Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-10-23
News Summary.
THE CARRIAGE INDUsTRY THE
HUGUENOT6-MU q RDER-A
NEG&O LYNCAED.
EXODUS FROM MON TREAL,

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The bi centennary of the revocation
of the Edict Of Nantes was celebrated
in New York yestei day by the de- cend-
ants of the Hugerpots. John Jay pre-
sided. Among those present were Sec
retary Bayard, Bishop Stephens OF
south Carolina, and Professor Demor.
est, of New Bruins wick, New Jersey.
Addresses were made by Mr.. Jay and
Secretary Bayard, and appropriate
resolutions were adopted. At the bust
ness meeting Secretary Bayard and
thirty other RS were elected members OF
the society.
At Baltimore yesterday James f
Barnes was sentenced to FIVE years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiaIy for
snatching $525 from jeremiah Town
send on FriGay last. Townsend was
counting the money in the Citizens
Bank, when Barnes called his attention
| to some bills on the floor, aud while he
was looking, attempted to escape with
the plumber, but was captured after q
long chase. Barnes is supposed to be
from New York or Philadelphia.
The Carriage Builders Convention
in Boston ON Thursday discussed the
resolutions of the special com mittee on
Incorporation regulating production, In
which it was stated that the Increase in
the number OF factories had caused .
production of the trade in advance of
the demand. The report of the com
mittee on CO operation against over
production was adopted. The Conn it.
zee adjourned, to held its next NEE ting
lin New York.
i A telegram from Marinette, Wiscon.
sin, says that large number Of the
employees Of the various lumber mile
there have signed petitions asking the
jmill owners TO resume. and it Ia possi-
BILE that all the mills except those
(which would have shut down at the
time IL the strike had not occurred
Twill resume on Monday. Many of the
workmen are seeking employ
slsewhe
4 An explosion occurred yesterday II
the Raccoon Pits, in Chesterfield Co
Virginia. One hundred men were IL
l the mine at the time, but only two wer
killed, the explosion being confined to
i. remote corner of the mine. 1t 10 no
known bow the explos ion occurred,
I A telegram from Quebec reports tina
] a boot and shoe facturer Of 81
: Roehs has just taken out patent Il
1.-The United States for a heel MAXIM
y machine, which, under the sole con
9 troll of young boy, is capable Of heel
9 ing 5000 pairs of boots daily.
Il Daniel Root, engineer of one of tn
ttrains which collided near Williams
!. iport, Penna., on Tuesday night, diet
il last evening, making the third victim
r OF the disaster. The others injured ar
doing we'll.
=. Henry Huntley, colored, aged l
"a years, shot and killed his 20-year-ol
d sister in Marion, Alabama, on Wedne'
day, because she had chastised him fe
\ some misconduct. He is now in jail.
a Joseph Smith, thirteen years of sst
10 was killed by a panther in the noun
. tains of Bedford County, Penpa, o
Wednesday evening. His body was q
y % most devoufed by the beast.
The nine year old son of J. Fournie
tof St. Thomas, Quebec, on Wednesda
y got possession of a fowling piece an
d. shot his six year old sister dead.
II The total number Of hogs handled b
- Western packers from March first
~. date mas been 4,375, 900, against ), 780,
at 00) last year.
A negro named Ward, accused of o
n. attempt at murder, was lynched o
Thursday near Eufala, Alabama.
be- Several stores in Darlington, Sout
Carolina, were burned on Weonesda a
Id night. Loss, $4,000.
There was frost on Thursday NOR
ing as far south as Montgomery, AL
bama.