The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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1t was reported In Cincinnati on
the 29th ult. that a contractor named
Dlnsmore, from Washington, entered a
''sportlng house" in the former city
early in the morning, and discovered
after he left that he had been robbed OF
$4,000 while in the house.
The Trustees of the Chicago Grant
Monument Fund have accepted a design
for a terrace and monument surmOun-
ted by an equestrian statue. to be erect
ed in Lincoln Park. The principle
feature of the design is a solid terrace
wall, pierced by a massive granite arch
60 feet long. Above this rises the
monument on which the statue is to
stand, the top of the monument being
AZ feet above playground" The struct-
ure is to cost 5 $1,000.
The billiard tournament in New
York resulted on the Both ult. in a
victory for Schaeffer, who beat VignauX
by 1872 points in the total of 5000.
The Secretary of the Navy having
been informed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company that another revo'
luton is threatened on the Isthmus OF
Panama, has directed Rear Admiral
Jouett to remain at Aspinwall with the
Tennessee for the present.
In the U. S. Court at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, on the Both uIt., Judge
Parker, passed sentence of death on
seven men convicted of murder in the
Indian Territory. They are to bt
hanged on April 23d. The trial of the
Chyo Clrynack, Chinese "high-binder,'
for murder, in st. Louis, resulted on
Saturday evening in a virdict of guilty.
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary
of State, died on the 31st ult., in Wash
ington from the effects of the shock
caused by her daughters sudden death
a short time since. This second be
reavement of NJ. Bayard has, it is
said. determined him to resign from
the Cabinet and go abroad for a time,
General n. p. Banks celebrated hi,
SEVENTEEN birthday at Waltham. Mas
sachusetts, on the 31st ult. He re-
ceived a large number of tokens anC
offerings, and was congratulated b.
many friends. The Boston Club en-.
tertained the General at a dinner il
the afternoon.
AT a caucus of the Democratic
members of the U. S. Senate, on the
Both ult., it was UNANIMOUSLY resolved
to support the President in his refusa
to furnish papers and documents con
corning suspensions from Office.
The Governor of Wisconsin has or
dered a special election in the fifth
Congressional District of that State or
February 23d, for the election of a sue
cessor to Joseph Rankin, deceased.
The Supreme Court of the United
States on the LIST reversed the decision
of the Supreme Court of Virginia IN
the tax cases from that State, and de-
clded that the tender of coupons in
payment of taxes is legal.
I'm the New York assembly on the
LIST a bill was ordered to a third reading
giving the consent of the State TO the
acquisition by the United States OF
Mt. McGregor Cottage wherein General
Grant died and ceding jurisdiction oveI
the same. Mr.. Joseph Drexel desires
to give the cottage where Genera.
Grant passed his last hours to the gen.
eral Government as a memorial ito be
kept sacred to the consecrated memoir
les of the great event which took place
within its hallowed walls"
Alexander w. Torrell, of Austin.
Texas, an ex-State Senator. announces
that he will be a candidate for U. S,
Senator to succeed Mr.. Maxey.
The Treasury Department has
authorized the Customs Collector a
New York to allow a box containing
the ashes of a lady who died abroad
and whose body was cremated, to bt
forwarded to Philadelphia without be
ing opened for examination. The re
mains are also to be delivered to the
relatives in Philadelphia without pay
ment of duty. The box in question il
described in the Consular invoice al
containing "samples OF phosphate O
lime"
"A telegram from Little Rock says
~. J.. Waters, the postmaster al
Quincy, a small settlement in Newton
county, has been driven away by hi!
neighbors on account of his manner o
treating persons having business a
that office. AT last accounts Water
and his wife were at Jasper, the county
seat, and his son-in-law and a few
friends were in his house, which wa
besieged, shots being occasionally eX
changed between the parties"
The Lancaster Watch Factory. al
Lancaster, Pa, started on the LIST afte
a suspension of one year. 1t is expect
ed that in a short time the factory viii
employ two hundred hands.
The public debt statement for Jan
uary shows a decrease OF SS,672, 553.
The report that Secretary Bayart
intends to resign is positively contra
dicted by his intimate friends.
The Photographic Office at Wash
ington has received reports of the ex
istence of a dangerous shOal in latitude
Al. O5 north, and longitude So. OF west
directly in the track of t|ranslantit
steamers during a part of the year, anC
a request is made that steamship cap
tains take soundings whenever they ar
passing near the position, in order t.
verify or refute its existence.
Another cold wave has appeared
in the Northwest. Temperatures of 8
to 43 degrees below zero are reported IL
Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba. TIL
Signal Service reported a temperature
of 4 below zero i'll Chicago on the 1st
and on the I'd the temperature was Il
below. At other points in Northern
Illinois, Is to 20 below were recorded
The funeral of Mrs. Bayard tool
place on the I'd at Wilmington, Della
ware. 1t was attended besides th
family, by Secretaries Manning, End
colt. Whitney and Lamar, Postmaste
General Villas, Senators German, Glib
son, Davis, Mcpherson and Gray
Governors Stockley and Morton, ex
Senator Groome, Ex-Governor Hall
| Congressman Blackburn and Lore, ex
Congressman Biggs, Judge Wales, o
the U. S. District Court, the Judges o
the Superior Courts of Delaware, Col
lector Cadwalader, of Philadelphia
several members of the Dlplomati
Corps and many other officials AM
prominent citizens. The services of tn
Episcopal Church were read.
The President on the I'd nominate'
Samuel Thompson Corn, of Illinois, t
no ASsociata .Iustipa for Wyoming