The Republican journal., 1888-12-20


the Wing and Courier
IN BRIEF. A public reception was Given TO
the Vice Presilent-elec and Mrs. Morton at
indianapolis last Friday night. General and
Mrs. Harrison took part and received with The
honored guests. 1t is estimated that 10000
people passed through the hail whore the re-
ccption was heidi. General Harrison declines
positively TO affirm or deny the report concerto
inc Mr.. Blaine and the charlottesville Amer
lean base ball players arrived al sydney. Y. :.
w.. Friday. They will play three game> in
that city. and will then proceed to Melbourne
......!lon. William Wilson died at his home in
llalloweli at q a. NJ, Saturday. after Il brief
Illness OF ten days, aged >eVentf-one yeare.
lie was a large owner in the IIa0weii Granite
Company Mike Burns, of imported liquor
fame, has not been seen in Augusta for many
days. 1t j. reported that be j. living in Boston
for the purpose Of obtaining IA residence so he
can carry his case which is row in the law
court. into the [ nited States court if AN adj
verse decision j. glNen.....Ihe new law pre-
scribing electricity the method by which
criminals must be put to death, goes into effect
in New York Jan. l. One of the provisions of
the law enacts that the newspapers must not
publish details Of the executions. but the news
papers will get there lust the eame..... The
family of Mr.. X. i. Cation, of IialIowell, con-
>sting of his wife and two children, were as
phyXiated by coal ga> escaping from stove.
they Were nsen>ihle. but it was thought they
will recover. Mr.. Cation is in New Hampshire
......A Kingston. Jamaica. special to the New
FORK Herald has it the lIaytian government.
afraid to fight, and equally afraid of the effect
of delivering the seized steamer, llaytian Re
public, at the demand of foreign mel!-of-war
have hired "A crew which has already gone Oh
the Atlas line steamer Alene. and Will send the
seized vessel home before the nitcti states
ships reach Port au Priuce.....The bill post
poning the payment of the Panama Canal Com
pany'> liabilities has been rejected h1 the
French Chamber of Deputies by 2G2 TO !SS.....
The latest news from West Virginia is unf,-
vorahle. The indications are that the Govern
or VIII disregard the face OF the returns and
issue certificate, to the four Democratic canAi-
dates for Congress, three of whom were not
elected......ln the Investigations to be made re-
garding outrage> in Alaska, Capt. J. II. Moul-
ton. of Bowdoinhan, Me-, Il former govern
ment agent at the Seal Islands. will be called to
testlfv..... Congress will probably soon have an
opportunity to discuss the high license ques-
ton. 1t is before the Senate District commit
| tee in Il bill to apply to the city of Was hngton
d. c. 1t has one opponent in the committee
in the person of Senator Ridllcbcrger....Mrs
Timothy Merrick, late of Nas>ar College.
where she was better known As Prof. Priscilla
ii. Braslin. died at IIolyoke on Sat,lrlay.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of opium
Smugg!ed from Canada into Port Huron.
Mich, was seized Saturday ".... Robbers secur-
ed $4,000 and killed one man on an Iilinoi,
Central train near Grenada, Miss, Sunday..
Ten thousand people saw the first game of
American base ball in sydney, New South
WaleS.......lt Is reported that Governor Mar
BILE will nominate a successor TO Bank Exam
Iner richards whose name will be presented to
the Council at the next session which will be
Dec. 26.....A. +. Wheeler a well known bGSi-
ness man of Winthrop, died Friday night after
brief illness, aged 40......Dr. James Scott
ant nr # no L.. /
home at Lebanon. Ohio, Sunday. aged b.
Monday was the Sl>t anniversary of John g.
Winters birthday ....Refugees are returning
to Florida by thousands. president has
sent to the Senate the nomination of Lyman 5.
Strickland, of Maine. to be collector for the
district of Aroo>toOk..." The irrepressible con-
tlict, between the whites and blacks of the
South has broken out this time in the small
town of Wahalak, Miss The facts AS far as
they can be ascertaned are as follows:
negro and white man became engaged in a
quarrel and the negro was killed. This was
the excuse for general assault. and imlned-
ately black horde swept down upon the
whites, who were greatly Outnumbered.
knowing that it was fight to the death they
prepared to receive the black assaants. and
when the battle was ended it was found that
II white men and over 80 negroes had been
led......Nathaniel j. Bradlee died suddenly
Monday morning, on a train en- route from
Boston to keene, n. II. He was one of the
prominent men of Boston. and a director of
the Maine Central railroad.....It is reported
that Charles II. Litchman will be appointed
Commissioner of Labor by President Ceve-
land.....Gentiles in Utah. both Republicans and
Democrats, are opposed to the Mormon State
hood scheme recently Endorsed by a Democrat
ic Congressional President Cleye-
land has nominated man for District Attor-
ney of Indiana who is not likely to be confirm
ed. 1t is Leon o. Bailey, the slanderer and
traducer of Gen. Harrison.
WASHINGTON WHIsPERINGs. The bill to
refund certain direct taxes assessed during the
war was passed by the House Dec. II bya vote
of 1lS to 96....In the Senate Mr.. Stewart in
PRODUCED bill providing for pneumatic torpedo
throwers for the purpose of defence in certain
harbOrs, among which is that of Portand....
The Union Pacific Funding bill has been laid
aside until the Tariff bill is disposed Of by the
Senate.....The House Democratic caucus Thurs
day night, after a session lasting over three
hours, adopted resolution for the admission
into the Union of Dakota, either as one or two
States as the people of Dakota shall decide,
and for the admission as States of Washington,
Montana, New Mexico and Utah......The Senate
has confirmed Perry Belmont's nomination as
minister to Spain......Louis Aldrich and other
actors are IN Washington endeavoring to pre-
vent the importation of foreign actors and