displaying a revol
yer to a young !dy be was counting, i
jackson, Mississippi, yesterday. II
died in two hours.
During last night aud yesterda
morning six inches of snow fell at Mi
ford and over foot throughout til
Lackawaxen Valley, pennsylvania.
j. A. Chaplain, Premier of the Prov
ince of Quebec, has received from tn
Pope the decoration of Chevalier of tn
Order OF St. Gregory the Great.
The overseers of Harvard Uniyersit
70 ed yesterday to accept fund til
proceeds of which arc to be used in tn
= education of female physicians in til
70 University.
The schooner c. S. Tappan, of Clio,
ccster, Massachusetts, was total
. wrecked on Pulpit Rock, near Ky
, Bach, yesterday morning. No live
, lost.
Six banks laden with lumber, whic
sailed from Quebec in September, o.
tober and November last, have Ia
been heard OF since.
The Hercules Powder Works, at PHI
ole, California, blew up yesterday. xii
ing o.e man and lnjurlng severn
others.