The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle State

REV. HENRY MORGAN, well known Bos
70 preacher and lecturer, Is dead.
FIRE in New York destroyed the Electric
candle company's factory, causing u loss OF
about s3OO,dOO.
- DIX children were poisoned near Mcadyila,
renn by slipping the juice of tree which
they had tapped. Two of the little ones died.
JOHN JAY Cisco, prominent New Yor,
banker, and for eleven years assistant Unitpl
States treasurer at Now York, died the other
day aged seyenty-eight years. He left IN
estate valued at s2OOO,OO6.
THE Rhode Island Democratic State Con.
trnl committee filled the vacancies left in tho
State ticket by the resignation of Amasa
Sprague and c. l.. German by the nomina.
tion OF Elisha Matthcwson, for Lieutenant.
governor, and Francis l.. o. Rcilly for attor.
ney general.
BILL providing for the public whipping
OF wife Dcatcrs was defeated in the Massachli.
sets House.
JAMES PRATT, seaman arrived in New
York few days since on board n Paciti,
Mail steamer. He was the only survivor of n
briggs crew of eight men who had been
wrecked In the Gulf Stream. Pratt was
second mate of the brig, and was rescued
after almost incredible hnrdRhips, his COM
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JAMES MUTT, tho slayer of Dukes, at Union
town, Penn, has gone TO Lcavcnworth,
Kan, TO take charge Of his mothers farm.
A WILD scene Of disorder occurred in tho
New York State assembly at Albany during
consideration OF the nine bills relating to New
York Guy. For some tlnio II terrific IIprOar
prevailed, members yelling at the top Of
their voices, and the scene is snid to have
been unparalleled in the annals of legislation
AUGUSTUS ScHELL, for many years a
prominent figure In the social, business and
political life of New York cx-collector OF
that port, and during the Greeley campaign
chairman Of the national Democratic COM
mittee, died the other day in his seventy-sec-
ond year.
BY the bursting Of dam about mile and
half above Ansonia, Conn, an immense
body Of wator was freed and swept down the
valley with n deafening roar and force
which carried away everything in its path.
Fortunately the people in the factories and
houses in the course of the food had received
sufficient warning of the impending disaster
to seek safety on high ground Tho torrent
that burst from the dam opening was five
feet high, and about three hundred feet wide.
"A number Of shops, dwellings and barns, and
a stone arched bridge in Ansonia were carried
away, and an estimated pecuniary damage
of s25O,OO0 YVES caused.
FIVE men at Clarion, Penn, started in
small rowboat with large circular saw
aboard. When passing over the big falls
near the mouth Of the Clarion river the boat
capsized and Hamilton Walker, William
Watson and David Fair were drowned.
AT sale of Jersey cattle in New York
eighty-two imported animals brought 49,
$50, or an average price of S60l.9I for each
animal The sale was made noteworthy by
the fact that 5000, the highest price ever re-
ceivcd for a Jersey animal ut auction, was
paid by the Hon. Henry l.. Pierce, of Boston,
for COW four years old, by Stoke Pogis I'LL,
out of Bessy of St Lambert. Mr.. Pierce also
paid $500 for COW by Stoke Pogis ILL.,, out
of JeSsaminc of ST. Lambert
DURING fire near Boston number of
fancy pigeons valued at 5000, were roasted
alive. One pair of n fancy breed had just
been sold for $50
DESIRE BoUDoIR, who returned to Dover,
n. H., and pleaded guilty to killing man,
for which crime his father was awaiting SEN
tencc to death, was sent to State prison for
three years.
BARNUM's much talked about white Gle
phant arrived in New York few days since
on an ocean steamer He is described as q
slatc-colored animal, with pink spots,