The Penn's Grove record., 1885-12-05
NUMBER IS.

Harlan. a colored man, is defeated. It
was decided that Judge Huston, Demo-
crat, was elected. The Democrats will
appeal all the cases to the Supreme
| Court
The Prohibitionists Of Worcester,
Massachusetts,, OF the LIST nominated a
full city ticket, headed by Edward d.
Conant for Mayor.
Henry #. French, ex Second AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury. died
in Concord. New Hampshire, on the
2Sth ult., aged 70 Years.
The steamer State of Maine on the
LIST took to Portland, Maine, the chow
Of the schooner Isabella Thompson, dis
masted in a gale on i'hatcher's Island,
and likely TO become a total wreck. +
General Crook t~eleeraphs to Adult
ant General Drum, from Arizona. thatl
the hostile Indians are killing all the
White Mountain Indians they can find
scattered over the reservation. 1T
seems prot able that up 10 this time
thsy have killed eleven women, four
children and Eve men and boys The
Indians on the reservation have been
aroused, and several parties of scouts
and troops are hunting the ~renegades.
Tho Governor OF Washington Ter
ritory. in his report to the Secretary of
he Interior, gives the population of
the Territory as 129. 438. an increase of
36 $50 in two years. Tie assessed
value of property is $50, 464 ,437, and
there are yet %. 000, 600 acres of the
public lands u~nsurveyed. of which 49,
100000 are coed agricultural and tim
Der land. BY the Territorial census
of 1885 there were 1916 Chinese resi-
dents in the Territory.
The cylinder heal of a 650-horse
power Corliss engine in the Worcester
Steel Works, at Worcester Massachu-
sets, blew out on the LIST, killing
George Ryder and inJuring several
others.
Under instructions from the Sec
retar, of the Treasury, the Collector to
the Port of Baltimore will, after the
18th inst. dispense with the services of
fourteen employees whose salaries ag-
gregate S1T.3S5. He will also reduce
the salaries of othe rs $2460, making the
total reduction Of the cost of the Gus
tom House $40, S35. The reduced force.
it is said, will be amply sufficient to
perform all the duties.
The President on the 1st appointed
John w. Causey to be Collector of In
ternal Revenue for Delaware. and John
q. Thompson. of Kentucky, to be Sur
veyor General of Wyoming.
"A. w. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania.
has been appointed Chief Clerk of the
Bureau Of Equipment in the Navy De-
partment, vice ). Henriques, reduced
to a fourth class clerkship.
The furnace of the Leesport Iron
Company. at Leesport, Berks County,
Perna.. which has been idle for the
past ten months, resumed on the LIST,
giving employment to a large number
OF hands. Several other idle furnaces
IN that locality are preparing to go into
operation.
The Richmond Wig newspaper
was put up at auction on the LIST in
Richmond, Virginia, under a decree OF
court. The highest bid made for the
entire property was $4,000. 1t was not
accepted, but will be reported to the
Court for action.
"A telegram from Ottawa says " it
has been discovered that a large pro-
portion of the phosphates exported from
Canada to England and Germany Is
reshippedto the United States as Brit
ish and German phosphates. 1t is un-
ierstood that the American Consul at
Ibis place in his next report will point
,ut the absurdity of forcing Canadian
pbosphates to make two trips across
the Atlantic before entering the Uni
ted States.n
Commodore Charles Lowden, re
tired is reported to be dying at his home
in Talbot county, Maryland. He is IS
years of age.
The con erence of Methodist Epis-
copal Presiding Elders opened In New
York on the 1st and will continue two
days. Fifty Elders We're present from
the following conferences; Wilmington,
Philadelphia, Central Pennsylvania,
wyoming. New York. Central New
York, Northern New York, New Eng
and, New England Southern, Newark,
tennessee and Troy. Bishop Thomas
Bowman of st. Louis. presided. and
poke upon the duties of elders.
The final obsequies of Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks took place on the list in
Indianapolis. After services at st. Paul's
Episcopal Church-Bishop Knicker-
ucker and three other clergymen OFF,
ciating. and Rev. DIR. Jenckes preach
ng the sermon-tbe remains were
tnterred in Crown Hill Cemetery. The
uneral procession comprised a large
number Of prominent officials and citi-
Ems. and a number of civic and mill
tary organizations.
The Supreme Court of Ohio, at
Columbus, on the 1st., rendered a de-
cision in the Deggett habeas corpus
case from Cincinnati. discharging the
defendant and holding the Cincinnati
and Cleveland election registry law to
be unconstitutional. The decision of
the Court was unanimous.
by a premature blast Of It's Iron
Ore Mines, near Olympia, Kentucky.
IN the 1st., eight men were injured,
.nree of them fatally. Ons of the
victims had both eyes blown out.