The daily gazette., 1882-09-04
THE moKNINa SUMMARY.

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The fever is said 10 be, ,"sery bad' at San |
Fernando. 4i...ti s4ftt.I .q
Thirty cases of the fever and five deaths |
have been reported at Point Isabel TO date.
Philemon Dickinson, prominent citizen
of Trenton, New Jersey, died on Saturday
aged N years. l!9 Y u '91hrif2 -4sa
D Daniel g. Cooper; a well-kncwn phy-
stefan, Of Jamestown, Lebanon county, Pa,
died on Saturday at the age of 70 years.
Hanlan, the oarsman, said yesterday in
Toronto, that Ross assumption of the cham
pionship would not induce him to row this
year. - c'i
The first of the new three-p percent bonds
will probably be issued to-day. The bonds
of all the denominations, except the fifty
dollar, are now ready.
Rev. Moses Broyles, prominent colored
Baptist preacher, died In Indianapolis on
Monday. He was born aslaye in Maryland,
but educated himself and bought his free
dom. 5e. HH
= Captain William H. Alexander, a patient
in the insane asylum at Augusta, Maine,
was sirangled to death yesterday morning,
by Edward Z. Smart, another inmate of the
asylum.
An aged German and his wife, whose
names are unknown, were killed by train
while driving across the New York Central
railroad tracks near West Albany, last
evening. a4-,
Richard P. German, grocer, OF Troy,
New York, was riding past burning barn
last evening, when his horse took fright and
threw him into the river, where he was
drowned. .f
The British team of rihemen who are to
compete with the American team at Creed
more, on the 14th and 18th of this month,
arrived in New York yesterday by the
steamer Alaska.
John Buhlman robbed the farm house of
John Crumm, near Harrisburg, last night.
The robber was arsested as he was about tc
board train for New York, and about $2Ot
was found upon him. ea
Nineteen cases of yellow fever and five
| deaths have been reported at Pensacola since
| the 25th ult During the twenty four hour
ending yesterday morning three deaths from
fever were reported in Matanoras.
Lieutenant j. w. Graydon, of the New
| Hampshire, has applied to the Secretary oi
| the Navy for detachment from that YES
sci, owing to serious misunderstanding
with his superior officer, Commander G. r.
Clark.
The general order rebuking Major Taylor
| Assistant Quartermaster General, in &C.
eordance with the sentence of the court
martial, and ordered him back to duty
was issued by the General of the Army OF
Saturday.
The examination oil applicants for admis
| sion to West Point was finished on Saturday
OF the Al applicants, 15, including th'
colored youth from Florida, were rejected
One applicant is sick and has not yet beer
examined.
Two passenger trains on the Iron Noun
tain railroad collded near Newport, Arkan
sas, on Saturday night. John Browning
engineer, and his fireman, whose name !
not given, were killed. The passenger
escaped injury.
George Dawson, the veteran editor of tn
Albany EVening Journal, on Saturda.
severed his connection with that paper
which had been temporarily resumed Il
February, 1880. lie is succeeded by Harol'
Frederic, lately editor of the Utica Observer
Those in New York who are interested 1
the whereabouts of the Irish Skirmishin
Fund have appointed ga permanent CON
mittee of investigation" the committe
heretofore appointed " not having receive
any satisfactory accounting from the tru
| tees"
About twenty additional cases of small
pox were reported yesterday In Paterson
| New Jersey. The sick are being remove
to the pest-house. The erection of anotht
pest house was decided upon by the Boar
of Health yesterday morning, and the wor
of putting it up was at once begun.
A fire in the cupela of the Western Unio
Telegraph office in Baltimore yesterda
morning, DESTROYED all the wires therein
over $50 in number, which are conducte
into the office. In three hours wires wei
temporarily placed IN the battery room, an
, communication restored in all directions.
= Mr.. Edwin Smith, of the United Stat'
| Coast Survey, who is chief of the part
: selected for observation OF the transit c
9 Venus, left Washington on Saturday 10
New Zealand where the observation is
, take nlace, He will be Joined at Omaha b
: Professor Pritchard, his principal assistant
l After the task in New Zealand is completed
Mr.. Smith will go to Japan to make pend'
g lum observations.
! A party of prominent Englishmen, inclu
ing John Pender, M. P, President of u
! Direct Gable Company; J. w. Fuller, Sc
. retary of that Company William PATIO
. Molineaux. St. John, William Booth Scot
,, Thomas Osborn and FL. Derby, of the san
: company, have arrived in Chicago on the
a way to the Yellowstone Park. They a
accompanied by Representative Hewitt
a Senator Bayard and Lieutenant Command
: Gorringe The visit to the Yellowstone
4 at Mr.. Hewitt's invitation.
:. The total number of cases of yellow few
r. officially reported in Brownsville during la
5, week was 4S2, and of deaths 20. Total
II cases from the beginning OF the epidem
until Saturday noon, 1,ll3; deaths, y
n During the twenty-fonr hours ending at y
cases and four deaths were reported. Sim
le the renort F. Henry Bollack, promine
ID merchant, died. The weather yesterd
n, was upfavorablel to the sick, being cold a
r damp, with occasional rains. There is gre
destitution In the city, and the Mayor
about to issue an other appeal for aid. I
G. protective Gordon established arou
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