The daily gazette., 1883-03-05
MORNING SUMMARY.

be Vulcan Forge Works ut Pittsburg
damaged by fire yesterday to the extent
bOut $4,000
Eares Cassidy died yesterday In Lebanon
at the alleged age Of i02 years. He
formerly we'll known ~ a r-..r!' II ttlt-'
ztOr.
uring the session Of Congress just closed,
postal nominations were sent TO the
hie This is the largest number Of such
binatlons ever made In short session.
Samuels, dry goods merchant of
l., Texas, was shot dead ON Saturday by
E Gunpcr,. The same shot also killed
lo0tblack and wounded a drummer.
hpert is in Jail.
h election was held IN san FlanG.ro On
irday on the question OF adopting u new
kter Eigleen thousand six hundred
thirteen votes were polled and the
Fter received majority of So.
be Central Labor Union OF New York
lerday decided TO bold a mass meeting
consider the Five Cent Elevated Railroad
Il bill, and to protest against the pro
Fd eyiradltion Of Z. J. Sheridan.
be Malagassy ENJOYS, who arrived In
York ON Saturday by the steamer
Ain, yesterday attended DIR. John Halls
lrch This evening they are to visit n
TIE, and Tomorrow morning they Will
b for Washington.
harles W. Smith, a wealthy cotton manu-
eurcr Of Worcester, Massachusetts,, com
ted suicide, on Saturday morning, just
returning from three weeks trip 10
south, made Tor the benefit of his
lth
hree weeks ago, W. j. Stroup, q promi-
u merchant OF Idaho Territory, left
len, Utah, on railroad train to meet his
in Dubuque, Iowa, where she was
hding the winter with friends. He has
been heard of since.
II. II. Pratt, President of the Bank OF
pile and Vice President of the Mobile and
ng0mery railroad, was crushed TO death
! freight train at Montgomery, Alabama,
Saturday morning. He was a native OF
York city, and ~ years Of age.
he iorty-sixth anniversary Of the Volun.
Fire department of New Orleans was
ofated yesterday In that city by a fire.
II parade There were visiting delega
II from Alabama and Mississippi, and
procession occupied an hour In passing
iven poiut.
ohh Adams was shot dead by his son
laIa, Ia drunken quarrel at Wilkes.
II, North Carolina, on Saturday morning
elder Adams was popularly supposed
isfe been AN accompliee In the murder
Young woman, committed two year.
ard was stunned by all his neighbors
he affairs Of the Augustinian Soclet,
le referred to In all the Catholic churche
Lawrence, Massachusetts,, yesterday
sle'y meetings will be held in the Vafiou
sresalions tomorrow evening 10 con
Y 'he matter. Twenty-one attachments
gfegating $4,000, have thus far beer
eea on the society's property,
lae French Canadians of We. .cester, Mas
ausetts, met yesterday to protest agains
'ellehts IN regard to.the employment o
'aen Canadians, made by Francis NJ
n.eF' OF Cambridge, aud Senator Vance o
l.h carolina. Resolutions were adopte,
Anlls Tor hearing through the Commits
QICcstcr
ihe last reports from the overfowe
1"uy along the Mississippi show tina
sunk lands" in the st. Francis rive
s", are entirely submerged Nearly q
sonIh az Helena there are few place
,9'e water, and the people are living i
upper stories Of their houses, wheI
o. .e : more than one story, and whe
W y not lioatlng around in RATS {
4oa'S' The streets OF New Madri
=, 'u18,aherged to Il depth Of two 10 for
's. The whole country back Of that pla,
o% ,a' "a ds cairo, on the Missouri side, 81
M m ,,'cSman south for so miles is covere
ga ,n water, Corn, fences and live stoc
~ nv ,'- "geA destroyed, but there is no destitI
" among the people yet.