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

W iE0lkH III III tdlll hhNts AhAH "tAiN
leave Judge Thoman alone in the board.
The Postmaster General decides
that the salaries of postal employees can
not be attached for debt.
Commander Frederick Pearson, U.
S. N. having offered his resignation, it
was accepted, to take effect on the 1st.
The registration Of voters IN Gin
cinnati foots up 60,096, which is 5000
less than the total vote cast at the
Presidential election last year.
Vice President Hendricks on the
Both ult. addressed the New Jersey
State Fireman's Association at Atlantic
City. His remarks were warmly APP
plauded.
Secretary Lamar was at the Inte-
rlor Department on the Both ult. He
sha almost recovered from his attack of
hay fever.
On the 1st the Cabinet meeting
was attended by all the members except
Secretary Endicott. Among the mat
tiers considered was the proposed re-or-
~ganization Of the Civil Service Com
mission.
"A leading gentleman gives the
positive and eifectual statement from a
person who is neal the President /:
1.-THE President is a Democrat, and it
is strange that any person should ques-
ton his position. He earnestly desires
the success of his patty IN the pending
elections in New York as elsewhere,
and any assertion to the contrary is ut
terly and maliciously false"
The public debt statement issued
on the LIST shows a decrease OF S12, 757,-
$50.
The cranberry crop Of Ocean coun-
ty, New Jersey, this season, is estimated
at $4,000 bushels.
The acting Third Assistant Post
master General has called upon post
masters for reports of the first weeks
special delivery business. A Washing
ton despatch says the officers Of the
Department are not discouraged by the
comparatively small business done on
the 1st at the principal offices. They
feel that the public has not yet bad an
opportunity TO acquaint itself with the
advantages resulting from the use OF
the special delivery system, and believe
that the system will steadily grow in
popular favor.
Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe has
been detached from duty as Governor
of the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia,
and placed on the retired list, from the
4th inst.
1t is said that the President and
members of the Cabinet will attend
the Virginia State Fair, to be held in
Richmond on tue 22d inst, should
public business not prevent their pres
ence.
"A battery of boilers in the Solar
Iron Works of Clarke & Co, at Pitts
burg, exploded on the ID, scalding
seventeen of the employees. Two have
since died, and three or four others are
not expected to recover. 1t is stated
that the explosion was caused by the
mud eating through the coatilgsof the
mud drum. "Pieces of theMdrum
picked up were not more than a thirty
second part of an inch in thickness.
The President has issued an exc
e1tive order directing DR.. Z. O. Shakes
| peare, of Pennsylvania, Ito proceed,
! under the direction of the Secretary of
as the representative OF the Uni.
Aed States, to Spain and other countries
lin Europe where cholera exists and
make Investigation of the causes, prog
ress and proper prevention and cure of
the said disease, in order that a full re-
port may be made to Congress the next
session.
The Government cruiser Chicago,
the heaviest vessel ever built at Roach's
s%hipyard, Chester, is said to have set
tied on her ways to such an extent that
workmen have lad to shore her up to
prevent accident.
-Heayey rains continue in Middle
Alabama and are doing much damage
to the corn and cotton crops.
John II. Hanson, Delivery Clerk in
the P~ost-ofiiee at Depnison, Texas, was
committed on the LIST for robbing the
mails. He was caught by a decoy let
ter. Hanson was superintendent of a
Sunday school.
The cadets accused of haZing in
the Naval Academy on the LIST are Rob-
ertson, Miller, Bailey, Fitch and Ed
ward r.. Quimby, the latter from New
1Oihs 4tC AhNCotlSQlENb AOh EOitiS VII
is expected to result III a c~ourt-martial.
All the dynamite cartridges, about
5000 in number, weighing 275 600
pounds, which Flood Rock, Hell Gate,
is to be blown up. have been placed in
position, and the explosion is expected
to take place on the 7th at h~alf-past
nine O'Clock.
commissioner Atkins. of the Indi.
an Bureau, left Washington on the 5th,
for a tour Of inspection of the various
Indian reservations. Among other
things he viii make a personal lnYesti-
CATION of affairs at the san Carlos
Agency, In New Mexico, with refer
ence to the Geronimo outbreak. He
starts out with the Holman Investiga-
ting Committee, which goes to the In
dian Territory.
The Jessup & Moore Company's
wood pulp mills at Wilmington, Della
ware, resumed work on the 9Th, after
having been closed since July 1st.
They will run five days in the week
and employ $50 operatives.
The keystone Iron Works at
Reading resumed operations on the
9TH after a suspension OF nearly two
years. When running full the works
employ 100 hands.
Vice President Hendricks passed
through Columbus, Ohio, on the Sd,
ard was interviewed. He presumed
that Congress would engage in a revis-
ion of the tariff during the coming ses-
sion, and thought that the President
would ~reorganize the Civil Service Com
mission by the appointment of men
who, while pledged to the principles
of civil service, will have a business
like conception Of the duties Of their
positions and make their rulings more
in harmony with the spirit that doml-
mates political parties than the old
Board did,
"A water tank at Granville, New
York, burst on the 9TH, demolishing the
Sentinel office and a furniture store,
damaging the National bank and Hood
ing a millinery store and the streets.
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