, 1882-02-17
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGHAPm TO DATE.

The wool market at Philadelphia was
quiet and unchanged on the 3D..
The police closed the Lyons branch Of
the Union Generate on the 3d.
Guiteau made little extra money in
court by selling autographs.
The Chicago collector Of customs is
laying wires for Arthur's reelection.
Gold to the amount of 81, ,642, 900 was
shipped from New York on the 4th.
Sargents prospect Of being made sec-
retary OF the interior is growing smaller.
There is a strong prospect that Gould
and Vanderbilt will make combination.
A money lender at Cashel, Ireland,
was found murdered in his bed on the
3D.
Slosson beat Vigneaux in Paris and is
now the champion billiardist in the
world.
Three bodies were recovered from the
ruins Of the late fire at New York on the
4th.
Fears are entertained OF the loss Of the
steamship Limerick, now nine days over
due.
Rumors that the railroad war would
begin again, depressed stocks consider
ably on the 4th.
The Swedish bark Hendricks, was
sunk near New Orleans on the 4th and six
of the crew drowned
The warrant for the arrest of Boltoux
and FEEDER, OF the Union Generate,
charges them with being swindlers.
1t is reported that Russia has signed q
treaty with Persia by which she acquires
possession of Akhalkalaki.
Traces have been found of the crew OF
Lieut.. Belongs boat. Their death by
cold and priyation is almost certain.
Cannon, OF Utah, is to be heard before
the house judiciary committee on the Sth
on the subject of polygamy.
Charlton j. Smith, of Buffalo, n. Y,
was awarded $l2, 900 damages on the I'd
for being run over by n. Y. Central
train.
Public meetings were held at Glasgow
and Manchester on the I'd to express in.
dignation at Russian prosecution Of
Jews.
The New York building committee
have ordered some OF the walls of the old
Bowery Theater torn down and rebuilt
for safety.
Newly johnson and four other per.
sons were killed by saw mill explosion
fifteen miles from Louisville, Ky, on the
evening of the lst.
Senator Miller presented a petition on
the Sd from residents of the Pacific coast,
praying for the speedy passage OF the
bill Incorporating the Nicaragua canal.
The jury in the case of Jane r. Forbes
VS.. VIM. P. Ridgeway, for $4,000 dam
ages for breach of promise, after a short
deliberation brought in a verdict award
ing the plaintiff S5,000
The Times Columbia, s. c., special
says; State Senator Fishburne has been
released in $4,000 bail, and returned to
his seat in the senate. A duel is still
almost certain to result.
John W. Berry was hanged at Prescott,
Arizona, on the Sd, for the murder OF
Michael Shore, near Tiptop, Yavapai
county, in 1881. He tried to commit
suicide in his cell about three weeks ago.
r. G. Dun & Co., of the mercantile
agency, report failures throughout the
country for the last seven days at LAG,
OF which the eastern states furnish IA,
western 45, southern 40, middle 80,
Pacific coast and territories IL, New
York city Z.
Canadian publishers ask the Canadian
government to pass an act to secure from
the imperial authorities the right to leg.
islate in the matter Of copyright. Under
the present copyright law Canadian pub
fishers claim that American publishers
have them at disadvantage.
Aida Davenport, respectable colored
farmer in Union parish, Louisiana, was
taken from home by q mob of colored
men and beaten to death with clubs and
stones. There has been trouble between
Davenport and Oliver Archie, who
wanted to marry the former aunt, and IT
IS supposed that the mob was led by
Archie.
The American National Agricultural
Association discussed fish culture and
the tariff, and asked congress to take
action on revision OF the tariff. A num-
Der Of papers were read and addresses
delivered. A resolution was adopted en-
dorsing the action of the Mississippi
river convention on improvement of that
river.
There has been very great damage done
by floods in the Warrior and Tonbigbee
rivers in Central Alabama, Trains have
not been run through on the Alabama
and Southern Railroad for ten days. 1t
is estimator the road is already damaged
$4,000. Four or five negroes were
drowned, and also large amount Of
stock.