The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-09
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High water is again making trouble on
the Lower Mississippi.
English railways are reducing salaries
end discharging employees for lack o.
business.
The Seventh District Democrats of
Massachusetts elected Butler delegates
to the National convention.
John F. Slater, a philanthropist who
gave a million dollars to educational pUr-
poses in the South, died at Norwich, CT,
Wednesday morning.
New YORK, May Over $4,000 Yves
realized from voluntary subscriptions for
the Confederate Soldiers Home in Rich
mond at last nights mass meeting in
Brooklyn.
LONDON. May Judah P. Benjamin,
the distinguished lawyer and advocate
and ex-member of the government Of the
Southern Confederacy, is dead, Mr.
Benjamin died in his apartment in Ave
nue. Jena, Paris. He had been in failing
health ever since he fell while descending
from a tramway car. several years ago.
Boston. Nav There was successful
ly cast yesterday at the South Boston
Iron Works, in fulillment Of copj:act
with the United States government, the
largest gun ever constructed iii this coun-
try, When fully completed it will be
about so feet in length, of - inch rife
bore end will weigh 2t2, 900 pounds The
cost of the gun will be $c8,OOO or about
half the sum a steel gun would have cost.
1t is calculated to be able to throw pro-
iectile six miles.
BALTIMORE, May AT the meetingOf
the general conference of the African
Methodist Episcopcl Church to-day the
quadrernial address was made by Bishop
Dickerson, OF the North Carolina DIS
trict He referred to the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States on
the civil rights law, and declared it a
disgrace to our civilization. He also
spoke of education as the hope and sue
cess OS the race. DR.. Green, OF Louis
ana, spoke on the subject Of education in
the church, which Consumed the re-
ma;nder of the session. The conference
concuTred by exclamation 10 Bishop
DickersOn's recommendation that pro-
Ionged season of fasting end prayer be
observed in the hope of getting from God
those rights which were denied them
among their fe'lowmen.
PHILADELPHIA, May THE Record
tomorrow will say that the brief notices
of the death of Prof Samuel d. Gross, /
and the absence of date foe the obse- /
quies. was explained this evening by the
departure of the body, in charge of reIa-
tives, fo~ Washington, Penn, where the
hody of the distinguished surgeon will
be Cremated.
The family of the professor had, dur
ing his lifetime, frequently been appri8ed |
of his wish that his body should be ere |
mated ard the ashes placed in the fami- /
ly vault at Woodland Cemetery in this |
city. Once he remarked to a friend that /
he did not desire his body to lie in the /
ground and rot and have some one come !
along 100 years from now and find his /
jaw-bone He favored cremation upon |
general hygienic principles, as being of |
greater benefit to the living rather than
having hundreds of bodies decomposing |
in the ground.
The religious services were held at the /
residence of the deceased this cveping. (
and the body was then placed on the
910 p. m. train for Pittsburg, where it /
will be taken to the famous lie Moyne I
crematory at Washington, Pa If posi-
BILE incineration will take place to-mor-
row evening.
MORE OF GEN. GRANTS FAILURE.
NEW YORK, May Attachments /
against the property at Ferdinand Ward 7
on the ground that he has absconded .
with intent to defraud have been pro- I
cured from Judge Donohue bv Hotch- .
kiss & Burnham, William Heath & Co. /
and Theodore Wilson & Co.. who have
sued Grant & Ward for small balances. /
Ward was a tie office of the firm this /
morning. All information concerning /
the future of that corporation and Bank .
Examiner Scriby is similarly reticent /
Manager Camp, of the Gearing house
expresses his opinion more freely. He |
says there are no new developments in
the Marine bank failure. but that the sit
uation is not nearly so bad as at first
supposed. 1t is now freely asserted I.
on the street that President Fish eXhibi- /.
ted undue haste in closing the doors of +
the bank and that the directors would 7
not have consented to his action he'd
they been made aware of the exact status /
of affairs, The same is said of the
Geant & Ward failure, which, it IS +
claimed, was brought about by Ward .
remaining away from business and prac- .
tcally losing his head.
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