Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-30
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
vAK1oUs soolErlEs IN SESSION.

VARIOUS SOolETlES IN SESSION.
rev. Thos. m,tonen to DsIsnd Chrisssaniey
In the F1oeIninkers' Convention
Other News In Briei.
The Freethinkers' convention opened
yesterday in Rochester, about 800 dele
gates being present. Committees ON bust
ness and resolutions were appointed. H.
L. Green, of New York, being chairman,
of the former, and Courtland Parker
of the latter. The speakers yesterday
were F. L. Brown, Jay Rappel, Samuel
G. Putnam. G. Fannie Allen and George
Chaiuey. the latter devotiug himself to
the clergy. Rev. Thomas Mitchell. of
Brooklyn, is to speak in defence Of Chris.
decided to give him all the time he de-
sires." Erl..
The national convention of deaf mutes,
in session at New York yesterday, elected
the following executive COMMITTEES: ia.
Froelich, New York j. T. Elwell, Penn
sylvania; Robert Patterson, Ohio D. W.
George, Illinois; Geo. T. Dougherty, Mis-
souri,; 3. ]. Vail, Indiana; T. A. Holmes,
Massachusetts: w. II. Werk, Connecticut;
Oscar Kusmsn, Rhode Island; D. s.
Rogers, South Carolina: T. Brown, Now
Hampshire; Hiram P. Hunt, Maine; T. L.
Brown, Michigan; Walter McDougal, New
Jersey; James s. Wells, Maryland; G. W.
Steerod, West Virginia; and Rev. Job
Turner, Virginia.
A business meeting of the Grand Army Of
the Republic encampment at Gettysburg
was held yesterday, when it was decided
that the encampment next summer should
be held at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The
adjutant general reported 81 posts, 30
500 members, and SIG, CAT expended in re
lief and charity during the quarter ended
in June.
The American Dermatological associa-
ton met yesterday morning at Lake
George. The president, DR.. R. w. Tay.
lor, occupied the chair. Papers were read
by Drs. Piffard, of New; Graham, of
Toronto; Stilwsgon and Van HsrtinRen,
Of Philadelphia, and Atkinson, of Balti-
more.
The fourteenth annual convention Of the
fire underwriters Of the northwest began
yesterday in Chicago. About 200 repre-
sentatives of companies doing business in
the northwest and Ohio, Indiana. Tennes-
see, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin and Kan
sas were present.
The seventeenth annual convention of
| the American institute of architects opened
yesterday in Providence, Rhode Island.
Thomas V. Walker, LII. D., of Philadel.
| phia, the oldest member of the institute,
presided.
The grand lodge of Good Templars of
New York is in session at Syracuse. Yes
| serday afternoon Tuscarora Indian girl
enlivened its proceeding by can exhibi
tion of her remarkable musical powers
| or Commercial Interest.
On Monday next number of experts
who have been appointed by the cotton
exchange throughout the country will meet
in New York for tho purpose of selecting
standard samplers as guide in classifica-
tion. At meeting yesterday afternoon
Abraham Allen. jr., was appointed expert
for tho New York cotton exchange and
| Thomas Fenner substitute.
| At a meeting of the New York metal
exchange yesterday an amendment to the
by laws was adopted making settlements
obligatory on the day of official notice of
failure instead of ION any one of five
days succeeding" as was heretofore the
rule. After Saturday next the fees for
initiation will be $1,000. At present they
are $500.
Reports from over one hundred tobacco
growing towns in the Connecticut and
HousatOnic valleys indicate that the crop
for 1883 will be full average in yield and
excellent in quality.
The first bale of new North Carolina
cotton arrived at Norfolk, Va, yesterday.
1t was classed as strict middling and SOLD
for 13 cents pound.
The patent office has this week issued
42l patents, 13 designs, 10 trade marks
and 10 labels. There have been four
reissues. Twelve patents were issued to
foreigners.
The plans for the new silver vault to be
constructed in New Orleans have been
completed. 1t will have storage capacity
OF 20, OOO, 600 standard silver dollars.
| The Mexican government has published
regulations for the construction, conserva.
tiOn and operation of railroads.
| Tho Track Of Crime.
| John Wcolver has been arrested at Perry,
Mich, for fatally poisoning Henry Cut.
cher with strychnine. Cutcher was
recently married to young woman whom
Woolver loved.
Gilbert Dubers yesterday visited his
brother law, Richard Magee, near Col
fax, La, to collect a debt of thirteen
dollars. Magee could not pay and Dubers
shot him.
Daniel Mckay and Thomas Ewing and
Henry Satchwell were lying beside the
road near Wsdesboro, N. c., yesterday,
when VIM. Sheppard, who was passing,
playfully aimed his gun at them. The
weapon was discharged, mortally wound.
ing Mckay and Ewing and badly injured
| Satchwell.
John Fletcher shot and killed the tele.
graph operator at Spring Hill station,
Utah, yesterday. There was an old grudge
between the men.
During row at the canning works at
st. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday, Mary Fuhey
threw box at boy. It missed him, but
hit Caroline Hupp and killed her.
Death on tho Ses.
A life preserver, which was torn and
bore evidence of having been in recent use
and which was stamped with the name
&C. H. Northam," was found on Tuesday
afternoon, upon the shore of Vineyard
Sound. A party of children playing upon
the beach, near Falmouth village, saw the
body of q man floating in the surf, but
they ran away and told no one until it was
too late. The body is supposed to be that
of one of the missing men from the yacht
Mystery.
The navy department was informed
yesterday of the accidental killing of Lieu
tenant Boutelle Noyes, on board Rear
Admiral Crosby's flagship at Yokohama.
The casualty was caused by the fall of
top gallant mast. Lieut.. Noyes leaves
widow and two children.
Tho Fire Record.
F. B. Hemingway's fruit cannery at
Clinton InUo moo HoafrOvo1 bv Gro o,,