The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-03
NUMBER 8.

estimated that a Thousand toHs Of hay
were destroyed.
There has been a rainfall of ten
inches during the last so hours at Jack
~sonville, Florida. Great damage has
been done, ard washouts are reported
on all the roads.
"A despatch from the City of MeXi-
co says 1t is six days since there has
been mail and passenger communica-
tion by rail with the United States, "
ing to washouts. 1t is hoped that
trains will be running soon.
Captain James w. Pope, Assistant
Quartermaster, has been transferred
from Philadelphia to Fort Leavenworth.
to relieve Captain Forrest II. Hatha-
way, Assistant Qua termaster there.
General Sheridan has returned to
Washington. and is at his desk in the
Wan Department.
The Postmaster General decides
that the salaries of postal employees can
not be attached for debt.
Two men started on a deer-hunting
expedition at Gander Bay, Newfound-
land, q few days ago. During the
night one of them hearing a rustling in
the bushes, and thinking it was caused
by deer, fired at the spot. He found
that ne bad killed one man and mortal
ly wounded another.
Charles b. Ketchum, one of the
reporters of the Associated Press in
Washington, died on the 2Sth in that
city of typhoid fever. He was formerly
city editor of the Kansas City Times.
The Democratic State Committee
of New York on the 10Th selected Gen
eral E. f. Jones, of Binghamton, for
candidate for Lieutenant Governor in
place of Roswell p. Flower. General
Jones was born in Utica, New York,
in 1928. He grew up in Massachusetts,
and was Colonel of the Sixth Massa-
chusetts Regiment, which was attacked
in Baltimore when on its way to Wash
lngton in 1861. He recruited the
Twenty eighth Massachusetts, Regiment
after the discharge of the Sixth RegI-
ment.
The National Gieenback State
Convention of Massachusetts, was held
on the 29th in Boston. The following
State ticket was nominated by acclama-
ton: Governor, James Sumner, OF
Milton; Lieutenant Governor, James
M, Buffum, Lynn; Secretary of State,
H. w. K. Eastman, Lawrence; Treas
urer and Receiver, General Walter
Harmon, Boston; Auditor, A. I'll.
Wood, Lunenburg; Attorney General,
A. F. Hale. of Hudson.
The eighth annual fair of the State
Agricultural Society of Delaware open
ed on the 10Th at Dover. The att e
ance was large and the exhibits in or
der.
DR., Brakely, President of the New
jersey Cranberry Association, reports
the crop of cranberries in New Jersey
to be unprecedented" One bog of
six acres, alone, in Burlington county,
has yielded 1904 bushels. The berries
have escaped injury by frost.
Twenty thousand dollars damage
was done by a collision in the Fitch.
burg Railroads freight yard at Charles
town, Massachusetts, on the 28th. No
person was injured.
1t is reported that DIR. Gregory, OF
the Civil Service Commission, intends
to resign at an early date. This would
leave Judge Thoman alone in the board.
The President on the 29th appoIn-
ted Edward A. Stevenson, of Boise
City, to be Governor Of Idaho. and
William B. Webb, Of Billings, t.
Secretary of Montana. The President
also appointed David Il Asbury TO be
Supervising Inspector Of Steam Vessels
at st, Ions. and James I. Healey
Assistant Treasurer at Chicago.