The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-05-17

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Marine flank N Hsv Yofk, ~ss reported
70 have said thss Ferdinand Ward b..
tfaYef bic eonnisnes. and that he ward
was defanlier Tor tI10D.
TINS death of John Z. slater. who gave
n ifo0p0V 10 ths ranss Of education IN the
iloutbern ststss. occurred few days aao
a. Norwich, Conn.
TINS hftynnth annual meeting Of ths
American Tract seelsiy was In session at
New Yerk on the TN. The donations AMI
leRaeiss far the year wers reported tlOl,.
SO, and the expenditures saji0&t Rlxty.
three missionaries distributed ,f08 vol.
umea.
II was stated by George W. Chlids on
tho 7th that General Orant was In afiiuent
circumstances, and that the failure of
Ward 4 Co., Of New York, could not ruin
him.
TINS American Congregational Union
met In annual session on tlo sih at New
York The years receipts were shown 80
bs siO5, ,s11, and the expensei silT5H
Tng sixty.cighth annual directors meet.
ing Of the American Bible boclety was held
at Now York on the sth, and II wa shown
that during ths year i,357,o5i Bibles had
bcsn distributed In this country, aud 4bl,.
| 10t abroad.
OK the sth the steamer City Of Portland,
plying between Portland, Me-, and St.
John, N. D., struck on q ledg, of Owls
Head and wont 10 piece. The vessel and
cargo, valued at si25.0jo, were lost, but the
passengers were saved.
A YOUNG attorney named Franklin p.
Norris, Of Concord, N. H., after making an
earnest effort TO establish himself IN bust.
ness, died OF starvation In his Office few
days ago, without divulging his straitencd
circumstances To his acquaintances.
GRANT & WARD, brokers, Of Now York,
OF which firm General Grant was mem.
Dor, made an assignment on the 9Th. II
was thought their liabilities would amount
TO Si0,OO0,oOo. President Fish, Of tho
Marine Bank, also made an assignment.
NEw YoRK and other State manufact-
urers met in New York City on the slh and
formed q society TO bc known as the Manu-.
fac,urers' Reform League, the object Of
which will bo 10 further their interests by
opposing protection and advocating free
trade.
DR. SAMUEL Z. GRoss' remains were
cremnted at Philadelphia on the sth.
The Administration OF President Arthur
was indorsed aud his denomination recon-
mended at a meeting Of the Colored Re.
publican Central Committee Of New York
on the 9th.
In New England severe thunder.storms
were prevalent on the 9th, many buildings
at waipolc, Mass, being damaged. Light
ming fred the post-ofiice and three other
buildings at Epping. N. H., and an aged
invalid, George w. Warden, was burned
10 icath.
A STATEMENT was made by George Jones,
OF the Now York Tines, on the 9th that the
General Grant fund OF s25l00o was sbso.
lutely safe, and that hereafter tho interest
(si5,i4p) would be paid quarterly, as this
General did not possess . dollar other
than the fund.
TEnnIBLE thunder-storms prevailed in
the Eastern States on the 9th, many houses
and barns being demolished and several
persons killed.
A FEW days ago Daniel Critzen and Al
exander Burket, prominent citizens Of
Frecport, Pa, were drowned In tho Alle
ghcny River by their boat springing q
leak.
The other day Daniel O. Tucker, promi'
mont citisen OF Lockport, N. Y. for thirty
years Deputy Federal Marshal, hanged
himself because Of intense suffering from
asthma.