The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

htdi Auullidt Ndiiusf VI tht - ~
Navy, died in Baltimore. He was 81
years Of age. His appointment Ms act
ing m%idshipman in the navy was made
in 1912 he served in the war Of 1872
and the Mexican wars, and, as COM
mander of the u. S. steamer Susque-
hanna, he assisted in the laying of the
Atlantic cable of 1857. He also served
in the war for the Union. He was
commissioned as Rear Admiral in 1866,
and was retired with that rank the
same year.
]. p. Kidder, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Dakota Territory,
died in st. Paul, Minnesota, at the age
of 81. He was at one time Lieutenant
Governor Of Vermont, but moved West
in 1857, and in 1876 was elected dele
gate in Congress- from Dakota.
An examination for appointments to
the city Postofice in Washington was
held under the civil service rules. Nine
teen candidates presented themselves
for appointment as carriers, and thirty
one, of whom four were women, for
appointment as clerks.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, started
for a trip South on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad. He will return::to
Cincinnati by way of Louisville.
The Trustees of the Peabody Fund
met in New York and were called to.
order by the Chairman, r. c. Winthrop.
The following gentlemen were present :
Ex.S Secretary Fish. General Grant, Gov
ernor Aiken of South Carolina, Samuel
Wetmore, A. II. Stuart. Chief Justice
Waite, Bishop Whipple, Henry Jackson,
Colonel Theodore Lyman, eX-President
Hayes, Judge Manning, and A. j.
Drexel of Philadelphia. The resigna-
ton of George Peabody Russell was ac-
cepted and DIR. Samuel A. Greene, of
Boston was chosen Trustee in his place.
The Pittsburg Exposition buildings,
in Pittsburg were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 81, GOO, 600.
The fire was discovered in the boiler
room attached to Machinery Hall, at
the south end of the building, ''and in
less than ten minutes the buildings
we're on fire from end to end.n The
admissions to the Exposition during
Tuesday numbered 81, 900, and at night
''the building was packed to its utmost
capacity" 1t is believed that had the
conflagration occurred on Tuesday
night at 9 O'Clock, considering the
rapidity with which the flames spread,
the loss of life would have been appal-
ling. as 1T world have been almost inn
possible for even a part of the crowd to
have escaped
The Free Trade Conference in st.
Louis finished its sessions, There was
a long debate between some of the
members who insisted upon absolute
free trade, and others who favored san
attempt to eliminate protection as the
first STEP" The latter prevailed, and
an address to the people of the country
was adopted, declaring that protection
was a ruinous measure" and that sail
possible means should be taken to abol-
ish it Immediately" 1t was agreed to
establish a literary bureau for the n
lightenment of the press generally, shut
more especially the country papers,
After the adjournment a Missouri Free
Trade League was formed, with ex.
Governor Phelps as President.
Officers of the Post-ofiee Department
say that the new postal notes are ''prov-
ing a great convenience to lottery COM
panies and to the many firms and COR
pCrations throughout the country which
have been black-listed by the Depart
ment and denied the privilege of the
money order and registry systems. y
Thireteen of such concerns are now
having remittances made to them in
postal notes, which are payable to
bearer, and which do not come within
the scope of the Departments order
~forbidding the payment o fmoney orders
to concerns which have not been d
clared fraudulent.
There is said to be some excitement in
Board of Trade circles in Chicago, ow-
ing to the publication of certain cir
culars alleged to have been sent by a
few prominent commission houses of
that city and New York to country
customers outlining a method by
which they can speculate on Change on
a small SCALE" The Chicago papers
publish the names of firms supposed
to have sent out these circulars and
say that 1.-THE methods are only a shade
in difference from those observed by
the firm of Fleming & Merriam, the
active members of which were COM
PEELED to leave the city and country
owing to the i~mportunings of those who
had been induced to invest their money
in the firms schemes"
No new cases Of yellow fever or deaths
were reported at the Pensacola Navy
Yard.
Surgeon Main, of the Marine Hos
pital service at Brownsville, Texas, re-
ports that the yellow fever continues
''the reigning terror" in Mazatlan,
Mexico. Every house there is a hos
pital," and lit is impossible to keep
track of the deaths, which run into