Daily Republican., 1882-10-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
KECOHD OF ACCIDENTS -PREgE~
DENT ARTHUR HIS
ROUNDS.

| AA~ON DSs
Suits have been brought in Washing
ton, on behalf of Samuel J. Lee and
Gordon McGrath, against Congressman
Mackey, of South Carolina, for services
rendered to Mackey as notaries in his
contest with O'Conpor for seat in tho
Forty.sixth Congress. The complaints
allege that Mackey obtained from Con-
gress th' money to pay his expenses In
the contest, and appropriated it to his
own use.
The body of Richard Langston, a
well known Englishman, who lived near
Prossect Station, ON the Norfolk aLd
Western Railroad, in Virginia, was
found yesterday morning several miles
from his home, badly mutilated. He
left his home in a buggy the previous
evening; whether he was killed by
falling from the vehicle or was murder
ed Is not known.
Telescope observations of the comet
made yesterday morning by Professor
Brooks, of the Red House Observatory,
at Phelps, New York, "show the recent
disturbance in the head to be subsiding.
The nucleus is now condensed and pear
shaped The tail. appeared brighter
with a length of fifty millions of
miles"
James A. Watkins, a ReadjusteE
member of the last Virginia Legislature,
was indicted in Richmond ON Saturday
''for selling, for 500, his influence as a
member to procure for e. s. Britting-
ham place as guard at the Peniten-
tiDru - Tho onaiVouf "otlrinn
| was sent to the Sheriff of Appomattox
county. returnable on the 10Th inst.
The State Convention of the Graugers
of California met in Stockton on Satur.
day, and nominated Railroad CommisS-
sioners and members of the State Board
of Equalization, selecting their candi-
| dates mostly from among those the
Republican and Democratic tickets No
nominations were made tor Judges Of
the Supreme Court.
The Tunnel colliery, at Ashland, Pa,
operated by the Reading Goal and Iron
Company, was flooded on Saturday by
the breaking of pillar which separat-
ed 1t from an abandoned working. The
water rushed in 80 suddenly that there
was no time to hoist the mules which
were at work Inside.
William f. Salter and Wilmnt FL.
Ward, of Washington, were arrest" d
on Saturday night and committed on
the charge of oonspiriug to steal bonds
and plates from the Treasury Depart
ment and trying to bribe employees to
assist them in the crime.
The Greenback StSte Central Com
miJtee of Indiana have named W. e.
! Niblack, Of the Democratic ticket, and
Judges Mibbey and Berkshire, of the
Republican ticket, for Supreme Court
Judges, to be voted for by Green
hackers.
Francis Snyder, prominent farmer
of Msrelaud township, in Lycomlng
county, Penna. was killed near his
home on Friday by his horse and wagon
tumbling down an embankment. He
was drunk when last seen alive.
The boiler in Smiths saw mill, at
Longford Mills, Ontario, exploded on
Saturday, killing the foreman, Ellis,
and his assistant, Gray. Several others
we're injured.
An accommodation train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was thrOwA
from the track near Rohrerstown, yes
terday morning, by the spreading OF
the rails No person was injured, kbuk
travel was delayed for some time.
By the premature explosion of
blast last Friday evening near Noun
tain Store, eighty miles east of Spring
field, Missouri, five men were killed
and six others dangerously injured.
The hearing in the extradition case
of Major Phipps, took place on Satur-
day, at Hamilton, Ontario. After the
arguments were finished the Judge said
he would render his decision on the 10Th
inst.
General B. F. Butler has written let
ters accepting the nominations Of the
Democratic and Greenback Labor Con-
ventions for Governor Of Massachu-
settS.
George Huntington, his wife and four
of their seven children were drowned
by the capsizing of a sail boat in Plum
Island river, Massachusetts,, on Satur-
day morning.
Fourteen cars of freight tran were
wrecked near Crystal Springs, Louisi-
ana, on Saturday morning, by running
over a mule. One man was killed,