The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1884-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

conspiracy to cause strike
FANNIE WALKER, fourteen years Old
was arrested on the 10Th for setting fire +
school-house at Summerville, N. Y.
GENERAL GORDON will be allowed t,
retain his commission in the English arm,
ana take service in the Congo expedition
too.
THE President of the British Board O
Trade says the Cabinet will only be satisfied
when Irishmen have the same rights as the
English.
oEE&9IT t3 f&ias "jSy' jG,yy avs ,s.s;'%. ". G.
Coup, the circus mar, a verdict for $4,000
against the Wabash Railroad for damages
caused by train accident in 1882.
ID. P. HILL, a merchant living at
Higbbridge, N. j., was called to his dool
by masked men and assassinated before
daylight on the morning of the 10Th.
JAY GOULD is reported to have bought
large waterfront property in Port OK.
ford, Oregon.
The American Society of Civil En-
gineers, in session at New York on the
10th, elected Don J. Whittemore President.
The Bartholdi Pedestal Committee
announce that Hartford insurance COM
pany has contributed $1,000 to the fund.
JOHN E. GREEN, son of DIR. Norvin
Green, was elected President of the Louis
vile (Ky.) Board of Trade on the 10th.
The annual meeting of the Women's s
Board of Missions begun in Boston, Mass,
on the 10th. The Board now includes TWEEN.
ty.two branches, two Conference Associa-
tions, over 1,5OO auxiliaries and mission
circles. The Board has ninety seven mis-
sionaries, eighty-one bible women, twenty
five boarding schools and homes at Con-
stantinople, Kisto, Osaka and Madwa; also
1913 village and day schools. The work of
the Board abroad, in Turkey and Japan
is encouraging. Addresses
by missionaries were made at the morning
session. The Treasurer's report shows re.
ceipts of the year, $10S,4j0.
The Bechand Bros. brick brewery
at Fond Du Lac, Wis, built in 1870, burned
on the 10th, and boy aged fourteen wears,
to have been in the cellar. is
missing. The origin Of the fire is alleged
TO be incendiary. Loss, 1000; insurance,
$4,000. The brewery contained 5000 bush.
els of barley and malt, and 200 barrels of
beer.
EXCITEMENT prevailed on the 10th in
Bodie, CAL, over alleged rich discoveries of
IRE in the Standard and Bodie mines.
The will of Joseph Arnold, late
President of tho Birmingham Conn Ma.
ional Bank, contains codicil bequeathing
% the town of Derby, in consideration of
of it's Peeele, tisstp -t--- -
he capital stock of that bank, with accu-
mutation and increase, to be held until
principal and accumulations are equal to
5, 900, 900. This will be in the year 2O3i,
when interest on the aggregate amount is
10 be devoted to the local secular schools
and academies.
CONSIDERABLE opposition has devel-
oped to the ratification of the commercial
treaty with Mexico.
GREEN ADAMS, Chief Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives
during three Congresses, was reported
ill at Philadelphia on the 10th.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN of Missouri
has commuted the sentence of Emmett Jones
to imprisonment for life.
DEWEY, the Boston forger, has made
restitution TO the amount OF SGJ,0O0.
The steamer Germanic, of the White
Star line was spoken at sea few days ago
with broken shaft
The remains of Lieutenant De Long
and his comrades will arrive about Fe ru-
ary ID.
The Montezuma Hotel at Las Vegas,
N. M, burned on the 17th; loss 100000.
The Governor-General opened the
Canadian Parliament on the 18th.
THE Indianapolis Board of Trade has
declared in favor of the Lowell bankruptcy
bill
A LARGE part of the business quarter
was destroyed by fire at Canastota, N. Y,
on the l7th.
TIE exports of breadstuffs for 1883
were $172,692, ,1S0, against $lS2,67S,S65 for
the preceding year.
AN express train with a great number
of passengers, including many members Of
the Canadian Parliament on their way to
Ottawa, was wrecked at Trenton, Ont, on
the 18th. No one was killed, but many
were injured.
A PARIS report of the 18th is to the
effect that American mediation will follow
the capture of Bac Mini by the French.
A CONVENTION will shortly assemble
at Washington to agree on universal hour
system, with common meridian.
THE cane growers, in session at st.
Louis, NO., adopted resolutions protesting
against reduction of the sugar tariff and
calling for abrogation of the Sandwich
Islands reciprocity treaty.
A SENSATION has been caused by the
prosecution of a London (Eng.) club for
allowing gambling for high stakes.
PROF. PETER VOLTz was found dead
on the Tenth street bridge at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th. He had been shot and
robbed.
ROBERT HARRIS, Vice-President of
the Erie Road, has been elected President
of the Northern Pacific.
FIRE caused extensive damage in a
block of Office buildings known as Elk.
change Court, New York, on the 18th.
The Gibson murder trial at Troy,
Mo-, ended on the 1stA in an acquittal
IRISH farmers plowed fifty acres of
Parnells estate on the 18th.
HALF the ribbon weavers in Paterson,
N. j., are on a strike.
North CAROLINA was shaken by an
earthquake on the morning of the 1851.
Two embezzling Pullman car con.
ductors pleaded guilty in Philadelphia or
the 18th.
The Chinese have suspended work on
the distractions in Canton River on ac
count of British protest.
JUDGE E. R. WILSON has been elect
ed to the United States Senate from Mary
land. He succeeds Senator Groome.
The designations of the Spanish Min
'istry have been accepted and conserva
! tive Cabinet is to be formed.