Daily Republican., 1882-12-15
NEWS sum MARY.
EVADING CUSTOMS DUTIEs-
ANOTHER AGED GIRL WHO
KNEW WASHINGTON

DdChEK6B VI "olO eAhN SNAhSN
from China, on the U. s. steamer Sara
tOga, just arrived from that country.
The seizure was made in accordance
with provision OF the tariff laws pro-
hiGiting any naval officer from import
ing in United States vessel any ar
tiCle subject to the payment OF duties.
The Secretary of the Treasury, beng
informed Of the circumstances, tele-
graphed to the Collector to release the
goods upon payment Of duties and the
expenses Of seizure.
Letters from Chiapas, Mexico, dated
October Both says that ''the cholera has
ragged with such violence in that de-
partment, that in some places owners
and labSrers ON plantations have all
died, and that, as it has not been pos
Mble TO bury them their bodies have
been burned. Sixty deaths day have
occurred in Tonals, and terrible PAN
10 has ensued." Some deny that tho
disease is cholera, but the symptoms
appear to be clOleraic.
In Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. man
\ walked into the store Of z. l.. Miller;
manufacturing jeweler, and asked him
to put n new spring into q watch,
while Mr.. Miller was repairing the
watch the stranger quietly picked up a
nag containing about $780, 900 worth OF
unset diamonds, Tubies, pearls and
other precious stones, and walked of
! with IL unnoticed the theft not being
discovered until some time after he had
left.
Mrs. Maria Appley. native OF New
York, died at Morristown, New jersey
on Tuesday, at the alleged age of 1O4
wears, months and 8 days. L. Is said
she was one Of the IL young girls who
renresentsd the IS original States In
10 eperal WaShiugtOn's mock funeral
procession" in New York city; that she
vas active until within two weeks OF
her death, and that she retained "all
her taculties" until the last.
The miners Of the Parker Coliery,
No. 3, at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania,
who quilted work on Wednesday be-
cause Of the nonenforcement of the pro-
visions of she mining law, remalH out
and refuse TO resume until assured tbat
the law is complete with. Nearly 5oO
men are idle in consequence.
William z. Black, Democrat, has de-
cided to contest the seat OF George H.
Davia, Republican, who has received q
certificate as CongrssBmap-elect from
the Second DiaUriCt of Illinois. The
grounds OF the contest are fraud In the
election and the use of bogus Democrat
iC ballots"
/ In the Agricultural Convention at
Chicago, yesterday, Governor Cullom
spoke in favor CT protection. A resolu-
lion was adopted for the holding OF a
= National Agricultural Exposition next
! wear, anc comlnittee was adopted 10
select place
An old woman and her son were
l found murdered in their house near
Lilesville, North Carolina, yesterday
morning. The sons body had been
L. thrown into the fire and was partly
t consumed There is no clue to the mur'
q dorers.
Patrick Slattery shot and killed bis
= step mother near Mount Pleasant,
= Iowa, last Tuesday, and then tieo
It after leaving note for his brother say
= ipp "Thls is what drink has done fol
me"
The sheriff of Northumberland Co.,
Va, Nr. VIM. Claughton, says; we
!. Irave many good medicines in our parts,
Q but nothing which equals 81. JACOBS
s Oil. It 's unequaled Tor rheumatism
0 and all bodily pains
!, TbirtGen vessels and one hpndred AM
i Rfteen lives we're lost in the Gloucester
Q MssssChu serts, fisheries this year
}; Tais is more than in any recent year ex
a cart 1879, when 20 vessels and 249 live
!. were lost.
d The three mssted schooner Jefferson
from Mshile for New York, with lum
II Der, went ashore on Barnegat Shoals, q
a six O'Clock, yesterday morning. Sh
G will have the be ltghtened in order U
n get off.
IL John c. Rudd, AN OK mail agent OF
IL the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
/ was sentenced az Little Rock yesterda
r, 70 three years imprisonment for stCa
III ing registered letters.
A heavy southeast gale prevailed o
the coast OF Marie dI:inR Wednesds
n might. Three schoouers went ashore
-. neac Calais, and fishing vessel san
,e with fall cargo Of fish.
~ In Yesterdays session of the Missi
le sinni Valley Cane Growers Ass0cistlo
o. at St, Louis, Com missioner Loring mad
If an exhaustive address upon the Sort
" ham industry.
" Louise southwict, Of Marysvill'
Q Ohio a writer OF "seIialS' for Ne
al York paper, took laudnum on Wedne
le 6ny evening, with suicidal intent, al
II" is ia o critical condition.
~ TboQssuds OF families haVe had OF
'' eagioa t5 try the never falling qusi,d'
of Dr. PEll'E Cough Syrup. md the
4, a all unite in the praise OF this woLde
r. fal prescription.
y Adyicss from Mel bourne, AustrSlii
"a rsoort that the Australaslan mine
n Creswick, Victoria, has been tioode
n and f,Fsnty miners have been dTow
81 ed,
rs The votes for Meyer in NeWburypOr
I'd yap,achraetts, were reCounted yeste
a. dey. and the result changed \ mEJorlt
~ Of I for Hale, Republican, into
ce majority OF IS for johnson, DSmocra
e. Alfred Mochmer, aged 81, commItte
- suicide yesterday by shooting himseI
. at Moslsm Springs, in Berks count
Pa. He was probably insane.
oe ~ There was heavy snow fall at Ha
a lax, Nova Scotia, yesterday mornin
lea snd the weather grew colder Ia
ne night
IN. Ia the Criminal Co uTt, at Baltimo
mt Yesterday, Owen Dillon, convicted
On selling lottery policies, was fined $lo'
X, The aldermen OF Brooklyn, New Yor
charged with violation of an order
Csurt, were sent to jail laat evening.
da The striking lastsrs in Montreal
fused yesterday to sign tha employe
oA agreement.
Snow iG reported 70 be "abous thH
feet deep on the level" at Quebec.
tsi Christ1sId & Rest.
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