Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-16
NEWS MISCELLANY.


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Throughout the Land.
In the agricultural society of Georgia,
in session at Atlanta, yesterday, TT 9. w.
Leland, in the course of an aca. ess on
" Labor" made "some interesting re-
marks to show the folly of educating negro
laborers." Thomas Hardeman was re-
elected president for his eighth year in that
ofice.-The 32d annual meeting of the
association for tn, advancement of science
began at the University of Minnesota yes.
terday, morning.
The schooner Alliance arrived at Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, yesterday, from the
scene of the wreck of the steamer Brant-
ford City. The captain reports that the
grounded vessel is lying on an even bot
tom. The Alliance brought miscella.
neous cargo and left several vessels at the
wreck packing the saved goods.
The Essex savings bank has foreclosed
a mortgage Of $4,000 on st. Mary.s
church, in Lawrence, Mass, on account of
the inability of the priests to raise suffic
lent funds to pay the interest and the
property will be sold at auction. The
structure cost over $500, 900.
The first rain that has visited Lynch
burg, Va, for five weeks fell there yester.
day. The corn crop in several of the
southwestern counties of that state has
been destroyed and the tobacco crop dam
aged by drought.
The steamer Bernard Hill sailed from
Vera Cruz on the 14th inst, for Baltimore.
The Norwegian bark Fredericka and
Karalina, from Aspinwall for Quebec, was
reported coming up the st. Lawrence
yesterday with yellow fever on board.
The treasury department yesterday is
sued orders for the opening of all tho life
saving stations on tho Atlantic and Gulf
coasts on September 1.
A court tennis match for the champion
ship of America and valuable purse was
played at Newport yesterday by Thomas
Petit, of Boston, and Harry Roakes, of
Canada. Petit won by three sets to one.
The Calendar Of Crime.
At Fayette station, on tho CT la.apeak ,
& Ohio railroad in Virginia, last Monday
night Lee Reeves, colored, who had previ-
ously assaulted Edward Nolan, renewed
the attack and shot Nolan, John Huddles-
ton and another man, mortally wounding
Nolan and Huddleston. The other man
may recover. Reeves escaped.-James
McDonOugh was fally shot by John w.
DOy in saloon in Cincinnati on Tuesday
night. McDonough, being drunk, entered
Dogs room in a threatening manner and
accused him of robbery, whereupon Doy
shot McDonougb in the breast, causing a
wound which resulted yesterday in death.
McDOnough killed man two years ago.
ALBERT Anderson mulattO, stabbed and
killed Charles Marshall, another mulatto,
during the progress of Republican pri.
mary election IN Cincinnati last night
Edward ]. Curry, of Baltimore, Nd, has
been committed to Jail, charged with mur-
dering his wife. He reported to the
coroner that she had died Of heart diseas O.,
but the neighbors said that screams had
been heard, and an examination showed
that the woman's body was covered with
wouuds.-Isaac Evans, Reuben King and
Sweeney Younger, the Pittsylvania mur-
derers, were last evening longed in Jail at
Lynchburg, Va, for safe custody until the
excitement at Chatham shall have sub
| sided.
Escaped Isogues.
Thomas G.. Hunt, the New York mer
chant who disappeared in June, and who
was reported as being in Cambridge, Eng
land, has been discovered in Elizabeth
town, Essex county, New York. He has
not been in Europe, and little can be
learned of his dOin9s since the time of his
disappearance. He says he does not know
where he has been.
L. w. johnson, the telegraph operator
| whose negligence is said to have caused
the recent fatal collision on the Troy &
Boston railroad, near Petersburg junction,
| when six lives were lost, was arrested yes
terday on a charge Of manslaughter in the
second degree, to which he pleaded moi
guilty.
Revenue agents captured and destroyed
an illicit still, of 100 gallons capacity, near
| Garfield postoffice, Texas, yesterday.
Eighty gallons Of beer and fifty pounds OF
| meal were also destroyed, and man
| named Lovelady was arrested.
Money Matters.
The acting comptroller of the currency
yesterday authorized the following ma
tional banks: The first national bank OF
Taylor, Texas, capital, $5O.O Decatur
national bank of Decatur, Indiana, capi
| tai, $50, 900; South Branch Valley national
bank of Moorefield, West Virginia, capi.
tai, $50, 900 first national bank of PUNK
sutawney, Pa, capital, $50, 600, and first
national bank of Vancouver, Washington
territory, capital, $1,000.
The royal insurance company of Liver
pool, yesterday took out permit for the
erection in Chicago Of nine story office
building in Jackson street, near tho new
chamber of Commerce, to cost $4,000
Bids were opened yesterday at the
treasury department for the construction
of light houses at Cape San Bias and SAM.
bel island, Florida. Tho Phoenix iron com
pany, of Trenton, New Jersey, made the
lowest bid.
Fatally Gored by q l5cll.
Mrs. Mccall, residing on farm east of
Rose Hill, Mahaska county, Iowa, and her
daughter were milking the COWS. The
bull was in an adjoining lot, but on seeing
the women jumped a wire fence and made
for them. The two daughters escaped,
but the mother was fearfully gored her
limbs were broken and the flesh was torn
from her face and breast. The screams of
the girls brought the men from the
harvest field, and on their arrival the bull
released his victim and ran after them.
He was knocked down and killed. This
is the second accident of that kind in the
sama locality, man named Matte having
been fearfully gored few days ago.
Notable Deaths.
Gen. Thomas J. HaiIes, of the subsist-
ence department, U. s. A. died at Hart
ford, Conn, on tho morning of the 18th
instant.
Augustus M. Harrington. who was U.
s. attorney for Northern Illinois, under
President Buchanan, died at Geneva, Ill.,,
on Tuesday.
Pierre Bernard, widower of the late
Caroline Richings Bernard, died yesterday
at the White Sulphur springs, in Virginia.
His latter years had been occupied in
teachinO muSic