The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Southern Exposition at Louis
vile will close on November 10 next.
AT London, Ont. Bishop Sullivan was
elected Bishop Of Huron.
The Vice Regal party arrived at Que
bee by rail and drove direct to the Cit
adel.
The new standard railroad time will
go into effect on Southern railroads on
November 1S next.
The celebration of the Tooth anniver-
sary:of the foundation of the Harvard
Medical SchooItook place.
A fire in the building No. 81 New
Church street, New York, caused $780,
600 damage to stock and building.
The eleventh annual Congress of the
Association for the Advancement of
Women began at Chicago.
About 300 veterans took part in the
celebration at S~chuyleryille, N. Y, of
the anniversary of General B%urgoyne's
surrender.
The sixteenth annual reunion Of the
Army of the Tennessee began at Cleve-
land, o., There is a large attendance
of members.
A passenger train jumped the track
at Hagerstown, ILL.,, killing the fireman
and wounding the engineer. No pas
sengers were injured. Nfa
The pulp mill of the Jackson Mills
| Company, at Paris, Me-, was DESTROYED
by fire. The cause is unknown. The
loss is SIS 600 insurance, $4,000.
Z. Causalbaum, a peddler, wasfound
by the roadside near Griffins, Hamilton
county, N. Y, with his throat cut.
He is supposed to have been murdered
for his money.
Two men, believed by the authori-
ties to be dynamite fiends, were arrested
in Halifax, Novia Scotia. They were
heavily armed, and their valises were
full of dynamite. 458
The owner and the lessee of the wharf
at Tivoli, Nd, which broke down last
July, drowning sixty-three persons,
have been indicted by a Baltimore
County Grand Jury for manslaughter.
The stockholders of the Suburban,
Bay State, Boston and Northern Tele-
phone Companies voted unanimously in
favor of consolidating with the Nation
al Bell Telephone Company.
At Nashville, Tenn, Crice Lischy,
colored, a United States msilacsrrier,
quarreled with William McBride, also
eolored, and shot him in the arm. Nc
Brides arm was amputated, and he bled
TO death. Hfe a,4s4o
In the United States District Court
at Wilmington, Del, John Wood, the
the illicit whisky seller, captured some
time since in the Blackburn Forest,
pleaded guilty to the charges preferred.
and vas sent to prison for four year:
and fined 500 and costs.
WASHINGTON.
Postmaster General Gresham has
decided that four cents per half ounc,
is the legal postage upon letters for de
livery in the United States commonl,
called ssship letters ~ (which are con
veyed to this country by vessels no
Regularly employed in conveying mails,
N. w. Fitzgerald, a pension CLAIM
agent has brought a libel suit agains
the Cincinnati Commercial Gdzette Com
psny and its W ashingtdh CORRESPONDENT
Ii V. Boynton, for 500, 600, and an
other suit against the st. Louis, Globe
Democrat and its Washington CORE
~spondent, O. 7. Murray, for $4,000. :
In a letter addressed o Mr.. j. w
Niles, of Arkansas, who recently sent
letter to President Arthur concerning
the grievances of Arkansas negroes, At
torney General Brewster points out tina
the General Government cannot interior,
in cases of offenses against persons. i
State laws are unconstitutional he says
the remedy may be soughti in a Fedora
Court.
FREE POSTAL DELIVERY STATISTICS.
WAsHINGToN.-The forthcoming re-
port of Postmaster General Gresham
will show that the free-delivery system
has been established at forty-three post.
Offices throughout the country in the
past year, employing 225 letter carriers
Three hundred new carriers have beer
added to the forces in cities where de-
livery bad already been established.
The total number Of free-deliyery offices
in the country was at the end of the ifs.
cal year 154 and the number CT carriers
$3.50. The expenditures Of the free-de.
livery system for the year were So, 173.
33e, an increase Of S35, 900 over last
year. EasfE WEEsf.sR
A@ rOREICN.
Trichinasis is spreading in Saxony.
Twenty deaths have occurred from the
disease so far.
Count Won Moltke, Chief Marshal Of
the German Empire, is reported to be
seriously i'll. vase
August Siegert, the German painter,
isdead. He was born at Neuwied Nav