The National tribune., 1886-02-11

paid to Capt Murphy and other police officials
as hush money so as to keep Hills place from
being raided. Hill says he has made this state
ment when the demands of the blackmailers
became so heavy on him that he was no longer
willing to pay, the last demand being for $500.
-" Lucky" Baldwin one of the Pacific Coast
millonaires is being sued by woman for
$500, 900 damages for breach of promise. -An
interesting feature in the increase of real estate
values is shown in Sandersville, Il Georgia town
of 1900 inhabitants. While the increase for the
year of the property of whites was 16j per cent.
that of the colored people was 36 per cent
About 100000 young Goldfish were deposited
near Pensacola, Fla, last week, by the Fish Com
mission.--Ex- Health Commissioner Carroll,
of Hunters Point l.. l., died in the poorhouse at
that place last week. Drink was the cause
A resolution passed both Houses of the Iowa
Legislature last week, asking Congress to place
high license on the sale of butterne and
oleomargerine.--A great temperance move
ment is in progress at Huntingdon, Pa, and
there has been general rcmonstrancc against
the granting Of liquor licenses, principally
through the influence OF the Womans Christian
Temperance Union. The temperance people
are sanguine of preventing the applications
now pending and to be disposed of at the next
term of the Court from being granted
Counsel for George Bingham, convict in the
Tennessee penitentiary has filed petition at
lessees of the peniteutiary to grant good
time" under recent law granting reduction
of sententences for good conduct. If the law
is sustained it is said go convicts will be en-
titled to release.-The first anti Chinese
State convention met at San Jose, Cal, Thurs
day last. The general sentiment among the
delegates was strongly against violence or
threats Boycotting was favored rs the quickest
method of accomplishing the desired end and
resolutions in accordance with these views were
adopted.-Rev. James Armstrong, whose
revelry in Cincinnati, during his vaction last
Summer. excited so much comment throughout
the country, has been found guilty Of immoral
conduct and violating his ministerial VOWS. He
will probably be uspended.-John Carroll
who for Is years has been head porter at the
Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia, died last week,
leaving fortune of 100000. The bulk of
this was left him some years ago by relative,
but he continued to work as porter until his
death.-An old man who died in Jasper,
Tenn, recently, left a large property i'll trust
to be used by the trustees in any manner they
may deem best to suppress the habit prevalent
among men of eating with knives when forks
should be used. The deceased says he had
always felt the disadvantages of early training
in that respect. He was in the habit of re-
proving everybody at hotels or elsewhere he
saw using knives for eating, and was mono
manic on the subject.-Jacob Sharp en-
y
Pa, received information on Saturday last that
by the death of Benjamin Sharp, of Philadel-
phia, a relative he had fallen heir to a fortune
of $780, 000.-Mrs. Sarah Van Rensselaer,
Greene died in Chicago Oh Thursday last. She
was niece of Gen. Peter Rensselaer,. Revo-
lutonary patriot. and her husband was cousin
of Gen. Nathaniel Greene.-Gov. Rusk, of
Wisconsin, has pardoned two sisters from the
State prison, who nine months ago perured
themselves to secure the acquittal of their
brother, James Kirby, a notorious craftsman.
Weston finished his $500 mile walk in
Chicago Saturday night last, beating O'Leary,
who collapsed from the toofree use Of stimu-
lants, after making 1929 miles Weston had
been walking 81 days, and averaged 46 1854
miles per day.-Leonard Wood, aged So years,
of the firm of Hallett & Wood, Bridgeport,
Conn, and an ardent temperance worker and
leading church member, hanged himself on
Saturday last. He was to have introduced ex-
Gov. st. John at lecture the same evening.
The Berks County Agricultural Society, at
meeting at Reading, Pa, Saturday last,
adopted resolutions declaring that immediate
steps should be taken to stamp out pleuro pneu-
monia in Lancaster and other adjoining Coun
ties, and calling upon Congress to appropriate
100000 to reimburse farmers in different States
for cattle slaughtered in efforts to eradicate the
disease.