Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-12-08

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he had grown. This experiment OF
Mr.. Shepard's 10 considered OF great
| Importance. as it shows that fine
tea can be raised in the United
i States.
Monday, December 5, 1892.
The baltimore University School
of Medicine has established train
ing school for nurses.
The jury in the case Of Vim.
Preston Tyler, indicted for the
murder of VIM. Shaw in Caroline
county, rendered q verdict of equity
OF murder in the second degree"
Paul Jordan died at the county
infrmary, Findlay, Ohio. He de-
clared that he was an illegitimate
son Of Napoleon Bonaparte, and
that he was born in Paris in 1856.
| William r. Clark, a well-known
resident Of Camden, n. j., was ar
rested on u charge of criminal as
sanlt on his own daughter, aged
sixteen years.
| James Morris and Mrs. Phoebe
Simpson were married OH Thursday
evening at Freeport, l.. /. The
groom il over eighty and the bride
il over seventy. Mr.. Morris has
had three wives.
The trial by court-martial of the
persons concerned i'm the cholera
riots in Saratofg, Russia, in July
last, resulted in twenty three of the
prisoners being sentenced to be
hanged and fifty six to be imprison-
ed in Siberia.
Rufus 4. Hawks, an employe i'm
the mill of Hawks Brothers, East
Holland, N. Y, put his foot against
a circular saw to stop it at closing
time. He slipped and fell on the
revolving saw face downward. His
recovery is doubtful.
| The almost entire failure of the
fisheries along the western coast OF
Nova Scotia has even thus early in
the winter occasioned q great deal
of restitution. When the fish
struck in there was no bait, and
when the bait arrived the fish had
gone.
The Elm Park Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Scranton, Pa, which
was just being completed at a cost
of 100000, was Quilted by fire.
The church walls were of native
stone and they are still standing,
but the interior was totally con-
sumed.
Tuesday, December 6, 1892.
1t is thought the Wales case will
not be decided until early in Jan
uary.
Mr.. l.. Clarke Davis, Mr.. Cleve-
lands companion at Hog Island,
says Mr.. Cleveland's mind is open
to conviction on the extra session
question.
| Mr.. Snowden Hill will diminish
the force of gaugers in the office of
collector of internal revenue.
A petition for the pardon of Ste
venson Archer is being numerously
signed in Prince Georges county.
Cardinal Gibbons and large
number of priests are at the st.
Clements College, Leicester. Holy
orders will be conferred on num-
Der of candidates.
There is q famine in Khiangmai,
Burmah. The American mission
aries are feeding the starving PEG.
pie. The Siamese government is
doing nothing to relieve the dis
tress.
Gen. Joseph b. Seth, of Mary
land, has written q letter to Cover
nor Mckinney, of Virginia, sug-
costing temporary marking of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oyster boundary.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
thinks there is imminent danger of
cholera in this country next year,
and that nothing less than complete
exclusion of immigrants for at least
one year will keep off the scourge.
The second session of the Fifty
second Congress convened at noon
yesterday. Seventy Senators and
two hundred and twenty-four Re-
representatives. responded to roll call.
Committees appointed from both
houses to wait on the President re-
ported that he would send in a
message to Congress today. In the
House several bills were introduced
bearing on the federal election laws.
The death of Representative Z. G.
Mcdonald, of New Jersey, was
announced.