Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS
A STORM IN 7ExAB-MISCEL-
LANEOUS ITEMS.

Jefferson City, NO., yesterday adopted
q report recommending the establish
ment OF kindergartens and compulsory
education; that steps be taken to abol-
ish the abuses practised on cClo:ei
children; that industrial schools be ts-
tablished where eolored children can
learn the mechanical ats; and tLat
August and September % be fxed as
holidays, commemorative of emancipa-
tion in Hayti and the Uuited States. A
committee was appointed to memoria-
lize President Arthur about the rights
of negro 4s in the occupation Of pablic
lands in the Indian Territory.
The allotment of numbers of the new
three per cent. bonds began at WASH
inGCOn yesterday, and will be continu-
cd unit all the applications have been
disposed Of. The allotment was made
by chance, and was conducted so as to
give no cause for complaint. The only
offers considered yesterday were those
first award ID at 10 o'clock, a. M. on tho
first of August. There were abOuJ 1000
packages OF this class.
Ex-Governor Sprague refuses to give
up the Canonchet OR. L. estate to
Frank D. Moulton, its purchaser, and
has placed men, armed with rifles, &C.,
at all the entrances to the property, in
the house, and on its roof. Trustee
Chaffee, who went there with his law.
yer to give Moulton possession, ode
cided to withdraw, and give the State
of Rhode Island a chance to enforce
the Law"
A Galveston Texas, despatch says
that heavy rains fell until 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, filling the north
and main Chonchas and inundating the
towns of Sau Angeles and Benfcklen
washing away houses, hotels and stores.
The loss is heavy. No loss of life Is
reported. The people have all fed to
the hills. The river is now slowly fall
ing.
A swindler has been passing forged
checks In different places In New Eng
land and New York on the National
Bank of Baltimore, Md, usually for
the sum f$100 The checks purport to
be signed by W. E. Morris & Co.,
we'll known commission house of Balti.
more, who keep an account with the
National Bank.
Coup's Circus, "after making brave
stand against adverse circumstances,
went to pieces in Detroit, Mich, yester.
day. Attachments for $25,0O0, repre-
senting claims of the employes'and 9TH
ers, have been put upon 1t, aud IL aIl4
tire concern is in the hands of the Sner-
if.
Despite the Governors proclamation
the saloon keepers Of Missouri Valley,
Iowa, openly carry on their business.
The Prohibitionists doubt whether th, y
can prosecute successfully, since tho
Legislature failed to enact penalty.
A test case has resulted in complete
victory for the saloon interest.
A member of the Quebec Legislature
receives $500 a year for his services.
Toe reduction of this salary to 5000 is
being agitated by some of the Canadian
newspapers. A New York legsl tor
receives 81, 500 per annun and frequent
ly manages to double that amount be-
fore the session is over.
Charles Sperry, a Brookfeld beard
ing house keeper, at Springfield, Mass,
tried on Thursday to poison his family
and nine boarders with Paris green, but
the poison was fortunately dit co vered
before harm was done. Sperry has fled
and officers are in pursuit of him.
Because the Register of New Haven
Conn, said that the ladder of Mayor
Morgan Bulkley, of Hartford, ''to his
political heaven was made up solely OF
lager beer and whisky barrels" Bulk
ley has sued him for libel, claiming $25,'
900 damages.
President Arthur visited yesterday
morning the fishing club house at
Graves Point, Newport, r. L. accom-
panied by General Hancock. In the
afternoon he attended reception al
Oak Lawn, and in the evening q din
nor given by Ex-Governor Morgan, o
New York.
A statement prepared at the Genera
Land Office, Washington, shows thai
during the fiscal year ended June Both
1882, there were 15,699, ,818 acres of lane
disposed of for 'about" S8,361, 091
against "about" $5,O0O,OOO received fo
land in the previous year.
An engine and six cars of Kingston
and Penn broke Railway passenger trail
were thrown off the track near Kings
ton, Ont, on Thursday night, owing t,
an irLn obstruction on the rails, placeC
there by some scoundrel with the oblec
of wrecking the train.
Lieutenant Colonel Swinny, of the
Royal Artillery, English army, accom-
panied by DIR. Cox, a veterinary sur
geon. are in St. Louis, Mo, buying
mules, which will be shipped from New
York to Alexandria for use in tht
Egyptian war.
Another despatch says that: There
have been no trains on the Texas PacdC
since last Wednesday. There was
another washout yesterday at GranO
Prairie, cutnng off the communicatioI
between Dallas and Fort Worth,
A confidential clerk of j. B. Peabody
& Co, of Chicago, Ill, named o 'Neill
has been arrested for being $1,000 t.
$4,000 "short in his accounts" lie hat
been drinking and gambling heavily Of
late.
i A number of prominent citizens o
Chicago, Ill, are moying energetlca!l! |!
to get up reception Tor tne WIDOW U
John Brown. A sum of money will b.
collected for her benefit,
The British Rifle Team have cable'
their consent to have the international
match come off on the 14th and 18th G
September, q day earlier than la | bet
previously agreed upon.
Late kilograms say that at Browne
vile, Texas, and lis nejRhbCrhood, |
s. Surgeon Murray and his corps al
anxiously looked for.
The quarantine guards extend alon
the Rio Grande from its mouth to 81 !
to Maria, a distance of 60 miles.
! In Matamoras, Mexico, B death
, from yellow fever are reported With
/ tho last "a hours.
There were 80 new Cas- Q J of yellow fe
tr at Brownsville, Texas, yesterday,
deaths, =,
There were cases of fever, reported
Point Isabel, Texas.
? 1t is reported that the small. poH is
? the increase in HerDado, Miss.
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