The daily gazette., 1882-11-11
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MORNING SUMMARY.

| President Arthur will not return to WASH
ington before Monday.
Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler are ex-
pected in Washington to-day.
| Robert Campbell, carrying on an extern
sive business in turning at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, has failed for $3.50, 600.
The Minister of Public Works of Mexico
has issued circular encouraging silk
growing throughout the Republic"
Henry Hageman, a tailor, committed sui
eide yesterday by throwing himself in front
of railroad train, at New Haven, Connec-
| ticut.
George w. white, a blacksmith, hanged
himself with clothes line in Brooklyn, on
Thursday night. He had been respondent
/ for some time
| The sale at the Cortland Hotel, at New
York, was robbed on Thursday night of
$4,000 in cash and 81 300 in diamonds and
valuable papers.
James Conroy, charged with the murder
| of Peter McCann, was found with his
throat cut Ia his cell at Ballston, New York,
yesterday morning.
A young man named Fallon died yester-
day In Montreal from tie effects of %
| days fast, which he imagined he had been
commanded by the Lord to make.
Representative Carlisle of Kentucky is re-
will be a candidate for Speaker of the next
House on a "TariH Tor revenue only" plat
| form.
1t was rumored in Washington last night
that John q. New had resigned as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury. The report,
owing to the absence of the President, could
| not be verified.
The Naval Advisory Board Oh the Con-
struction of steam vessels will meet in
Washington on Monday. Messrs. Steers
| and Coryell of New York have accepted the
positions of civilian members of the board.
While George Parr was eating dinner at
Naples, Ontario county, New York, on
Thursday, he drank a solution of sugar of
lead and laudanum by mistake from a bot
tie labelled plantation Bitters," and died
in two hours.
Two freight trains on the New York and
New England railroad collided last night,
| near Millvillc, Mass, owing, it is said, to
disobedience of orders. Both engines and
IL cars were wrecked, but no person was
seriously injured.
-Four tons of powder exploded yesterday
| at the Keenan, lime works, near Whitehall,
New York, killing Dennis Golden and
Joseph Cameron, who had charge of the
| powder house. 1t is supposed they caused
the disaster by smoking.
1t is stated that during the present year,
up to October 31st l53, ,055 migrants ar
| rived in Canada of whom SO, 1872 remained
| in the Dominion. This does not include
| arrivals in British Columbia or from the
| United States border between Emerson and
| the Rocky Mountains.
Eddie Larkins, two and half years old,
| with bright, fair complexion, blue eyes, red
| hair, wearing blue apron, striped stockings
and buttoned shoes, has been missing from
| the home of his parents in Susquehanna,
Penna., since Wednesday night. 1t is sup
posed he was kidnapped.
TheAgricultural Department estimates the
| yield of each cotton State as follows:
| Virginia, pounds of lint to the acre, ITS
North Carolina, 1S0 pounds; South Caro-
lima, 1873 Georgia, 152; Florida III; Ala
bama, $50; Mississippi, 100; Louisiana,
235; Texas, 240; Arkansas, 23S; Tennessee.
| 170.
! In Reading, Pcnna., yesterday morning,
| Henry Brown, wife and child, narrowly
escaped death from suffocation by coal gas.
/ When found, the bodies were cold and ap-
parantly dead, and the house was "plaeed
in mourning" but physicians, "after four
hours hard work." restored all three to
| consciousness.
In the Supreme Court at Providence, in
| the the case of William j. King & Sons
| against the Quidnick Company, in which
General B. F. Butler on Thursday evening
began argument for the defense, the Judge
refused yesterday morning to hear. further
argument, and instructed the jury to find a
verdict for the plaintiffs for the full
amount SS9S,9d
The New York Times figures Cleveland's
majority in New York State, according to
the latest rctsrns, at 190,016. The Albany
Evening Journal estimates it at 1914, GOO
Hills majority for Lieptepant Governor at
about 100, 900; Ruger's, ,DfM Chief Justice,
at 73 600, and Slocum, for Congressman-at-
Large, 107 900. 1t claims that the Free
Canal amendment is carried by over 200,-
900 votes and the Judiciary amendment by
$4,000.