The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-09
NEWS OFTIlE WEEK

Liit itttIIb bukblt lOOh Blbtts AlU 10
said to have 800 fighting men wei
armed, and to have boosted that be
would "clean Out the Government for.
ces as surely as the Philistines of old
were cleaned out.
The President on the Goth, ult.,
made the following appointments
Charles J.. Scott, of Alabama, to be
Minister to Venezuela; Warren Green.
of Kentucky. Consul-General at Kan.
agawa, Japan; John E. Bacon of South
Carolina, Charge d'AfIaires to Para.
quay and Uruguay. To be Consuls-
BerthOld Greenebaum, of California, at
Apala; Albert LeonIng, Of New York,
at Bremen; Joseph b. Hughes, of OHIO,
at Birmingham, ( England; John II.
Putnam, Of Ohio. at Honolulu; Victor
a. SartOri, of Pennsylvania, at Leg
horn; Robert +. WitheTs, of Virginia,
at Hong Kong; John ). Williams, of
Indiana, to be Third Auditor of the
Treasury Department. OF the above
appointments perhaps the most signii-
cent is that of ex-U. $. Senator With
ers, of Virginia. to he Consul at Hong
Kong. He succeeds Colonel John 5.
Mosby, who was appointed by President
Grant and has been retained since.
The splendid new building erected
for the Board of Trade of Chicago at a
cost of s.. 900, 900, was dedicated on
the Goth ult. An audience of about
5000 persons was present, including del
egates from all the Exchanges in the
United States, and also from England
and Canada. The exercises were opened
with prayer by Rev. O. nton Locke.
Rev. Joseph Graf, director of the
musical department of the Cathedral ut
Baltimore, will sail for Rome Oh May
18th, to confer with tie Church author
tiles there regarding the condition Of
ecclesiastical music in this country. He
will take with him two copies of the
famous Mass of Pope Marcellus, which
he edited in mod IN form and which
was produced at the Cathedral during
the Plenary Council.
"A telegram from Panama dated on
the 29th ult. says: Everything is quiet
here. The negotiations going on will,
it is hoped, lead to the DISARMAMENT OF
General Aizpmree's forces. The Colon.
bian troops are still aboard the vessels. >"
in regard to the $40 gold piece said
to have been recently tested at the New
York Assay Office and found to weigh
546 grains, making its value nearly
S2l.5 so, the Director of the Mint has as
certained that the coin was weighed
upon a pair of scales in a drug store.
The Superintendent of the Assay Office
reports that 1t was found to be slightly
u~nderweight, but within the limits of
tolerance.
The President on the Both ult. ap-
pointed Anthony M. Kelly, Of Virginia,
to be Minister to Austria. Mr.. Kelley,
it will be remembered, was first appOil-
ted to the Italian mission.
During the month of April Post
master General Villas appointed six
hundred -postmasters at f|ourth-class
offices. The greatest number appointed
on any one day was 1873 on April 27th.
The majority of the appointments were
made to fill vacancies.
General Irwin Mcdowell is fatally
i'll in San Francisco of a disease of the
digestive organs. He is delirious most
of the time, and his death may occur at
any mement.
"A violent wind storm passed neal
Pleasant Hill, Missouri on the 10Th ult.
unrO0fing several houses and blowing
down fences. Thirteen cars of a Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train were blown
from tho track, four cars were loaded
with hogs, many of which were killed.
Generals Grants health continued
to improve on the 30th ult. and he was
able to resume work upon his book,
On the Both ult. two men were seen
to deposit something under a double
frame house i'll POttsville, Penna., and
then hastily depart. In a few minutes
an explosion occurred, blowing out the
foundation wall and scattering the fur
niture about. The house is occupied by
sixteen Hungarian labOTers, the wives
of two of them, and several children.
None of the inmates were seriously in
jured. There is no clue to the perpe-
traitors of the outrage.
General Grant continues to gain
strength, and now begins to belieYe
that he will recover. He dictated work
on his book for an hour and a half on
the 1st.
Commodore C.. X. Garrison died
IN the LIST, at his residence, in New
York.
The President on the LIST, appoin-
ted John Goode, of Virginia, to be So
licitor General in place of Samuel f.
Phillips, resigned; William NJ. Mer-
rick. of Maryland, Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, in place of Andrew Wylie.
resigned; L. Hale of North Carolina, to
be U. 5. Consul at Manchester, Eng
land, in place of A. ID. Shaw, suspen-
ded; Thomas NJ. Ferrail to be Internal
Revenue C%ollectOFfor the First District
of New Jersey, in place of William z.
Tatem, suspended; Spruille Braden to
be Assayer at BOISE City, Idaho, in
place of Norman ii. Camp, suspended,
and George Hayes, to be Supervising
Inspector OF Steam Vessels for the
Fifth District, in place of Mark d..
Flower, suspended.
The Illinois Legislature, in joint
session, on the LIST, went through the
usual motions of giving scattering votes
on a ballot for u. S. Senator,
The whole force of the construction
department at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
was discharged. 1t is said other re-
auctions will follow, as a consequence
of the reduced appropriations.
The public debt statement for
April shows a decrease Of IS, 464, 500
The total coinage of the U. S,
minis during April amounted in value
to "a, 423, 500, and included 2,4l0,00O
standard dollars.
"A passenger train on the Reading
and Columbia railroad was thrown from
the track neal Columbia, Pa, on the
LIST, by a defective frog. The locomO-
tive tumbled down a ffteen-foot en-
bankment and was wrecked; the bag
gage and smoking cars We're badly dam
aged. John Hauck, fireman, was
killed, and Henry Rightsell. another
train hand, was fatally injured. Two
other employees were dangerously in
jured.
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