The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-03-05
A WEEKS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle statea

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| CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by
the registration OF n n-million-dollar mort
rage IN the offices Of forty different town
clerks IN direct line across the State OF
Connecticut by the Bankers and Mer chants
Telegraph company.
MUNICIPAL elections in Pennsylvania 10
sulted III the success Of the Republican can.
aidate for mayor in Philadelphia, Harris.
burg, Pitt'burg, Allentown, Lancaster and
Allegheny City, aud of the Democratic can.
didate in Williamsport, Chester and Scran.
ton. Rea'ling elected twenty-eight Demo-
Gratis anu twenty-three Republicans to the
common council.
| FIVE cases Of suicide and several sudden
deaths we're reported the other day In New
York city.
LAST years coal product, as reported by
the mine Inspector of the Pennsylvania mid
dledistrict, was "a follows: Lehigh Valley Coal
company, u, 6,OlJtons; Lehigh and Wilkes.
barre company, l75, 1878 tons; Delaware
and Hudson, 1871 ,0j5 tons; Susquehanna,
| ll1,92,05; Wyoming Valley companies,
6,549,OOO tons; miscellaneous companies
III 49,, 600 tons. The number Of persons 40.
tually employed In mining coal was II, S33
These figures show an excess OF more than
bO,OOO tons and more than 5000 employees
over the previous year.
| BY an explosion Of fire damp In mine near
Uniontown, Penn, nineteen miners were
killed, and Others had a narrow escape from
uffocatiUn.
AFTER being twice buried and twice disin.
TERED, and after II 900 miles Of strange wan.
behring's, the bodies Of the ten heroes Of the lost
Jeanette have once more reached the land
lroms which they went forth to death.
The steamship Frisia arrived at New York
with the remains Of Lieutenant Commander
George w. belong; Jerome J. Collins,
meteoroogist OF the expeditions; DR.. James
M. Amber, surgeon; Walter Lea, George
Washington Boyd, Henry Hansen Knaack,
Carl Augustus 'Gortz, Adolf DRESSER and
| Nelse lvorson, seamen, and All Sam, cook.
| The remains Of Collins were sent to Cork,
Ireland, those Of Boyd to Alexandria, Va.
and those of DR.. Amber to Philadelphia
| The remains Of the others were buried at
| Wootlawn cemetery, near New York.
ABOUT 125 gentlemen more or less promi-
nently connected with the Republican party
in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, and Maryland met in New
| York city for the purpose Of perfecting an
independent Republican organization having
| for its object the nomination of presidential
candidates at the Forthcoming Republican
national convention whose record would
warrant entire confidence in their read i
ness 10 defend the advances already made
toward divorcing the public services from
party politics. Upon motion of Carl
Schurz committee was appointed to perfect
an organization covering all the States and
10 take such other action as may be deemed
expedient.
THIEVES entered a jewelry store in Troy,
| y. Y, blew open the safe and carried away
| property valued at $4,000.
| VESSELS arriving at Boston report pass
Ing immense icebergs and ice packs. Some
icebergs were from n half to nearly three
miles long, and from 100 to 800 feet high.
Washington.
THE secretary of war received numerous
, kilograms shown. most satisfactory prog
IS in the work Of relief to the food suf-
ferers along the Ohio river and its tribu.
tarics.
THE President nominated C. s. Palmer, of
| Vermont, to be associate justice of the SUI
preme court of Dakota; Max Weber, OF
New York, to be consul of the United States
at Nantes; II. B. Trist, of the District of
Columbia to be consul Of the United StateS
at Mozambique.
SENATOR DAWES has been authorized by
the Senate committee on Indian affairs &c
favorably report bill providing for the
punishment Of trespassers on Indian land'
by Imprisonment for one year or $500 fine
or both. This is specially intended to keel
Payne and his followers out of the Oklahamt
lands.
SENATOR Plumb has reported to the Sen
ate an original bill from the committe, on
agrcu ture. making the department OF az
| rculture an executive department, who's
chief officer shall be the secretary Of agricul
ture
THE Senate has passed bill making a.
annual appropriation to provide arms fol
the militia. The bill appropriates SGOO,OJO
TIE House has passed a joint resolution
appropriating $3.50, 900 to be expended anon!
the Indians for educational purposes.
SECRETARY FoLGER has issued the l26tl
call for bonds The call is for the redemp
ton of SlO, 600, O0D in bonds Of the three pc
cent. loan of 1857.
THE agricultural appropriation bill, a
completed by the House committee on agri
culture, appropriates $3.50 ,5.W-an increas
of about $ii,l % over the last appropriation
The bill makes an Appropriation OF S3,OoO 10
the propagation of the tea plant.
AT meeting of the Democratic Nationa
committee in the Arlington hotel, Washing
ton, held for the purpose OF naming tn
time and place to hold the national conver
ton for the nomination of candidate
for President and Vice President, ever
State was represented either by men
Der of the committee or proxy
w. II. Rarnum, of Connecticut, presided, IAN
Frederic o. Prince, of Massachusetts, wa
secretary. A motion was adopted that tn
Democrats of each organized Territory an
Of the District OF Columbia DO invited
send two delegates to the national CONVEX
ton. Upon the third ballot Chicago was $
lected as the place to hold the national col
vention, tina city receiving twenty-or
\ votes to seventeen for st. Louis The da
for the convention is July 8. After issulr
the call for the convention the commit
adjourned to meet next in Chicago o
july.
THE National Greenback Labor party h
issued a call for a national convention to
held in indianapolis, on Wednesday, May
1884. At a State convention of the lndial
Greenbackers in Indianapolis full tickt
headed by H. &. Leonard for governor, W
nominated and twenty-three resolutions a
firming the principles of the Greenbac
=. Labor party were adopted as a platform.
South and West
=, REUBEN HART and wife (colored), residir
n three miles from Crockett, Texas, went
v church at night, and left six children at hon
asleep, with the door locked At 10 o'cloC
the house was discovered to be on fire, al
| IL burned 50 QulCkly Jnao ~ "oo Ahpoooio
: 10 save il or the children, every one OF who
was burned to death The eldest was bt
thirteen years old
q A FREIGHT train left the track near Ne
. Philadelphia, Ohio, on account Of q mi
placed switch, and second section follow
, Ing ran nto its rear demolishing twent
=. two cars and two engines, and killing fol-
: persons.
: HEAVY snow storms have prevailed In d.
= kota and Southern Minnesota, and the ra
a. roads have been blockaded
70 A CYCLONE which struck Anderson
Ala, demolished nearly every house
, town. Fourteen persons were reported kille
, THE South has been visited by torna'
r. which destroyed thousands Of houses a
9. killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Al
ID bama. North and South Carolina, Louisal
Of and Mississippi.
o. A r1RG at jackson, Mich, destroyed :
l mon hotel block, occupied by not
theatre, savings bank and other busln'
y, houses. One man was burned to death,