Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

-ETSucTlCh MiucI, ol IHIlduclpHld,
was bitten by small dog four months
ago. He was seized with all the symp
toms of hydrophobia on Thursday last
and died on Sunday.
A movement is on foot to bring out
to the Canadian Northwest colonies Of
Jews from Russia.
General Terry says: "The Indian
outlook in Northern Montana is unfav-
orable. Buffalo are rapidly diminish
ing. the Indians are making raids on the
cattle, and the ranchmen are organizing
for protection.
70, 276, 312 bushels of grain were
shipped to Europe last year, not one
bushel of which went in an American
ship.
Three persons were killed and two
fatally and twelve seriously Injured at
Syracuse by the fail of two walls upon a
restaurant.
The case against DR.. Lamson, the
American charged with poisoning his
brother-in-law, is complete. A London
correspondent says the prisoner main
tanned a cool demeanor in spite of the
overwhelming evidence of his guilt.
The revenue of the Dominion of
Canada, for the half year ending De
cember 81, was SIC, 1877, 624 and the ex-
penditures ST., 322, OLA.
Three boys, all aged about twelve
years, were drowned while playing on
the ice on a pond at Charlestown,
Mass, Saturday.
Two more women who were injured
in the Shanesville, o., disaster have
died.
-Havemeyers & Elders sugar rein
cry, at Williamsburg N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday. The loss is
about 81 800, 600.
"A fre-damp explosion occurred at
Lansford, Pa, Saturday afternoon, kill
ing one man and injuring nine miners,
some of them fatally.
Orders were received at New Or
leans from San Francisco to provide
freight room in March and April for
1S0,00 bushels of wheat to Great
Britain. This wheat will be shipped
from California TO New Orleans by the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
jacob Courtwright and Luban
Saunders fell while wrestling in saw
mill at Muncie, Ind, and were both
caught in the machinery of the engine
and crushed to death.
The disastrous effect of the drought
last summer is shown by the report on
the corn crop furnished by the State
Department of Agriculture of Illinois
The total yield is TIA. 996, 600 bushels
for the year 1881, or 20 par cent. of the
crop of 1880. and only 80 per cent. Of
the crop Of 1879.
John Heating pleaded guilty in
Philadelphia to making false return of
election in the Fourth Ward in the cleo
ton for Mayor. Judge Briggs sentenced
him to six months imprisonment, to
pay fine of 800 and to be disfranchised
and debarred from holding any office
under the commonwealth for seven
years.
The Boston subscriptions to the
Michigan Relief Fund amount to
SCI, 639.
The schooner Shelldrake, which
pllCu bCtNGCn hdNiC TIC
Grace, was missing several weeks. Her
owner, John S. Wilson, found her de-
serted at Canton. Her captain, Casper
Smith, las lying dead in the cabin with
his skull crushed in. His assistant,
Richard Moore, sailor, was arrested.
Seven men were hanged on Friday,
Jan. 18th, in various parts of the coun-
try.
"A train on the Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Railroad on Thursday near Chi
cago ran down three workmeD. killing
two of them and fatally injuring the
third.
Twenty railroads with an ag-
gregate mileage of 2,617 miles. ard All
apparent investment of S51, 27S, 600 in
capital stock and SIC 645 600 in bonds
and other indebtedness making a total
of Sl2S, 900, 900, have been sold during
1881 to wind up their obligations.
"A decree has been issued by the
Government of st. Domingo ordering
the liberation of the Spanish prisoners
who took part in the expedition of Con
zalez from Porto Rico.
The annual message of Governor
Long, of Massachusetts,, embraces the
following information: Debt of the State
on January l, 1882, $50, 800. 464 The
Sinking Fund has increased to $14, 49,
| ISL. The expense of the administration OF
State affairs increased about half mil
lion Of dollars during the past year, and
the estimates for the ems uing year are a
quarter of a million in excess of last
year. A tax Of 81, COCO will be re-
quired, ard possibly $500, coo more.
During the funeral If the pastor OF
the Salem Church, at Quincy, Ill on
Thursday, through some unknown cause
a panic occurred. Ten or twelve per-
sons were seriously injured.
The provisions of the naturalization
treaty between Germany and the United
States have finally been extended all
over Germany.
The Gloucester fishing fleet for 1881
numbered 437 vessels, four less than
that of 1880. The catch for 1881 is less
than that of last year.
| "A can of dynamite exploded on
the line of the Hastings and Saltwater
| (Minn.) Railway, killing one laborer
and seriously iniuring two others.
The debt statement of the United
States issued January LIST, 1882, is as
follows: Total debt, principal S2,003,-
333, 07S.l8; interest $l5,536, 6l9.67;
total 50, 019, 1863. 697 So; total cash in the
Treasury 1858, 377, $50. 76; debt, less
cash in Traacurv Ionuory 1900