The daily gazette., 1882-12-07
MORNING SUMMARY.

Several buildings In Chareton, Iowa, were
burned on Tuesday Loss, $4,000.
The furniture factory of William Long in
Pell street, New York, was burned out yes
terday morning. Loss, S2S 900.
Counterfeit five dollar notes of the Bank
of Nova Scotia and of the National Bank OF
Troy, New York k,are circulating in Montreal
The Governor Of Louisiana on Tuesday
issued a certificate 10 Mr.. Kellogg as Con-
gresham elect from the Third district Of
that State.
The house Of Colonel William Harris, in
levcland, Ohio, was robbed on TUESDAY
evening of diamonds and jewelry to the
value Of $4,000.
Mary Ann Weidner died yesterday in
Reading at the age Of G7 years, after havinc
been for 36 years paralytie, speechless and
unable to move limb
In the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia yesterday the Grand Jury was
completed and charged by Judge Wylie,
after which the Court adjourned
Shawnee College, near Bedford, Indiana.
was burned on Monday night, with
museum of Indian curiosities, valued al
$4,000. The fire is ascribed to incen-
diarism.
The official list of members of the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives at Har-
risburg, just made out by Resident Clerk
Patterson, comprises 113 Democrats and SS
Republicans.
The weavers in the st. Henri Cotton
Mills, at Montreal, who recently struck
against piece work, have resumed, and ii is
said they make about 25 per cent. more
than when they were paid by the day.
John Trinler of Chicago cut his wife's
throat and his own, in Louisville. yesterday.
He is dead, and his wife was dying at last
accounts. He had been engaged in litiga-
ton, and 1t is supposed his mind was
affected.
The President yesterday approved re-
port of the Government Commissioners ac-
cepting the newly completed section of the
Northern Pacific railway, comprising
l04 5S 100 miles of road in Montana and the
bridge across the Missouri river.
The Charleston Cotton Factory, In
Charleston, S. C.-the first cotton mil
erected in that city since the war-wil
begin spinning next week, 1t has $4,000
spindles, with capacity for $4,000 more,
and will be run entirely by steam.
The underground fires in the cinder forma-
tions of the New Jersey Steel and Iron
Works at Trenton, broke out atresh on
Tuesday and were still burning yesterday
Workmen were engaged in digging trenches
and introducing water to extinguish the
flames.
At meeting of the Wholesale tobacco
manufacturers in ST. Louis yesterday, about
40 representatives of the trade being present,
resolution was adopted requesting Con-
gress to repeal the tax on tobacco as quickly
as possible, and to allow rebate on all un-
broken packages in the hands of dealers at
the time of such repeal.
The granite hl0pls af Third and G;b1o,,
streets, in St. Paul, owned by Charles Lock-
hart and occupied mainly by Nichols &
Dean, Wholesale hardware dealers, was
burned yesterday. The store of Merrill,
Sahlgaard & Thoring, wholesale druggists,
adjoining, was damaged. The total loss is
at 100000.
A committee representing the Newark
Methodist Episcopal Conference, the Baptist
State Convention, Presbyterian Synod, and
Reformed Dutch Church in New Jersey,
met yesterday in Newark and adopted reso-
lutions recommending the churches to mem
orialize the Legislature in favor OF a pro-
hibtory amendment to the State Constitu.
ton.
special meeting of the Western Iron
Association was held vest rday In Pittsburg
to consider the state of the trade, The re-
port showed that "whilc prices are low,
stocks were not accumulating, and If lhp
were not so eager to put their
stocks on the market, prices would be bet
ter" The steel trade was s'aiso looking up."
and It was stated that, 'since the reduc.
tio", orders had been placed for 200, 600 |
tons OF steel rails"
The President yesterday nominated Bri ga |
lier General John Pope to be Major GENERAL;
Colonel r. s. Mackenzie of tie Fourth |
Cavalry, to be Brigadier General; Major
William A. Rucker, Paymaster, to be Lieu |
tenant Colonel and Deputy Paymaster
General; Commodore Earl English to be |
Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Re- |
cruting in the Navy Henry NJ Morgan Of |
Louisiana to be Secretary of Legation in |
Mexico; Edward NJ. Cheney to be United |
States Attorney for Northern Florida, and |
Hillman A. Hall to be Justice OF the Peace |
for the District of Colum bia.