The daily gazette., 1882-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Thirty additional weaveTs were hired
at the lower Pacific Mill in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, Yesterday morning, max
ing the total number ofweavers 400, and
Of looms operated 1200.
Fifty OF the blast furnace men of the
Bethlehem (Penna.) Iron Company,
struck on Wednesday night, were paid
of and discharged yesterday, their places
being filed by other men.
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
yesterday, Judge Wylle overruled the
motion for q bill Of particulars made by
the defendants in the Star Route cases.
BY agreement of counsel, argument
on the Mason habeas corpus case, be-
fore the Supreme Court of the United
States, has been postponed until Monday
next.
Nearly all the departments of the
rolling mill at Allentown are said to be
idle, owing to the lack of orders.
The salt boilers at Geddes and Syra-
cuse, New York, have struck for So per
100 bushels.
The President yesterday nominated
Alphonso Taft Of Ohio, to be Minister to
Austria; William l.. Dayton, Of New
Jersey to the Netherlands 4; Nicholas
Fish, Of New York, Minister to Belgium;
John NJ. Francis, of New York, Charge
d. Affairs to Portugal; j. P. Wickersham,
of Pennsylvania, Charge d. Affairs to
Denmark, and Adam Badeau, of New
York, Consul General at Havana.
A. A. Sergeant, our Minister to Ber.
lin, has received his instructions from
the State Department, and left Washing
ton yesterday, on the way to his new
post.
Ex-Secretiry Blaine yesterday declin-
ed an invitation TO speak al New Albany
Indiana, on Decoration Day, because he
"expects to be in Europe before the Both
of May"
The Senate Committee on Commerce,
at the request of Senators Hoar and
Dawes, yesterday postponed considera-
ton Of the domination Of Rolan Worth
ineton to be Custom Collector at Boston,
in order to give opportunity to be heard
In opposition TO il.
The House Committee on Private Land
| Claims directed Representative Muldrow
to ask, at the first opportunity, a 'suspen-
pension of the rnles OF the House for the
passage of the McGarrahan Relief bill.
The Evangelical Church in Terra Hill,
Lancaster county, the barn OF Doris
Besil, near Fazareth, in Northampton
county, aud the Lehigh Valley Railroad
depot at SlatIneton, in Lehigh county,
were all struck by lightning on We'd
pesday night. The church and barn
we're destroyed.
The ice bridge across the:St. Lawrence
at Quebec ls no longer safe for passen-
gers. The ice bridge at Sillery had dis
appeared.
A mortgage was recorded yesterday
| in Goldsboro', North Carolina, for
$40, 600, 900, upon the Midland North
Carolina Railroad, made by the Presi-
dent of that road to the American Loan
and Trust Company of Boston.
At Trenton, N. j., yesterday, the
suit of Mallory & Co., Baltimore,
against Joseph 81. 6hinn and sixteen
others, for damages for the removal of
1900 bushels of oysters from COM
plainant's oyster beds, resulted In
verdict for $500 damages.
| Adam Dundore, son Of ex-County
Treasurer Dundore, and Benton Bright,
engaged together in business, ct Bern
vile. Berks county, failed yesterday,
in consequences of the dishonesty OF
the elder Dundor'. Bright is one of
Dundote's sureties.
The resolutions passed by the Vir-
gipia House of Delegates, on Wednes-
day, for a reosss of the Legislature
from Saturday next until the 7th OF
June, was lost yesterday in the Senate
l-yeas, 10, nays, 16.
The Rhode Island Legislature yes.
terday elected George NJ. CARPENTER,
Jr., of Providence, Associate Justice
( of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island,
to succeed Potter, deceased.