The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-05-25
GENERAL NEWS.

the Irish pesautry and they have ap-
piled for passports for their protection.
Seneca v. Holloway, the default
Jog cashier Of the FIRST National
Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was
on Thursday at New York committed
in defauk Of $4,000 bail to answer
at Court
Frederick L. Jackson and Mrs.
Charles NJ. Hoyt, an clipping couple
from Batavia, N. Y, have been ar
rested near Portland, Oregon, and
are held awaiting advices from New
York.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, the National
Greenback Labor Party of Pennsylya-
MIA have in their State convention
adopted platform covering the po-
litisal issues Of the day.
The cold nights are having most
injurious effect upon the cotton crop
In some parts Of South Carolina.
The Georgia Democratic Conyeu-
ton has been called for July 10 at
Atlanta.
Last Thursday horse ran away at
st. Mary's Cemetery, Troy, N. Y,
with gravedigger named Fitzgerald,
who jumped from the wagon and
struck his head against rock, dan
gerously fracturing his skull.
The General Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
in session at Nashville, Tenn, has de-
cided TO elect Bishop in place of
Atticus G. Haygood, elected on Mon
day, who declined to be ordained.
The knitting mills at Seneca Falls,
N. Y, were burned on Thursday.
Loss 100000. Three hundred ope-
rators are thrown out of employment.
| The jail ct Westminster, Md, was
burned on Friday.
Stephen G.. Effler was hanged on
Friday at Marion, N. c., for wife
murder, committed in Burk county
10 January, 1881.
At Chicago on Friday Mrs. John
Martin was fatally burned, snd her
two children we're seriously burned,
| by the explosion of an oil stove.
Augustus D. Leighton, colored,
who murdered his mistress, Mary
Dean. in June, 1880, by cutting her
throat with a razor, was hanged at
New York on Friday last.
Mrs Holmes, tried at Syracuse, N.
Y, for poisoning her husband in
May, 1881, was acquitted on Friday,
aud a nolle pros. was entered in the
case of George Roberts, jointly in
dicted with her.
~ W W. Rea, condemned to be
hanged on Friday at Pulaski, Tenn /,
for killing j. T. Goodrum, took tea
spoonful Of morphine but vomited
shortly af'erward, and was subsequent
" hanged.
Rosa Osbourne and her daughter,
aged 10 years, were found dead on
Friday at Lebanon, KY, the mother
10 little stream with cus on the
head, and the child in bed with its
throat cut. There is no clew to the
criminal
Mrs. Lizzie Wall, indicted for
manslaughter in shooting and killing
her husband George Barry Wall, in
February last, at New Utrecht, L. l.,
was on Friday admitted to bail in the
sum of $2500, pending trial.
Edward Urell, residing at Fail
River, Mass, while drunk on Thurs
/ day night, assaulted his wife, who
was asleep, and the woman will prob
ably die, Notwithstanding which she
expressed desire that her husband
who is under arrest, shall not be per.
secuted.
The General Assembly of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church met Of
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, 90 Thursday. Rev.
s. Il. Buchanan Of Little Rock, Ark,
was elected Moderator. Rev. W. j.
Darby of Evansville, Moderator Of
the last Assembly, delivered the open
ing sermon.
Fire destroyed property worth
100000 in Leadville, COL, on Fri.
day. Several lives are supposed to
have been lost
The City of Owen Sound, Cana.
dian passenger steamer, was totally de.
stroyed by fire on Lake Huron. Two
persons lost their lives.
The steamer Prussian, of the Alias
, line, arrived OF st. Johns, N. E. from
Liverpool, had narrow escape from
: destruction OF the voyage BY colliding
with large iceberg.
DR.. Kendall, who was shot while
as it is supposed, he was about to ROT
grave near Syracuse, N. Y, died or
Friday evening.
AGAINST TIE ADVICE OF FRIENDS
BATAVIA, N. Y. Feb. 6, 1880.
II. Fl. WARNER & Co. Sirs-
! BY kidney disease was reduced to {
} walking skeleton. Against the advice o
( friends. / took your Safe Kidney anC