The daily gazette., 1882-05-05
THE MORNING SUMMARY
THE WORK OF LAST NIGHTS
81, NEWS GATHERERs. n
VARIOUS EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Sale of the Sprague Estate-Minister
LOwell's Rumored Recall-Fires, Acct
dents, Crimes and Labor Troubles.

| Five hundred miners at the Pratt mines, in
Alabama, have struck against reduction Of
10 per cent
Only Is employing horseshoers In New
| York were reported to be holding out yester-
| day against the demands of their men.
The steamship Lake Manitoba, the first
| arrival of the season in the St. Lawrence,
passed Father Point yesterday, bound in
ward.
+. II, Mitchell, agent of the Direct Steam
| ship line, and colored man named Lewis,
were drowned yesterday, by the upsetting Of
boat, near Annapolis, Nova Scotia.
dispatch was received in New York, yes
| terday, said TO be from a prominent Con
| gresham of that city, asserting that Mr..
Lowell, our Minister to Great Britain, had
been recalled.
John Charlebois and two of his children
perished by breaking through the ice on
lake in the Gatineau dirstrict of Canada,
which they were trying to cross on Wednes-
day afternoon.
A Cincinnati dispatch says the Trustees of
Lane Seminary have offered the Professor
| ship Of Church History, made vacant by DR..
Humphreys death, to Rev. Thomas Dewitt
of Philadelphia.
DIR. James r. Wood a well-known physia
clan OF New York, one of the founders Of
Bellevue College, and Professor of Surgery,
in that institution, died yesterday, in the
Goth year of his age.
The Secretary of the Treasury reports that
the total amount of internal revenue tax
collected on raw cotton from 1862 to 1868,
when the act imposing the tax was repealed,
amounted to S6S, S,072, 1888.
Judge c. s. Benton, pioneer of Wiscon-
sin, died yesterday morning, at Lacrosse.
lie was member of the Twenty-aighth and
lwenty-ninth Congresses from the Seven
teenth District of New York.
Grow Dog, sentenced to be hanged at
| Deadwood on the 18th instant for the muir
der of Spotted TAIL has been respited by the
President, to allow his case to go before the
| supreme Court of Dakota.
In the United States Circuit Court at
| Charleston yesterday the ease against the
managers Of election at Hope Engine House
precinct in that city was given to the jury,
who remained out last night.
The Indian Bureau is in receipt of dis
patches denying that there is any alarm at
Fort Washakie, Wyoming, because of the
| withdrawal of troops from that post or any
danger of trouble from the Indians there,
1t is said that Colonel D. B. Henderson,
| WHO was CHAIRMAN OF the Iowa delegation
In the Chicago Convention, is the candidate
most likely to be chosen for Secretary of the
Republican Congressional Campaign Com
nittee.
A rich discovery of copper is reported to
have been made l2 miles southeast of Lara
mic City, Wy. The ore, which lies directly
across the old overland stage road, is said to
contain go to 100 per cent. of copper, "with
gold and silver in paying quantities. !"
The Senate yesterday confirmed Alfred
G. Coke to be U. s. District Judge for
| Northern New York; Samuel Sprackman, of
| Philadelphia, Consul at Cologne, and John
5. Wise, of Virginia, to be U. s. Attorney
for the Eastern District of that State.
| A large crowd gathered at the sale of the
| Sprague properties in Providence, yesterday,
the upset price being fixed at $500, 900.
| The party offering this bid having with
drawn, and there being no renewal of the
bid, the sale was adjourned until the 18th
| instant
The trouble among the railroad laborers
at Cornwall, New York, appeared yesterday
| to be confined TO the negroes, who would not
work or allow the Others to work. They are
/ led by two men, for whose arrests warrants
were issued, but these men barricaded them
selves in a house and refused to surrender.
| The men who had been driven off resumed
work, but another assault was expected and
| the sheriff intended to take measures for the
preservation of order.