West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-10-26

land Point, n. Y, a few nights ago.
PEHSONAI. Ann POtITIgAt.
a MASSACHUSETTS, statute provides That
the Board OF Health, Lunacy and Charity
"shall consist Of nine persons" Tho At.
torney General rules that a woman is not n
person." and hence Mrs. Clara Lonard.
who has been elected TO the Board, can not
takD her seat
JAMES LLOYD GREENE. aged Rfty-siN,
prominent citi2cn and manufacturer, May
or Of Norwich, Conn, for three terms, and
Republican candidate Tor Governor i'm 1870,
died suddenly in the Adirondack Noun
tains on the 10th OF pneumonia.
Tux remains OF DR.. Charles r.. Blumen
thai, OF New York, were crematod in the
Lomoyno furnace at Washington, Pa, on
the 10Th. Tho body was accompanied bv
members of the Philadelphia Commander
OF knights Templar, OF which ho was a
Past Commander.
JULIA WARD HOWE, in her address be-
fore the Society for the Advancement
OF Women, said great good had been ac.
complished for and by the women OF tho
country since the Society was organized,
eleven years ago.
AT Nashville, the case OF Alice NJ. KING
against tho Dddy Amcricdn, for libel, was
dismissed on the 18th. Sho claimed 500.
600 for being described rs ga small lady
with "a very big nose, and ugly"
WHILE reho0rsing Faust" in New York
on the 18th, under the management OF MIR.
Abbey, Del Puente was served with an la.
Junction, restraining him from singing
with any one except Mapleson.
DANIEL BRIsBoIs, cashier of the Missouri
Pacific Railway, st. Joseph. Mo, suicided
on the 18th with opium or morphine. He
was short in his accounts between $500 and
1900, and saw no way out OF his trouble.
lie was about forty years old, and leaves a
wife and two children.
WIN. IA. Vanderbilt, while driving Early
Rose over tho course at the Gentlemen.
Driving Park on the 18th, collided with one
of Robert Bonner's fast teams, and yyas
thrown violently from his seat. lie re.
covered from the shock sufficiently 10 be
driven home, and is not thought 20 bo
seriously hurt
REV. j. HENRY SMITHE, OF philadelphia
has been offered $4,000 TO deliver a series
OF one hundred and twenty lectures in
New York State in aid OF the building fund
for Bartholdi's statue OF "Liberty Enlight-
ening the World"
MAYOR Low, OF Brooklyn, was re-nomi.
mated ON tho nth, by the Republican City
Convention.
GENERAL SHERMAN was elected President
OF the Army of the Tennessee NJ the Clcye.
land Reunion, on the 18th; Colonel Day.
ton, Recording Secretary; General Hick.
enlooper, Corresponding Secretary, and
General Force, Treasurer. They are all
Ohio men. General Grant was elected ora
tor OF the next meeting, which will bo held
at Lake Minnetonka, MINI.
GENERAL STKEDMAN, "tho Hero Of Chick
amauRa," died at 3 o'clock on the afternoon
Of the 18th, OF pneumonia, at his homo In
Toledo, o. Since the war he had served as
Provisional Governor OF Georgia, Collector
Of Internal Revenue at New Orlenns, mem-
Der Of the Ohio Constitutional Convention,
and state Senator. At the time OF his
death he was Chief of the Toledo police
force.
In New York on tho 1oth, Henry w.
Gwynner, President OF the Hook Manufac-
turing Company and OF the National Rail
road Publication Company, committed
suicide.
CoLORED Bnptists in convention 40 wy.
andotte on tho I0th, representing number
Of tho Western States and Territories.
adopted resolutions protesting against tho
late decision Of tho Supreme Court ON
civil rights. They charge the responsible.
ity OF the decision upon the Republican
party, and give notice 10 all political par.
ties, in q very general way, that they in
tend 10 hold whatever ground they com
mand as onfranchised American citizens.
GERALD MASSEY tho poet, arrived at New
York from Liverpool ON the 18th.
wASuINGTON NoTEN.
GIN. BEN. BUTLER has filed n claim
against the Government Tor ~ ,0OOOO for
damages 10 the Great Falls Water.Poyyor
Company, Of which he is the President.
Tie damages result from a dam built by
the Government twenty years ago, and
wero estimated at Che time by the Court OF
Claims at $1,000.
THE President confirmed the sentence of
dismissal IN tho case Of Commander
Frederick r. Smith, Of the u. S. Navy.
tried by COurt-martial for duplicating pay
accounts, but has mitigutcd 30 % suspeu-
sion from the ranks md duty for one year,
tho officer 60 retain bis present number in
his grade during that time, md boz repri.
manded by the Secretary of the Navy.
ANOTHER one OF the Fitzgerald Pension
Claim Agents dt Wasning'ou isuuder iuveq.
ugadon by thc Pension Office Tor sending
worthless &C.. o. d." packages by express
10 applicants Tor pensions This time d. is
W. J.. Fitzgerald, q brother OF n. W. Fitz.
gerald, and having his Office in the building
Of the latter. Part OF these cases were
conducted under the uamo Of Taylor Fitz.
gerald, from Winfield, Kas.. where Vs.
T. Fitzgerald conducted business for
time.
PosrWAsrEn GENERAL GnrsuAw has
made the following ruling "Tbo rcduc.
tion on tho lst inst. in thc domestic rato of
postage from three 10 two cents reduced
also from the same date from six TO- four
cents per hall ounce double POSTAGE or
letters for delivery in the United States.
commonly called ship lettorsy which are
conveyed 90 this country by vessels not
regularly employed in carrying mais.0
y. W. FITzGERALp, the Pension Claim
Agent at Washington, lately arraignod and
fined in the Police Court for assault. hae
brought n libel suit against the Cincinnati
C0mmcrcigi G0sctc Company, and its
Washington correspondent, General ~. ".
Boynton, for 10000, ana another suit
against the 81. Louis Gtobe Deaocr0t and
its Washington correspondent, c. r. Muir
ray, for Sjo,0OO, for publications which he
claims have damaged his character aud his
business.
THE claim Of Tho United States against
tho Central Pacific Railroad Company