Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

of time at Madison Square Garden in
four rounds, as he proposed to do. Will
son took large amount of punishment,
but came up smiling for the fifth round
and won the stakes.
Near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, little
girl fell into a cistern, and the men all
being absent doing farm work, Mrs.
Huffman jumped in to save her child.
When the men reached the house both
mother and child were drowned.
The exports of breadstuffs from the
United States for the month of June last
were IS, 247, 1863, against $40, COS, 67S for
the corresponding month in 1881.
DR.. II, J. p. Goodwin, United States
pension agent at Manchester, N. a.,
was arrested for exacting illegal fees
from pensioner.
During an assault upon police
officer at Evansville, Ind, a rough was
fatally shot by the officer.
The brewers of Milwaukee are TAX
ing extraordinary steps in Boycotting
the merchants and other business men
who recently signed a protest against
theatrical presentations on Sunday.
They will not give a dollar of business
TO merchants, and orders heretofore
given are countermanded. The act has
caused much excitement.
"A boy, nine years old, was killed by
a COW at North Adams, Mass, he hav-
ing tied around his waist a rope which
was attached to the beast.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, wife of
the late President Lincoln, died at
Springfield, ILL.,, on Sunday. She had
been i'll for some time but was not con-
sidered dangerously so until Sunday
morning.
The Commercial Agencies report
124 failures in the United States in the
past week, an increase of % over those
of the preceding week, and 81 more
than in the corresponding week Of last
year. Some of the failures were heavy
ones.
Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins of the burned
saloon at Texarkana, Texas. Some were
burned beyond recognition, and it is
thought that the remaining bodies, of
which there are at least twelve, are
thoroughly cremated.
"A dispatch from Fort Bowie, A. T.,
reports fight between Captain d. b.
Lacy = Globe Rangers and some Indians
at Middleton ranch, with the loss OF
their horses TO the Rangers.
A young and honest woman, ar
rested in Philadelphia as a street walk
er, died almost Immediately after her
release from the excitement and dis
grace.
AT Fall River, Mass, it is thought
that an extensive strike by cotton oper-
atives will shortly take place there.
Eight boys are reported by tele-
graph dead or dying from lockjaw, the
result Of wounds inflicted by toy pistols.
AT Washington, Pa, good looking
white lady named Miss Venie Clokey
married colored man clandestinely,
and her relatives have secured her in.
generation il an insane asylum on that
account.
"A large number of Italians, en-
ployed by the railroad companies in
New York City, have joined the strikers,
and the latter are much encouraged
thereby.
In the Scioto disaster investigation
William Mccormick, of Moundsville. a
saloon-keeper, swore that Pilot Keller,
OF the Scioto, was so drunk in his place
that the barkeeper refused to give him
liquor, advising him to 60 to bed and
sleep it of. The barkeeper contradicted
McCormick's evidence in every par
ticular.
Fire destroyed a mill at Lima, o.:
sawmill and lumber yard at Ogema,
Wis; cotton mill at Oakland, II. l.,
aud drug stores at York, Pa, and
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, the loss aggregat-
ing S247, 900.
"A terrible accident occurred on the
Hudson River West Shore Railroad on
thursday by the premature explosion
OF a blast. Three laborers were killed
and nine Others seriously injured.
"A terrible accident occurred at Ex-
celsior Station, Northumberland county,
Pa, on Thursday, which resulted in the
death Ut three men. 1t was caused by
fall OF rock while the men were ex-
aiming the mine.
1t is reported that number of
americans who went across the Rio
Grande into Mexico ostensibIy for tine
purpose of hunting up lost stock have
been captured 10y the Mexican author
ities, thrown into prison and whipped.
"A special to the Little Rock Gazette
from TexarkaDa says: Lightning
struck Ghio's new three-story brick
building tonight, and the walls fell on
Paragon's saloon, crushing it to atoms.
About thirty lives were lost"
The Virginia Democratic State
Central Committee has decided not TO
nominate candidate for Congressman
at-Large either by the committee or by
convention.
Captain John Story, Jr., of the
schooner Waverley, of Rockport, is re-
ported as having discovered valuable
fishing ground fifty-fve miles east by
north of st. Ann, G. Il. The fish were
abundant and of superior quality, and
the grounds are reported to be far bet
ter than the Grand Banks.
The North Carolina Democratic
State Convention nominated J. FL. Fms
sell as Its candidate for Governor.
One of the fishing vessels at the
Banks of Newfoundland picked ND four
shipwrecked men who had been drifting
about for four days and nights.
The second sanguinary collision of
the striking freight handlers with the
Italians who are III the places they va.
Gated took / ice Tuesday ON the Erie
piers. in Jersey (iifv fha fra;ohf han