Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GKNERAL ITEMS.

stroyed. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
AT Cumberland, Ohio, a school
teacher, becoming involved in fight
with his pupils, stabbed one of them to
death and cut another severely.
The Governor of Georgia has par
doned Cox, who murdered Colonel Ais.
ton, mt Atlanta in 1879.
Tobacco and cigar manufacturers al
Rochester, n. Y, III common with those
of other cities, deprecate the discussion
and agitation of the proposed repeal OF
the tax ON tobacco. They say it Injuries
their trade.
AT Shawneetown, ILL.,, eleven men
employed about a saw mill were scat
tered around the engine room eating
their luncheon, when the boiler exploded
with terrific violence, completely wreck
ing the mill, throwing the iron plates OF
the boiler to distances ysG.r:yiag from a
few feet to six hurdred yards, and in
stantly killing eight of the eleven men
and woundiRg the other three.
Hong All Duck, the Chinaman who
executed at San Francisco on Friday,
vas buried with good deal of display
by his countrymen.
The National Butter, Cheese and
Egg Association closed Saturday at
Milwaukee, Wis, amid great dis
satisfaction at the award of premiums.
AT Bangor, Me-, fears are enter
tanned that a party of six men were
accidentally drowned in Moosehead Lake
last Thursday.
The steamer Enterprise, on her way
from Aurora to Washington, n. c., had
cotton on board which caught fire from
sparks from the engine, and the result
was the loss of three lives and injury to
several persons.
An application has been made to the
Attorney General of New York by one of
the Oldest stockholders of the Western
Union Telegraph Company to begin a
suit for the revocation of Its charter upon
the ground of watered stock A hearing
is to be had on the 10Th.
The report of Brooklyn's Superin-
tendent of Instruction shows an average
attendance of pupils at the public schools
of $54, 100
The official canvass of Dakota Ter
IllOIN gives OOIh u. lCDuDil-
can, for Congress, majority of 30, 2S6
votes. The total vote of Dakota is
47,373, of which South Dakota polled
1,054 votes and North Dakota 16,319
votes. Only persons who came to the
Territory prior TO August were entitled
to vote.
The State debt of Pennsylvania TO
November 80, is $40, 225, 0S3.2S, a re-
duction during the year of 1915, 104.77.
The total vote for Secretary of State
mt the last election in Iowa, was as fol-
lows:-Hall, rep, 149, 059; Walker, dem.
112, $50; CASTOR, greenbacker, 30,S17,
with number scattering. Halls plur-
atty, Sc, 81; majority over all, 5,704.
The total earnings of the New York
State prisons for November is S33, CAS-. 16;
total expenses, $34, 6S0.43; deficiency,
81, 032 81; deficiency November, 1881,
q, 3S4. 81.
The Sunday clauses of the Penal
Code were less vigorously enforced In
previous Sabbath. and as a result there
was less inconvenience to the public.
There were but few arrests and the
magistrates administered the law in q
very liberal spirit.
-Advices from Norfolk state that the
Philadelphia tug George w. Childs and
the steam yacht Idle Hour, which left
Smithville, n. c., some weeks ago for
Florida, foundered at sea with all on
board.
The vegetable soup works at Lyn-
donville, n. Y, were destroyed by fire,
entailing loss of 81, 500. The adjoin-
ing buildings were saved by the free use
of cider, taken from tanks near by, 1000
gallons being used by the bucketfl.
There was no water near by.
A Chinaman and four negroes were
hanged for the crime of murder, on Fri
day, in various parts of the country.
The recent massacre by Indians, at
Cassas Grandes, i'll the State of Chihua-
hua, Mexico, proves to be more horrible
affair than at first supposed. 1t is stated
that seyenty-five persons were slaugh-
tered by the savages, including many
prominent citizens. A number of young
girls were carried off by the Indians.
In Dakota Territory, on Saturday,
the thermometer registered thirty-seven
degrees below zero. Several persons
have been frozen to death.
A train on the Macon and Montgom-
cry Railroad was wrecked near Eufaula,
Ala, and all the passengers but one were
more or less injured.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,, APP
pointed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to
be Justice of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts.
An explosion in a tunnel of the
Oregon and California Railroad killed
four Cinnamon and dangerously injured
four others.
The anti Chinese riot cases at Mar
hnez, Cal. were ended. The State was
unable to convict any of the prisoners.
"A party OF about thirty Mcxicans
and five Americans were slaughtered bv
the Mexican Indian Chief Juh and his
band.
OF twenty-one persons on board the
steamer Morning Star, at the time of the
explosion near New Orleans on Wednes-
day morning, but five are now living
AT a meeting of tobacco manufacture
ers in Chicago a petition was drawn up
urging Congress to take immediate action
on the tobacco tax question.
"A sensation was caused in Ph;l.,!.
phia by the arrest Of IN organized ~ Q
of grave robbers that has for nearly
twenty years been despoiiing Leb;tnol
Cemetery.
The report of the Tariff Commission
as to the duties proposed on iron and STEEL
Is regarded, at Pittsburg, as antagou:st!c
d. AZ L.