Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-03-25

"A joint resolution was passed by
the New York Legislature asking
Executive clemency for Sergeant Ma
son.
AT Boston Mary E. Parker obtained
verdict OF $500 damages for in
juries received while passenger on the
Boston and Albany Railroad.
"A whirlpool is formed at the june
tion,of the Mississippi andsYazoo Rivers
which destroys everything in its course.
The locality of the whirlpool is chang
ing continually, and every day it effects
new destruction. A large yawl filled
with negroes was caught in it the other
day and upset, and all the occupants of
the boat were drowned.
- The report of snowslide at Genoa,
New, is confirmed. Three white per-
sons and several Indians were killed.
Reports from Memphis and other
places III the Soath state that the
Mississippi is slowly falling at all
points. The government commissioners
we're busily engaged relieving destitute
sufferers.
"A large number of weayers have
joined the strike of the other mill
operatives in Lawrence, Mass.
The captain and fourteen men Of
the ship Screamer, Of New York, which
foundered at sea, were landed at Prov
incetown, Mass, having been rescued
by Nova Scotian brig. Three men
are known to have perIshed, and it is
feared that fourth was also drowned.
The Garfield Monument Committee
has received contributions to the
amount Of S106, 600 and make an appeal
for the remainder of the $3.50, 600 neces-
sary.
Albion w. Tourgee will deliver the
address at the meeting of the New York
State Press Association at Jamestown,
n Y, in June.
Frederick A. Palmer, ex-Auditor Of
Accounts of Newark, was sentenced in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at
Newsrk, to twenty years in the State
Prison, on eight indictments of forgery
of warrants and Endorsements of war
rants on the City Treasury, by which
he obtained over $220,000 of the city's
money.
Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, has ap-
pointed Thursday, April 13, as day of
fasting and prayer in that State.
The dwelling Of Alfred Willis at
Cardiff, Ont, was burned on Monday,
His three children persisted.
Five boys were digging q tunnel at
st. Joseph, No.. Friday, the earth caved
in, burying them alive. Michael Garrish
olD h of s. ,x.lo,,
the bodies were recovered. but he died
as he was beng taken out OF the pit.
The Garfield Club of New York
City has issued petitions to be circu-
lated for signature asking the President
to commute the sentence of Sergeant
Mason.
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, re-
prieved Ike Turner just twenty min
utes before the time fixed for him to be
hanged.
-Ex-Gov. f. ID. Morgan, of New
York, has given $4,000 to Williams
College For the purpose Of binding a
new dormitory.
The number of failures that &C
CURED in The United States during the
past week was one hundred and forty,
q decrease of thirty-seven the preceding
week and ten less than the correspond
ing week of last year. The only section
which showed au increase was New
England, although that was very slight,
and the failures generally were of much
less Importance than those OF the pre-
eeding week.
A man, vino is sad to be insane,
attempted to kill DIR. Gray, Superin-
tendent of the State Insane Asylum, nj
Utica, n. Y, in the latter's office, by
shooting him. The bali passed through
the doctors cheek.
The schooner Bellerophon, of Glou-
cester, which has been absent since
January % on the Banks halibut fish
ing, has been given up by her owners
rs lost with her crew Of fourteen men.
This loss swells the number to seventy
five men from this port since January l.
Special correspondence from Lima
reports that MIR. Prescott is said to have
approved Ct the CHILEAN terms Of peace,
including the cession of Tarapaca and
The occupation of other districts pend
ing the payment of a money indemnity
Pierola is endeayoring to form an adj
ministration with the view of accepting
these terms.
Sergeant Mason was lodged in the
Albany Penitentiary on Thursday. A
resolution praying for tire reduction OF
his sentence to expulsion from the army
Is before the New York Assembly.
An Ottawa, Ont, special says it is
announced there that the Empress Of
Austria viii visit Canada and the United
States next fall and that the Prince Of
Wales will accompany her and his SIS
ter, the Princess Louise.
By q boiler explosion at Lynn,
Mass, q shce factory was destroyed,
ono man was killed and four were in
iured.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Letters, petitions and applications
of I'll sorts hearing upon the case of Ser
geant Mason come to the President in
every mail from all parts of the country.
A larger number than usual arrived
Monday. They are being properly ar
ranged, and will, OF the proper time, be
referred to the Secretary OF War for
consideration and report.
One Of our consuls in Germany, Mr..
Canislus, has sent to the State Depart