The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-17

The President on the 18th appoint
ed William McFarlan to be Postmaster
at D0wningtown, Penna., to succeed X,
ID. Wells. whose commission has expir-
ed: also Richmond s. Dement,, of Hi
nois, to be Surveyor General for Utah.
The large dry sheds and storehouses
connected with the fruit-box mill of
Eaton & Crangle, at Forest Station,
near Bangor. Maine, was burned on the
12tn- Forty thousand fruit boxes and
the wood for 200 1000 more, all ready
for shipment to Sicily. were consumed.
1t is announced by the family of
the late Ralph Waldo E---yfIon Ina1 d
nuuahar-ef Lis feCUers 10 Carlyle appear
to have been stolen. All persons are
cautioned against buying or selling any
papers purporting to be the originals of
letters from Emerson to Carlyle, and
against publishing such, and any n
who may hear of the existence of any
such letters is requested to inform
Edward w. Emerson, of Concord,
Massachusetts, where they may be
found. The right OF publication of
these manuscripts belongs legally to the
writer's family.
The artificial culture of oysters has
proved successful at the Matching sta
ton Of the New York Fish Commits
sion, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Is
land. Spawn and niit taken from hv-
ing oysters in July were hatched in
pans and afterward placed IN tanks and
a pond supplied by the tide. The young
oysters thus produced are now ''as
large as a dime"
The U. S. revenue cutter Corwin
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th
with about 100 men of the crews of
wrecked Arctic whalers.
The Governor of Texas ON the
18th issued a proclamation raising
the quarantine at the ports of
that State on November lst, with
the exception of such inspec-
ton as may be necessary to prevent the
importation of cholera.
DIR. Rauch, Secretary of the Hill
noIs Board of Health, is inspecting the
quarantine arrangements on the st.
Lawrence river, with a view to the pro-
tection of his State should cholera reach
this continent next year.
The October term of the Supreme
Court of the United States began ON
the 18th. There are 400 cases on the
docket, but the Court, by energetic
work during the last few years, has
ceased to fall behind hand. Four hun
dred and sixty cases were disposed of
last year, at which rate the last cases
on the present docket will be adjudi-
Gated within three years.
Chief Justice Edgerton, of Dakota,
has resigned ''for the purpose of enter
ing the field against Judge Moody for
The United States SenatorShIpn when
that Territory is admitted as a State.
1t Is stated that of the 900 changes
made in Presidential postmasters since
the adjournment of the Senate, 249
were caused by removals of lncumbents.
By December LIST there will be nearly
one hundred vacancies in Presidential
offices, caused by expiration of commits
sions and designations, land it Is the
intention of the Postmaster General to
give his attention to these offices be-
fore making any considerable changes
| sewhere.n
The President on the 18th ap-
pointed John S. III. Fink to be United
States Attorney for New Hampshire.
Returns of the election in Ohio,
held on the 18Th, show large gains for
the Republicans throughout the State,
compared with the vote when Hoadly
was elected Governor two years ago,
and indicate the election of the Repub.
lican ticket by a considerable plurality.
The Cleveland Ledger estimates the
Republican plurality at from $4,000 to
Is, 900, and says the Republicans viii
have a majority in both branches of the
Legislature. The Prohibition vote was
comparatively large, but does not seem
to have affected the Republicans.
The local election in Chattanooga
on the 13thr resulted in the choice of
ak Post-of1fce Inspector Sharp, Repub-
lican, for Mayor, by a majority of 1872.
John T. Gray on the 18th resigned
the M~arshalship of Police at Baltimore.
at the request of the Police Commission
ers, he being a candidate for Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas. Deputy
Marshal Frey was appointed to ill the
vacancy, and Police Captain Lannon to
be Deputy Marshal.
-CoDgressmen Randall, OF Pennsyl-
vania, Crisp, of Georgia, and Reed, of
of the committee appointed to
examine the facilities of the country
for the manufacture of ordinance, on
.he 18th visited the Watertown Arsenal.
They will inspect the South Boston
Iron Works, where guns of the heaviest
are cast.
The seventy-6fth anniversary of
he American Board of Commissioners
or Foreign Missions was opened on the
18th in Boston.
"A camp Of eleven eounterfelters,
n Clarion county, Penna was raided
N the 18th, and six of the gang were
,aptured, the others escaping to the
woods. The prisoners were taken to
7ittsburg and held for trial. They
lave been putting counterfeit silver
in circulation.
by an explosion at the Cherry Val
ely furnace at Leetonia, Ohio, on the
9th, Anthony Burr was killed and
hree other men severely injured. They
we're seated in front Of the furnace
When the '~'tuyeri' blew out and several
ons of molten metal was scattered
'ver them.
The eng ne, two baggage cars and
moker of q Baltimore and Ohio train
we're thrown from the track by a rock
lear OHIO Pyle Falls, Penna., early on
he 18th. Samuel Goodwin fireman,
vas severely injured, and several pas
engers were bruised. The cars fell
nto the river.
The Western Pennsylvania Expo
ition Society was organized ON the
9th in P%ittsburg, on the principal of
mo capital stock and no dividend" 1t
will take The place of the old organiza-
ion which went out Of existence when
he Exposition buildings were burned,
hree years ago.
Aaron Burr's pistols, which are
aid to have figured at eleven duels, are
wned by Mr.. Innis Hopkins, OF st.
4ouis.