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THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General, Boiled Down, Worked Over and Furnished Up Fresh.
The strike of the pork butchers in Lim- erick throws 3,000 men into idleness.
Heavy rains in Naples have been fol- lowed by a notable decrease in the number of cholera cases.
A dynamite cartridge has been found at Leeds, Eng., in a petroleum cask which came from America.
Dr. S. K. Jackson, of Norfolk, has been elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia for the ensuing year.
The Czar has pardoned forty-two Nihilist sentenced to Siberia, and has commuted the sentence of seventy-three others.
Joseph Harvey Wilson, the most noted lawyer in Western North Carolina, died in Charlotte, Sunday, aged 74 years.
It is reported that the Chinese have no intention of blockading the Woo-Sung River unless the French make an attack.
It is reported that five inches of snow fell at Spring Hill, Cumberland County, N. S., Sunday. There was also two inches of snow at Truro.
Hon. John E. Neff, formerly secretary of State of Indiana, died last night in Winches- ter, Ind. He was one of the most prominent men in the State.
At Brighton Beach yesterday the win- ners were Riplette, Dan K., Plunger, Rico, Pre- clani and Captain Curry. In the fourth race mutuals paid $307.35.
It is understood the report of the exam- iner of the New Brunswick National Bank shows deposits, $631,000; assets, $571,000; premium bonds, $60,000.
R. A. Dulany, who has been on trial at Floyd, Va., for the murder of Officer Dehart, was yesterday convicted and sentenced to 18 years in the penitentiary.
The Bedford County Bank, at Everett, Pa., has been obliged to suspend because of losses sustained in the failure of the Kemble Coal & Iron Company, of Riddlesburg.
The bridge over the Schuylkill River at Pottstown, Pa., was burned at an early hour Sunday morning. It was a wooden structure 475 feet long, and was insured for $5,000.
L. P. Herbert, accountant of La Banqua de St. Hyacinthe, at Montreal, has absconded to the United States. He is $40,000 short in his accounts. He is also charged with forg- ery.
Beacon Lodge, No. 15, I. O. O. F., cale- brated their fortieth anniversary at their lodgeroom last night. Nearly all the mem- bers were present and an enjoyable time was had.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-Fel- lows of the World met at Minneapolis, Mino., yesterday. The reports show about 506,000 lodge members and 90,000 encampment mem- bers.
A social gathering of the colored resi- dents of Tennallytown took place yesterday at the residence of Thornton Lewis. Mr. Peterson and the Misses Wilson received the guests.
The Czar and Czarina of Russia, Em- peror Franz Josef of Austria and Emperor William of Germany met at Skiernewic, Po- land, yesterday, and formally embraced one another.
The Republican Convention at Suffolk, Va., yesterday, to nominate a candidate for Congress from that district in opposition to Harry Libby, placed in the field a colored man named James Mitchell, from York County.
Mr. B. H. Warner, the real estate dealer, has begun the erection of a handsome double residence for his own use on Massachusetts avenue and Twenty-first street. The structure will be built of stone and elegantly furnished.
It is stated that the price paid for the fleet of twenty-six vessels sold by the China Merchants' Navigation Company to an Ameri- an company was 5,250,000 taele, equal to $6,500,000, which is below their original ost.
Mr. Eugene F. Reed, of Georgia, a clerk in he Pension Office, and Miss Maggie A. Bayliss, of 220 F street, were married at St. Aloysius Church yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The bride and groom left at 5:30 for a summer trip.
Monsignor Alfred Duquesnay, Bishop of Limoges, is dead. He was born at Rouen in September, 1814. He was for many years the pastor of the Church of Saint Laurent, at Paris, and was advanced to the bishop's rank in 1871.
The messenger boys of the Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company in Buffalo, N. Y., all quit work yesterday, owing to their not having been paid since August 1. Some of the operators claim that they have not been paid since July 1.
N. C. Thompson's bank, at Rockford, Ill., closed yesterday morning. Mr. Thompson posted a notice on the door stating that owing to the stringency in the money market he was unable to meet his obligations. The liabilities are stated to be $500,000.
Among the passengers from Panama who arrived in New York yesterday are Frederick Boyd, Consul-General of Salvador, and family; Samuel Boyd, one of the proprietors of the Panama Star and Herald, and Senor Ricardo Beciva, Colombian Minister to Washington.
Members of the Democratic electoral ticket of New Jersey recently requested Attor- ney-General Stockton's opinion as to the eligi- bility of bank presidents and cashiers to serve on the electoral ticket. The attorney-general has given it as his opinion that such officials are eligible.
Dr. James Dennis Pitts, charged with killing Dr. Littleton Thomas Walter, May 17, 1884, on Tangier Island, Accomac County, Va., was found guilty at Hampton yesterday of murder in the second degree, and his punish- ment was fixed by the jury at 18 years in the penitentiary.
While several members of the party of British scientists in the Rocky Mountains were exploring a railway tunnel below Kicking Horse Lake Friday, four miles of the tunnel collapsed, precipitating an immense mass of rock in the midst of the party, two of whom were slightly injured.
C. R. Milliken, proprietor of the Glen House, Glen House, N. H., yesterday arrested F. E. Smith, of Belgrade, for stealing over $2,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry from the room of Miss Abbie Knight, of Washing- ton. The valuables were found on his person, and he pleaded guilty.
The Western North Carolina Railway ex- tension, from Salisbury to Paint Rock and from Asheville to the mouth of the Nautahala River, nearly 200 miles, has been completed, and the purchase money of $600,000 paid into the State Treasury by the Richmond & West Point Terminal Company, to which the deed will be shortly delivered.
The Evening Bulletin, the oldest afternoon paper in Philadelphia, reduced its price yes- terday from three to two cents. Mr. Wharton Barker, representing the American Company, has purchased the Philadelphia Chronicle Herald, which will hereafter be Republican and favor a strong protective tariff. The American Company will also control the Sun- day Mercury.
Rev. Stephen P. Hill, D. D., one of the oldest residents of the city, and brother-in- law of Mr. W. W. Corcoran, died suddenly of heart disease at his residence yesterday, in the 79th year of his age. Deceased in former years was a well known divine, but of late years did not appear in public often. His funeral will take place at the Thirteenth Street Baptist Church, at 3:30 o'clock to-mor- row afternoon.
George Latham, editor of the Statesville N.C.) American, was found dead in his room Saturday morning. He had been drinking hard. He left the following note to a man who roomed next to him: "My kindest regards to you. You are the only gentleman in States- ville. All the others may go to hell." He then drank a quantity of laudanum. Latnam was formerly a Democrat, and when he went over to the Republicans he was repudiated by his family.
Charles W. Rouse was acquitted by Judge Phelps in the Criminal Court of Balti- more yesterday of the charge of abducting Mary Robinson, 16 years old, from her home and going on a trip to Philadelphia as a mar- ried pair. The testimony of the girl was that house threatened if she did not go with him.
