Daily Republican., 1882-01-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE PRODUCT OF BLACK DIA-
MONDs FOR 1851.
Pennsylvania Editors in Session
western Manufaci0rers-Pres-
idential NOminatIOns-A
humber Of Incidents,
Grimes anu IGens.

According to the Census Bureau the
total amount of bituminous coal mined
in the United States during 1880 was
AZ, 400, $50 tons, Of which %, S42, 24O tons
were produced in the Appalachian coal
fields. OF tine entire product, Allie,
ghany county, Pennsylvania, furnished
over one. tenth, while the States OF
Pennsylvania Illinois and Ohio furD-
ished nearly thres-fourths. The aver
age prices per ton at the mines in 1890
was 81 y, against 81. .93 in 1870. The
anthracite coll product Of 1850 was 2S,-
GAG, s95 tons, nearly all furnished by
Pcnnsyl vauia.
Secretary Hunt has recei we'd from
Iakutsk, Siberia, under date Of Janu-
AIRY 7th, the following telegram: "Hunt,
Secretary Of the Navy, Washington, ID.
G. Telegram received. Every effort,
making 10 find missing men. Melville
with two mon and Russian authorities,
go North, DAnenhnwer and nine men
to Atlantic seaboard. Report sent by
mail. Melville"
The disabled steamship lidam, ,2G days
T ON Rotterdam, with 2OSI passengers,
was towed into New York harbOr yes
terday by the steamer Napier, bound
from New York for London. The
Napier fell III with the Edam on the
18th.
The Board of Regents of the State
University of Nebraska met on Thurs.
day in Lincoln, and the illness OF one
member leaving the orthodox in ma
jority, they dismissed three Professors
of the University who are described as
"free thinkers.
The President yesterday nominated
Edward Stevens Of Pennsylvania, to
be Counsel at Ningpo, and Theodore ID.
Wilson, of Now York, to be Chief of
the Bhreau of Construction and r.
pairs in the Navy Department.
A widow named Graf and her two
sons, living in poverty at Greensburg,
Pa, We're notified yesterday that they
had been left fortune Of $500, 600 by
the death of u relative in Sweden.
1t is announced that the President
has decided to nominate l.. IL. Lewis to
be United States District Attorney for
Eastern Virginia. and w. b. Deacon to
w United States Marshal for New Jer-
sey.
The culogy on the late President Gar
field by ex-Secretary Blaine will be de-
livered in the Capitol, at Washington
on the 9th Of February.
Major William II. Boughton, a SOL
der of the war Of the Union, and the
champion checker player Of Maine,
died vest crday in Portland at the age
of 81 years.
Owing to a great increase in the pro-
duCtion Ut silver the Mexican Govern
ment has indefinitely postponed the
coinage Of nickel money, for which
arrangements has been made.
Three more Intellectual ballots for
Speaker were taken yesterdA.J in the
New York Assembly. The Legislature
adjourned until Monday.
Mr.. de Wecherln, the new Minister
from. the Netherlands, presented his
credentials to the President yesterday,
anl the customary compliments were
exchanged.
The bark f. l. Carney, ashore at
Cape Ratteras, is going to pieces. NO
bodies have yet been found.
The President has sign,d the bill for
the retirement of Ward Hunt from the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The shipment of Florida strawberries
to the North was begun yesterday, at
Jacksonville.