The daily gazette., 1882-05-23
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MORNING SUMMARY.

A dividend of Is per cent. will be paid on
or about the 1st of June to the creditors of
the Freedmen's Bank.
The disabled steamer Peruvian, long i'm
prsoned in the Nova Scotia ice pack, has
reached Father Point, Quebec, in tow of the
Acadian.
The Pacific National Bank of Boston,
which suspended several months ago and re-
sumed few weeks since, stopped payment
yesterday and will close up its bosiness.
Samuel H. Miller was arraigned yesterday
at Lancaster Pa, for the murder of William
Gensemer in October last. Seven jurors
were secured when the panel was exhausted.
Five men, who attempted to destroy a
bridge on the Mexican National railway last
Friday, were captured on Sunday and all
were shot by order of the Governor Of the
State of Mexico.
A fire at Wyman, Michigan, on Sunday,
destroyed the saw-mill of d. w. Avery, q
large quantity of lumber belonging to II. P.
Wyman Il Co., the stores of both Avery and
Wyman 81 Co., and other property, causing
loss Of nearly 100000.
A fire in Meridian, Mississippi, on Sunday
| night, destroyed j. d. Reeds drug store, the
two stores of Joseph Banin & Co., John j.
Balls machinery depot and the offices of the
Southern Baptist and Observer, causing
| total loss oil nearly SSO,uUO
David Green, one of the men burned by
the sulphur explosion at Buck Ridge Col
liery on Saturday, died on Sunday night.
| Hoffman is in precarious condition. The
breast where the explosion took place had
been marked by the fire boss as containing
| gas, but no heed was paid to the notice by
| the men.
The weather has heeen cold for several
| days in Minnesota and Dakota, and the
wheat seeding in Dakota has been checked
| The acreage of wheat in both sections has
increased enormously-from 30 to 100 per
| cent. in the northern counties-and in Min
nesota the crop promises well. Corn plant
ing is very backward, and the corn crop
may fall short. There were snow storms
yesterday in portions of Dakota and Mime
| sofa.
At meeting last night of the Councils
| Committee on Finance, the proposition to
| furnish the city of Philadelphia with
gas at 81 cents per 900 feet in the holder
was referred to the subcommittee already
| appointed to consider the disposal of the
| Gas Works. The ordinance appropropri-
ating 81 ,294 900 out of the surplus funds in
the city treasury for various works of i'm
provement was amended and ordered to be
reported favorably.
A telegram from Little Rock reports that,
after a two weeks chase of eight horse
thieves by band of vigilants in Missouri.
three of the thieves were captured, near
Kirbyville, a few days ago, and lynched.
One of the other five has since been killed,
another mortally wounded, and a third
lodged in Jail. The remaining two were
hemmed in, yesterday, on the White river,
and it was expected that before night they
would be captured and lynched.
| It ;s stoted that tho snsnensiOn of the sem
tence of Doyle, the counterfeiter,at Chicago,
was the result of conference between the
Attorney General and the Secretary of the
Treasury. Recent disclosures before the
grand jury at Washington indicated that
the parts Of the plate from which the 81 600
counterfeit bond was made were genuine,
not counterfeit. One of the reasons for the
suspension of the sentence is q hope OF
obtaining information, through Doyle or his
friends, (which will reveal the true history
of the stolen 81 900 bond plate"