Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-09

the sale OF native still or sparkling wines
under any fictitious fore'gu label shall be
prohibited, = d that the adulteration Of
wines shall be forfeited and the producers
be subject to q heavy fine.
Ju ius Marcus, whisky broker, accused
OF deiraudipg the customs, arrived In New
York frt m Portland, Ore.
R.v. DR.. Alfred VI. Partridge, for
I senty sey n years rector Of Christ church,
Brooklyn, died Of pneumonia.
The second election IN Cumberland and
East Greenwich, r L., resulted in q
triumph for the republicans.
DIR. SimeontK snny Furney, aged SO,
surgeon Of the steamship Monarch, for.
merry surgeon to the khedi,e. was drown.
ed In New York.
The Canadian privy council has decided
not to allow the Importation of American
whisky in bond, even under the seventy.
two hours limitation.
The funeral of Matt Grace, the New
York spot, was made the occasion Sun.
day for q gathering togetber Of notable
pugilists and wrestlers Of the country.
In q quarrel between Sergeant Wtlles
(colored) and Private Boyd, at Fort Hale,
Dskots, yesterday, the former shot the
latter with an army rifle. killing him in.
SANITY.
A special passenger train on the Ken
lucky Central ditched the engine near
Butler, Ky., running into q land slip,
slightly ibjuring the engineer. The fire.
man was killed.
The London Daily Telegraph SAYS It un-
stands the prt sidents Of the Grand Trunk
and Canaoisu Pacific railway companies
have held q conference which terminated
satisfactorily, and there Is good prospect Of
an agreement between the two companies
being arrived at.
The trustees OF the Park Avenue Meth.
odist Episcopal church, Of Philsdelpbis.
seeded because the bishop refused to as
sien o certain minister to the church, and
organized another congregation. One o!
tbs trustees bought the mortgage on the
church building.
Vignaux and Schaefer announce they
will go t. st. Louis and (incinnati and
play exhibition ganes this week, remain
ing in the latter city three days. The
game at ST.. Loui, will be the regular three
ball, fifteen hundred points. Sexton,
Dion and DAILY go to New York at oncs
At Oskalcosa. Iowa, yesterday Mrs
Nancy Braden, just returned from a Cali
fornia lurney, was suffocated In hei
room at the hotel by gas escaping from the
burner. She had turned it off, but, as the
top had no catch, che turned IL partly
on sgain. She was quite dead when ois.
covered.
Five hundred boys and girls gathered IL
front OF the hall in Syracuse, New York
In which he sal satiou army beld Q meet
ing, lsss night, Special officers ct the en-
trance were pelted with mud. The crowc
sang "Roil the Chari t Along and pad
dy Duffy's Cart" The police dispersed
the mob after three arrests.
The government gauge ct the head o
Canal street, New Orleans, shows the rive,
to be even with the great food Of 1874
and five inches higher than last year
Most of the plating in front of the levee |
covered with w-ter. Steamers In man,
cases have landed freight 100 feet fur.he
out than usual.
/. Henry Bergb, the defender Of all ami
mails, has written q letter to Barnum, tn
circus man, condemning the killing of tn,
elephant Pilot. HIS argument was tina
kir dness, instead Of cruelty, would hav
subdued the animal. Barnum's reason TO
: killing Pilot was that he considered IL safe
c not to subject bis patrons to danger.
An accident on the Central Pacific rail
' way between Emerson and Winnipeg, h,
: ~hich Engineer Robinson wa killed Th
express from The south ran into . freigh
at Ninerville. The fireman of the express
I jumped, but the driver stood at hi, pos
and was killed. One passenger was sever
= wounded and several more slightly.
Charl sc. jackson, james Dever an,
, d. p. Duncan have been indicted by tn
grand jury for connection with the allege,
frauds in the street department under th
late municipal government of San Fran
cisco. The allegations a,e forgery, pc
jury, obtaining money under false preten
ses by q o. stem OF false warrants, an,
dummy pay rolls. The allegation IL tha
500 600 . year was stolen In this mannes
!. P. II. Burcb, advertising himself as tn
} Union Manufacturing company, Of Gale
ns, Illinois, an recently posted Us swim
dler by the postofice authorities, has dil
appeared. He succeeded In swindling In
4 nocent people, mostly Swedes, by prom
Using to send articles through the mails
to the extent Of e35, 900. Since publ
3 exposure, three hundred money orders au,
regttsred letters have been returned {
> the senders.
It was feared In Chicago that the pref
emit strike OF mssons would interfere wit
y The construction OF the new board OF trad
aud other large public structures, but th
|" contractors assert that 1t will not. To
building committee of the board Of trad
assert that they will make concessions I
10 the contractors 10 TIE present emergency
IN A meeting Of bricklayers last nieht d.
cided to continue the strike and decls, g
that the threat Of the contractors to In
port workmen would not succeed.
IN As an incident to the ceremony
decorating the confederate dead in Ne
Id Orleans Saturday, and the lsyi g Of Il
ID corner stone OF q monument to he gu
ID mounted by al equestrian statue Of Able
Sidney johnson, was an Grafton delivers
. by Jefferson Davis, in which he eulogiz'
the characteristics of the dead leader. ]
~ johnson he recognized a strong pillar
: the confederacy, and when be fell in Il
field OF Shiloh the mightiest column whit
sustained the cause had fallen. He di'
be in the moment Of victory, and had he liv'
Ut halt an honr longer would have ma
r, Grant u prisoner or o fugitive. The CO
e. federacy had three great leaders, Johnso
Lee and jack son, who would compa
ID with any leaders ct ancient or mode
I'd times.