Daily Republican., 1882-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
MADAME NILoEsbN'~ pONCERrS-
FATAL ENCOUNTEkE-OTHER
GEMEKAL NEWS.

GENEKAL NEWS.
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Mad lme Christine Nilsson gave her
fist concert in New York last evening.
Her American engagement is for fifty
concerts, and down to the close of her
season AT Philadelphia last week sic
! mad appeared in eleven concerts, of
which the aggregate gross receipts were
SAG, 1886. Her two Philadelphia con-
certs yielded S12,Ol3. She will gv9
another concert at New York on Satur-
day, and then leave for Chicago aud
San Francisco, her manager, Mr.. Alb
bey, accompanying her. She will re-
turn to Philadelphia in the spring.
The temperature at Whitehall, New
York, yesterday morning, was only g
degrees above zero. Lake Champlaiu
is frozen over from Whitehall to Ulown
Point, and navigation on the canal is
closed. At Albany, before sunrise the
temperature was 1S degrees. The Hud-
son river il full of anchor ice, and the
canal is covered with ice three quarters
of an inch thick. Snow fell yesterday
in North Carolina and Virginia, the
storm extending norThward during the
day and evening.
Last Sunday the family of Thomas
Hughes, living near Spottsville, Ken
lucky, went to church 60 be gone all
day." leaving an infant in care Of q
colOred girl. The girl went to a neigh
boris to spend the day, leaving tho in
FAINT upon pallet on the floor. When
the family returned they found that the
child had been gnawed to death by
rats.
Balloting for United states Senator
was hold yesterday in tho Alabama
Legislature. In the Senate John T.
Morgan, the present Senator, received
20 votes to 2 for Paul L. Jones, RSpub-
lican and Greenbacker. Ia the House,
Morgan received "a votes and Jones 10.
Morgan'a election will be formally de-
cIared in joint convention to-day.
The local election in Providence,
Rhode Island, held yesterday, resulted
in the reelection of the present Repub-.
liCan inoum5 5ents. Of the ten Alder
men one is Democrat, and he is cho-
sen by majority of six votes. Liquor
license was carried in the city by q
majority of 326.
In the U. s. Circuit Court, at Syra-
cuse, New York, yesterday morning,
the jury in the case of r. Porter Lee,
President of the First Ma
tionSl Bank of Buffalo, returned YER
dict of guilty, after one hours delibera-
tion. Lee was sentenced to imprison-
ment for ten years.
Francis A. Wordell, Special Agent Of
the Pension Bureau, in Detroit, has dis
after committing number Of
forgeries and borrowing money from
friends. A warrant for his arrest was
issued yesterday, but he could not be
found. Intemperance and disreputable
women caused his ruin.
The inquest in the case of James
killed in the recent disaster
at Peekskill, New YORK, yesterday re-
suited in verdict cenBuring the New
York Central Roilroad Company for
not employing sufficient men to protect
trains.
Tho glass factory of Abel Kim & Co..
in Pittsburg, was burned yesterday
Loss about $4,000. The
Upham Flour Mill, at Blue Rapids,
was burned last Sunday, with
several thousand dollars worth of grain.
The mill cost 800, 900 to build.
General O'Neil, Governor elect Of
Alabama, will be installed on the lat
proximO. He will be escorted to the
Capitol by several military CON panies,
and every part of the State will be re-
presented in the festivities
John P. Schwartz was struck on The
head by his brother-in-law, A. NJ. Full
5on, in quarrel about turkey, near
Reading, yesterday morning, and sus-
tained injuries which may result fatal
".
The Diocesan Council of the Protest
ant Episcopal church in Mississippi
met yesterday in jackson, and unani-
mously elected Rev. Hugh Miller
Thompson, of New Orleans, to be AS
sistant Bishop of the Diocese.
Nearly 5000 additional operators in
ihe shoe factories at Montreal were
obliged to quit work yesterday on ac-
count Of the lGsters' lock out.
The family Of laborer, named
Sullivan in San Francisco, were poison
yesterday "by eating fish," Two child
'en are dead, and another not expected
20 recover.
The official count of the aggregate
Tote of the Congressional Districts of
Wise nsin gives the Democrats, 103, 546
"a, 1852, and Prohibition
sts IA, l16.
John Mueller, a saloon k, eper of
Pittsburg, last evening murdered his
wife and then committed suicide. The
weapon used was razor.
The official vots of Nebraska gives
fere, Republican, for Regent OF the
'tate University, a majority of 270.