The daily gazette., 1883-11-24
MORNING SUMMARY.

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Thursday night.
The President yesterday appointed Colo
mel Robert Murray, Assistant Surgeon, 70
he Surgeon in the army.
The house OF T. w. Huston, near Union
Vile, Mo-, was burned on Thursday, and
MI. Huston and two children perished in
ii llalnes.
John II. Halpin q Co., grocers and com
mission merchants of st. Louis, failed yes
te ly in consequence of the failure of the
N !ssppi Valley Bank.
u Is stated that all the banks Of the Pro-
vince Of Quebec which are interested in the
4 matter will grant the extension asked by
4 John aharpless' Sons & Co., lumber mer-
k chauts.
Ata meeting of the Bank Presidents AS
ISOLATION Of Boston on Thursday night there
was a general expression Of opinion in favor
Of the passage by Congress Of the "Lowell
Bankruptcy bill"
Commodore John Lee Davis, now on his
way to China to assume command of the
Asiltic squadron, has been appointed acting
Rear Admiral. This is the first appointment
Of the kind since the war.
The cigar manufacturers of Chicago met
Yesterday afternoon and resolved to dis
charge any union cigarm aker who refuses
to work in shop with non-union man
who receives regular wages.
Owing to recent disturbances at Salvation
Army meetings in Kingston, Ontario, the
Police Commissioners there have sworn in
nine SalyatloRists as constables, to do duty
at the meetings in future.
The cavlng In OF the surface OF the Logan
n Cocry, near Ashland, Pa, continued yes
terlay. The Lehigh Valley Company has
been compelled to build mile of track In
order to continue its traffic.
The City Councils of New Orleans met
lssl night and organized as Court of I'M
peachment for the trial of City Treasurer
Walsh After organizing the court ad.
journed until the TIN proximo.
Tie training ship Jamestown has been
ordered from Newport to New York for re-
pairs Orders have been issued for the re-
psir Of the practice ship Constellation,
now at Norfolk, at an estimated cost of
q $4,000.
The loss in the neighborhood of Piedmont,
Missouri, by the recent floods, is estimated
at S25 600. No lives were lost. The rail-
roads in Southeastern Missouri and South
en Illinois are nearly all in regular opera
ton again.
The supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
d,cdcd that Mrs. Clara Leonard is legally a
mcRbcr of the State Board of Health and
Charities. Governor Butler had proposed
tor,moye her on the ground that she was
not legally a member.
The arbitration board of coal operators
snd miners of the fourth pool, appointed to
stilrthe wages dispute, met yesterday in
Pi,lshurg, James d. Weeks, Secretary of
The Western Iron Association, was unani-
mously chosen umpire.
President Arthur yesterday accepted an
imitation from the Chamber of Commerce
OF New York to be present ut the Sub
Treasury in that city on Evacuation Day
aud receive the statue of Washington on be-
hall oi The Government.
Five hundred track laborers on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad be-
tgcn Pstsburg and Crestline, Ohio, and
lJj on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
have been discharged during the week, and
other discharges will be made.
According to q telegram from Rochester,
New York, 1t has been discovered that A.
B. johnson, OF Utica, who recently commit
I'd suicide, hal embezzled 100000 from
The Mcdonnell estate, In the former city. Mrs.
NcDonell was Johnson's sister, and he had
entire charge of thr estate.
The liabilities of the suspended Mifsis-
Epp Valley Bank or Vlcksburgi are now
estimated at nearly $l,000,000. 1t is said
although some creditors estimated the de-
Iosits at about 100000. A long list of pre-
ienel editors is published, whose claims
aggregate rearly 100000.
Dr.. Wilson, leading Anglican clergy
mau Of Kingston, Ontario, has created
srsalion there by taking part in the COM
muuion of the Salvation Army and attend
Ing is "all night prayer meetings." It is
understood that DR.. Wilson has been al
lowed three months leave OF absence from
bis curacy in the Cathedral.
Yesterdays Cabinet meeting was longer
than usual, and all the members were pres
ent. 1t is said that, besides the determine
tion OF questions which have been pending
in the several departments, the strained
relations between France and China and the
elect which hostilitles would have upon the
interests Of the United States were subjects
o. consideration.
Senor Fuentesy Nunez, the Secretary of
Tic Treasury of Mexico, yesterday tele-
gFslhed to Senor Romero aS follows: Pub
iish in the name of this Department that
ile negotiations pending between the official
agent of our Government, Carlos kivas,
aud the Committee of Bondholders of the
aeXiean debt in London, are still open, and
Llat new propositions have been made to
him"
:, sanitary Inspector Burgess, OF the Marine
hospital Service at Havana, reports that
lhtie were Is deaths from yellow fever In
l4t city during the week which ended on
!At 10TH inst, and that the number of cases
~ lhe city and harbor was about 70. He
aus "At no time during this year has SO
IsIge proportion of the sailing vessels in
'ae harbor suffered from yellow sever as are
no" suffering from II"
he National Cotton Planters Associa-
non IN session at Vicksburg, yesterday
aunpled resolution asking Congress to
Hlske an appropriation for the Improvement
" lle Mississippi river and the erection of
ivEees. resolution was also adopted max
iAS women eligible to membership in the
q, association, and Mrs. Charles Fl. Smith, OF
"ishington county, Mississippi, was the
nI't emale member enrolled.
Andrew Taylor was hanged yesterday at
London, Tennessee, for the murder of Sheriff
Gate and his deputy year ago. He refused
minister, appeared perfectly callous, and,
liter the Sheriff had adjusted the moose,
al, with a fierce curse, ~ could drink
our hearts blood" Andrew was the sur
'Nor Of two brothers who boarded a rail
oal train in which their brother John wae
eng taken to Knoxville for trial, and,
Nrr numbering the Sheriff and deputy
ll'ing the prisoner in charge, effected their
yape' month afterwards Robert was
l'a while resisting arrest; John died In q
ew noHths from exposure and priyation,
A. afAd In