The daily gazette., 1882-03-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Miller, the convict who escaped
from the Penitentiary at Allegheny
City, and fed to Canada, was brought
back on Saturday night, having been
extradited from Toronto.
The Cumberland river at Nashville
rose two inches yesterday, and marked
46 feet on the gauge, but had fallen 10
inches during the day at Carthage, 150
miles above Nashville. .''
The bark Charleston, at New York
yesterday from Dieppe, brought the
captain and crew, 30 in number, of
the ship Nile, from London for New
York, which was abandoned at sea on
the 9Th inst.
A box was fshed up yesterday on
the beach at Fortress Monroe, con-
tanning the following message, un-
dated "Whoever picks this up, re-
port that the schooner Fleetwing is in
q terrible condition and about to be
wrecked off Cape Charles. No hope
for soul on board"
Representatives Allen ,ot Missouri
and Black of Georgia, are danger-
ously Ill in Washington.
A riot occurred in Third Creek,
North Carolina,on Saturday between
about one hundred whites and black
growing out of fight between one
of each color. Troops quelled the
disturbance, and many OF the rioters
were arrested and lodged in jail.
A crowd surrounded a barn in
Scranton, yesterday, for the purpose
of lynching Daniel Wagner, SIS years
of age, who had feliously assaulted
little girl. He was arrested how.
ever, and committed in default of
$1,000 bail.
la q saloon at Syracuse, New Y ork
yesterday morning Charles Smith
challenged Henry Lentz to fight.
They went outside the saloon, when
Lentz seized smith by the throat
and choked him to death.
A fire in Meridian, Mississippi, on
Saturday night, destroyed Garry &
Sons compress, with three hundred
bales of cotton and Parker& Hoffer's
foundry, Loss on the compress. SIS
900; on the foundry $4,000.
The shatting house at WaddIe's
Mine near Wilkesbarre, was burned
on Saturday night, and the magazine
containing about fifty pounds of
explosives, was blown up. No per-
son injured.
The U. s. flagship Tennessee arriv
ed at New Orleans yesterday morn~
ing from Hampton Roads. The
Kearsarge will leave New Orleans
in few days for the West Indies.
The elders and deacons elected by
the Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church were
ordined Yesterday in Baltimore by
Bishop Wiley. The elders areLuther
B. Wilson, Charles T. House,
Travllla L. Peters. Lewis L. Brown
and Edward Smith, a local deacon.
The deacons are w. D. Morgan and
w. p. S. Duncan, members of the
Conference, and Lewis II.
Cole and VIM. Lambright, local
preachers.
The steamer Ocean King arrived at
New Orleans ON Friday from Antwerp,
with 1000 tons of steel rails for The
Natchez, Red River and Texas Railroa d.
The duties paid on this cargo amount to
$42,010.
The Mexican press Is united In de-
nouncing the Importation of negro labor
To work on the Mexican Central Rail-
road branch from Tampico to San Luis
Potosi, and in asking the Government to
insist ON the employment Of native
labor.
The Board of Health of Memphis, on
Saturday announced that starving cattle
had been killed and s1ld IN the market,
and passed resolutions calling on tie
city authorities to prevent the sale of
such meat.
Up to last evening there had been
eight deaths from the explosion of the
steamer Sydney, near Ravenswood, West
Virginia, namely: Mrs. Little and grand
son; Mrs. Mills and child, from Bellair,
Ohio: Frank Faulkner, of Pittsburg; Mr..
Kahn, of Charleston, West Virginia; Mrs.
Stephens, and deck hand from Middle-
port.
Change Of Mind.