Daily Republican., 1883-08-30
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.
FREE THINK.R > CONVENTION
president ARTHUR,S
PICNIC.

The Freethinkers' Convention opened
yesterday in Rochester, about 800 dele
gates being present. Committees on
Business and Resolutions were appoint
ed, H. l.. Green, of New York being
chairman of the former, and Courtlandt
Parker of the latter The speakers yes
terday we're f. L. Brown, Jay Rappel,
Samuel G. Putnam, G. Fannie Allen
and George Chainey, the latter devoting
himself to the clergy. Rev. Thomas
Mitchell, of Brooklyn, is to speak in
defence of Christianity tonight, and
the Convention "has decided to give
him all the time he desired. "
President Arthur was at "Canp
Campbell, foot of Yellowstone Lake,
on the 25th inst. He went fishing iu
the afternoon, and "caught So fish
weighing 45 pounds. Itis stated that
the head of an extinct species of
rhinoceros and the vertebra Of a large
fossil saurian in an excellent state of
preservation were found on the shore
of the Lake near the Camp by the sur
geon and naturalist of the PARTY, w. H.
Forwood. The specimens are interest
ing, and will be sent to Professor Copes,
ofPhiladelphia "
A life-preserver, which was torn and
bore evidence of having been in recent
use, and which was stamped with the
name &C. H. Northam," was found on
Tuesday afternoon, upon the shore Of
Vineyard Sound. A party Of children
playing upon the beach, near Falmouth
village, saw the body Of a man floating
in the surf, but they ran away and told
no one until it was too late. The
body is supposed to be that of one Of
the missing men from the yacht Mys-
terry.
The Navy Department was informed
yesterday Of the accidental killing of
Lieutenant Boutelle Noyes, on board
Rear Admiral Crosby's flagship at
Yokohama. The casualty was caused
by the fall of top-galant mast. Lieu
tenant Noyes leaves widow and two
children. Aaron Goldstein, promi-
ment Israelite of Paterson, New Jer-
sey, died there yesterday morning at
the alleged age of 1O5 years.
Cattle men at Montreal "emphatical-
ly deny" the report from Liverpool
that Canadian cattle are affected with
Texas fever. They say "the disease is
wholly unknown in the Dominion, and
is not native to the soil, and that no
Texas cattle have been imported here
for years past. y
An attempt was made on Tuesday
night to wreck the Albany Express on
the Boston and Albany Railroad by
placing two sleepers on the track just
above Ashland. The engine struck the
sleepers, but was running slowly and
no damage was done.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
of New York is in session at Syracuse.
Yesterday afternoon Tuscarora Indian
girl enlivened its proceedings by ian
exhibition OF remarkable musical
powers"
A train on the Wabash railroad, yes
tarday, ran over COW when near Cliff
ton, Missouri The engine, baggage
car and one coach We're detailed and the
engine was upset. Engineer Hall was
killed.
Amelia Henderson committed suicide
in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday
night by taking morphine. She was in
bad health and had been deserted hy
her husband.
By the fall of a staging at Burden
Dock, near Hudson, New York, yester-
day, six men were severely injured, one
of whom, Patrick Coughter, of Troy, is
not expected to recover.
The steam barge Saxon, with II, 900
bushels of wheat, grounded yesterday
off Wilson, Lake Ontario. Her crew
were saved