Daily Republican., 1882-05-04
NEWS SUMMARY,
IRJAH 0YMPATAN RESOLU.
TIONS PASSED By THE DUnlG.
loN SENA

| avn WEN a 4Ss
In the Dominion Senate of Tuesday !,
Mr.. Rowland moved the Irish ~ n.
pathy resolution passed SOY tho HoL 20,
and supported them in speech. Mr..
Power seconded the resolutions, after
which they were opposed by Mossrs.
Read and Alexander. Mr.. Haythorns
proposed that several paragraphs DO
amended. The debate continued until
adjournment. Debate was continued
yesterday, and after rejecting Hay
thorne's amendment the resolution
were adopted by vote of thirty six to
Ave.
The wLite railroad laborers at Corn :
wall, New York, struck yesterday for
an advance of 25 cents per day, and
compelled the colored men to quit work.
Several arrests were made, and the CO.
lored laborers, being promised rroCec-
tion, returned to work. In consequence
of the strike he cotton mills shut d wn,
throwing 400 persons out of emp oy-
ment.
1t is now ascertained that John X.
Varney, Judge of the Police Court in
f.! Dover, New Hampshire, was killed by
the ia ling of the walls of the burned
church in that city ON Teusday after !
noon. He was 63 years of age. Two
school boys who are missing are sup
posed TO have also perished in the same
building.
Edgar Chittenden, a young man, was
shot and dangerously wounded in In
dlanapolis on Tuesday night by man
named Ryan, defeated candidate for
Town Marshal. Uhittenden had huI-
rahed for the succ' ssfHl candidate in
Ryan's presence, hence the shooting.
Ryan is in Jail.
The annual meeting of the African
M. E. Conference OF the First District
opened yesterday in West Chester,
Bishop Brown, of Washington, pre-
siding. About 200 delegates, and
Bishops Wayman, of Baltimore, and
Campbell, of Florida, were present.
The striking horsesboers and plum
bers in New York have induced many
non-union men to join their unions, and
are confident OF success. Several of the
employing horsesh,ers have already
agreed to advance the wages Of their
men
The Read iusters and Republicans Of
Petersburg, Virginia, met last night to
nominate city ticket. The Conven-
tion was secret. The candidates are
considered certain of election, and the
Democrats will probably make no nom
nations.
There was a heavy white ost
throughout Central New York on Tues
day night, and in some places ice was
formed on the wayside pools. Ploughed
land was frozen two inches deep. 1t is
feared that much damage has been done
to budding fruits
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, for
merly Congressman, Minister to Tur-
key and Post master General, died sud-
denly Of heart disease at one O'Clock
yesterday morning, at his residence in
Knoxville He was sixty eight years
of age.
The body ola man who gave his name
as Campbell, who died in the Baltimore
city hl spital on the 18th ult , has beeu
exhumed and identified by his son as
that of James Shaw, who killed his
wife in Lancaster county, PenIa., on
the 7th OF March.
The Presbyteres of the United Pres
hyterian church, by a vote OF GIG to
COG, have voted for the repeal OF the
law forbidding the use of musical in
struments in the churches OF that de-
nomination.
| Since Tuesday of last week, ten new
cases of small pox and three deaths
have been reported in South Bethlehem.
| The number Of cases unuer treatment
is now 80, and fifteen houses remain
under quarantine.
The outlook for the crops in the North
western States anu territories con-
inues favorable, notwithstanding u .
severe cold weather, which has RET ard
ed farming operations in many J. cal
tiles.
The Reading (Penna.) Herald says
! that "T. G Zimmerman IS to be post
master of Reading, reliable information
having come from Mr.. Cameron to-
night last night to that effect"
The girls employed in the car1ing
room of Higgins carpet factory in New
York, resumed work yesterday at an
advance of ten per cent. Those en-
poyed in the body brussels department.
are still out.
News was received at Santa Fe on
Tuesday night that column of Mexi-
can troops had met and fought the In
dams Colonel Forsyth was pursuing,
kill ed rs Of them and took 33 prisoners.
The General Conference of the Mstho-
dist Episcopal Church met yesterday in
n,,h, Dnt, Al n
Bishop McTyeire read the pastoral Of
the Bishops.
The safe of N. Howard G. Son, manu-
facturers of gold chains and llngs, in
Springfield, Massachusetts, was robbed
of $4,000 worth of goods on Tuesday
night.
Two little girls, aged respectively
and 8 years were killed by the tow
horse of street car slipping and taL-
ing upon them in Newark, on Tuesday
afternoon.
The engine house, town hall and a
dwelling in East Newark, N. D., were
burned early yesterday morning The
fire is attributed to incendia rism.
Bishop Wingfeld, of Northern Cali
fornio, has dec. .ined the positi on Of As
sistant Bishop of Mississippi, to which
he was elected.
The wheat caop In Southern Ohio
has been damaged about ten per cent,
by frosts, but iu Northern Ohio very
little damage has been done.
TheeWar Department is advised CT
the death in Paris, on Tuesday, Of Cap
tain George l.. Browning, of the
Seventh Infantry.
In the New York Assembly yester.
day, bill enfranchis.ng women was
passed to third reading in committee
of the whole.
1t is reported that Captain Trescott,
formerly Of San Antonio, Texas, has
been killed by the indians in Arizona.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Women's American Mission Society
began Yesterday in Boston.