Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-08
Speaker Charles J. Noyes declined to

vote.
The auditors of the County of Rock
ingham, N. H., find a deficit of Sl7.-
634 81 10 the accounts of County Treas
urer Lime. The assets of the Union
Dime Swings Bank include $500 in
the possession of l. mes BANKERS.
A report comes from Natchez that
100 refugees have been drowned by the
destruction of gin in Tensas Parish.
La. They had taken refuge in the gin.
when it was swept away by the food.
The Pennsylvania Greenbackers
propose TO hold convention and nomi-
nate State ticket.
-Forty.six of The illicit oyster
dredgers recently arrested by the State
authorities of Virginia have been sen
fenced to one years imprisonment each
in the Penitentiary.
j. II. Shlnn, a member of the New
jersey Legislature, made an affidavit
that he had been bribed to vote for the
Jersey Water Front bill on the Govern
or's veto.
Mrs. Ballard, of Lincoln County.
Ia, killed hel two children Monday Ia Il
and drowned herself and baby. She
had had trouble with her husband.
The Hudson River steamer Thomas
Cornell ran on the rocks at night during
q thick fog. The officers and crew were
cool and courageous in the emergency,
| and the passengers were all rescued.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Secretary Frelipghuysen has been
informed by Minister Lowell that in
Difference to President Arthur's wishes.
Dir Lamson, sentenced to death in
London for murder, has been granted
q reprieve for two weeks, for the hear
ing of testimony sent from this country.
The Agricultural report says: There
are seven States that produce a surplus
Of corn. These States together yielded
1,046, 600, 600 bushels in 1880 and 1877.
600, 600 in 1881. The percentage OF
the product of each State still on hand
is reported as follows: Ohio, "a; In
diana, 81; Illinei is, %; Iowa, 26:
Missouri, Is; Kansas, Is; Nebraska,
70. The average is nearly "a per cent,
and amounts to 175, coo, 600 bushels.
The same States produced 256 000, 900
bushels of what in 1880, and 1863, 0OO.-
600 in 1881. The proportion on
hand March 30, as estimated,
was Ohio, % per cent; Indiana,
IS; Illinois, 10; Iowa. %; Mis-,
soui, II; Kansas, Is; Nebraska. 81:
average, u per cent, or nearly So 000,-
GOO bushels. The result of this investi-
CATION indicates a comparative shortage
OF 2l3. 0O0, coo bushels, or fifty five per
cent. less corn on hand than on March
%, 1881, and also a decrease OF
100000 coo bushels of wheat. or
torty-t' ur per cent. less than on March
20 1881, in these seven States. IN addi-
ton to the shortage of three other sur
plus wheat Sfates-Michigan, Wiscon-
SIN and Minnesota which are credited
With $4,000, coo bushels as the crop OF
1881
Although there have been an unus-
ually large number of bills introduced
this session the actual business as re-
spects the different appropriations is
much more advanced at this time than
for many years. OF the fourteen ap-
preparation bills the following have
been reported Forlificatious. January
20; Post Office. January 81; Consular.
January 30: Indian, February 7; Little
Deficiency, February 10; Military Acad-
emy. February IL; Agriculture, Febru.
airy II; Army. March 13 All of these
bills, except the Army, have passed the
House. The Fcrtiiications, Post Office.
Little Deficiency, Military Academy
and Indian Appropriation bills have
passed the Senate rs we'll rs the House.
The House Is BOW cons idenng the Army
bill The appropriations vet to be re-
! ported 10 the House are the six follow
/ ing = River ond Harbor, Legislative.
Elk 'cntve and Judicial; Naval. Sundry
/ Civil, District of Columbia and General
Deficiency.
The public debt statement for
| March shows reduction in the d bt
for that month of about S1G. 900, COO
A board Of lady managers of the
Garfield Memorial Hospital Association
has been organized.
The House committee on post off
| ces have agreed on the bill authorizing
the issue Of postal money orders for five
dollars and less, the fee to be three
cents.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
-Thirty-two persons are missing from
the steamship Douro and nineteen from
the Yrurac Bat, which were sunk off
Cape Finisterre Saturday.
With one exception the Gar has
committed the death sentences Of the
Nihilists recently tried at st. Peters.
burg.
Special cable dispatches say that the
Conservatives will soon briug forward
scheme for buying out all the Irish
landlords in order to enable the tenants
to get possession.
Two steamers were sunk off the
coast Of Spain Saturday by collision.
Thirty five lives are known to be lost.
The annual inter-university boat
race was rowed over the usual course on
the Thames from Pntney to Mortlake,
on Saturday, and has resulted in vic
tory for the Oxford crew over the Cam
bridge by six 90 lengths.
M. Lowell our minister to Eng.
land has been instructed to express the
Presidents personal wish for a reprieve
OF DR.. Lamson.
Two large British steamships loaded
with Chinese passengers have sailed
from Hong Kong for Victoria.
Warrants are said to be cut in Ire