Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-15

! iHcdIiou VI Luc uecToo, 30 aS 10 enJOlL L
the funding into bonds with tax receiv.
able coupons; ;but to permit the funding
to proceed if the bonds do not contai i
such coupons. Should this applica.
tion be granted the decision Of the
Court, heretofore made, will merely have
expunged the tax coupon feature from
the act, and the funding would proceed
in 1908 bonds with ordinary coupons.
The Court holds the matter under I'D
visement.
The employees of the Pullman Palst (
Car Company at Pullman, near Chi.
csgo, held a meeting yesterday, and re-
solved to strike ifthe Company did not
rescind an order that the workmen at
the shops shall hereafter pay ten cents
per day for rides to and from work into
Chicago. The meeting resolved in any
event 10 form a Union. The company
has heretofore been paying $4,000 per
month for fares of its employees. and in
sists that they shall now "share half
the expense.
A train drawn by three engines,
which left Antigonish for New Glas-
gov, in Nova Scotia, last Friday night,
was stopped by heavy snow drifts on
Saturday, IA miles from New Glasgow.
On Sun lay morning the passengers, in
GLIDING several members OF the Domiu-
ion Parliament on their way to Ottawa,
started for New Glasgow OH foot. They
reached that place late on Monday
night, suffering greatly from exposure
and fatigue.
Eornpar,u ipuuaot m tho bo; lor av
plosion at Fairfield, Maine, on the 2Sth
ult., by which several lives were lost
has found that the boiler, after nine
years use and frequent repairs, had be-
come weakened from overstraining
and the weakness of the iron, together
with low water, caused the catastrophe.
The jury severely censures the manage
ment for neglect and carelessness, and
urges the Legislature to pass law TO, .
inspection OF boilers.
The bill to fx the pay of letter car
riers, reported yesterday in the House,
fixes the pay of auxiliary letter Carl RS
at $500 year; provides after one years
service they shall be epromoted and 70
ceive $500 per annum, and, after two
years service, shall be promoted a step
higher and received $1,000. The bill
further provides that all original ap-
poiDtments shall be made to the grade
of auxiliary carriers
The President has refused to entertain
,he charges made by General Wilcox
against General Carr, and the latter
las been relea ,ed from arres-. It's
understood that, while the President
al Al.
Ease, he nevertheless disaDproves Of cer
ain utterances of General Carr as in
unfortunate There will be no further
Iction in the case.
A syndicate of st. Paul aud Mime
lpolis capitalists has been formed for
he erection of thirty elevators along
he ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Manito-
IA, Northern ac,tic, and Chicago,
and st. Paul Railroads, all
o be tributary to 600, 900 bushels ele-
'ator to be Immediately erected near
he freight transfer grounds between S.,
PAUL and Minneapolis.
The annual convention of the Georgia
tate Agricultural Society met yester-
ay in Augusta. Two hundred and
tty delegates were present. The pros.
ect for the small grain crop ia the
tate were reported to be excellent. 1t
'as the general sentiment of the con-
ention that mtre grain should be
lanted and less cotton.
A huge petition for the report of the
lNes on bank deposits and bank checks
ill be presented to the Ways and
leans Committee to-day or tomorrow.
+ is more than 5000 feet long and bears
be signatures of merchants, manufac.
lrers, mechanics, farmers, taxpayers
nd others, residing in nearly every
tate of the Union"
A fire in Gardner's laundry at Troy,
ew York, yesterday morning, destroy
| pact of the builling and consumed
1000 dozens of collars and cuffs. The
ss is estimated at $35, 900. During the
&C Edward Goge, aireman, was knock
from a second story window bya
'se and severely injured.
The river at Helena, Arkansas, be.
N TO subside somewhat yesterday,
I'd there was more hopeful feeling
the Mississippi in that region are
eatly swollen, aud people in many
aces have been driven from their
)mes.
In the Senate of Virginia yesterday,
lring debate on railroad bill, Mr..
NTH, of ofAleXandria, constituting some
marks of Mr.. Riddleberger as a re-
csion on himself, declared them to be
true. Unsatisfactory explanations
lowed and there the matter res ts."
An eight year old boy has died at
lint st. Charles, Quebec, from ex-
ssive use of liquor, and the coroner's
ry rendered verdict of willful mur-
r against some person or persons un-
own.
The charter election in Binghamton,
Nv York, yesterday, resulted in the
DICE of James K. Weldon, Democrat
Mayor, and a Democratic Majori-
in the Board of Aldermen.
Three new cases of smallpox have
peared on the flag ship Tennessee,
" in Hampton Roads, and her de-
rture for the w est Indies will be de
ed IN consequence.
The body Of Jacoby Boughey, a shoe
.ker, who had been dead for several
rs, wa, found lying in his shop, at
Penna., yesterday. Foul play
The Hudson river rose several feet at
bany yesterday, anda general break
OF the ice was threatened. South Of
~ Montgomery all the ice began to
ve
denouncing Guitelu and
ldoing with the family Of The late
:sident were unanimously Passed ey
Maryland House of Representative
'terday.
he police of Baltimore yesterday
npleted the voting census of that
y. They return SO, 1877 voters, an in
ase Of 4Ol7 since August last.
he Riddleberger Debt bill was
nsd yesterday by the Governor OF
ginia