The National tribune., 1884-01-24
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Capital Topics--Crimes and Casualties.
Personal and Political.

The House Committee on Public Lands, at
O meeting on the night of the 21st inst, unani-
mously agreed to report to the House bill TO
declare forfeited the lands granted to the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
The House Committee on Pensions has
agreed TO report favorabIy the bill of Repre-
sentative Hewitt, of Alabama, granting PEN
sion TO all survivors of the Mexican war, of the
wars with the Creeks, with the Seminoles, or
in the Black Hawk war.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has notified the
Boston board of health that the State Depart
ment at Washington viii appoint in Egypt
inspectors of rags, whose duty it will be to
inspect and fumigate all rags before they are
shipped from that country.
The President transmitted to Congress last
week communication from the Secretary OF
War and the Secretary of the Navy set
ting forth the necessity for another expedi-
ton to Smiths Sound for the relief of the
signaI-service party under Lieutenant Greedy,
and special message recommending that an
appropriation for that purpose be at once made
The reply of Secretary Chandler TO a Senate
resolution calling for q statement showing the
date of construction. original cost and total
expense for all repairs since their construction
of vessels borne on the navy register in No
vember, 1883, has been sent to the Senate. The
report shows that there were 80 vessels on the
register. OF these 20 were built prior to the
rebellion, 81 during the war, and Al since the
close of hostilities. The original cost of the
90 vessels amounted to $40, 796, 613; repairs on
all the vessels aggregate Sal, 200,622, making
the total cost of the vessels amount to $91 $751;,
435. The repairs. as the figures show, have
exceeded the original cost by $40, 209.
The President, on the 21st inst, nominated
a. S. Worthington to be United States District
Attorney for the District of Columbia, vice
George B. Corkbill. Mr.. Worthington is a
native of Pennsylvania, and at the opening of
the late war, when nineteen years of age, left
the factory at Steubenyille, Ohio; where he
was working, and enlisted in the 93th Ohio
regiment. He lost a leg at the battle of Kene-
saw Mountain, and on coming to this city at
tTacted the notice of Secretary Stanton, who
gave him position in the War Department.
He soon graduated in law, and was the CO.
partner of the late E. L. Staunton until the
death Of the latter.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
William Fl. Guion, of the firm of Williams &
Guion, New York, managers of the ocean
steamship line of that name made an assign
Inent on Saturday. His liabilities are stated at
100000.
Near Salt Lake, on the 18th inst, Daniel
Morris, aged eighty-four years. Mormon with
three wives after reading the governors mes
sage, went to the shed of an adjoining house
and hanged himself.
A special from Live Oak, Fla, says the mag
nifcent hotel at the lower Suwanee Springs
owned by Scoville & Culpepper, eight miles
northeast of this place, was burned to the
ground on the 18th inst. The hotel was com
pleted last summer, and was one of the finest
in the State. The loss VIII probably reach
$4,000.
The Grand Montezuma Hotel, at Las Vegas
N. NJ, was burned on the 18th inst. In thirty
minutes the hotel was in ruins The guests
numbering 100 lost everything, barely escap-
/ ing With their lives. The hotel was owned BY
the Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company. Tie loss is 100000. The insurance
is less than 100000.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: At 1:30 o'clock on
the 18th inst. the body Of Professor Peter Voltz
prominent citizen Of Allegheny, was found
at the Tenth street railroad bridge with a bal-
iet-hole in the right temple. His coat and vest
were opened, and his pockets bad been Tifed
and his watch was gone. About four feetfroIn
the body was thirty cents in change and tan-
| ing fork. There was no evidence of strug.
| gle, and suicide was at first suggested but, al
no weapon was found, it is believed that he was
| murdered. The bridge is dark, and is a favora
bic resort for thieves.
| Mike CuGdihie and wife, living near Onray
Colo, three months ago adopted Mary Rose
Matthews from the Denver Catholics Orphan
Home. A week ago the child died and wa
buried by Cnddihie. She had been cruelty
! treated by the couple, and the coroner had he
body disinterred. 1t was covered with knit
wounds one leg was broken, her skull wa
| crushed and her limbs were frozen. Cuddihi.
and wife were arrested, and Friday they wer'
convicted of murder. Saturday morning at
o'clock masked men hanged them near 0uray
On opposite sides of the road.
The early reports of the magnitude of til
loss of life by the Wrecking of the steamship
City of Columbus on the rocks OF Gay Head
Mass, at an early hour Friday morning, ar
all verified by the latest particulars. OF tn
/ eighty passengers only nine survive and 0
forty-fiYe officers and crew only thirteen No
! asingle woman OF child Of several on board j
saved. The survivors tell of helpless women
swept by the sea from the deck and dashe,
| back again only to sink beneath the awfu
waves; of the terror of the little children, an,
the dreadful scenes Of a few agonizing nc
| ments.
A sensation has been caused at Wheeling, "
Va, by the publication of the report of an al
tempt to steal the remains Of the right Rev +
] v. Whelan, late Catholic Bishop of this diocese
from the vault in which they rested beneat
the Whelan Memorial Chapel, in Mt Calyar
Cemetery. The object was to secure a rewar
4 for the return of the remains, and the attemp
WIS only prevented from succeeding by the az
cidental discovery Of the operations Th
attempt was made on Thursday night. but oH
ing to the security of the vault the work wa
interrupted by daylight The robbers replace
everything, as if to return the succeedin
night. The sexton discovered chat the vaul
had been tempered with, and since this disco,
cry guard has been kept in the chapel q
night.
PERSONAL.
Commodore Timothy A. Hunt, United Stat,
navy, died at New Haven, Conn, on The u
inst of congestion of the kidneys, aged ,
years.
The New York Sun says: Tax Collector Tai
ner has lately been a constant attendant at ii
} prayer meetings of the Hanson Place Chnrc
! Brooklyn.
Benjamin Boville, one of the famous " s.
hundred" who participated in the charge
the Light Brigade at BalaklaYa, died at Tro
N. Y, on the both inst.
| George w. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledqt
on the 2ist inst. sent his check for $500
Mayor Edison, of New York, as donation
the Peter Cooper memorial fund.
Lord Lansdowne, the Governor General,
Ottawa, on Thursday last, opened the secol
; session of the Fifth Parliament of Canada wi