The bee., 1883-12-29
GENERAL. NE " =

Congress has adjourned over until January
z, 1884
The commission which has examined the
New York (Brooklyn) navy yard will repor.
as follows: "The sale of the yard is not
recommended. Its geographical position,
Is well as the advantages of its site, as here
a set forth, render il the most important and
raluable navy yard in the possession of tha
government.
ia terrible tragedy occurred at Yazoo City,
Miss. j. L. Posey, of the firm of Williams
& Posey, was insulted by John James. a
colored butcher. Posey afterwards returned
with friends to where James was last seen.
upon, without warning, the party was fired
upon. john Posey, G. Posey and Jasper
A:cholls were riddled with buckshot and
instantly killed, and H. G. Ellet was dan
gerously and Fritz Hallder slightly wounded.
The negroes had organized and under cover
OF the intense darkness of the night fired on
Posey and his friends, who refrained from
shooting because the streets were full of men
and boys not connected with the difficulty.
dispatch from McDade, Texas, to the
News says: Henry Pfeiffer, Wright McLe-
ore and Thad McLemore were taken from
saloon by fifty well-arme1 masked men
and carried a mile into the brush where they
were hanged to tree. Later three of the
friends of the hanged men came to town 10
revenge the death of their friends and were
riddled with buckshot.
The secretary of the New York Board of
Trade states that letters are coming in from
nearly all the commercial centres at the Wes-
aad Southwest in favor of uniform bank
rlpt act
A despatch from Sherman, Texas, says: "a
band of desperadoes are terrorizing the
northwest portion of Grason county. Wien
raided they seek their fastresses in the Red
River bottom. They killed an unoffending
colored man at Pottsville and have since
murdered white man named Dexter. in
Cooke county, where they also burned
church and school house.
Emanuel Bolich, wealthy farmer and
horse dealer. residing at New Media, Colum
bia county, Pa, was found dead at n hote
at the Lehigh Valley depot with his forehead
and face frightfully injured.
The liabilities of Lamborn and Gray, the
bankers, of Alliance, Ohio, who recently
made an assignment, variously estimated
at from 100000 TO $4,000. The assets are
unknown.
p. LorilIard, the New York tobacconist,
gave an average weeks wages as a Christ
mas present to each Of the 5000 employees in
his Jersey city factory.
Seals have been seen frequently in the
lower harbor of New York during the present
cold snap. One was shot below Fort Wads-
worth, and another was caught in fish net
at Stapleton, Staten Island. -Four were seen
on one ice foe near Clifton.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says the
number of persons who emigrated to Texas
and other portions of the West from Ala
bama and adjoining States, and are now re-
turning home, is astonishing. On one of the
south-bound trains arriving at Montgomery
few nights ago were eighty passengers, ano
on another succeeding were sixty.
Mr.. John p. Morris has purchased a trac
of land in Cabarrus county, n. c., which il
intended for goat farm. He will go at it IL
regular goat-herding style, and will breee
be best species known.
A police officer on the Brooklyn IN. Y.
bridge Sunday night saw three men standin
in the centre of the span, amid a blindin
snow-storm, acting as he thought in a mys
terious manner. He approached them an
learned that they were carrying ont a com
pact made some years ago to drink a bottle
Of wine on the bridge if it was completed.
Jose Pasoz, a Chinaman, recently apple
in New York to become an American citizen
he had already secured his first paper:
Judge TruRx refused to naturalize him. Th
! Chinese immigration act Of May, 1852, de
clares that no State court or court of th
; United States shall admit Chinese to citizen
ship.
A triple murder has been committed 4
Chatham Church, n. c., near Moncure. II
victims were Mrs. Olive Gunter, 10 years Ole
and her daughter and granddaughter. Fac
was struck with an axe There is no clue i
the murderer.
At Richmond, Ind, Henry w. johnson.
prominent criminal lawyer, while attemr
ing 10 shoot one of the firm of Banner Bros
shot policeman Wertenburg fatally, and wa
himself shot by some one unknown.