The National tribune., 1885-11-26

drowned out last Summer to extinguish the
fierce fire which was raging within the work
ing is again being prepared for operation. The
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co. is
pumping out the water and improving the out
side workings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An autopsy was held in the receiving vault
at the Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, last
week, on the remains of John Mccullough, the
tragedian, his wife fearing that if the cause OF
his death was not settled beyond dispute,
his grave would be violated by doctors. The
result of the examination fully corroborated
the diagnosis of DR.. Engle, that the actors
death was due to blood poisoning-The Chi
nese merchants of New York have forwarded a
letter to President Cleveland expressing graft
tude for his course in the recent proclamation
against the anti-Chinese agitators on the Pacific
coast. The merchants assure the President
that their countrymen endeavOr to be good,
peaceful, honest and law-abiding citizens, and
that his course will increase their veneration
for him and their obedience to the laws.-lt
was testified at the investigation of the Cook
County Qll) Insane Asylum, last week, that
patients had been found i'll shocking sanitary
condition, tied with ropes and in strait.lackets,
while some were drugged with chloral to keep
them from being troublesome.-Hogc cholera
of fatal type has broken out in Liberty Town.
ship. Ind, where large droves are being fattened
for the market. Two hundred animals have
died in two weeks, and many more are sick.-
The steamship Switzerland landed at Philadel-
phia on the Goth from Antwerp 125 Italian
immigrants bound to Chicago. The party is
under the direction of Signor DaneSi Luigi
Chasso, a NeapOlitan musician, and all were
supplied with instruments common to itinerant
street warblerS.-At a session of the New
York Senate estigating Committee, held
last week, two eX-stenographers of Civil Dis
trict Courts testified to paying money literally
out of their salaries toward election expenses
and for other purposes. One stenographer,
named Geo. Strassner, attached to Judge Nc
Carthy's Court, said he paid in this way 81 200
a year out of salary of $4,000. When he
stopped these payments Judge Mccarthy told
him an agreement was an agreement, and he
ought TO live up to it," Not doing so he was dis
charged. Alice Horsford, only daughter
Of a New York broker, has just married poor
young man, son Of a harness maker at Spring
Valley, n. Y. Her father forgives her, but her
mother docs nOt.-The remains of Edwin
Forrest and of his mother. sister and a bro
ther, which are now buried in st. Paul's Church
yard, on Third street, below Walnut Phila-
delphia, are soon to be taken up and renterred
in the grounds of the Spring Brook Home for
Aged Actors, founded in a suburb of Philadel-
phia by Forrest. A Forrest monument will
then be erected above them.-Launt Thomp-
be ready to cast in bronze in January. The
statue, which will cost $780, ,0O0 is to be placed
in front of the City Hall at Providence, r. |.
The family of Gen. Mcclellan is well pro-
vided for, as the General has been in receipt of
about 100000 per annum for several years.
A couple in Franklin Co., Ga, were married a
few days ago, during the dinner hour, while
they were making sorghum. They were
dressed up, married, and then dined, and went
out again into the field, where the groom be-
gan the honeymoon by feeding the mill, and
the bride by skimming the sorghum.-The
Secretary of State of Wisconsin has completed
the official census details, by which the total
population appears to be ,563, ,423; white males,
$685. white females, 748, SO; negroes in full,
$3.50; Indians, 2,695.-The total subscription
for the sufferers by the great fire at Galveston,
Texas, amounts to S104 04,700.-Cassius NJ. Clay
is still actively managing his large farm in
Kentucky, though 70 years of age.-Advices
from Pineville, the County Seat of Mcdonald
Co, Mo-, in the extreme southwestern part of
Missouri, says that Irwin Grubb was taken
from the jail there on Friday night by mob
and hanged to a tree. Grubb murdered Dorson
B. Anderson on the night Of the Goth of last
June for his money, and confessed the crime.