Daily Republican., 1883-03-19
NEWS SUM MARY.
COMMUNISTS COMMUNING-HOW
YOUNG BISHOP FEELS
OTHER NEWS.

The COMMUNISTS Of New York yester-
day celebrated the anniversi Try OF the
Paris Commune of 1871, by a meeting
| in Concordia Hail. The attendance
was large, every person wearing red
ribbon, and the officers beinr 'llstln-
guished by red sashes. The walls we're
hung with revolutionary notices draped
in blood color. Herr Most IN 'dc III, adj
dress, in the course Of which he said
that "the Paris Commune was too hui
name, and that the Commune Of the
future will lie established regardless of
humanity, and with IL firm hand to
WELD the sword of destruction.
The Mississippi river continues TO de-
cline at Memphis and at many places
between that city and Helena is again
within its banks. The track of the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad is
free from water and tine damage to it is
being repaired. AT Helena, the river
is falling at the rate of six inches daily,
and Yesterday registered 40 feet. The
bottom lands will soon be above water,
and planting is expected to begin with
in three weeks. Stringent sanitary
measures will be enforced in the flood
ed region when the water subsidies.
Bishop-elect Nicholson, of Phi!adel-
phia, has written letter to the Stand
ing Committee of the Protestant Epis-
copal Diocese of Indiana. He says the
strange unexpectedness of the call leads
him to say yes, but he is staggered by
his utter lack of experience, his un-
known name in the church and his age.
He says ii will be a very hard thing TO
give up the p, ople of his present pa.ish,
but if God calls him to the work, Le
shall come.
The Governor of Ge Orgia on Saturday
received from the Secretary Of State of
the United States batch of documents,
including a complaint from the Chinese
Minister of the treatment Ofthe Chinese
in Georgia. The Secretary requests the,
Governor to investigate the matter.
The papers have been forwarded to the
Solicitor Of Augusta city, where out
RACES on Chinese merchants are alleged
to have taken place.
In the Baltimore Methodist Episcopal
on Saturday, Bishop Keener
said that :" the NJ. E. Church South
had been far beyond others in the work
of educating the African race. For
sixteen years he had preached to the
colored people, but through some
providence they had scarce
ly any of that people now in the church,
though the Conference used to have
them by tens Of thousands.
The report that j. w. Amalong, one
of the Dukes jurors, has been assaulted
at Belle Vernon, Penna., is denied. The
with all their indignation,
have refrained from violence. A tele-
gram from Pittsburg says it is proposed
to have Dukes indicted for sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails-name-
ly, the infamous letters which he wrote
TO the IN IN whom he afterwards killed.
Part of the street and sidewalk oppo-
site No. 36 Appleton street, Boston, were
blown up on Saturday morning, by an
explosion gas from leaky main.
Damage was done to No. 50, to the
amount of S., 900, and to tn n bui dings
and their contents to the amount Of So
600. -Four persons were severely injured,
and several others We're bruised.
The trouble between the Springfield
Iron Company and the Anal samated
Association at Springfield, Illinois,,
broke ont afr-sh Oh Saturday. When
the men Went to the mill it was found
that there was u misunderstanding
about the terms Of settlement, and they
again refused to work.
BENJAMIN Bates, 40 years Of age, and
AT one time head Of a large book firm in
Virginia, committed suicide
yesterday morning hy shooting himself
through the neart. He was grand
nephew of Edward Bates, who was At
torney General under President Lin
coin.
The steamer River Belle, from Haver-
straw, was cut through by cake of ice
and sunk on shoal at Newburg, New
York, on Saturday morning. She lies in
four feet OF. water.