The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-15

The ballot boxes Of New York city
are guarded day and night by the
police, to prevent their being tempered
with.
The Democratic National Committe
las retained Roscoe Cunkling to act
rs counsel in any proceedings that may
arise in relation to the pending canvass.
The oil store room of DeyeTeaux
Rogers Il Son, at Palatka, Fla, was
destroyed by fires On Saturday. The
loss is 100000.
The delivery freight depot Of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad at
Louisville, Ky, was burned on Sunday
night. Seyenty-liye car loads of freight
were destroyed. The loss is SI00, 900.
The great iron stack to the icon
foundry, owned by Ferguson, White &
Go, at Robesonia, PA fell on Friday
of last week. Seven men were killed,
and seven injured. The loss is So, 900.
The dynamite works of II. W. Stump
~ Co., near StoGclisbuag, Pa, blew
mp last week. All the men in The
building were killed; SO the cause Of
the explosion Will never he known.
The Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue., in his report for the year ending
June 30, 1884, gives the total receipts
from all sources of internal revenue
taxation 1T 5l2l, 500, 039, as compared
with S1l4,553, 844 for the year 1883.
The cost of collecting stamps and
detecting violations was s., 100, $50.
The sacred cattle Of India are being
raised in Texas. They make an excel
lent cross with the Durham. and are
said to winter better than the native
cattle. They are of good size and have
fine beef qualities.
Leather is now made from catfish
skin. 1t is used for slippers, cabas,
pocket books and fancy pocket case
covers. The leather is light gray i'll
color, very soft, and said to he tougher
than the hide of a badger.
The Chinese mobs have been COM
hitting fearful outrages ON persons
and places of Christian worship at
Canton. 100 houses have been burned,
and the authorities of twelve cantonese
villages have issued notices that all
christians must leave.
One Of the surprises of the Philadel-
phia election was the succ ess of Col.
Il. =. Dethert, Democrat, who received
re0rly twenty thousand more votes
shan Cleveland, defeating his Repub-
lean opponent, RidgWay, by 5000
majority. Dechert was nominated in
place Of William \. Hirst, only a week
before the election.
The present estimate as to the com
pleXiOn Of the Illinois state legislature
IS that it will be q tie on a joint ballot,
the senate having a majority of one
Republican, and the house a majority
of one Democrat. Contests are likely
TO ensue in three districts, which may
situation is made interesting from the
fact that a senator to succeed General
Logan is ia bB elected
The hanging of st. John in efigy
in different parts of the country by
hot headed politicians, is very small
spite to the temperance cause. Many
people living to-day, can remember
when that was done with prominent
anti-slavery men, who are considered
To- have been the leaders Of progressive
thought. Temperance is the coming
issue as shown by the increased vote it
received at the late election.
The Maryland Steamboat Company
has contracted with the Harlan &
HolliDgsworth Company, Wilmington
Del, for a new passenger steamboat.
The hull and boilers will be of steel,
and the vessel will have Accommodations
for SO saloon ami 400 steerage passen-
gers. She will be named the Howard
B. Ensign and will cost 1920, goo.
The suggestion was made long ago
that the United States should mold an
international Exposition in 1889, TO
commemorate the completion of the
first century under the Constitutions;
but no city seems anxious for the dis
play as the Centennial Exposition was
so recent. The French people have
determined to hold an Exposition with
view Of celebrating the stirring scenes
If their own revolution, which closed
by the general adoption of the guillo-
tine and eventualed in tie splendid
Napoleonic era, with its victories more
bloody than the internecine wars and
the defeats OF the revolution.
The Democratic party has great luck
Win lis DdchelOTS. Inc COMMERCIAL
ADVERTISER says: IF Mr.. Cleveland
shall prove to be elected, it will be one
of the curioslties of Presidential his
tory that the Democrats went out of
power with the first bachelor ever
elected President, and come back to
power with the second. In the quarter
OF a century that lies between they
have but once come near to success,
and that was with a bachelor-Mr.
Tilden-for their candidate"
Paper car wheels will run many
thousands of miles more than iron
wheels, are flexible and therefore less
damaging to tracks and all rolling