The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK

NudiiCO ~ dNOtb VI hCtiluChJt " ~
Minister to Columbia; Charles Foster
of Indiana, Consul General at Calcutta
ID. j. Particle, of the District of Col
umbia, Consul at Dusseldorf; William
+. Henderson, of Arkansas, Associate
Justice for New Mexico: Thoma
Smith, of Virginia, y. s. Attorney 70
New Mexico; Charles Partange, U. S
Attorney for Eastern Louisiana; ant
Daniel w. Marratta, U. s. Marshal TO
Dakota.
III. Vanerman. Secretary of tn,
Territory of Arizona, has sent hi
resignation to the President.
Nearly full returns from the towr
elections held in Connecticut on the 5tf
show that 1862 of the 167 towns 79 are
Republicans, 55 Democratic, and q
equally divided. This is almost exactly
the same as the result last year.
"A gang of illicit distillers neal
W~ilkesbarre, Penna., has been broker
up by revenue officers. The distlllery
OF Stephen Tiffany. in Alfred, Susque.
hanna county, has been seized, with
1000 gallons of spirits. Tiffany was
arrested. w. Chandler, a saloon
keeper of Gibson. has been arrested as
an accessory, and 400 gallons of spirits
III his place have been sel2ed. Other ar.
rests are expected.
The postmasters of Ashby, Granite
vile and Shirley, small towns adjacent
to Boston, have been RECOMMENDED
for removal" for mailing matter at
their offices which should have been
mailed at Boston.
The Georgia House of Representa-
| tives on the 9th defeated the bill giving
railroads the right to make their own
rates, subject 10 revision only IN CON-
plant. The bill received 80 votes, 80
being necessary for its passage.
"A very distinct shock of earth
quake of three-quarters OF a minutes
duration" is reported to have been felt
at II. 80 on the 9th at Louisa Court
House, sixty miles from Richmond, on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. A
slighter shock was felt at Lynchburg.
Cardinal McKloskey died at 49, 0
o'clock A. NJ. on the 9th at New York.
He died peacefully and surrounded by
relatives and clergymen.
The great explosion at Flood Rock,
In He'll Gate. took place on the 10th
according to the programme, and ap-
pears to have been completely success
full. The engineers believe that the
reef was blown to pieces, and that when
the fragments gre removed by dredging,
there will be a clear channel of 26 feet
in depth at mean low tide. No acct
dent occurred. the shock producing
only a slight conclusion of the earth
within a radius of a few miles, and the
uphesval of the waters was a sublime
and beautiful sight.
"A "strictly private'' banquet was
given to Vice President Hendricks by
the ST. Louis Club, in st. Louis, on the
9th. Only forty covers were laid. Not
withstanding several hints by respond
ers to toasts, the Vice President, in
view, perhaps, OF the character of the
banquet, refused to say anything about
politics.
TER ible prairie fires, causing great
destruction of property, are again re-
ported in Pierce, Cedar, WAYNE and
Knox counties, Dakota. Three fires
were started near Bismarck, on the 9th,
it is thought, by sparks from railroad
engines.
The First Auditor Of the Treasury
said on the 10th that he had not finished
the consideration of the accounts of
the Civil Service Commissioners, but
he had already made up his mind not to
allow such items as ginger ale, ''lemon-
ade, and newspapers under the head
of necessary expenses"
The commission of III. b. Plum
mer, as Naval Officer for Philadelphia,
has been signed, but not yet issued. 1t
is said in Washington that ''strong po-
litical influences are being brought to
bear to secure a suspension of the COM
mission"
The President ON the 10th appoin-
ted David B. Waters to be u. s. Mar
shall for Western Michigan; Edward
Hawkins. U. s. Marshal for Indiana,
and Commodore S. Luce to be Rear
Admiral.
1t Is understood in Washington
that H.. A. Shackelford, U. S. Consul
at Nantes, will be retained.
William II. Yerkes, Associate
Judge OF Common Pleas Court, No. 3,
died on TIE 10th aged about so years.
BY a collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Wheeling, West Vir-
glnia, on the 10th, two engines were
wrecked and three train hands injured,
one, it is feared, fatally. Silas Goodwin
and wife were killed by a train on
Saturday, while driving across the rail-
road track az Clinton. Maine.
Three distinct shocks of earth
quake we're felt in Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, on the 9th, each shock being
preceded by a rumbling sound. Many
people, alarmed by the vibration, ran
into the streets. Staunton had a sim.
liar experience. The shock wa very
slightly felt in Richmond
"A large number of people on the
18th visited the scene of the explosion
at He'll Gate and carried off mementoes.
The northern end of the reef still pro-
j tcts from the water, ven at high tide.
The officer IN charge declares the ex-
was a complete success, and
that the projecting portion is so honey
combed with assures that 1t will fall to
pieces when operations are begun for
its removal. If any further blasting is
necessary the surface system will be re-
to.
A telegram from Chester Penna.
5 lys the Naval Board of Appraisers has
completed the appraisement OF material
hand and work done at Roach's ship |
yard for the Government and will pre-
sent the result of their labor, which is
said to be very satisfactory to the as
-ignees TO Secretary Whitney.
President Cleveland on the 18th
attended service at the First Presbyte-
rian Church at Washington.
The Prohlbitionist Conferrees of
Adams and Cumberland counties,
Pennsylvania met on the 18th 10 Gettys-
burg, and nominated George Bowman,
Of Carlisle, for Congressman from the
Nineteenth District. York county was
not represented.