The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-19
NEWSOF THE WEEK

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Agent at Chicago, nplace Of Miss Ada
g. Sweet, resigned. He also appointed
TO be Indian Agents, Thomas M. Jones,
of Virginia, at the Shoshone Agency,
in Wyoming Territory, and John >.
Ward, of California, at the Mission
Agency in California. Mrs. Mulligan
the new Pension Agent at Chicago, Is
the widow of Colonel Thomas A.. Null
ligan. organizer and Colonel of the
Mulligan Brigade, famous during the
early part of the war for the Union.
He was killed in the defence of LeXing-
| ton, Missouri. His widow is about AZ
years of age, and prominent in social
and religious circles in Chicago.
"A train from New York to Mon
treal was thrown into ditch a e Com
stocks before daylight on the 9th by a
rock which bad fallen on the track.
Engineer Brown was killed and several
passengers were injured.
The September report of the De-
partment of Agriculture shows that
the average of the cotton crop is 81
against 963 IN August. The present
average, however. is two points above
the September average of ten years.
The general average of spring wheat is
S65 against 50 last month. The average
of winter wheat is 65.S against 65 in
July. OF corn the general average is
% against 50 III August.
The number of hogs packed in the
West since March LIST of this year has
been 3,615, 900. against 3, IFS, 600 during
the corresponding period of last year.
The number packed in Chicago was
1,925,000.
The Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, iii session at Chicago, on
the 10th decided to hold its next re-
union, i'll Rock Island, Illinois, Gem
eral Sherman was reelected President,
and the other officers were also re.elect
ed. Resolutions in regard to the death
of General Grant were adopted.
The President on the 10th appoint
ed Rensselaer, Stone to be Collector of
Internal Revenue for the first District
of Illinois, in place of Joel d. Harvey,
suspended.
The statue of Commodore Perry,
the hero of the battle of Lake Erie,
erected at Newport, II. |. was unveiled
on the 10th with appropriate ceremonies.
The Postmaster General of Canada
has instructed the postmaster at Mon
treal to fumigate, prior TO dispatch, all
mails from his office for the United
States, as requested by the acting Post
master General at Washington.
The two political parties in the
AfaVfann StAfn Af mo raanYfnI
to be arming for a conflict.
The Prohibition State Convention
of Massachusetts, met on the 10th in
W orcester, and elected Rev. j. w.
Hamilton permanent President. A full
S ate ticket was nominated, headed by
Thomas j. Lathrop, of Taunton, for
Governor.
The Republican State Central Com
mite of Ohio has placed Thaddeus A.
Marshall, of C%hilicothe, on the ticket
for Supreme Judge in place of Nell
waine, declined. The Greenback State
Committee of Ohio has challenged Gov.
Hoadley to a joint discussion of the is
sues of the canvass with the Greenback
candidate for Governor.
-General Rosecrans, Register of the
Treasury, has asked for the designations
of William P. Titoomb, Assistant Reg
lister, and Hartwell Jenison, Charles
Neal. Arthur Hendricks, j. H.
Beatty and n. b. Walker, chiefs of di-
vision in the Registers Office. The
Register says she has found that the
officials whose designations he has asked
are not in sympathy wi h him in the
reforms which he proposes In his office,
and for that reason desires to replace
them with men upon whom he a
rely"
Inspector General Nelson ii. Davis
Will be placed on the retired list ON the
goth inst. His successor Will be either
General Roger Jones or General Absa.
lOm Baird.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the
International Red Cross Society, II
nounced ut a meeting in Danville, New
York, on the 1Ith. that she intended
o vote this fall, and would take the
toters' oath If challenged"
"A fire in Nashville, Tennessee, ear
ly on the 18th, destroyed Lester Broth
ers' livery stable, with 20 horses and
mules and 100 carriages, and also an
adjoining saloon. The total loss is esti-
mated at S54 900. A. IL. McCormick's
distillerv, at BeaTdstOwn, Illinois, was
burned on the 18th. 1t had been idle
for some time. Loss, $4,000; insur.
ance, $4,000.
"A cloud burst near Pantans, Ari-
IONA, OH the 9th, washed out six miles
- r,strngd tVaaly a nd 1QnnnuAA a mum
Der of bridges. A freight train was
wrecked and three tram men were
severely injured.
The President on the llth appoint
ed Moses A. Hopkins, of North Caro-
lima, 10 be Minister To Liberia; Henry
w. Gilbert, IF New York, Consul at
Trieste, and James Nj. Reese, of New
York, Consul at Three Rivers, Canada.
Rev. Moses A. Hopkins is a Presbyte-
ran Minister. He was born a slave.
-Isev. Henry Ward Beecher has
written a letter fayoring the insertion
of a high license plank in the platform
of the Republican State Convention of
New York because absolute prohibi-
ton is an absolute imposslbility."
-JODH l.. oulilNdi PAttuth III III
amateur game of base ball at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 18th. After the game he
was arrested for violating the Sunday
law, and gave bail In $500 for his APP
pearance.
General Mcclellan arrived in Chr
cago on the 18th from the West, and
was entertained by his military and
political friends during the day. In the
evening he was given a reception by
the Chicago survivors of the Mcclellan
Dragons and the members OF the Ma
tional Veterans Association.
The steamer Sandman, having
among her passengers Archdeaeon
Farrar, the eminent English divine,
passed in the st. Lawrence at Rimou-
ski on the 18th. Secretary Whitney
and Commissioner Coleman returned
to Washington on the 18th
Charles Young, f. s. Curtis, and
Arthur Wheeler, young men. and mar
ried, were drowned on the 18TH, at
Rockland, Massachusetts,, by the up.