The daily gazette., 1882-01-25
GENERAL NEWS.

-Four additional ballots for Speaker
were taken ia the New YORK Assembly
yesterday without effect.
Governor Cornell has ordered spec
ial election TO fill the vacancy Ia the
Senate OF New Y ok caused by Senator
WAgner's death.
The Navy Department Is examining a
new movable bowsprlt, the invention Of
Admiral Porter, with view to It's adop-
tion In the navy
The fourth annual session of the Ma
tional auard Association Of New York
began yetteTdRy, in Albany, Major
General Rogers, OF Buffalo, pr sid
Ing.
The track of the Guaymas Railroad in
Sonora Is nos laid TO Within twenty
nine miles OF HermosiIlo, and II Ii being
extended at the rate OF mile and half
per day.
IlIs said the project for ship canal
across Caps Cod has been abandoued,.
secenl surveys showing that the work
would cost Sl,0O0,000 more tnan was
calculated.
Five hundred lasters In Rochester, New
York, struck, struck yesterday tor au
advance of 25 per csDt, Two Thousand
men are thrown out of work in conse-
quence of this strike.
Tue Boston and Albany Railroad de-
cIded yesterday TO fall into line with u .
other roads, aud an advance Of 30 to As
cents per 100 pounds ior hrsl-class
| freight y Ill lake effect on that road to-
day.
| There being some doubt as to The IL
| gali,y OF thesreceIt election of United
States Senators by the Iowa Legislature
that body yesterday ratified their choice
OF Messrs. Wilson aud McDlll by
another formal ballot.
General Wilcox, commanding the De
pariment of Arizona, has sent 10 the
War Department the charges agai nst
Colonel f. A. Carr, of the Sixth Cavsl
ry. They are "oger-exereise of authori-
~, disobedience of orders aud Intempsr.
auce."
The Senator yesterday confirmed
Nathan Webb as U. S. Districe Ju ge
for Maine; d. I. B1ynton, Pension
Agent at Knoxville; II. b. Sheldon,
Indian Agent at the Round Valley
Agency in California, ami Il. B. Luce,
Agent at the White Earth Agency in
Minnesota.
General Sheridan has forwarded 10
Washington report ON the arrast 6l
Lieutenant McDeuald was on an Incian
trail, aud vent to the Mexican town
where he was arrested, for forage. His
release was ordered by higher author
ty than that which caused his arrest.
The President yesterday nominated
Saml. Post 10 be Pension Agent at De-
troii; s. MeCulcheon, u. s. Attorney
for Eastern Michigan; Henry N. Lewis,
U s. Attorney tor Western Wisconsin,
s. s. Matthe Us, U. S. Marshal for Eal-
tern Michigan; j. l.. Moryhis, u. s.
Marshal for Northern Mississippi; and
the following pos masters: JOS. E.
Hughes, at Cape May, N. j.; Chas. f
Sayles, Troy, Pa, Miss Mamie B. Im-
brie. Beaver, Pa; g. O. W. Hazard,
Monongahela City Penaa.
The Grand Jury OF Mercer county
New Jersey indicted a number ol
Princeton students for malicious
mischief in breaking street lamps
etc.
The flood at Nashville continued
slowly 10 snbside yesterday but
another rise was reported one hun
dred miles above. Within the last
few days a "Ladies Relief Society,"
has issued ten thousand rations tC
sufferers by the overflow. The towr
of John sonville is inundated.
The schooner A. and e Hooper
with railroad iron from Philadel phla
! for Newburn, North Carolina. wen
ashore Is miles north of c Chincotague
Station. The schooner Chancellor
from the Potomac with oysters, fol
New Haven went ashore near th,
same place. Both crews were saw
! ed.