Daily Republican., 1884-12-05

A telegram was received in Louisvill
on Wednesday night saying that the
scOurge in Eastern Kentucky "is fully
as frishtful" ~ had been pre- viously re.
prrted. In the three counties og Parlan,
Bell and Knox tho deaths vere sstimat-
ed at 400 and the disease IL believed to
have been deadlier in enc or two other
Kentucky counties and In Virginia.
A majority OF the Standing Commit
tees OF the Protestant Episcopal Church
In the United States have signified their
assent to the consecration Of Rev. DR..
Paret as Bishop Of Mary land. After
the consent Of the Bishops Is obtained
arrangements will be made for his con.
secration, which will take place in
Washington early next month.
Excitement, which has for some time
existed in Quebec on the subject of the
mtsufknsgement ofthe lunutic asylums
In that Province, was intensified yester-
day by the announcement that o female
patient in the BEAUFORT Asy lum came
to her death there very tragically" on
Wednesday, in giving birth TO Q child
Tho hog cholera 10 prevalent In New.
town, Long Island. The farmers have
been obliged to kill many Of their swine.
The disease IL also prevalent In Hemp
stead and Norch Hampstead. 1t is said
the infection was caught from hogs ship.
ped from Brooklyn.
In the Court Of Common Pleas at
Cleveland, on Wednesday, Judge Blan-
din took case from the jury and gave
. decision for the defendant In . suit
against the Pennsylvauia Company
for $50. 900 damages for discrimination
In the transportation of coal.
Sheriff Day, Of Rowan County, Ken
tucky, has arrested seven men charged
with being members of q band of RE
gulators " who killed j. G. Hughes In
that county, few days ago. Two of
them have made . confession, implica-
ting ten or twelve others.
The powder magazine OF the Virginia
Military Institute, at Lexington, blew
up on Wednesday night. The windows
III the Institute were shattered and
houses at a distance were shaken to
their foundations. No person wAs in
jured.
John Moore, editor of the Sunday
Telegram, of Harrisburg, was yester.
day sentenced to pay q hne of $500 and
he imprisoned for 60 days for libelling
f. X. Chewing, o saloon keeper. A
civil action for $26,C is pending
against Moore.
AT Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednes.
day the jury in the case of q young
man named Dawson, who had his hand
crushed In coupling cars, rendered q
verdict for $l5,O00 against the Calves.
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail
road.
At Rondout, New York, yesterday
morning, three boys named John Tul-
ly, Anthony Brockley and George Bush
dared each other i" to go on the thin
ice Of GROSS Pond. They went on
the ice, and it broke and all were drows.
ed.
While Joseph Brown and Hester
Hawkins, young colored people, were
out driving at Chester, Penna., on
Wednesday night, their horse ran into
train on the railroad. The wagon
was demolished and Miss Hawkins
killed.
Alexander s. De Wallowski, q music
teacher of Washington, committed
suicide on Thursday morning He had
been recently arrested on q charge pre-
ferred by his daughter. He left letters
protesting his innocence.
At Toms River, New Jersey, on Fri
day afternoon. Elson X. Rockwell,
Mrs. Wainwright and her daughter and
two sons we're Indicted for the murder
of James Wainwright on Sept. 18th.
The trial W i'll begin next week.
w. w. Frank, livery stable keeper
of Felicity, Ohio, In Jail at Batavia, on
a charge of arson on Thursday morning
committed suicide by snatching the
razor from the Jail barber and cutting
his throat.
A new steel steamship, the largest
ever built in Buffalo, was launched
there on Wednesday. 1t will accom-
modate 200 passengers, and will run on
the Lake Superior Transit Line next
season. It's cost is 1925, 900.
Josiah s. Colgate, q well.known oil
broker of New York, fell down stairs at
his place Of business yesterday alter
noon and sustained injuries which may
prove fatal. He is ffty.six years Of
age.
Three schooners and fishing vessel
are reported to have been lost, with all
hands, near Rose Blalch, Newfound-
land, during the storm of Saturday
night.
The house of Caleb Hurley. in Dor
chester County, Maryland, was burned
on Wednesday morning, and Hurley 3
headless body was found in the mass
of rui ms.
Several schooners at anchor off Dig.
by, Nova Scotia, were yesterday struck
by a squall. A dory of one of them,
conta aiming two men, was lost.
Twenty children have recently died
of diphtheria In the parish of st. Schol
astique, Quebec, and seventy cases are
now in the parish.
George B. Schaum, furniture dealer
of Lancaster, Penna., failed yesterday.
Liabilities, $4,000 nom ipal assets,
8125, 900.
John & William Wilson, druggists
of Montreal, have failed, with SI26, 900
liabilities.
A farmer Of Dresden, Ohio, has lost
thirteen head of cattle from . disease
supposed to be the pleuro- pneumonia.