Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-28

especially so as to retain the right of i'm porters to have issues of fact tried by iury. The Manufacturer Record reports that Boston capitalists have bought $500 acres in Lexington county, South Carolina. Profss- for Hitchcock of Dartmouth college says the tract is one great body of kaolin. Large pot tsry works for making white tableware will be erected.
 Senator Paddock yesterday introduced bill for the establishment of bureau of animal industry to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and to provide for the sup. pression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumo- mia and other contagious diseases among do- nestle animals.
 The east bound passenger committee of the Central Traffic association yesterday after noon decided on the same rates in force last summer for excursions to the seaside and White mountains. The only exceptions are slight reduction where the regular rates have been reduced.
 Senator Chandler introduced bill yester- day to authorize the voluntary retirement os naval officers over forty-eight years of age who have served at least twenty-five years and belong to grade whose numbers were reduced by the act of August 5, 1889, limit ing the personnel of the navy.
 The senate in executive session has con- frmed the nomination of James O'Brisn of Minnesota to chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of New Mexico; John H. Kibbey, to be associate justice of the su- preme court of Arizona, and Alfred D. Thomas, to be district judge of North Da- kota.
 Inspector Byrnes yesterday arrested Pat- rick J. Hanley, an escaped convict from the house of correction in Salem, Mass. Hnnley escaped from the prison in April, 1887, with four other prisoners. He took $2O0 and silver watch from the warden's office when he left. Hanley is the third of the quartette to be captured.
 of the Vokes company, assisted ''The Stroll ers" in the first production of ''The Hit," comedy by MT. J. A. Abbott jr., in Union hah, Boston. The audience was composed of the 'four hundred of Boston" and nearly every professional actor in the city. The play was well received.
 The executive committee of the Lincoln league of New Hampshire has appointed as delegates to the National Republican club convention at Nashville, Tenn., March 4, Governor Goodell, ex. Governor Cheney, Senators Blair and Chandler, Congressman Mutt and Moore, General Henry M. Baker and General Joab N. Patterson.
 Sectretary Proctor has referred the pro- posed proclamation granting amnesty to de. serters from the United States army now at large to the accounting officers of the treas- ury, to obtain their opinion whether there is anything in it that might afford an oppor- tuuity to these men to make valid claims on the United States for back pay or allow ances.
 John Maher, aged sixty, a supposed inmate of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Aged, at Providence, R. l., while walking on the tracks between Providence and Paw train and was hit by a freight near Corliss crossing. His shoulder was fractured and his arm broken. He was taken to the Rhode Island hospital and died of his in- juries.
 Reuben G. Mason, better known as Dr. Frank c. Algerton vas arrested in Boston clairvoyant and spiritualist,i is alleged to have obtained some 2,0OO in money and 5000 in notes from Amaxah Mayo, a wealthy re- sloout UT OpIlDSuelu1 Mhss Dy mehus which are not definitely given out by the police. MT. Mayo swore out the warrant in Springfield.
 Thomas F. Birmingham, aged twenty one, and married, was fatally injured in his brothers factory at Peabody, Mass, yes- terday afternoon. His clothing caught on 8 set screw in the end of revolving shaft and he WAS whirled around against the floor and eo, rrko nnA lac crushed, the other broken, his left arm was broken in two places and he received severe injuries to his head and back. He died at the Salem hospital.