Smyrna times., 1882-03-29
News Items.


The Garfield Hospital project is prac.
tically dead.
The President has signed the commits
sion of Judge Blatchford.
Phoebe Cousins wants to be one of the
Commission to govern Utah.
The President has nominated S. 2.
Rounds of Illinois, to be public printer
The rumor that Senator Teller is soon
to succeed Secretary Kirkwood is again
revived.
The Senate has passed the House bill
pensioning Mrs. Garfield, Mrs Polk and
Mrs. Tyler. :
The Ways and Means Committee has
agreed upon the bill removing tax on |
matches, etc.
Secretary Frelinghuysen says he has no ,
information that Minister Trescott has /
signed any protocol.
A snow-storm prevailed in Newfound-
land ON Saturday and Sunday, blockading
the reads i'll every direction.
! Secretary Hunt is to be retired from the
! Navy Department and VIM. f. Chandler
/ is mentioned as his probable successor.
A scandalous conspiracy in smuggling
opium has been discovered among the
Government officials at San Francisco.
The crop prospects throughout Kansas
and Illinois are reported excellent. In
Kansas the wheat is a month in advance
of the season"
Judge ge-Advocate General Swain has re-
ported to the Secretary of War that the
verdict of the Mason court martial is
illegal and void.
James Morley NJ. T. i'll lecture ON
America said the Government of New
York was as corrupt and impure as any
Government could be.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad election,
held in Philadelphia yesterday, resulted
in the choice of the present board Of fdlcc-
tors by a vote ranging over 334. 900 shares.
Edward Il. Parkes. the opposition candi-
date. received 1928 votes.
Mr.. Richard Jahr succeeded, after sew
eral unsuccessful attempts, on the night
!. of March Sd. in obtaining a moonlight
photograph of Gartields tomb. This is
believed to have been the first successful
attempt at moonlight photography ever
, made in this country.
The steamer Thomas Cornell from Rond-
out for New York, struck the rocks at
i, Danskammer Point Monday night and
, sank in the Hudson, ten miles below
Poughkeepsie. The crew and passengers
, were brought off safely. The steamer is
badly broken up. The loss will be about
, $200000.
:, Four new cases Of smallpox have been
reported at Bethlehem, Pa, since yester.
> day. The new cases are in families that
+ were quarantined. Eighty-seven houses
f are still in quarantine, in which there are
12S cases of smallpox. Up to date there
6, have been forty nine deaths from the dis
ease. The contagion is abating in the
< suburbs. In Bethlehem proper there ar.
but two cases, and these will be released
: from quarantine in a few days.
g Henry w. Longfellow, the poet, wa
buried at Cambridge Sunday The fune
, raj was private, only the relatives an(
:, near friends of the deceased being present
The funeral services, which were brief ant
simple, were conduted by the Rev Samue
> LOngfellow, brother of the deceased. Th
- London Observer, in an article on his de
: @e, says that no poet since Byron la
n enjoyed so wide popularity.
=, Severe wind storms prevailed in variou
places Monday. A brick house in tn
process of erection at Evansburg, Pa, wa
of blown down, and four workmen wer
le fatally injured and five others receive
a serious injuries. Two men were killed i
W Pittsburg by similar accident. Cleve
be land was visited by thunder and hal
ot storm, which did considerable damage t
r. trees and unfinished buildings. Ha
he stones fell at Wheeling, w. Va, of tn
lis size of walnuts
he
a The farmers in the neighbOrhood t
ag Columbia, South Carolina, who are fenC
RS ing their pasture fields in accordance wit
IA a law of the last Legislature, which wi
nv take effect on the 1st prox, have bee
S? threatened by masked riders for the
as. compliance with the law. "Coffins wit
nd deaths heads and cross bones" have bee
A left at farm houses, and incendiarism hs
for been threatened. A recent fire in Ricl
ne mOnd and another in Kershaw county al
Die attributed to these ruffians.