The daily gazette., 1883-11-10
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for the new Constitution.
For some time past letter boxes In
Charleston, 8. c., have been systematically
robbed by unknown persons. An effort Is
being made to detect the robbers.
Much excitement has been caused In New
Haven, Conn, by the discovery that many
Of the names OF endorsers Of applications
for liquor licenses have been forged.
During meeting Of colored people In
| Laurenburg, North Carolina, yesterday |
morning, the building tumbled down,
injuring eight persons, two OF them NOR
tally.
The Germans of Chicago last night held
"a secular, as distinguished from the reli- |
gious" celebration OF the 400th anniversary
of Luther's birth. Among the speakers was
Jewish Rabbi.
George w. Durell, who was for a time
captain Of the Ringgold Battery, one Of the
five companies composing the First De-
tenders" during the war, died yesterday in
Reading, aged 65 years.
BY the fall of a scafTold at ReIs Brothers
furnace at New Castle, Pa yesterday morn
ing, James Egan was killed and Andrew
| Mcbride and William Troy received danger
Gus If not fatal injuries.
At Ogle Station, near st. Louis, yesterday
morning. a man working on a steam shovel
was killed, and an hour later the boiler OF
the engine running the shovel exploded,
dangerously injuring the engineer and fire.
man.
The steamer City OF Peking, which ar
rived at San Francisco on Thursday, brought
1877 Cinnamon with "Traders' Certificates"
Several Of the Cinnamon acknowledged that
they had paid money for the papers to the
inspectors in Canton.
United States Marshal Longstreet has
} asked for authority TO appoint additional
guards to accompany the Ku-Klux prisoners
from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Penitentiary
at Albany, New York, as he fears that an
attempt at rescue will be made.
The War Department has received a tele-
gram from Captain Rafferty,, of the Sixth
e Cavalry, reporting the arrival at Silver
Creek, Arizona, of ~ Chiricahua Indians,
who surrendered themselves In accordance
with the terms made with General Crook in
May last
! w II. Morris, proprietor of the hotel at
Wakefield, Virginia, who disappeared in the
election riot In that place on Tuesday night
has returned and given himself up. He is
charged with having participated in the
j riot and fred the shot which wounded X.
e w. White.
n A sleeping car on the St. Paul, Mlnneapo
lis and Manitoba railroad was ditched near
Fargo on Thursday night, and capsized.
q All the passengers, about IL In number, In
ls ciuulng pTlual couple were lulureu'
J. Those most severely injured, were w 4
- Bailey OF Chicago, and lady from st. Faul.
x In order 20 test the consttutionality OF
s Courts of Special Sessions 10 New Jersey,
t. suit was brought by man named Edwards
IS against the State, IN which the question was
a. raised. The Supreme Court decided yester-
: dsy that the acts of the Courts were consti-
y tutlonal, and that defendant can waive a
, trial by jury in them.
is An actual weighing of the letters received
,e at the post offices In New York sn1 Phila
\ delphla shows that 9415 per cent. of them
y weigh less than half an ounce each. The
~ weighing was done at the request of the
ne Postmaster General Awho, 1t Is believed, may
N recommend Congress to increase the weight
, allowance for single rate letters from hal
. an ounce to an ounce.
GO dispatch from Madison, Wisconsin
says that Governor Rusk yesterday called
a meeting of the Capital Building Commis
II. sion to consider the details of Thursday
disaster In the collapse Of portion OF thu
- new capitol building. The contractors and
ID. architects were examined, and, as resul
on of the conference, ii was decided 70 have
ar- committee of experts to institute a rigiI
- inquiry. The Coroner's jury yesterday helt
"o inquests on the bodies of five of the dead
IRE Three more of the wounded, 1t is feared will
nd die.
10. In Chicago yesterday a suit brought By
nd 1 Inb NlLlLeub IthRuH 10 bthb lub hdlluil1 "
~. saloon licenses issue by the city at Sl03 each
Is a few days before the State $500 license lay
In went into effect was decided by the Cour
)W against the defendants. 1t was held tina
am license was a franchise, and judgment o
"a custer was given prohibiting the defendant
''i- from selling under a city license, The cas-
was Immediately appealed to the Suprem
ers Court. 1t is said that If decision can b
ON secured before the first of April next 1t wi
% involve payment by saloon keepers to th
city of over million dollars.
IsS- The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette report
on, the discovery of an ingenious evasion of til
or tariff by importers Of sheet iron and the
.re agents. 1t says: "Taggers' iron which is
=, very light grade Is admitted for 80 per cen
Ae- ad valorem, while the duty on heaviC
no. grades is from ~ to 215 cents per pount
IN The importers have been mixing the two t
gether and the appraisers have been d.
bts ceived into admitting the iron under the
l'lo per cent. ad valorem rate. After its arrvi
age In Pittsburg it would be repacked an
un- shipped to the West. 1t is said that tfol
lalf sands of tons have been brought into II
the country by this evasion, much to the injuI
A. of the sheet iron mills in Pttsburg and els
''S where"
yer The white people of Southampton count,
ad Va, are greatly xcited over the rumore
yer ou break among the negroes. Telegram
nm have been sent to Norfolk asking assstant
| III IuG tNGnb vi bIbuDltt hiiu liG NlhyOT IL
IT, formed a posse of the citizens to be really
orer a summons should arrival. 1t appears th
hile on Thursday drunken colored man to
All the servant Of white family that at mi
,ho night 81 900 negroes intended to slay eve
Vne white person from the cradle up in Sout
ampton county" This created a pan
an and the whites at Newsome, Franklin, Be
and, kins and Branchville armed themselves a.
Co.. sent out scouts. 1t was noticed that all t
colored men were all absent from their usU
yet haunts, and this increased the fears of t
ami whites, who sent their women and childr
heir to the woods and placed a guard arou
and them. The prevailing uneasintss is not
IT. layed by the fact that since Thursday aft
Ano loon, all the negroes who work around t
are railroad ailo have disappeared. As
for trouble is reported yet, it is possible IL
,ners each race is equally afraid OF the 9th
There was bloody slave insurrecton
SOUTHAMPTON county during the war, a
Ihe the recollection Of it may have something
are do with the present panic.
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o,r Reliable I1ace to Buy Pianos.
e., George L. Walker, piano parlors, 1886 No