The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-03
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Naval Academy. He is a son of Com
mander VIM. cambridge Hoff, Of the
navy; grandson of Rear Admiral Henry
X. Hoff. and great-grandson of Com
modoIe VIM. B~ainbrdge, who COM
handed the old frigate Constitution
when she captured the Java.
"A dynamite magazine o.bout a mile
from Port Arthur, Ontario, exploded
on the ODD, doing damage to the extent
of about $40, 900, and SCATTERING nearly
lal the window glass In the town. A
waitress standing at an open window III
a hotel lost her eyesight.
-. Amber Smith, ex-Republican
Congressman from the Richmond Dis
trict, in Virginia, has announced that
he will support Fit2hugh Lee for Gov
ernor, ''because Mahone has violated
all the pledges he made to the Republic
cans"
The State Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Penn
sylvania, in session at Reading, on the
25th elected the following officers: Pres
ident, John Wanamaker, of Philadel-
phla; Vice President, j. Frank Robin
son. Of Pittsburg; Charles Ii. Zlinder,
of Berwick, and W. b. Whitney, of
Germantown; Secretary, J. r. King,
of Altoona: Assistant Secretaries, Will
liam Weimer. of AWHILE; A. q, Harte,
of C%atasauqua,
by an unexpected explosion of dy-
Mantle in a rock blast. at York Haven,
neal York. Penna., ON the 25th, John
Morrissey was killed and the other men
were badly injured.
Three cars of a passenger train on
the Western North Carolina Railroad
were thrown from the track near Char
lotte North Carolina, IN the 25th by a
broken rail. three persons were i-
jured. An accommodation train on
the CHARTERS branch of the Pan Handle
road ran into a coal train on a siding
near Mansfield, Penna., on the 18th
wrecking the engine and baggage car.
Three trains hands were injured.
w. B. Fleming, Justice of the Su-
preme Court of New Mexico. has re-
signed on account of i'll health.
The total values of our imports of
merchandise during the twelve months
which ended on the 31st of August last
were S571, 235, 943, against 1851, S71. 316
during the twelve months which ended
August 31st, 1884. The values of our
exports of merchandise during the
twelve months which ended with last
August we're 1922. 765, 461, against
S735, obs, 1872 during the corresponding
period of the preceding year.
The yacht race for the Cape May
challenge cup, valued at $1,000, and
presented by James Gordon Bennett LII
1872, was entered into on the Goth by
the American schooner Dauntless and
the English cutter Genesta. The start
was made from Sandy Hook, the course
to be southerly and around the Five
Fathom lightshi off Cape May, and
return to Sandy Hook. The steamer
City of Atlanta, from Charleston,
which arrived at New York on the 9th
reported that September 9th, at 7.24
A. M, twenty five miles N. E. of Della
ware Lightship, passed the cutter Cen
esta standing on the starboard tack,
with wind very light. The tug Luck
enbach was following" The steamer
Seneca, from Newport News and Nor
folk, reported: 'tSept. 81, at 9.41 A.
M, passed the cutter Genesta heading
S. S. W., 26 miles from Cape May
llghtship, wind w. $. W.; fine breeze.
Saw nothing of the Danntless.
The corn crop of the United States
having passed the critical stage and be-
ing no longer subject To injury from
frost, the FdTa3er's Reeteie, of Chicago, |
from returns received from 400 CORES.
pondents, gives an estimate of the total
yield of the present year. The aggre- |
gate yield in the ten principal corn |
growing States is estimated at 1885,
236, 00U bushels, an increase of l84 ,640,-
600 on last years crop. The other
swell the total of this years crop to
1873. $3.50, 900 bushels.
Colonel John C. Kelton, Assistant
Adjutant General, who has been for
fifteen years on duty on the Pacific
coast, has been relieved from duty at
the headquarters of the Division of the
Pacific, and ordered to report at WASH
Lieutenant Colonel Chauncey |
McKeeyer will be his successor.
The President on the 26th appointed
Daniel O Finch to be U. s. Attorney
for Southern Iowa. and Fabius I'll. Bus
bee U, s. Attorney for Eeastern North
Carolina.
The PRESIDENT has throught the Secre-
tary of the Treasury asked Professor
Alexander Agasslz to take the cfice of
Superintendent OF the Coast and Geo
detic Survey, in place Of Professor
Hilgard, resigned.
noan.alI u Nio,... hoo xysittan q l
letter TO the chairman OF the late DEM
Convention Of New York pos
declining the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor.
The storm which ragged at New Or
leans on the Goth, has subsidized, and the
washouts on the Louisville and Nash |
vile railroad have been sufficiently re-
to allow of the passage of trains.
1t is reported that Captain Hat
command, in the Cananca Noun
tains, Sonora, has had a fight with 60
hostile Indians, and captured AZ of
them, after killing several others. The
.aptives will be turned over to the civil
authorities at Tucson, Arizona.
The nomination for Lieutenant
Governor of New York on the Demo-
ticket, made vacant by the decli-
of Flower. was not filled by the
State Committee on the 18th. 1t is
understood that Governor Hill and a
majority of the committee favor Gener-
Slocum for the vacancy.
The President on the 18th made
the following appointments: To be In
dian Agent: w. l.. Powell, OF Virginia,
Neah Bay Agency, in Washington Ter
ritory; John V. Summers, of Missouri,
at Quapaw Agency, in the Indian Ter
ritory; Mark w Stevens, of Michigan,
at Macklnac Agency. IN Michigan;
G. Hill, of Nebraska, at SaDtee Agency
in Nebraska, vice VIM. IL. Spauld-
ing, declined; Moses Neal, OF Kansas,
at Sac and Fox Agency, in the Indian
Territory, vice Isaac A. Taylor, re-
signed; Henry #. Williamson, of Mis-
sissippi, at Grow Agency, in Montana, |
vice Henry j. Armstrong. resigned;
Fletcher /. Cowart, of Alabama, at
Mesealero Agency. in New Mexico,
vice w. ii. II. Llewllyn, resigned.