The Penn's Grove record., 1883-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TeStHJdtlftN, u OoiniiltJee WIS aIN
pointed to investigate the alleged invali-
dity of the bill incorporating the Union
Safe Deposit Company, which was
vetoed by Governor Butler. 1t is said
the Governor was ont Of the State at
the date of the veto.
The Prohibition amendment before
the Michigan House of Representatives
failed to pass for want of a two-thirds
vote. The yeas were 81, the nays &c,
with 8 absentees.
The Legislature of British Columbia,
after a three months session, has dis
posed Of the business before il and. will
adjourn from day to day until the
Premier receiyesdespa ches from Ottawa
respecting the settlement of the points
at issue between the Province and the
Dominion.
The conference committees of the
Amalgamated Association and the Iron
Manufacturers of the Pittsburg District
will meet again, and make another
effort to agree upon a scale Of wages
for the year.
A delegation Of thirty coal miners left
Pittsburg to visiI all the pits where men
are working at the reduction, for the
purpose of inducing them to join the
strike.-The coal miners at Stanton.
Mount Olive, Gillespie and Bunker Hill,
Illinois, ra-~herine over 1900 men.
have struck for an advance of half a
cent per bushel.
The New York cigar manufacturers
are gradually yielding to the demand of
their employees for an increase of 81 per
thousand. So The cigarmakers of
Reader Gabel & Co., of Bordentown.
New Jersey, who struck a few days ago
for an advance of 81 per thousand,
have resumed work, the increase being
granted.
The U. $. flagship Tennessee, Rear
Admiral Cooper commanding, has re-
turned to Hampton Roads from her
West India cruise.
At Fortress Monroe, twelve "lummy''
torpedoes were sent a distance of II
miles under water and returned to the
base of operations by endless cable. They
were hidden from view under water,
and their position was known only E ,
the operator, "wlo placed themsin any
position desired TO ohstrnct or allow the
passage of vessels From these ex-
periments Lieutenant Graydon predicts
"a revolution in harbor defence
methods
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church closed in
Syracuse, New York. About n hum
bred and fifty delegates were present.
The receipts for the year are reported
at Sl14,000, an increase of $1,000 on
tn Jse of the Pre- vious year. There were
! placed in nomination for officers, to he
elected in Philadelphia, Mrs. W, E.
Schenck, for President Miss NJ. smith,
Tor Recording Secretary Miss Julia
Fishbufn, for Treasurer, and Mrs. A.
Massey, Mrs. C. P. Turner and Mrs. ID.
r. Posey, for Corresponding Secretaries.
The German Atlantic Conference of
the Evangelical Association of North
America met in Baltimore. Bishop
Bowman, Of Allentown, Penna., pre-
sided. Rev. Frederick Kurtz, of
Brooklyn, was Secretary. Tie Con-
ference, embraces ~twenty-six dele
gates.
The Odd Fellows of Mississippi
celebrated the 9th anniversary of
the Order in the United States by a meet
u at Port Gibson. An address was
delivered by Colonel j. l.. Power, of
| jackson, Grand Master of the Order
in the State. Similar celebrations were
held by the Odd Fellows of Louisiana,
Virginia and other States.
Confederate Memorial Day was appro-
priately observed In Montgomery,
Savannah, Atlanta and other Southern
cities. There was a general sus-
pension of business, the military parad-
Cd, memorial addresses We're delivered,
anl the graves were decorated.
III.
Henry HUI, of Henry Hull & Co,
bankers, died suddenly in a street car
in SayannIh.- Miller, ex-
member of the Ohio Senate, died in
Columbus, Ohio. -Charles w. Foster,
father of Governor Foster, of Ohio, died
at Fostoria, aged SO years.
In the U. S. Circuit Court at Jeffer-
son City, Missouri, James W. IIarri-
son, j.. A...Lockhart and j. A. Prather,
Justices of the Lafayette county Court,
were ordered to be imprisoned until
they obey a mandate of the U. S. Court
directing them to levy a tax of $1,000 to
pay an instalment on Judgment Obtained
ON a suit onlthe county.bonds. 1t appears
that the county offered to compromise
tie bonds at 80 cents on the dollar, at
Which rate 81, 700, 900 of IFS bonded
debt had already been compromised, but
the holder of the Judgment refuses to
take less than 100 cents.
During a fire in Heaton's saw mill, at
Trenton, Ontario, Stewart Heaton, son
of the proprietor, entered the mill. He
became blinded by the smoke, and, fall
ing across "a circular saw, had his head
cut oil. REV. Samuel Reiman, a we'll
known Jewish rabbi, was killed at
Catharine street ferry, in New York.
He tried TO jump on the bridge before
the boat was made fast, and was