The daily gazette., 1882-03-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The Legislature Of Iowa yesterday
passed bills exemptlng sewing machines
used by seamstresses fom execution
and providing for the punishment Of
registered pharmacists who sell liquor
illegally.
The New Jersey Court Of Pardons
yesterday restored TO citizenship the
striking worklngmen of Newark, who
had been convicted of conspiracy.
Nineteen deaths from smallpox were
reported in Pittsburg last week.
Edwin Shatter, lawyer and polite
Ian OF Tuckerton, Berks county, PennA.
died yesterday from an overdose of NOR
phia.
The annual Conference Of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church and the Bali-
more Conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church began yesterday in Balti-
more. The membern Of the latter body
attended the funeral Of Rev. George
Hildt in the afternoon.
1t 10 privately reported from Rome,
upon what authority Is unknown, that
be Pope has decided to send Q Papal
delegate to Canada, aud that bis name
will be published in few weeks.
McMaster d Co. have begun another
suit for $500,000 at Monlreal, against
the Temporal ties board of the Presby-
terian Church, to compel that body go
render AZ account Of its stewardship"
The President has recognized George
Henry Adderly Box as Vice Consul of
Great Britain At Charleston, and Thom-
as Schmidt as Vice Consul of Denmark
at New York.
hey. Eugene Sheehy, who came to
this country in the interests of the Irish
Land League, sailed from New York
yesterday for Europe. He expressed
himself well pleased with the results Of
his visit.
Edward Deysher, of Pikesville, Berks
county, Penna., committed suicide on
Tuesday by shooting himself.
Y. w. Havenner, who shot himself In
ms othce, ia Washington, on Monday,
died Yesterday of his injuries.
August Kisner, committed to the
city Jail in Baltimore on Saturday, for
dlsorderly conduct, hanged binself yes
terday III his cell.
Reuben Lyon, so years OF age, recent
ly diamond broker in Baltimore, com
mitted suicide y, sterday in that city by
taking laudanum.
Henry Hedschwinder, of New York
comInitted suicide in Brooklyn, lasI
night, by stabbing himself to the heart.
Rev. Edward Fl. Ellis, of Nepons tt
Massachusetts,, q prominent revivAlis,
was ARE S ed in the pulpit at North
Haven, Maine, on Tuesday morning, OIL
a charge of immortality, preferred by I
prominent citizen OF ThomastoD.
A. w. Perry, boot and shoe manufac
tui er If Boston, Is reported to hsv'
failed with liabilities amounting /,
$4,000. Most OF his indebtedness Is Il
Boston leather merchants.
A delegation Of the employees OF th
State, War and Navy Departments, anC
tf the navy yards throughout the coun
try, called upon the President yester
day, and urgei the enforcement OF th
Eight Hour law, as was done uude
President Grants Administration.
The u. S. Court of Claims, yesterday
at the instance of Attorney Genera
Brewster, extended the time for takinl
testimony In the Choctaw Nation casa :
claim involving $l5, 5,0O0,0O0.
The total exports on petroleu m from
the United States during the seVel
| moulDS euulER JADuhTy olet lhbl, Wer
valued at $31, ,772, 900, against $22, $50,
936 for the corresponding period Of the
preceding year.
The Board of Agriculture of IllinOi
reports that the acreage seeded In thA
State for the next crop Of winter wheal
has been 2,676,000 ceres, or $275, ,00t
less than for the previous crop. The con
dition of the crop throughout the StAtC
is above the average.
Argument was made yesterday befor,
the House Committee on Commerce, By
Mr.. Allen, Of the Kansas City Board o
Trade, N favor OF an appropriation OF
$4,000 900 for the improvement ofth'
Missouri river. This amount, said Mr.
Allen, "would render the river naviga
BILE from Queen City to st. Louis"
A subcommittee II the Committee OF
Ways and Means yesterday heard Argu
menL from number If manufacturer:
of glucose against the bill imposing
tax on that product. It Is understood
that the bill will be reported adversely.
A. J. Drexel, Treasurer, has SO far re
ceived S17,599.79 for the Jewish re