The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-30
NEWS OFTHE WEEK

ted on the lfih. III the Clinton Avenue
Reformed Church, in Newark, New
Jersey, Morris X. Jessup, Of New
York, presided.
Drs. Taylor and Edison and Inspector
Miller, Of the New York Health De-
partment, returned home on the 18th,
from a visit to Plymouth, Peuna. DR.,
Taylor said s'the origin Of the epidemic
IN that town wa born In the polluted
water the people Of the valley used
and the bad condition of the reservoir;
and that its continuance seemed TO be
due to the lack of systematic dIsinfec-
ton"
On the 18th, a reaction for the bet
ter took place in the condition of Gen
eral Grant. This applies solely TO his
general condition, bodily, not 10 his
local condition as affected by the can
Ger. He passed the day quietly, simply
reviewing sOmeof the work Ofhis book,
and expects on the 18th, to resume die
tatIon if he feels as well as he did on
the 18th. ''This was one Of his good
days" - said Colonel Fred Grant.
The Postmaster General on the
18th, received a letter from Assistant
Postmaster General Hay, stating that
Mr.. Hays health had greatly improved,
and that he expected to arrive in
Washington on Thursday OF Friday Of
this week.
The President on the 18th, appoint
ted t~wenty-three new postmasters,
among them Miss Sue Dubois, at Ma
rion Court House, South Carolina, in
place of A. Il. Derhaut, suspended for
incompetency.
William Walker of Illinois, has re-
ceived his appointment, to take effect
on the Dist inst, as Chief Clerk of the
General Land Office, in place Of J.
Dempster Smith, resigned by request.
"A telegram from Ottawa says the
Dominion Government has not yet
considered the case of Riel. 1.-THE
best lawyers here say he will be tried
for treason.felony, under the Treason
felony act of 1869. He may be tried
either by general court martial or by
an ordinary civil tribunal.
It is estimated that more than $780,
600 worth OF timber was destroyed by
fires IN the woods of Suffolk county.
Long Island, during March and April.
General Grant was comparatively
free from PAIN on the Doth, and he took
a drive in the afternoon. He also
wrote the dedication Of his book, as fol-
lows: ''TO the officers and soldiers en-
gagged in the War of the Rebellion, and
also engaged in the War of Mexico,
these volumes are dictated, I. 5.
Grant"
-Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen was
reported much worse on the goth, and
his physician thought he could not pos
sibly last more than a day or So"
John A. Logan was on the goth
reelected u. 5. Senator in JOINT con
ventiOn of the Illinois Legislature. He
received 100 votes.
The President on the goth, made
the following appointments: To be
Collector Of Customs-J. J.. +. Cot
trell for Saint Marks, and John Ma
guire for Pensacola, Florida. To be
Collector of Internal Revenue-JOhn
Il. Hlllsman for the Fifth District of
Tennessee. To be u. ). Consul-Frank
II. Pierce, of New Hampshire, at Ma
tanzas.
Admiral Jouett on the 10Th tele-
graphed to the Navy Department that
San additional force Of 500 ColOmbians
had arrived at Panama, to protect the
Isthmus from tine insurgents.
during a funeral at the house Of
John HalleT, in P~ittsburg, on the l9th,
"a porch in front of the house gave way,
precipltating 65 people to the cellar, 10
feet below. Meua Leptselter, aged 20
years, and an old lady named Culbert-
son, were dangerously, if not fatally,
injured, and a huber of others sustained
severe bruises.
"A violent wind storm at Taylor,
Texas, on the 10th, demolished the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad freight house, un-
rooted the round house, wrecked the
City Hall and damaged about twelve
other buildings. The railroad COM
pany's loss is $4,000, and the damage to
the other buildings is from $4,000 to
SIS, 900. No lives were lost.
Professor" Odlum, a well-known
swimmer, being emulOus of the nOtOri-
ETY. of SAN" Patch, jumped from the
Brooklyn Bridge, at New York, on the
goth. He died soon after being taken
from the water. Odlum was formerly
director of a natatorium in Washing
ton, and was about 81 years of age,
In Philadelphia, on the 18th, Post
master Huidekoper administered the
oath of office to John ii. Cahill, the
newly appointed assistant custodian of
the Post-ofice and United States Court
building.
Friedrich Il. Freiinghuysen, ex-
Secretary of State, died on the ooh, at
his residence in Newark, New Jersey,
aged IS years,
In the Illinois House of Bepresen-
tatiyes on the goth, a resolution giving
the use of tue Legislative Chamber
next Thursday night to Ex-Governor st.
John, to deliver a temperance lecture
was voted down, The Republicans
voted almost sondly against it.
The report of the resignation of
President ZaldiYar, Of San Salvador,
and his departure from that country, is
confirmed by official dispatches re-
ceiyed in Washington.
A despatch from Battleford, in the
! Northwest Territory, reports that
Poundmaker's Indians, encouraged by
the recent capture Of asupply train, are
getting more daring and coming closer
to the barracks. They have repeatedly
set the prairie on fire not far from the
barracks. An attack is expected.
The gasometer of the st. Louis
/ Gaslight Company, in st. Louis, explo-
ded on the 2drh, instantly killing John
Burns and Thomas Daran, employees of
the company, and seriously iniuring
Thomas Killion another employe.
By the fall of the scaffold at the
new Post-ofice in Baltimore, on the
10th, seven men were precipitated to
the ground, "a distance of 70 feet, John
Rogers was killed and the others were
injured, one of them, George W. Mil
Ter, dangerously.