The daily gazette., 1882-06-15
MORNING SUMMARY.


The army worm is reported to be destroy
ing the grain crops in Warren and Butler
counties, Ohio.
Heavy wind and rain storms, doing much
damage, are reported to Southern Indiana
and Ohio.
The steamers which sailed from New
York yesterday for Europe took out 81 ,420,-
| 600 in gold bars.
The Sherman Lumber Compaay's mill at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was burned yester-
day. Loss, $4,000.
The loss by the fire on Victoria Square,
Montreal, on Tuesday night, is now esti-
mated at not more than $75, 1000.
Congressman Grape of Massachusetts, is
announced as a candidate Tor the Republican
nomination for Governor of that State
The receipts of the Custom House at
Laredo, Texas, have increased 800 per cent.
since the completion of the railroad to that
place.
The Greenbackers of the Eleventh Dis
triet of Indiana have nominated Evan
Thompson, farmer, for Representative in
Congress.
The sailing of the steamer City of Toxic,
with mails from San Francisco for China
and Japan, has been postponed from the 22d
until the 29th instant.
Mr.. Reed, counsel for Gutteau, denies that
he applied to Judge Gray for a writ of
habeas corpus He also says he has not
made such an application to Justice Bradley.
The forest fires in Northeastern Wisconsin
and the peninsula of Michigan continue
their rayages. 1t is reported that 80, 600, 900
feet of standing pine has been destroyed in
the Pink river pinery.
Our exports of domestic breadstuffs dur
inu the / mnnth0 andinU Nov RI 1890
amounted in value to S167, ,653, ,5S2 against
S244, ,955, ,413 during the corresponding
period of the preceding year.
Rev. L. s. Weed, formerly pastor of the
New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church in Brooklyn, died suddenly in one
of the streets of that city yesterday morn
ing. He was So years of age.
G. Amyat, candidate for office In the
present election in Belleehasse county,
Quebec, was fired at twice in succession on
the public road near st. Raphael, last Mon
day, and narrowly escaped with his life.
The Portland Egeniisg Star says the Prohi-
bitionists of that State will not support
Robie, the Republican candidate for Cover
nor, but that Eustis, the Prohibition candi-
date, twill retire to make room for strong
The annual reunion of the Society of the
Detroit Generals Grant and Sheridan and
ex-President Hayes were present. General
A. A. Humphreys was elected President for
the ensuing year.
The Republican State Convention of North
Carolina, met yesterday in Raleigh, and
nominated as It's State ticket all the candi-
didates chosen by the recent Liberal Con-
vention, except Jacob A. Long, who de-
elined. Among the resolutions adopted was
one in favor of the continuance Of our tariff
system.
A garden party was given yesterday after
noon at the residence of Ex-Governor Clafin,
in Newtonville, Massachusetts, in honor of
the 10th birthday of Mrs Harriet Beecher
Stowe. A large and distinguished company
was present, including Oliver Wendell
Holmes, John &. Whittier, w. B. Howells,
e. P. Whipple, and Others well known in
literary and art circles.
The steamship Pera from Montreal for
London, eollided last Saturday afternoon
with a large iceberg off Cape Race. There
was fog at the time so thick that the berg
was not visible more than half the ships
length ahead. After the Pera struck, her
fore compartments began to fill, and the
boats were lowered and the crew left the
vessel, which sank at midnight Sswith crash
as if she had suddenly gone to pieces" The
boats containing the captain and chief
officers have been picked up; the boatswain's
boat, containing 10 men, is still missing,
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