The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

by COlOnel Lamont, arrived III W ash
ington on the It'll, looking healthy and
sunburnt. After breakfast at the
! White House he immediately settled
| down to work. Tile Cabinet meeting
will be resumed on the 10Th.
There was no race between the
Puritan and Genesta ON the TIN, those
yachts becoming becalmed on the
course. Only half of the 20-mlle course
was gone over on the It'll. 1.-THE Puri-
tan squarely Outsailed the Genesta one
mile in ten and nearly two miles in
twenty"
The race between Hanlan, Lee and
Ross, rowed on the It'll on ~Sheepshead
bay, Long Island, was won by Hanlan
by a length; Lee being second. Dis
lance 3 miles, time 22.2l. The race is
described as being "a poor farce
Trouble is ANTICIPATED in the Indian
Territory over the distribution of $780,
600 recently paid the Cherokee Nation
by the Government for coded lands.
The freedmen in the Nation claim
equal rights with the native born Cher
okees. The matter will come up at the
session of the Cherokee Legislature next
month. Senator Dawes is said to favor
the claim of the freedmen.
Comptroller Durham on the 7th
stopped a Tequisitiou for the salary of
j. A. J. Cresswell, Government Coun-
sci before the Court of Alabama Claims,
for the month of August until it is set
tied that there is any salary due him.
The Comptroller holds that Mr.. CTess-
well is not entitled to u fixed salary OF
$500 per annum, but that that sum Is
named as the limit of the fees to be
allowed hun for the trial of cases.
The most destructive hailstorm
ever known inCharles county, Maryland,
passed owe that section on the 9Th.
The h%ailstones were as large as hens
eggs. and entire fields of corn and to-
bacco were destroyed. The loss Is esti-
mated at 800, 900. The schooner Dd-
vid A. Story, the first of the Iceland
feet, has returned to Gloucester, Mass.
She reports the stormiest season on the
Iceland coast since 1867.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, early on the
18th, "A fire in the Doan oil works caused
three stills to explode. The blazing
fluid ran into the Standard Oil Yard,
setting fire to agitators. Not more than
5000 barrels of oil were lost, but the
damage to the plant swellS tile loss to.
ne arly $4,000.
There was no international yacht
race on the 9Th, the Puritan fouling the
Genesta Just before the start. The
Genesta's bowSprit was carried away.
and a hole two feet ill length was torn
in the Puritan's malnsail. Should the
damage to the Genesta be repaired, the
rae may take place on Friday, the 1lth.
The New York State Prohibition
Convention met on the Sth in Syracuse
About $50 delegates and an audience of
nearly 1000 were present. Horace
Waters. the New York piano manufac-
tUrer, lied the meeting" The conyeu-
ton proper was called to order by
Frederick S. Wheeler, of Albany. AZ
ter singing and prayer Professor A. A.
Hopkins, of Rochester, addressed the
convention for an hour. At the con-
clusion of his speech Mr.. Wheeler read
a telegram addressed to an Ohio PsOhl-
bitionist, ''pledglng the party here to
carry New York if their brethren there
would carry Ohio"
The South Pennsylvania and Beach
Creek Railroad injunction suits were
called up on the Sth by Attorney Gen
eral Cassidy, before Judges SimOnton
and Mcpherson, at Harrisburg. Mr..
Scott, Solicitor of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, SAID that the numerous defen-
dants had found it lmpracticable to
confer with each other within the time
allotted, and were not now prepared to
proceed. He moved for a continuance.
The Attorney General IN asserting to
the motiM said the Commonwealth had
expected TO go IN with the case. The
Court set down the hearing for the Goth
INST.
The second annual session of the
American Historical Association open
ed on the Sth IN Saratoga. About 300
members were present. President A.
ID. White delivered an address on "The
Influence of American Thought Upon
the French Revolution" Professor
Goodwin Smith also spoke.
Col. j B. Walton, commander Of
the Washington Artillery, died on the
Sch, in New Orleans, aged y years.
Rev. DR.. Raymond III. s. eley,a leading
Congregational minister, died in HAY
erhill, Mass. on the 9TH.
"A heavy rainstorm set in at Par
sons, Kansas n Sunday night, and SON
tinued until late on the 18th. The city
Is surrounded by water, in some places
several miles wide, and many people
have been forced to leave their houses,
Some stock has been lost. the crops on
fhn hAftnnn fanI1 ma HOT rnxgaI al
there are two washouts on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad.
The local option election in Shack
clifford county, Texas, has resulted in
the defeat of the Prohibitionists ''by a
two-to-One vote"
The state census of Wisconsin, Just
completed, shows Il population of l $685.
$50, a gain since 1880 of u per cent.
The principal gain is in the northern
part OF the state, where new lumber
districts have been opened.