Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


ably be four contending delegations.
The Herald says there is an absence of
harmony among the organizations pro-
iessedly opposed to John Kelly.
From Brownsville, Texas, 40 new
cases of yellow fever are reported in two
DAYS and ten deaths.
Two physicians were carried into
lake by runaway team and drowned,
on Sunday, at Post Mill Village, vt.
The Boston achievements strike
has ended.
Representative of the ronworkers
at Pittsburg, Pa, decided to continue
their strike. They demand Sc a ton for
pudding and decline to compromise.
DIR. Hedges and Mr.. Scott, of New
berg, N. Y, who obtained several thou
sand dollars by manipulating cards
against the money of Francis 2. Weed,
are now in Chicago, and say they in
tend to keep the money as the statute
Of limitations allows them to do, and
the money cannot be taken from them.
"A large quantity of goods, alleged
10 be the property of the Philadelphia
Almshouse, was found III the house
where the absconded Superintendent
Phipps recently boarded. The search
for public property Is being continued,
and it is probable that arrests of other
officials will be made.
Six persons were injured by the ex-
plosion of boiler in Cincinnati.
"A store near Portsmouth, Me-, was
entered by two masked men and robbed.
The proprietor was maltreated to such
an extent that he is expected to die of
his injuries.
Richard Martin, of Adams town
ship, Michigan, died on Thursday night
Of genuine Asiatic cholera.
A man near st. Louis, Mo-, whose
wife had procured divorce, shot and
killed his two little children and then
committed suicide.
General Sherman, in execution of a
court martial, reprimands Major Joseph
III. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant General,
United States Army, for conduct
preiudicial to discipline.
While riding in a wagon near West
Albany an aged German and his wife
we're killed through being struck by q
locomotive.
The British Rifle Team arrived on
the Alaska and were heartily welcomed
by representatives of the National Rifle
Association.
The debt statement issued Friday
shows the decrease of the public debt
during the month of August to be &c.
Us, 26l.24.
Courtney defeated Lee at Richfield
Springs, on Friday. rowing three miles
with turn in 19m. 3ls'., the best time
on record.
"A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas,
says:-About 100 persons were drowned
by the Concho flood, and Is, 600 sheep,
cattle aud horses were lost. The loss
TO property ranges from S75, 000 to
100000 The river rose fifty feet.
Bodies are coming 10 the surface daily.
The Secretary OF War has issued an
order revoking so much of his order of
August %, 1882, az relieved Colonel
Samuel ID Sturgis, Seventh Cavalry, of
the Governorship of the Soldiers Home
at Washington, d. c., and appointed
Brigadier General Martin d. Hardin,
United States Army (retired), Governor
of that institution.
The practice of the American rifle
proved, some of the averages being the
most brilliant on record. The team is
to meet the English team.
1t is reported that baud of about
two hundred hostile Indians operating
in Mexico met the Mexican troops near
Sonora recently and defeated them in
an engagement.
During the seven months ending
July 81 the excess of imports into the
United States over exports was in value
$50, S24, 742, while in the corresponding
months of 1881 the excess OF exports
reached Sos. 6l0,9j2
john Taylor and his associates in
the First Presidency" of the Mormon
Church defy the federal law for the sup
preston of polygamy and declare their
determination to maintain it "while
time exists or eternity endures."
The Democratic State Convention
of Kansas nominated John Morton for
Governor. The platform favors the
Tesubmission of the prohibitory amend
ment to the consultation to the voters
of Kansas at tie general election of
State officers in November, 1884
Nearly a million bushels of wheat
were shipped in one day at Baltimore
for European markets.
The net earnings of the New York
State prisons for the past month were
e5,51377.
-Four new cases of yellow fever are
reported at Pensacola, and two deaths.
"A party of three persons have as
cended the highest peak of Mount
Ararat.
During August the United States
national debt was reduced about Sl6.-
600, 900.
Lizzie Selden, the Brooklyn child
who was kidnapped, was found on
Thursday in a tenement house at No
l22 Park avenue, Brooklyn, in a room
with her abductor, who is a young
woman named Maggie Keppel. Maggie
has been several times arrested{or petty
thieving, and is said to be of ma lici 1us
disposition, but weak minded. She was
committed for trial without bail.
Captain Payne, the leader of the in
vasion of the Indian Territory, has been
imprisoned, with several of his COM
panions.
Comptroller Campbelrs annual re-
port shows the gross debt of the City
Of New York on July 81 to have been
S136.53S, SO7.59
Confederate bon Is are again being