The Penn's Grove record., 1885-11-21

ted Consul at Hankow, was a member
of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses.
The vote of Massachusetts, at the
recent State Election upon the Consti-
tutional amendment providing for pre-
,cinct voting in large towns was very
hfSht. The returns thus far collated
sno"ssQ 600 in favor of tho amendment,
ana IrOAe000 TO 10000 against 1t.
The Supr~ne Court Of tho United
States on the 15th rendered a decision
in the Kentucky rsrlroad tax cases,
affirming the judgmenb~of the lower
Court, which was in favor on the Com
monwealth. The suit al to recover
taxes levied by the State upon the roads.
Louis Rlel, the leader of the North
west rebellion. was hanged on the 10th
at Regina, in the Northwest Territory.
He met his death with apparent compo-
sure, and made no speech upon the
scaffold. The news of his execution
caused intense feeling among the
French-C Canadians in the Province of
Quebec. In Montreal flags were half
masted in many parts of the city, and
a procession Of about 500 students
paraded the streets, displaying the tri-
color, and cheering for Riel and de-
nouncing Sir John Macdonald.
The President on the 18th appoint
ed William F. Harrity to be Postmas-
ter for Philadelphia, in place of II. S.
Huidekoper, suspended; John NJ. Camp.
bell Surveyor for Philadelphia: William
d. Kendrick Shipping Commissioner at
Philadelphia, and Richard II. Arbuckle
Collector of the Port of Erie, Penna.
"A telegram from Bismarck, Dako-
ia, reports that a surveyor from the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, coming on
an east-bound train on the 10th, said
that with the close Of work on that
road a vast number of laborers were
discharged. among them being 1000
Chinese, who are now making their
way into the United States" The cap
tains of steamships, he said, ''take them
| down the coast by hundreds, and land
them at isolated points, from which
they go overland to the towns"
Mrs. Rhoda Howard died on the
18th IN Bath county, Kentucky, at the
alleged age of 116 years. "She was
wonderfully well preserved and retain!
ed her faculties to the last" She waS
three times married, and M of her
husbands, it is said, was in the Revolu-
tionary War. "She smoked a pipe
and never took a dose of medicine"
While repairing a blast furnace of
the Cambria Company, at Johnstown,
| Penna., on the 10Th, j. Il. Smith was
overcome by gas and fell headlong into
the furnace. No fewer than seventeen
men were rendered insensible while
trying to rescue him, but they were
dragged from the jaws of death by
their comrades. Finally. the lIfeless
remains or Smith were pulled out with
hooks and ropes.
Arguments in the election nan
damus a ) at Cincinnati were finished
on the 18th. A decision IS expected in
a few days, which will settle the result
of the election in Hamilton county.
The Supreme Court of Ohio on tine
l7th decided the Penitentlary law pass
ed by the last Leg stature to be consti-
tutional.
The number of residences destroyed
by the fire in Galveston was sos, and
the total loss is now estimated at 81
500, 600. OF the dwellings destroyed33
were residences of members of the Cot
ton Exchange. The entire business
portion Of the town of Hazlehurst,
Miss, was burned on the 10th. The
loss is estimated at $1,000 00.