Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-17
CONDENSED NEWS.
Beuuaur py rnE moRNiNa MAILS.
a Resume ut Interesting and Late uarpcu-
iDgs-Some Miscellaneous Matters
from All Iarts

from All rarts.
The celebration of the I3d anniversary
Of Mexican indcI endonce was continued
yesterday IN the city of Mexico. The dis
play Of bunting exceeded that OF Saturday
when tue festivities uNcrlappcd those vt
Diaz's birthday There was grand
parade of the various societies, schools,
government cmpl yes and military, with
"a number Of allcgorical cars.
Professor Smith of uaVucr observatory,
at Rochester, discovered a comet un Sat.
urday night in the constellation Drdcp.
IL is apparently near the other one discOy-
cred by him in the samo constellation. \
brilliant aurora preveutei an extended
observation of the comet, whose motion Is
sOuthwrstcrly.
The steamer, Delaware, at New York
yesterday from Charleston, reports that
on tho lith inst, eighloenn miles from
CapS Hatteras, she passed. the wreck of
the three maStcd schooner Chalcs +. licScr
from AphlaChicOla for New York. The
schooner was waterlOggci and abandoned
aud is in the direct track ut Uuastiug
steamers.
A meeting Uf prominent Germau citizens
of Washington was held last evening at
which arrangements were made for the
celebration on October Sth of the two
huudrcdth anniversary Of the lirst Gurmau
colony in the United States.
The conference between committee OG
tho strikers and tho prOprieturs Of tho
steel rail mills ut South ChinlgD, held Ou
Saturday afternoon resuIte IN an agree.
mcut To continue for the remainder ni the
year. TIL mills viii rrsuma uu Monday
the 2ith instant, aud employ abp 1000
mon.
The Etstoru conference OF German
Baptists is holding It's 35i annual session
N Pit;sburC. About 80 delegates are
preScut representing IS churches III the
states east of Ohio. Rev. VI. LIukCr, of
PhiladcluhA presided.
Tho |. :. iTigatO. HuwhatIu, Capt. !.
w. johnson, arrived at -. JOhus, New
iUundland, on saturday. She viii cruise
around the Newfoundland coast aud in.
yestigate the cause of the COLLISION between
American aud NowGuuuihud fisherman.
The COIean embassy arrived at Wash
ington on Saturday utrhJ Tho principal
dignitarios are Men lo0k TX and Hon.
0euk Shlk.
The report that y woman and child wore
killed in tho riot at Nal'ctDn, Pa on last
Thursday, is cOntradcted. The rioters
were arrested after y stout resis lance, but
without loss Of life.
In tho Churches
The Roman Catholic church of the
Sacred Heart Ut Plains, near WiikeSbarre,
Pa, was dedicated yesterday, three thou
sand persons being present Bishop
O'Hara, Of Scranton, yiiicjatod, and Rev.
James L. Mulholiand, o, Philadelphia,
was master OF ceremonies
The lew altar OF the Cathedral Of the
Holy Cross in Boston, said tn be scCoud
IN maguiCrucB only t. tho high altar in
the New York cathedral was unveiled
yesterday morning, Archbishop Williams
officiating.
Monsiguor Capel preached yesterday
morning IN the Church Ol the immaculate
Conception, Boston. In tho evening he
lecturcd in Music hall, to an " immense
audience IN aid of the home for destitute
Catholic children.
The Fire Record.
Tho PltCsburg hoop and barrel compauy's
works at DelphOs, Ohio, were burned.
Loss $40, go. \ night wdtchuau persisted
in the buildinE.-A lire at Casey, Illinois,
destroyed eleven stores, causing loss OF
$50 coo. "A fire in Atlantic, Georgia in the
building occupied by Simm us n Drum.
moud, commission aud produce merchants
caused loss OF $50 900 Three incond-
larry fires were started in Elizlbeth,
New Jersey, on Friday night Two
of them were speedily oxtinguished
the third destroyed the barp, shed and
saw mill of jacob Rpohm.-Thirteeu
thousand cedar rails enclosing a pasture
at Corsicana, Texas, werc burned on Fri.
day night, and it is supposed they were
fired by an incendiAry shaver Il DDw's
cracker factory, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
was burned. Loss S25, ,OOO-F. ). Au
drews' packing house., in New Haven,
Connecticut was burned yesterday, with
quantity Of bacon and hams. Tho ad.
joining packing house WAS damaged. Tho
total loss is estimated vt $50 900. Forty
men are thrown out OF wur..
tN-Prcsident Dai1's birthday Celebration.
The birthday of Portirio DIal was celeb
rated with great popular euthusaSm in
the city Of Mexico, on Saturday. All the
public buildings aud many OF the stores and
dwellings were decorated with bunting.
On Friday night there was a procession of
societies aud of pupils at the national
schools, and thousand Of people Of the best
classes took part in seronade to Daz.
On Saturday La Repuj!icu the organ Of
Ramon Fernandez, nominated Diaz for
next president. In the evening thcrs was
a display of fireworks in front of Diax's
house. The celebration of the national
of Mexico began on Saturday
before that OF Diaz was closed.