The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-07

by the death VI their uncle, an alder
man in New York under the reign OF
Tweed.
The gold debit of the s~ub-treasury
Monday to the New York clearing
house amounted to s z ,279, 092. 55, u sum
that represents q weight of 14t tons in
gold.
The anniversary of the assassination
was commemorated at Washington by
laying the cornerstone of the Garfield
Memorial church, on the site of the IA
nous small frame chapel IN Vermont
avenue.
AT Williams college, DR.. Mark Hop
kins delivered q memorial address up
on President Garfield. The assem-
blage contributed So, 900 to the Garfield
professorship fund and the memorial
window was formally presented.
The officers of the New York Central
railroad have advanced the wages of
their employees from July l, as follows:
Switchmen get an advance of SIS per
month, door-men So, gate-men $3.50,
porters $3.50, and boss porters So. The
men are satisfied.
The United States district court at
San Francisco imposed upon the cap
tain OF the British steamer Struthairlie
a fine Of $11 $50 for bringing Chinese
passengers in excess Of the number al
lowed by law.
A postal official has completed an in
SpectiOn of the Wabash road from To-
ledo to Council Bluffs, it being the in
tention Of the department to run a Pa
cific fast mail by that route. The Chi
cago lines are handcuffed by pooling ar
rangements.
The Pope, in an allocution at the con-
sistory, Monday, said the position of
the church in Italy was becoming worse
clared, was guilty of bad faith in refus-
ing e%Xequaturs to twenty bishop she
had nominated.
A careful computation by the Rail
tcay Age shows that work has been in
progress this year on 10 roads, and that
1880 miles of main track has been laid,
none of which was in New England.
There are now upward of 107 900 miles
Of railway in the United States.
The corpse of Guiteau was on Mon
day evening secretly removed from the
jail to the army medical museum. Rev.
DR.. Hicks claims to have been offered
all the way from $1,000 to 100000 for
the skeleton, among the bidders being
the Royal college, Of London.
A labor demonstration in honor of
Michael Davitt was held Wednesday
at New York, and was the grandest
ever known in the history of this city.
Nearly 10000 persons were present, in
Guiding representatives of every trade
union. The procession was imposing
and the transparencies emphatic.
The Hebrew merchants OF Milwaukee
grew so indignant yer the unannounc-
ed shipment to that city Of a train-load
of Russian refugees that they severed
their connection with the Jewish al
lance and dissolved their local society,
on the ground that England abused the
charity of America.
A committee of New York merch-
ants called on Commissioner Fink to
ask a postponement Of the advance in
west-bOund freight, claiming that the
piers are now overloaded with goods.
The railroad dictator coolly upbraided
them for prolonging the strike by up
holding the freight-handlers.
A meeting of the Hebrew Emigrant
Aid Society of New York, will be held
during the week, when an entire change
of policy will probably be put into OPP
Grafton. 1t has already been decidedto
revoke the recent order not to receive
more than two thousand immigrants at
one time. AL who come will now be
cared for.
The vaults of the Carmel mission at
Monterey, Cal, were opened Monday,
by Father Casanova. The remains of
Father SerrO and other founders of the
California missions, who were buried
in 1882 to 1897, were fully identified, and
the redwood collins and skeletons were
in good condition.
The Fourth of July celebration at the
American Exchange. London, was at
tended by a large and brilliant assem-
'blage: Representatives of nearly every
nation in Europe mingled with the
Americans, the latter full of patriotism
and enthusiasm. Agnes Huntington
sang the 'Star Spangled Banner" and
God save the Queen"
Sir Garnet WOlseley and others met
at the British wal office Monday, to ar
range for pay, clothing, and subsistence
for the army of reserve o o to be call
ed out for Egypt. Harness equipments
for the batteries are being prepared at
Woolwich, and the men-of-war Ajax
and AgamemnOn are making ready for
immediate service.
The mining town Of Coalville, Pa,
fifty miles north of Pittsburgh, was
ravaged by a cyclone on Friday even
ing. Two persons were killed and six
teen injured. Eight houses were blown
down, not a board of the residence of
William Barnes remaining in sight. A
large body of water was lifted out of
the dam and carried away.
Ex-senator Christiancy permitted
himself to be beckoned into the Lugen-
beel residence in Washington Tuesday
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