The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-03-19
A WEEKS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.


ment at Lawrence, Mas, exploded, killing
John Trees. Jr., the engineer, and fatally in.
Juring William Moreland and Michael Gro.
MN, two employees. SO great was the force
OF the explosion that the three buildings
were shattered into splinters. Pieces of tho
boiler and debris were thrown 100 feet.
crashing through roofs Of dwellings, but for.
tunately injured no one
JAY GOULD, the noted New York flnancier.
sailed tho other day from New York In his
famous yacht Atalanta for the West Indies.
THE boiler of the Boston mill, at Brynnts
Pond Me-, exploded, killing four mon, while
another was badly injured Three Of the
killed were boier-makers from Boston, who
had lust repaired the boiler, which burst
while they were gathering up their tools
THE extensive works Of the United States
stamping company in Port and, Conn, have
been wholly destroyed BY fire They were
flled with machinery for stamping tin and
employed about 800 hands, turning out and
shipping six or eight car loads Of goods per
day. The estimated loss is 10000.
UTICA, n. ~, has been visited by the most
disastrous fire known in it, history. Eleven
business houses including the daily Observer
and the City National bank were DESTROYED, |,
the losses aggregating between $4,000 and
sS0O,0OO.
TESTIMONY before the State senate COM
mittee on public health showed that of thirty
'ampies of butter purchased in New York
city and Brooklyn only ten were genuine,
the remainder being bogus butter.
THREE men were killed and four injured
py the explosion OF a boiler attached to
iumber-mill, near Wilkesbarre, Penn.
JOHN W. HAWKINS, confidential clerk of
Nelson Holland, proprietor OF the Holland
planing..mils, at Buffalo, N. Y, has misap.
propriated between $4,000 and $4,000 Of
his employers money.
JOHN McCiINNIs was hanged the other day
in Philadelphia for the murder Of his moth
er-in-law. lie first shot his wife, who had
left him and gone back 10 her mother on ac-
count OF his intemperate habits, and then
put two bullets into the elder woman. His
wife recovered, but her mother died.
The United States INSPECTORS at Boston
who investigated the recent City of Columbus
disaster in their report condemn Captain
). Il. Wright, in command at the time the
vessel was wrecked, and revoke his license.
FROM circular issued at Pittsburg, Penn,
by the United States Brewers association,
at appears that the brewers and liquor deal
ers of the country are taking steps to or.
ganize politically without regard TO party.
WashingtonI
FURTHER nominations by the President:
Colonel juhn Newton of tho engineer corps,
to be chief Of engineers with rank Of briga
1ier.general: Leonard T.. Wales, of Delaware,
to be United States district Judge of the dis
trict of Delaware.
Mr.. WHITE, of Kentucky, was the only
member of the House who voted against the
passage of the naval appropriation bill.
THE Senate committee on Territories has
agreed to give the name Lincoln 10 the new
Territory which 1t is proposed TO maze out
OF the northern portion of Dakota.
THE receipts from United States customs
during last month were nearly Sl7,OOO,OOO.
From internal revenue over $1,000, 600 were
received. From these two sources the ag-
gregate receipts last month were S2i, S5o, ,533,
against s2i, 467, ,427 for February, 1883.
ON the lst inst the United States treasury
had $l5i, ,S63, ,975.1 in gold coin, S67,Ol7,
657. 40 in gold bullion, sl26, ,S23,399 in stand
ard silver dollars, SIS, ,490, BOG ~ in fractional
silver coin, si,9l9,9 81 in silver bullion, and
1854, ,30O.26 in minor coin. Total, S'S2, 49,
1918.
A DECISION has been rendered by the
United States supreme court in the long
pending legaltender case of Juilliard vs.
Greenman. The court holds that the legal
tender act of March 81, 1873, is valid ant
constitutional, and that treasury notes res
sued under it are good and legal-tender IL
payment OF all debts.
NOMINATIONS by the President: william
M. Bum, of Pennsylvania, to be governor o
daho Territory; John Z. Perry, OF New
York, to be chief Justice OF the suprrn
court of Wyoming; Norman Buck, OF Idaho
| to be associate justice OF the supreme cour
for tho Territory of Idaho; w. f. Fitzgerald
upreme court for the Territory of Arizona
a HOUSE resolution, offered by Mr.. Wash
burn. of Minnesota, alleges that the Jean
nette court of inquiry refused to admit val
uable testimony, and directs the commltte
| ON naval affairs to investigate the TACT
connected with the expedition, and I
send for persons and papers The re-
olutiou. which was adopted, was accom-
nanied by petition from DR.. w. ID. Collins
brother of Jerome J. Collins, meteorologis
of the expedition, charging that Mr.. CONN
was sub ected to indignities and was pace
under arrest by Lieutenant Commander ],
Long, and also that Engineer Melville mad
no effort to obtain Information aoou
the De Long and Chlpp parties. an
refused permission to any OF hi
marty to search for them Dr.. Collin
also alleges that the evidence offered to I'll
naval court and that which will be turtle
| given by the survivors goes to show tina
had Melville obeyed the directions given hi
by belong to Immediately communica'
with the Russian authorities, aud had I
onducted a search for the captains part
every member except Erickson would nav
been rescued.
| TIE House committee on naval affairs hi
appointed Representatives Buchanan, M
Adoo and Boutelle o subcommittee TO II
yestigate the management OF the JeanheI
expedition. The sub committee is autho
lied to ask power from the House TO call II
persons and papers.
JOAQUIN MILLER has given the Hou
committee on Territories his views on 7
Mormon question. He characterlZeu
Mormons as "cra ks and Guiteaus, ana
posed repressiye measures as only tending
;ncite than to fur her lawless acts instead
slbduinp them. This, he said, was the h
tory of all such measures. Polygamy,
Thought. was on the decrease, anu he pi
soribed education as the panacea Tor AL I
ills from which the people OF Utah suifert
, The Movmons as a people in his OPINION, we
extremely ignorant persons led by 'crani
, and those who have their own ends to SER
and NIL that was necessary 10 DrlnE Un'
back to the paths Of morality was TO sh'
tho,n their true condition.
, FRANK LANGsToN, a colored youth, son
the United States minister to Haytl, a
employed in the government printing OIL oiI
MT Washington, shot and killed Dennis "
liams and James Spencer, two colored m
Williams was trying to separate white !
n colored man, who were lighting, WI
Lanrston interfered and an altercat
arose Langston pulled out revolver
! began firing, hitting Williams ana opeh'
, bystander.
Ex.PosrMAsrER GENERAL JAMES and
D ATTORNEY General MacVeagh have teStll
D before the House committee giving an
2 count Of the initiation OF the star route p
' ecution and the directions OF PreSidehc
J, field In reference to them.
a REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER ana ne
" irving, the English actor, were among rec
o callers on the President
. ACCORDING to report made py oecrev
It Folger, in response to resolutlon ol.
y Ho,Ise. there was in the United STATES VI
n urv on the Goth of February, OF everyelt every
v to be counted as money, a total OF S49o'
= 509.14. -,
roNsyrra nominated nv the Presld'