The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-04

the latter replies by firing on the rebels. On
one occasion Gen. Gordon told the Mahdi to
dry up the Nile and come across if he be a real
prophet and that he lGordOn) would then sur
render.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
white man named Wilmer Holland was
fatally stabbed on the 25th ult. at Petersburg,
Va, while trying to separate two negroes who
were fighting, by one of the combatants.-
Solomon X. Grimly, who had pleaded guilty
to receiving greater compensation than allowed
by law in the procuring of a pension, was SEN
fenced on the 18th in the United States district
court at Philadelphia TO pay fine OF $3.50 and
costs-0n the 25th, while n young man
named Kennedy, aged II, aud his cousin,
young lady aged l6, OF the same name, were
walking along the Baltimore Ohio Railroad
track, near Demmler Station, Pa a locomotive
suddenly rounded a curve, and before the
couple could get out Of the way they were
struck and hurled distance of 20 feet. The
young lady was instantly killed, and the
young man, who was terribly mangled, died IN
q short time.--On the 10Th, Theodore, the il
year old son Of Rev G. c, Smith, of Ellington,
n. Y, was leading his fathers blind horse to
water, and on the way slipped and fell. The
horse, being unable to see him, set one OF his
feet Oh the boys head, crashing It and killing
him almost instanuy.-Six masked men,
with drawn reyolyers, entered the residence Of
ICCIgc GusiB aiil Levi hSiSIld!l. uSsI lDcONSis
Pa, on the 26th bound and gagged them and
several ladies, ami carried off $500 in money
aud large quantity Of jewelry and silver
warc.-Iwo skaters, while at work on the
roof Of Baptist church in Brooklyn, Y. Y, on
the 9th, were thrown to the ground by the
breaking of the scaffold, and one of them was
killed and the other seriously irjured.--The
steamship Decatur H. Miller OF the Merchants
and Miners Transportation Company, was sunk
il Baltimore barber On the 27th by collision
with the Lawrence a vessel OF the same line.
No lives lost.-Mafthcw McCanon, OF New
York City, put his wi3e's eyes out with a shoe
makers awl on the night of Thanksgiving Day
because she up5raided him for getting drunk.
Norris Eaton, a farmer living at Manlius
Center, " Y, on the night OF the 9th ult saw
sdark object moving along t;e base Of his straw
stack aud, surprising it to be a skunk, fired at
il, instantly killing an unfortunate tramp, who
was evidently preparing for u nights shelter in
the straw-0n the 30th ult. Frank Saund-
ers of Brooklyn. \. Y, committed suicide by
Shooting himself over the remains of his wife,
who died the previous d8y.-Dr. T. De Cas-
tro committed suicide in Newark, n. j., on the
30 ult and bequeathed his body to the Chicago
Medical College for dissection condition that
the skeleton shall be sent 20 the museum and
the skull inscribed: " This is the skeleton OF
DIR. +. DE Castro, the great traveller and linz
gust, who died as a martyr to those he loyed.'
POLITICAL.
Hon James L. Pugh wa5rc- elected to the U.
S. Senate at Montgomery, Ala, Oh the 25th ult.
The local option liquor license law was de-
feated in the Vermont Legislature on the 25th
uit.--Senator Garland, Of arkansas, is named
for Cleveland's Cabinet.
INDUSTRIAL
Tie Mellcrt Foundry and Machine Company,
large manufacturers OF c2st-iron pipe, at Read
Ing, Pa, have reduced the wages Of their en-
ployees from so cents 10 % cents per day, ow
ing 20 the Gullness Of trade.-This seasons
crop Of fruit from nine-acre orange grove on
Indian River, Fla, has been disposed OF On the
trees for $I0,0G0.-The Western Transporta-
tion Company of Erie, Pa, will build two more
100000 steel steamships.- the mills at
Fall River, Mass. started up on the 2Sth
There is a decidedly good feeling among manu-
facturers, caused by the stitching in the prices
CT print cloths.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Becky Jones, Of Hammersly will contest
fame. still languishes ia Ludlow-SCreet Jail
New York, Tor refusing to testify as a witness
THE Governor Of Massachusetts has par
doned from the State Prison Edmund Healy,
aged 81, who was given a life sentence in De-
cember 1869, for the murder Of his wife. He
was GO years old when he committed the crime.
Charles Neville an alleged English baro-
net, who was married last May, in Toledo, o.,
to daughter of c. J. Whitney, of Detroit, is
on trial at Toledo for bigamy. Witnesses tes-
tilted that he had leen married III New jersey
and New York under the name of Newbold
lie was Whitney's coachfian when he married
the latters daughter-The inmates Of the
arsenal at New York were very unhappy over
the escape Of huge boa constructor which had
just arrived in this country, and managed to
get cut of the box in which he was confined.
He was known to be somewhere abont tie build
ings, but could not be found for some days
The strange disease which has been causing so
much alarm in Virginia and Kentucky still
continues its ravages, but it is abating since
the cool weather and rain has commenced.