Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-01
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.
AT a meeting of the journeymen
plumbers, representing nearly two
thirds of that branch of industry in Chi
cago, demand for higher wages was
made.
The Chicago Lumbermen's Ex-
change advanced the rates for April fifty
cents, to 50 per thousand, ON several
grades of lumber.
An explosion by which eleven men
were killed and four others seriously
injured occurred on Monday in the
Vulcan Powder Company's works across
the bay from San Francisco, where the
manufacture of block blasting powder
was in progress.
james Bassett, aged nineteen, and
Elliott Bassett, aged twenty one, broth
ers, were burned to death at fire Mon
day in West Ansonia, Conn.,, which also
burned three houses.
The mysterious fish which SO many
vessels have recently reported as seen
floating dead in the North Atlantic,
over an area of many hundreds of
square miles, is pronounced by Prof.
Baird to be the tile fish, new species
found by the United States Fish Com
mission to occur in incredible quanti-
ties along the western edge of the Gulf
Stream, in from rs to $50 fathoms. The
Professor thinks they have been killed
by the terrific storm which has lately
ragged along the south coast of New
England.
Several associations of New Orleans
have decided to abandon the proposed
La Sale celebration on account of the
desolation caused by the floods.
Efforts are making in America and
England to find the missing will of
William Brown, Jr., who, it is said, left
50, GOO, 900 TO his spiritual affinity, a
Boston woman.
The New York State Printers, Weed,
Parsons d Co., have discharged about
forty of their compositors. The men
were supposed to be members of the
union, while the house has been nom
union for four years.
Lizzie Steigermalt, young woman
of Lancaster, Pa, was burned to death.
She was about retiring when her clothing
caught fire from a candle.
"A fire in Richmond, Va, Sunday.
destroyed the railroad bridge over the
James River and about $4,000 worth
of property.
The funeral of the poet Longfellow
took place Sunday from his late resi-
dence in Cambridge, Mass. It was pri-
vate, but public memorial services took
place in Appleton Chapel at Harvard
College
The crops in the Southwest and on
the Pacific coast are reported to be very
encouraging.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the
poet, died at Cambridge, Mass, on Fri
day, of peritonitis.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was
born in Portland, Me-, Feb. 81, 1907.
His father was Stephen Longfellow, an
eshinent lawyer of that city, and a
member of the national Congress. In
1886 Longfellow assumed the Harvard
professorship, which he held for seven
teen years. During this pefiod his
literary work was ibcessant and fruit
full. He passed the summer of 1912 on
the Rhine. In 1854 he resigned his
professorship at Harvard, but con-
tinued to reside at Cambridge. His
home was the old Cragin mansion,
which, at one time, had been
occupied by Washington. The poet
spent much time and care in the adorn-
ment of this house. Many have been
fascinated by it, and have called it the
most charming home in America. In
1868 lad 1869 Longfellow was again
in Europe, and was received every
where with marked houors. While this
time abroad he received the degree of
d. G. l.. from Oxford University, and
the same degree from Cambridge. The
degree of LII. d. was conferred upon
him by Harvard in 1859, and he received
similar honors from all the principal
colleges of America. Longfellow was
twice married. His second wife met
her death by a shocking accident IN
1861. While dressing to attend party
her clothing came in contact with the
light in her room, and she received fatal
injuries.
Seven executions took place Friday
two at Harrisburg, Pa, one at Rock
Island, ILL.,, one at Angelica, N. Y, one
at Middleburg, Pa, one at Pittsburg,
Pa, and one at Clearfeld, Pa. The
crime for which each of the malefactors
suffered was murder.
Judge Nelson in brooklyn City
Court decided that colored children
could not claim admission to public
schools not specially reserved for them,
when the schools set apart for their use
offered advantages equal to those in the
schools for white pupils.
The Senate of Minnesota, sitting as
q Court of impeachment, met in open
session and formally certified its judg-
ment against Judge Cox, on trial for
drunkenness. This sentence is removal
from Office and disqualification for judi
cial Office for three years.
The new comet, only 16O, 600, 900
miles distant, approaches the earth at
the rate of 100000 miles day, but
is expected to switch off when still
so, 900, 900 miles away.
The free canal resolution passed
the New York Assembly by a vote of
IA to A.