The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-04
NEWSOF THE WEEK

II IN hdllSdS, WDeIe bli6 wheat
harvest is in progress, indicate that the
Weld is 10 per cent. greater than the
June estimate of the State Board of
Agriculture.
A committee of Phladelphlans, bead
ed by Mayor Smith, called upon Presi-
dent Cleveland on the 23d and invited
him to visit the National Eneampment
In Paramount Park. The President
was unable to say whether he could
attend.
A severe storm visited Sulphur
Springs, Texas, on the 22d, wrecking
the Catholic and colored Methodist
churches, unrooing three business
blocks, washing away bridges and dam
aging the crops.
The Marriage License bill on the
oath received the signature of Cover
nor Pattison. The Governor also re-
fused his signature to three bills. The
first was for additional copiesof Smull's
Handbook. 1t was vetoed on the
same ground that the other bill on the
same subject was. The act i'll relation
to livery stable keepers was disapproved
because ''the title does not reveal the
purpose of the act and it might, there
fore, be applied to other property"
The third was an act authorizing
Courts of CommonsP Pleas to fix by rule
fees of witnesses. The Governor holds
that ''there is a law governing the sub
ject, and if this II went into effect it
would cause confusion and annoyance. "
A bill contesting the election of
Carter Harrison as Mayor of Chicago
was filed on the oath.
Secretary Manning has requested
the resignation of Horatlo Z. Burchard,
of Illinois, as Director of the Mint. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Burchard VIII
refuse to resign.
In the National Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
Portland, Maine, on the oath, the Com
mander-in-Chi delivered his annual
address. He said that four years ago
there was a membership of nearly TO-
600. On March 31st, 1885, 80 Depart
ments reported 5026 Posts and 269 ,604
members, while the report of the adju-
tant general shows the membership to
be 287 ,637.
during a circus performance at
Lapeer, Michigan, on the 23d, a large
elephant became enraged, tore up seats
and smashed things generally. After
cleaning out the tent he took to a
neighboring swamp. In the panic a
number of people had their limbs
broken.
The War Department on the oath,
received a despatch from Colonel Brad
ley, at Fort Lewis, stating that the
trouble between the Ute Indians and
the.cowboys in that locality has ended.
Twenty two post office inspectors
were appointed on the oath. They
were selected from COL applicants.
The first wheat of the new crop, A
bushels grown in Lancaster county,
Virginia, was sold on Change In Balti-
more, on the Oath at 81 per bushel.
Another inferior lot grown i'll Middlesex
county, in the same State, sold a Sl,50,
The Trustees of Delaware College,
at Wilmington, decided on the oath ito
do away with the co-education of the
sexes at that institution" The resig-
nation of President Purnell, who intro
duced ~co-education'' into the college
about thirteen years ago, was accepted.
The President has issued san exec
utive notice announcing a diplomatic
agreement" between the United States
and Great Britain continuing the privi-
leges granted by the Fisheries Treaty
throughout the season of 1880. He
will, as a part of this agreement, bring
the whole question of the fisheries be-
fore Congress in December next, and
recommend the appointment OF a joint
commission by the Governments of the
United States and Great Britain to con-
slider the questions in the interest of
maintaining friendly intercourse be-
tween the countries.
The Albany EUening Journal RE-
publican) asserts that Mayor Banks, OF
that city, is a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor of New
York. He is a friend of President
Cleveland and Secretary Manning.
James L. Stanton, General Agent of
the Department of Justice, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect June Both.
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, on the
Goth, received a telegram from the Gov
ernor of that State saying that great
apprehension is felt of al incursion by
the C%heyenhes, similar to that Of 1867.
The Governor desires that the Secretary
of War should station troops on the
southwest border of the State to guard
the settlers. Secretary Endicott being
absent from Washington, the Senator
called upon the President and was as
sured that ''active measures have been
taken both by the Interior and War De-
partments to prevent If possible any
outbreak of the Indians, and to repress
it promptly should n occur"
The motion for a new trial III the
case of the murderer Cluverius was
overruled on the Goth in the Hastings
Court at Richmond, Virginia. Cluve-
RUS counsel will nov try the effect of
an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The boat race between the Harvard
and Yale University crews, at New
London, on the 26th, was o by the
former. Time-Harvard, 20 minutes
154 seconds Yale, 20 minutes 80 Sec
onds.
The Pre- sldent, on The Goth appointed
as Collectors of Customs Theophilus
Moody Favre, for the District of Pearl
River, Mississippi; Joseph B. O'Brien,
for Natchez, Mississippi, and John +.
Grady, for ApalachicOla, Florida.
The Clerk of the U. S. House of Rep
resentatiyes says that from present
indications g there will be fewer con-
tested election cases before the next
Congress than there have been before
any Congress for forty years" There
will mot be more than four and proba-
bly, not more than three"
AT Reading, Penna, on the 10Th,
workmen of the Pennsylvania Schuyl-
kill Valley Railroad were preparing to
connect the tracks Of that road at a sid
ing of the Philadelphia and Reading
road, when two locomotives of the lat
ter were run upon the siding, and the
Schuylkill Valley men withdrew. 1t
is supposed the matter will be again
taken to the courts. The Supreme
Court granted the ~Schuylkill Valley
- a,.nsaafnn % nrnoo fha cfdtnug and