Smyrna times., 1882-05-03
News Items.

J. II. Primrose, Smyrna, Del,-Boots,
Shoes, Hats and Trunks.
The saloons in Cleveland, Ohio, were
nearly all closed Sunday, and no arrests
were made.
The steamer Hope, of Peterhead, has
been chartered to search for Leigh Smiths
Arctic expedition.
Twelve hundred and seventeen pas
sengers sailed from New York for Europe
OH Saturday, in seven ocean steamers.
A committee from New York yesterday
presented to the President an Immense"
petition for the pardon Of Sergeant Mason.
In the Criminal Court at Washington
Yesterday the trial Of A. &. SOteldO, in
dicted for murder, was set for the 9th Of
June.
The carpenters strike in Cincinnati is
well under way, the builders having re-
fused to give the advance demanded of 30
cents per day
Senator Ben Hill has lost brother,
sister and two aunts from the same disease
-cancer-which has taken such hold
upon his own system.
Tho sexton of one Of the New York
fashionable churches boasts of having re-
ceived six hundred ana odd dollars in
wedding fees since Easter.
A State cOnyentiOn of the Straight
out" Greenbackcrs Of Maine will meet in
Portland on the Both instant to nominate
a Governor and four COngressmen.
A fight is reported to have occurred be-
tween Captain Tupper's command and
| Indians near ClOverdale, New Mexico, on
| the 28th ult., in which fifteen Indians and
four whites were killed.
/ Carl SchuPZ, is a recent magazine arti-
Gle says that the two great parties are in
Il peculiar condition, inasmu IA as the
! uuarrels of factions within each are much
fercer than the contests between the two
Senator Miller's anti-C Chinese speech is
i'm such demand that though 10000 COZ les
have been distributed 10000 more are be.
ing print d. The postage on these copies,
had Mr.. Miller been required to pay it,
would have amounted to over $1,000.
Twenty-four houses belonging to the
! KnickerbOcker Ice Company, Oppos e
Poughkeepsie, were burned Monday.
The buildings were valued at $4,000. A
number of smaller buildings were also
destroyed. 1t is supposed they caught
fire from burning woods
Some virtue has broken out in st. Louis
and over four hundred indictments have
been returned against managers of l)ttery
concerns in that city. St. l. Iuis has been
the headquarters of about as much lottery
business as any city could have an ambi-
ton for, and it will be a pretty big job to
break it up
The postofiiee appropriation bill has
now passed both houses Of COngTess, the
: House on Saturday last having agreed to
the Senate amendments. As passed, the
? frankiag-privilege amendment is rejected
, whilst the appropriation for special mail
? facilities on trunk lines is amended 40 as
to appropriate 5000, 900, to be expended as
, far ~ practicable in the principal cities o
the United States.
Tae Irish land question has entered on
a Bew phase. The Marquis Of Salisbury
: offers to out-IIerOd Hcrod by making the
Irish tenant the proprietor Of the farm, o
which Mr.. GledstOne's bill gave him but
: fourth part. The Marquis favors a scheme
by which the tenant will enter upon the
immediate possession OF the farm occupied
! by him, the government advancing th'
! purchase money, which will be repaid b!
: the tenant in small installments continued
through many years
2 Captain Jack, Of the White River Utes
{ was arrested on the 29th ult., near For
| Washakie, Wyoming, the arrest beinl
: made by order ofthe Interior Department
r Soon afterwards Jack attemptedto escape
{ and fed to q tepee, where he secured
!. carblne aAd killed Sergeant Casey, of tn
/. Third Cavalry. A mountain hOwitze
E was then fired into the tepee, and Jacl
4 ! was instantly killed. He was leader il
: the Thornherg and Meeker massacres, anr
was considered very dangerous.