The daily gazette., 1882-05-24
MORNING SUMMARY.

Postmaster-General Howe has written
letter TO Speaker Keifer, recommending the
abolition of all postage on newspapers and
magazines. .ra,
The President will send message to Con-
gress in day or two, asking that body to
settle the questions arising from the dis
puted Venezuelan awards.
Preparations are making in the Cumber-
land coal region TO receive the new miners,
who are expected to take the places of the
strikers, on the LIST of June.
The latest reports from the wreck Of the
burnt steamer Manitoulin, in the st. Law
renee indicate that from 20 to 25 lives weIe
lost. There is no list Of the victims.
The steamer Peruvian reached Quebec yes
terday afternoon in tow. She seems to have
suffered little during her perilous detention
in the ice, excepting the loss of her screw.
At meeting of the iron manufacturers
of Pittsburg, yesterday, it was decided to
close all the mills on June |, rather than
grant the increase demanded by the work
ing men,
The twenty-fourth annual General Assem-
bly, of the United Presbyterian Church will
meet in Monmouth, Illinois, to-day. The
most interesting topic of discussion will be
that of instrumental music in the churches.
So far as known, fifty farms were devas-
tated by last weeks tornado in Polk and
Yell counties, Arkansas, and the loss is esti-
mated at S150,000. Three persons were
killed and number injured, two or three
perhaps fatally.
Six steamships crowded with immigrants
from Great Britain were, yesterday, reported
going up the st. Lawrence river to Montreal.
Every vessel bound from British to Cana
l.,
pected to be full of passengers.
Alexander H. Stephens contradicts the re-
port that he will accept the Independent
nomination for Governor of Georgia. He
says he has no aspirations for the Governor
ship but will accept the regular Democratic
nomination for that position If Offered to
him.
On Monday last all the wires of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company, between New
York and Boston, were tampered with at a
point near York. Fine wires running into
the ground were att ached to the pole wires,
thereby destroying the current. The perpe-
traitors of the act are unknown.
The Republican State Central Committee
of Georgia met yesterday in Macon and
elected John II. Devereaux of Savannah, to
be chairman. A resolution approving Alex
ander II. Stephens for Governor was tabled
and 1t was resolved to hold a convention in
August for the nomination of State officers.
There is still great scarcity of labor in Vic
toria, British Columbia. Seamen are es-
pecially scarce; two large vessels remain in
the harbor unable to go to sea, because of
want of hands, and $50 per month is offered
sailors and refused. 1t is said all but one of
the men on the U. s. revenue cutter at that
station have deserted.
The membership of the Tariff Commission
was again considered in Cabinet meeting
yesterday, but the list was not finally de
termined upon. TWAS developed in the dis
cussion that ex-Secretary Kirkwood is con-
stitutionally ineligible for membership of
the Commission because he was elected as
Senator in the Congress which passed the
Tariff Commission bill.
Severe frost occurred in the West and
Northwest during Sunday and Monday
night, and snow fell in portions of Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois on Monday
and yesterday. From half an inch to four
inches of snow fell in portions of Iowa and
in Northern Illinois. Tender vegetation,
such as young garden stuff and fruit bios
SONS, suffered great damage, but the wheat
and corn, being backward, appeared to have
escaped injury in nearly all localities.