The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-25

III = 'A 49, $500
ted the following internal revenue col
l%ectors: Daniel J. WEIGH, for Montana;
John G.. Henderson, for the Eleventh
District Ct Indiana; William b. An
derson, for the Thirteenth District of
Illinois, and Thomas Cooper, for the
Eighth District of Illinois. The ma
jority of the internal revenue offices Of
the country have been filled, only nne-
teen remaining vacant.
William B. Webb has decided to
accept the office of Commissioner Of
the District of Columbia offered him
by the President ON the 18th. The law
provides that both political parties shall
be represented in the District Commits
sion, and Mr.. Webb, who is a republic
can, succeeds one of that party in the
Board.
The U. 5. steamer Despatch, hay
ing on board Secretaries Whitney and
Endicott, Generals Benet, Newton and
Abbott, and Captain G. S. Smith and
Edward Magruder, Z. 5. A, and Mr..
Joseph Morgan Of Pennsylvania, mem
bers of the Board to inspect fOrtI6ca-
tons, arrived at Newport on tie 18th.
John Roach, the ship.builder, made
assignment on 18th in New York. The
preferences amount to about 1922 600.
Twenty cases OF p%rostration from
heat and five deaths, were reported in
New York on the 18th. Five cases Of
prostratlon and one death were reported
in Brooklyn.
A violent thunder storm visited the
country around Kalamazoo, Michigan,
on the 18th. At YicksbuTg much
damage was done to property, and sew
eral persons injured by lightning
The court. martial appointed for the
trial of PayInaster General Smith Of the
navy, on the charge of '~'scandalous
conduct and culpable ineficiency in the
performance of his duties,n met on the
10th, in Washington.
The Governor of Louisiana has or
dered the execution of Charles Davis.
George Wilson and Mathilde Jones for
the murder of Mrs. Henrietta Cole,
widow of Judge James A. Cole, in the
town of Plaquemine, Iberville parish
The execution will take place on Fri
day July 31st.
The Chief of the Bureau Of Stats
tics reports that the number of immi-
grants who arrived in the United States
during the fiscal year which ended June
30, 1885, was 3S7 ,821. being 122, 0l3 less
than during the previous year or 40l Ill
less than during the year ending June
30, 1882, the year of the greatest immi-
grafton.
The Dominion Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 10th.
The present hot wave extends over
the greater portion of the United States
east of the Rocky Mountains. Tempe
natures were reported on the Goth of 80
in Washington, 50 in Cincinnati, IS In
Pittsburg, SO in Richmond, and 80 to
10l in Baltimore.
Colonel Henry f. Peyton, of Vir-
ginla, has been appointed a special agent
of the land office, and ex-Lieutenant
Governor Robinson, of North Carolina,
a special Indian agent.
William b. Webb was on the 10Th
commissioned as a Commissioner of the
District Of Columbia.
The cost of maintaining the Gov
eminent Asylum for the Insane last
year was S120,8 sou. Under the new con-
tracts Just made by the Secretary of the
Interior for the fiscal year beginning
July l, 1885, the supplies will cost $109,-
245, showing a net saving of Sl1, SOD.
1t is reported from Fort Reno that
General Sheridan has organized al In
dian police force, composed OF 100
young Cheyennes. 1t Is thought that
the General in his report will attribute
the dissatisfaction among the Indians,
chiefly to the cattle leases.
BY the premature explosion of a
blast on the South Pennsylvania Rail-
road, near Fort Littleton, Fulton
county, Penna., on the 10th. three men
were killed and two injured, perhaps
fatally.
The town of Skidmore, Missouri,
VAS burned ON the 10Th. Loss, nearly
500 900. The fire was started by boys
playing NTH matches IN a hay NOW.
Since the 18th a fire has been raging
seven hundred feet below the surface
in the Hollenback mine at WilkesbarTe,
but 1t is now reported under control.
1t was started by a lamp falling from
one of the miners hats.
The President on the 2lst, appoin-
ted Joseph X. Bogert to be Postmaster
at WllkesbaTre, Penna, vice A S, Orr,
suspended; A. H. Keller, U. 5. Mar
shall for Northern Alabama; EdwTd j.
Dawne, of Oregon, United States
Judge for the District of Alaska; NJ.
d. Ball. of Alaska, United States At
torney for Alaska, and Barton Atkins,
of New York, United States Marshal
for Alaska.
Secretary Whitney, it Is said, has
decided that the Eight Hour law shall
hereafter be enforced in the different
navy yards-that is, the employees shall
receive ten hours pay for eight hours
labor. Heretofore they have received
eight hours pay for eight hours labor.
THE general order directing the change
has not been issued yet, but informal
ton of the proposed change has been
received at the Washington Navy
Yard"
The trial of Louis Riel, on the
charge of high treason, began at Regl-
ma, in the Northwest Territory, on
the goth.
William Vessel, a saloon-keeper of
Youngstown, Ohio, was ''badly whip
ped" on the 10th, in a fight with his
wife. For revenge, he united a bull
dog ON the Goth and set it at his wife.
The dog tore the flesh from the woman's
limbs, infiicting injuries which may
prove fatal. Vessel is in jail.
The american Rural Home, of
Rochester, publishesspecial crop reports
from all the winter and spring wheat
growing states. These reports say that
in the Northwest the winter wheat sit
uation is generally considered favorable.
but Michigan alone raises a crep equal
to that of 1884. In Southern Illinois,
Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee and
Kentucky there has been no improve
ment IN the past thirty days. In the
latter two States the millers are buying
old wheat to start up their mills. The
failure Of winter wheat will disastrous
" affect the railroads. The spring
wheat prospects indicate an average
crop, if the hot sun does not scoreh
1t. The grass crop Of the Northwest
will not eOual that of 1873 Oats stand