Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-07-08

"A serious accident took place OF
Thursday on tho New Jersey Central
Railroad. A Long Branch train was
crossing Parker's Greek when five of the
cars toppled off the bridge into the wa
ter. The train was crowded with pleas
ure seekers going to the Branch. Three
persons were killed and over 20 injured,
some of them fatally and many seri-
ously. Gen. Grant was on the tram
but was pulled from the ruins of car,
having suffered no injury.
September - has been fixed ms the
date for holding the New Hampshire
Democratic State Convention IN Con-
cord.
Two detectives, named l.. +. Zero
and James Devany respectively,
attempted to fight a duel at Ripon,
Wis, but being interfered with by the
sheriff's officers the meeting degener-
ated into an affray, in which principal
Zero and his brother we're badly injured
Six lives were lost by flood at
Frenchburg, Ky.
Henry Cole, a Cincinnati lawyer
who become poor, killed his wife, his
daughter-nineteen years old-and then
committed suicide.
The indwellers of San Francisco
have been shaken up somewhat by two
rather severe shocks of an earthquake.
No damage done.
&C. d. r. Bradley. a gambler, was
hanged by mob at Rattan, n. NJ.
Elijah Van Knoughnet was hanged
at Kingston, Ont, for the murder of
John Richardson.
in the Pennsylvania Democratic
State Convention at Harrisburg, Robert
L. Pattison was nominated for Govern
or. He is Young man and belongs to
what is known as the Young Democracy
OF Philadelphia He has twice been
elected City Comptroller of Philadel-
phia. The platform adopted protests
against what is called the "boss" sys-
tenn and the plundering of office hold
ers by assessments of money for politi-
cal purposes; it protests against the
spolls system, denounces all reputation,
Safe and Federal, because it is dishonest;
denounces spollation of the State Treas
ury and immunity by pardon of those
convicted of crimes. The concluding
sections are as follows We believe the
Republican party, as now organized and
controlled, is based on fraud, force and
corruption, and there can be no hope of
true reform except by the force of the
baliot-box excluding it from place and
power. The Democratic party demands
legislative and honest, Just and true
apportionment.
The State ticket as completed
is as follows: For Governor,
Robert E. PGttison for Lieutenant
Governor, Chauncey F. Black /; for Sec
rotary of Internal Affairs, j. Simpson
Africa for Supreme Judge, Silas NJ
Clark; for Congressman-at-La Nor
timer z. Elliott.
The liquor prohibition amendment
in Iowa has a majority of probably over
forty thousand votes.
Some strange letters from Mr..
George Scoville, the brother in-law of
Gniteau, to his wife and John w. Gut
teau are made public. They set forth
whose hand produced horror to all that
IT touched, and that his wife, Mrs. S.,
was ready at all times to desert her hus-
band for such a monster
WASHINGTON NOTES
The bill removing the export ta X
on tobacco was passed by the House.
The Senate passed the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill.
The autopsy of Guiteau shows no
evidence of diseased brain.
1T is now thought that Congress
will adjourn by the 18th inst, or a day
or two after.
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the President return
ing, without his approval, the Deuster
bill to regulate the carriage of passen-
gers by sea. The bill asks too much OF
the steamship companies. Gays. the mes
sage. good bill Of the same character
correctly phrased would receive his
prompt assent as a public necessity and
blessing.
Custom House statistics show an
increase in the value of dry goods i'm.
ported during june over the same
month last year. Last month there was
an increase of about twenty-five pei
cent. in imports and exports over the
amount reported for May.
Captain Howgate, the defaulting
signal officer, announces, through a
friend, that he is all right, that he has
all the money he wants, and that he
can't be found till he gets ready to come
into court to be tried. he says he viii
be ready when wanted for trial.
The lawful money on deposit il
the United States Treasury for the re
demption of notes of banks reducing
circulation is S24 224 36S; failed banks
81 119 $50. 90; banks in liquidation
S1l. 7l2 779 40; making total fund o
S37, 056, 100 60.
Representative Harmer, of Penn
sylvania, presented in the House peti
lions signed by nearly three Thousand
operatives in twenty-six Philadei phil
factories praying for the Immediate cor
rection of the error in the Revised
Statutes 10y which knit goods are made
Subject to a much lower duty than thai
collected on wool.
MIR. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. asked
unanimous consent to report from the
Committee Old Ways and Means a Joint
resolution authorizing the Secretary o.
the Treasury to issue two per cent.
bonds or certificates in exchange fol
bonds bearing higher rate of interest
de sail that 1t was prepared under the
auspices of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. The resolution was passed.
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