Smyrna times., 1882-08-02

The cornerstone of the Madison
Avenue Nj. E. Church, at Madison
avenue and Sixtieth street New York,
was laid Monday by Bishop Simpson.
A Wisconsin boy won wager with
n playmate by holding his foot longest
on the rail ahead of Locomotives; but
he will hObble on crutches the rest of
his life.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, de-
nies the report that he intends to re-
sign. A domestic aifliction will keep
him away from Congress the remainder
of the session.
The New York board of police Mon
day, resolved to prevent the glove fight
on the 14th inst, between Tug
Wilson and John l.. Sullivan, in Madi-
son Square Garden.
The Attorney General has decided
that member of Congress is not
United States officer and, therefore,
not liable to prosecution for levying
political assessments.
New cotton, grown on the premises,
was picked, ginned and spun into yarn .
Monday morning at Saluda factory, /
Lexington county, S. c., and forthwith .
dispatched to Philadelphia.
A "water spout" at Millersburg,
Ohio, Monday, swept away Il number
of bridges, and several dwellings, and
drowned a number of live stock. 1t is
feared some persons have perished.
Three young men who had been on
a spree sat down Sunday on the track
of the Buffalo and Southwestern Rail
road, near jamestown, n. Y. An eX-
cursion train cut one in two, fatally
injured another and badly hurt the
third.
A hail-storm visited Chesterfield
county, Va, on Sunday, damaging
corn, oats and vegetation along the
line of the Petersburg and Weldon
Railroad as far south as Weldon, N. C.
1t is feared the crops have been badly
washed out.
Foreshadowings of the adjournment
of Congress have been frequent this
week in the difficulties of procuring a
quorum. Several important measures
have been decided by barely the num-
ber of members sufficient to transact
the public business. Occasionally all
business has been stopped until the alb
sentees could be collected and corralled.
Such is dog days legislation.
A special to the Cincinnati TTmes-Siar
reports very heavy rains last night in
Kentucky. Both branches of the Lick
ing river at Falmouth are higher than
they have been known for years and
are rising at the rate of three feet an
hour. Great damage to bridges and
crops is apprehended. The heavy
rains in the West, endangering the
crop of Spring wheat has advanced
the price of wheat three cents.
Two freight trains collided on the
: Lake Shore railroad Just west of South
: Bend, Indiana, Tuesday morning. The
cars to the number of sixty were piled
5 upon the engines, and taking fire were
e burned up. The engineers were buried
D under the derbis, but were rescued
4 just before the flames reached them
y There were some tramps on the train
and four of them insist that seven o
their comrades were in the burning
: mass. The loss is estimated at $1J0.OOC
A message from the President wa
: read in the House of Representative
V Tuesday in which he said that he with
!: holds his signature from the River an
l. HarbOr bill because in his opinion
n appropriated an amount greatly in eX
IS cess of that required for the purpOs
a during the current fiscal year TIL
N message was attentively listened tC
n but there was no action taken upon il
of An effort will be made either to-da
)r or tomorrow to pass it over the vet
le but if that should fail there will be n
Is new bill drawn at the present session
The possibilities which Senator Fe
of ry opened up yesterday in the Sena
re are enough to make the country gas
IS He called upon the Committee {
,k Pensions to report his bill to increa
nv the pensions of disabled soldiers, son
at $50, some $40 and some $50 mont
v. according to the amount of limb 10
tie in their country's service. If th
be measure, or the House bill which
lel also now before the committee, shOu
ieI become law, it would open the do
,es to another flood of pensions, whic
with the load we are now bearing,
he simply appalling.
Is The present year has proved strange
ge and uDprecedentedly fatal to Unit
nd States Ministers resident in forei
1v- countries. Gen. JudsOn Fitzpatrick,
b.. Chill: Gen. S. A. Hurlburt, in Per
49, DIR. Garnet, in Liberia; and now
20" George p. Marsh, in Italy, have
lYo fallen victims to death since the begi
i o ming of the year, and it is but lit
%, more than half over. The cOincider
'9 'an becomes the greater as they all died
Un their official posts in the lands to VIII
Iau they had been accredited. Four dea
noU are a startling proportion among
III total nuInber of our foreign Ministe
.sh- The brief debate in the Senate,
not other day, on the hundred-million-d
t. lar pension bill, brought out the us
!, so exculpatory remarks in regard to
old shameful jobbery which has been
The complished under pTetence of do
the Justice to the soldiers. There had bt
few paid MP TO March over half bill
Law dollars i'm pensions. The arrears
pensions will call for between 50
100000 and 5000, 100000 more. II
the MANY false and fraudulent pensi
in have been granted nobody can gu
nee because Congress has never taken
has trouble to surround the pension
pre- with safeguards.
, roc The House Committee on Fore
'aef. Affairs Tuesday reported to the He
r,;sa the result of its investigation into
he;T Chilli Peruvian scandal. The rel
a finds that the public documents mis-
vtOn are not ol Sr.,Vo ~ -,
nth properly connected with any OF
r p speculative schemes made promiT
Who by this investigation. Mr.. Blai
:, IN IN course is declared to have been prut
INC - - and Minister Hurlbut is highly e
anI- gized. Minister Morton is exc
~ted ated from any improper action. ;
The herds remarkable ability as liar
~ of dwelt upon. The report is accom-
and led by supplementary statement
ma of Mr.. Belraont.
ctive Importations in general were 81