Morris tribune., 1883-10-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Keene wants to sell the celebrated
horse NNhall.
French Radicals want new and DEM
ocratic constitution
Frank Slagle, who is to be hung OF
Somerset, KY, in November, confesSeS to
five murders
Moody and Sankey were Missed In
Cork, ireland, and the mob had to be dis
persed by the police
S. G. Griggs, young Chicago man,
has entered suit against The Herald Tor libel,
laying his damages at $25, 900
Senator Voorhees, says his son James
is suffering from nervous prostration caused
by overwork at sculpture and writing.
The three factions of the Democracy
in New Yori; have agreed upon division of
the county offices, in the interest of harmony.
Thomas A. McDevitt, a star-router,
has been released from the eastern Pennsyl-
vania penitentiary, after having served out
his time of one year.
Major Nickerson has written letter
attacking the war department from what he
calls violations of the law 1t is now sug-
gested that the Major is slightly insane.
Gov Hamilton, of Illinois, has APP
pointed the following mine inspectors: Alex
Ronald Thomas Andson, James p. Cum
mings, Walter Rutledge Robt. Winning.
A Chicago bride in a Justices court
having on o black dress, declared to be mar
ried therein would be uniucky, and pulled 1t
Off and was married in her-well, without
her dress on.
George Mumrey, of Dixon, Mo. !,
noticed dog bring something into his back
yard, and upon examination found that it
was the body of an infant which had died or
been murdered at birth.
A couple of Georgetown, Ohio,
colored men were rivals for the favOrs of a
white girl of easy virtue and one of them
emptied the contents of a shotgun into the
head and throat of the other.
A new Atlantic Cable company has
been organized, and negotiations are in pro
gress for the laying of two cables. The OBJ
iect is especially to meet the requirements OF
business, rather than news, and the rates
will be cheap.
A gun twenty-five feet long, weighing
ZIG, 497 pounds, requiring 200 pounds of pow
del and throwing a missile weighing 1850
pounds, was fired at Fl. Hamilton the other
day. A reporter says the flash was as big as
q two-story house.
Register Bruce, of the treasury de.
partment, says the recent civil rights decision
! sets the colored people back at least a decade
Bob IngersolI says the decision virtually gives
away the great principles upon which the
! war was fought, and gi YES the issues for the
next campaign.
By the collision of tw o freight trains
on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georges
railroad, the engineer, John Bailey, and VIM
Clampet and Lee lehman, fireman and brake
man respectively, were killed, and five men
| injured, all being railway employees. The
cause of the accident was carelessness of a
telegraph operator.
The National Army of Retribution'
has been organized at Philadelphia, abou
a dozen men being present at the first meet
! ing The object is the nomination and election
| of Tildan and Hendricks to be president anc
vice-president. The chairman one VIM. B
| Thomas said he had never recognized" Mr.
Hayes as president.
American citizens captured 48 gold
! AZ silver, and 80 bronze medals, "a diploma:
and special prizes at the internationa
fisheries exhibition, gold medal was givel
! to Prof D. S Jordan, of the Indiana unlver
sity for his works on othyology. Beside
them the United States government exhibi
tons received over 20 gold medals.