The daily gazette., 1882-06-09
MORNING SUMMARY.


Hanlan, the oarsman, is reported to be
convalescing from an attack of malignant
typhoid fever.
Mary Hamilton and Lille Kruger, school
girls, were drowned at a picnic near st.
Louis yesterday.
The returns from the Fifth Judicial Dis
tFtct of Illinois indicate the election of Craig
Democrat, by 5000 majority.
Chief Justice Bradford L. Prince of New
Mexico, and Judge Porter of Arizona, have
sent their designations to the President
Heavy floods are reported at Yale, British
| Columbia. Bridges have been swept away,
business is suspended and it is feared the
farmers will lose most of their crops.
The contract for supplying hemp twine to
the Post Office Department for the fiscal
year beginning July LIST has been awarded to
John 7. Bailey 81 Co., of Philadelphia.
Lucius Robinson, President of the National
Bank of Newport, Vermont, died yesterday
in that city, at the age of SO. He was
largely interested in railroads, and was
prominent as Democratic politician
The Democratic State Convention of
Alabama yesterday nominated E. A. O'Neal
for Governor by acclamation. He is a
native of Alabama, 64 years of ages lawyer
by profession, and was Confederate Briga-
der
Attorney General Brewster said Yesterday
that the counterfeiter Brockway "was in
dicted at the instance of private parties, for
what purpose he did not know, and that the
Government had nothing whatever to do
with his arrest"
The Glucose an Grape Sugar Association
in Chicago has decided, in view of the
probable suspension of large number of
factories throughout the country, to eonsol-
date all the factories. A committee is now
at work upon plan of consolidation.
Martin Sparrow, drawing master at the
Normal School, in Ottawa, and Angus
Sparrow, secretary TO the Hon. John
O'Connor, have been arrested on the charge
of uttering $40 counterfeit bills on the
Banque Rationale. The offenders are sons
OF late mayor OF Ottawa, now deceased.
Lieutenant Danenhower has received a
letter from Irkutsk, Siberia, stating that a
courier from the Lena delta had arrived
there with letters from Engineer Melville,
giving the particulars of the finding of the
bodies of De Long and his men. In a memo
randum found on De Longs body, dated
October 1S, 1881, it is stated that ''four of
the party are dead and Collins is dying"
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry was held yes
terday in Lancaster. Major A. G. Reinoehl
delivered an address and the following Off
GERS were elected for the coming year:
President, A. s. Shenck of Lancaster; Vice
Presidents, Thomas 4. Reynolds of Atplen
H. H. Nissley of Mount JOY; j. X. Myers
of Lykens; Secretary,S. ID. Lands of Coates
vile; Treasurer, A. G. Koser of Mechanics
burg
The Ancient Order of United Working
men, in session at Cincinnati, yesterday,
elected the following officers for the ensuing
year 2. s. NJ. w, j. J. Upchurch of Mis-
souri, s. NJ. W., w. II. Baxter, Michigan
S. F., M. w. Fish, California S. o., r A.
Case, New York +; S. r. R., s. s. Davis,
Ohio s. R., NJ w. Sackett, Pennsylvania
8. g., R. II. Flanders, Georgia S. W., R.
M, Cotton, Ontario, Can; s. Trustee, Leroy
Andrews, New York. The next meeting
will be held in Buffalo in June, 1888.
In the international Typographical Union
at St. Louis, yesterday, telegram was re-
ceived from the secretary of Columbia
Union No. lO1, Washington, stating that
Senator Plumb twas fighting the Union
through the United States Senate because
the Union refused to allow one of his politi-
cal followers to work in the Government
printing Office as proof reader, as he was
not printer" and asking the Convention
''to protest against Senator Plumb's pro-
cedure." A resolution was adopted I'm
accordance with this telegram.
According to the census returns the live
stock on farms in the United States on June
l, 1880, was as follows Horses, 10, ,357 ,9Sl:
mules and asses, 1912, ,932; working oxen,
pos, $40; milch cows, IL, ,443 ,593; other cattle.
81, ,4SS 800; sheep, 35, ,19l 1856; swine, AZ 6SS,
951. The rate of increase from 1870 to 1880
was, in horses, As per cent mules and
asses, 81 per cent. milch cows. 80 per
cent. other cattle, % per cent. sheep, "a
per cent, and swine, 90 per cent In work
Ing oxen there was a decrease of 25 per.
cent.