The National tribune., 1882-10-05

! anu oIheT placeS aItlClpdIe'-
The General Trans Atlantic Steamship Com
! pany have inauguratcd regular line of steam
ers between Baltimore and Havre, to run in
connection with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company.
A company Of Iowa capitalists have gone to
| Birmingham. Ala, with 100000 to establish
another iron blast furnace. There are So, ,G50000
| invested in pig-iron manufacture in this dis
! trict.
The st. Paul and Duluth Railroad earnings
! for three weeks in September, 1882, were $19,-
! 1910, an increase of $3i, 1854 over the cor
responding period of last year.
frank Thomson was elected vice-president
of the ?. W. & b. R. R., to take the place of
! A. J. Cassatt, resigned. Charles E. Pugh was
! chosen general manager.
The trustees and directors of the Peabody
educational fund met in New York City
! Wednesday.
Judge Andrews has accepted the nomination
for chief judge of the New York court of ap-
pealS
The election of Mr.. Stephens as Governor of
| Georgia is conceded.
The Democratic convention OF Connecticut
met in Hartford, Oct. 4th
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The steamer Il. Z. Lee was burned to the
waters edge on the Mississippi at o'clock on
the morning of the Both ult., and twenty-one
lives were lost. The cause of the fire is un-
known, but is supposed to have originated in
the pastry room. The boat was worth 100000
IL, ,4c
at Trenton, n. J., October Sd, with preparing
false pension aflidavits, and Robert Estell was
charged with having taken $500 in one case
and $500 in another for procuring soldiers
pensions.
jim Rhodes, who murdered J. O. Masse and
wife, March :, was brought back to Charlottes-
Vile, Va, and put in jail. A crowd of masked
men took him from the jail, Sunday night last,
and hung him.
The toy pistol has extended its ravages into
| Franco. Nine. Lemercier was shot by her
little boy while dressing for arehearsal. Three
bullets were extracted by the surgeon.
Disher Clapper boy of fourteen, was i'm
paled on a blackberry stalk while picking ber-
ries near Rochester, n. Y, October 1st, and
death resulted.
The total number of cases of yellow fever at
Pensacola, Florida since the epidemic began is
$50, Of which 81 died.
Rudolph Krick, eight years old, blew out
the brains of servant girl at Chicago on
Monday.
Nineteen buildings were burned at Ridge
way, Pa, September Goth, ontailing loss of
$4,000.
CAPITAL TOPICS.
Prof w. G. Tilden on Monday submitted to
District Attorney Corkhill his official report of
chemical examination he has just concluded of
| the poisoned bouquet that was given to Guiteau
by his sister, Mrs. ScovilIe, the day before his
execution. Thercport says that the large bud Ia
half opened flower contained over five grains
of "white arsenic" (arsonious acid. This
quantity was not only sufficient to cause death
to any human being, had it been swallowed,
but, owing probably to ignorance, was so largely
in excess Of a fatal dose that the intent of the
person who thus prepared the flowers would
have been defeated by emetics. The original
amount of arsenic was greater than that found
as the petals of the flowers failed to retain in
dry state some which adhered when moist The
exhibits of the chemical process employed are
deposited in the Army Medical Museum. The
qualitative tests were those of Reinsch, Ere
senius, Won Babo, and Marsh. Mr.. Corkhill is
now at work trying to discover who it was that
| poisoned the flowers, and if the person could
| be discovered he would be held to answer the
! charge.
| The court of inquiry to investigate the Jean
nette expedition Will organize at the Navy
Department to-day, when it Will be determined
| in what order the inquiry shall proceed. The
proceedings will probably be conducted with
closed doors, for the reason that the inquiry is
made by resolution Of Congress, and the tcsti-
mony and conclusions of the court will be trans
mitted by the Secretary Of the Navy to that
body for its action when it meets next Decem-
! Der. Mr.. Walton, with his daughter, Hrs. De-
! Long, returned to New York on Tuesday. 1t
has been arranged that all the private papers
and diary of Capt. De Long shall be copied for
! the archives of the Navy Department, and the
| originals given to Mrs. DcLong. Lieut.. Danen-
! hover, who expects to deliver a number of
! lectures this fall and winter on the course of
! the Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette, has
had prepared to illustrate his lecture an elabo-
rate and most beautifully executed chart of the
| late perilous Arctic explorations.
The record and pension division of the Sur
! geon-Generals Office, at the Army Medical
Museum, has been subdivided into an eastern
and q western and southern division, and the
| latter has been moved into the new stores ad-
| Joining the Hotzman Building, at the corner
! Of Tenth and streets northwest. The new
! quarters were taken possession of on Monday
| by a force of about ninety clerks, in charge of
! DR. r. L. Sinner, and the ample light facili-
tating their work at this place contrasts favor
| ably with the old quarters at the Museum,
where the spacious lower hail was becoming
uncomfortaby crowded. The additional space
| obtained permits the employment Of the entire
! force during the daytime, instead Of nccesitat-
| ing the continuation Of the night force hereto
/ fore at work at the Museum.
One million and a half dollars surplus reve-
nue. will be derived from the Post-OGicc De-
partmcnt for the fiscal year ended June 30, as
shown in a rough draft Of reccips and cXpendi-
/ lures prepared by Chief BOoll-keeper Smith, in
the Office of the Sixth Auditor The excess of
revenues over expenses will approximate ST.
100000, but this will be reduced by liabilities
! yet unadjusted Of about 100000 leaving net
revenue Of not less than 81 100000 and prOba-
/ blv more This is a better showing than was