Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-07-14
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC.

General Gordon has received more than the
necessary l76 votes, which it takes to nomi-
nate, and will therefore be next governor Of
Georgia.
Considerable excitement prevails over tho
discovery of coal at Gentryvile, n small
town of New York state, q vein of 20 inches
of superior quality being struck at a depth OF
l15 feet
Some time ago it was openly charged by
prominent Boston people that letters receive !
from Mr. Parncll had been delayed and APP
pnrently tempered with in the mails. Color
is given to the statements by the fact that
Mayor Harrison and City Clerk PlautZ of
Chicago, ILL.,, have received letters from Mr.,
Parnell postmarked London, Juno =, having
thus cen 81 days in the process of delivery.
Mr.. Parnell will be notified of these facts.
A naval court has suspended the acting
master of the stranded steamer Miranda.
1t is said that the loss to Texas cattem,n
by the drought is so far S6,0OO,OOO.
Paul II. Hayne, the Southern poet laureate
has died at his home CopSehill, near Grove
town, Georgia.
The German socialist paper in New York.
having threatened the men drawn MS Jurors
in the hoycotterS trial, has been proceeded
against by the authorities,
John Roads, n peder, who resides on the
Blue mountain, near Jamestown, Pa, Is
missing and it is supposod he was murdered
by two men, strangers in that locality, who
were seen in the neghborhood of his shanty.
The victim livel alone on the mountain, and
it wasa well known fact that no amasSed q
largo fortune selling his wares throughout
the valley.
Tho $50 miners employed by W. P, Rend,
Mt McDonald's station on the Panhandle
railroad, near Pttsburg, Pa, have struck.
They now demand thirty eight cents instead
of thirty-siX cents per ton for loading coal.
Eight of the mncrS recently convicted OF
cons Tracy in the Washington county courts
have been released from thu workhouse on an
allocatur, pending decision of their cases
before the Supreme Court.
The entire hamlet of Romo Wis, has been
burned by forest fires, including saw mill,
planning mill 50OO,0OO feet of lumber, store,
n boarding house and dwellings; loss, $780,
0 0; insurance, $4,000
be drought in west Texas is causing
frightlul mortality among cattle The cattle
men pla e the loss to date as high as So, OOO,-
600. The drought has lasted year in some
portions. Crops in the dry region are
failures, and dcstitution prevails. Several
counties are taking steps to appeal to Con-
gress for aid
The murderer of Preller has been refused
second trial
The boycotters who tried to spoil Mrs.
Landgrats trade in New York have been
convicted and sentenced to Imprisonment.
The Southwestern railway strike cost the
general fund of the knights of Labor $780,
900 and resulted in a loss to the strikers of
$1,000 900 in wages.
A fearful epidemic of typhoid fever pre-
walls in Waterford, Wis. Fifty people are
now sick.
Twenty-three of Armour's men refused to
load Lake Shore cars at Chicago and were
discharged. This may cause some trouble,as
it was rumOred that if any of the men in the
other packing houses were requested to load
they would go o a strike
During a heavy gale which prevailed off
the entrance of the Columbia river Monday
night seven salmon fishermen were drowned.
The Philadelphia vessel owners recently
voted to tie up rather than submit to the
efforts of the Eastern receivers of coal to
reduce freights.
The post Office authorities have arrested
FIR elk Pittsbnrg anarchist for sending in
cendiary circulars through the mail
While digging cstern, recently. on the
site of Fort l4ounden, built by Washington
after the battle of Fort Necessity in PennSyl
vana in 11j6 TO protect Winchester against
The French and Indians, there wore found n
PORTION of skeleton with hair and teeth,
buttons, iron cannon wheels, balls, grape
shot and hand grenade'.