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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD WASHINGTON, June 19 - Gen. Jno.[Jonathan] A. Sutter, the discoverer of gold in California, died here yesterday. He had been sick about a week with inflammation of the kidneys. His aged widow resides at Letis [Lititz], Lancaster Co., Pa. [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania] to which place the remains will be taken for interment. MEMPHIS, June 19 - A great fire at Starkville, Miss., yesterday, destroyed half the town. CHICAGO, June 19 - Passengers coming in from Minnesota and Dakota represent the whole country literally under water, and the damage to crops and other property incalculable. The rains of last week and the swelling of the streams were the cause. Nothing like it has ever been known. NEW YORK, June 19 - The quantity of grain shipped from this port during the last 24 hours was probably the largest ever recorded during the same length of time. Of wheat, 697,000 bushels were shipped, and of corn 365,000 bushels, making a total of over 1,000,000 bushels. The visible supply of wheat has decreased during the week fully 16,000,000 bushels. CHICAGO, June 19 - The Journal says: "The report published a day or two ago that a republican meeting called to ratify the nominations of the Chicago convention at Montgomery was forcibly broken up by a democratic mob is fully confirmed. Rotten eggs and pistols were the chief armaments used by these ‘chivalric' friends of the free speech. Thus opens the campaign in the solid south." The Daily News' Cincinnati special says: I have the very best authority for saying that Tilden has withdrawn from the presidential contest. A letter from him to that effect will be read at a meeting of the New York delegation in Cincinnati, to night [tonight]. Tilden will state that he withdraws on account of infirm health. His purpose has been confided to a few intimate friends, and is subject to change. Henry B. Payne is his candidate for president, and will be supported by most of his friends, who have been held together by the prospect that he would himself be a candidate to the last. CINCINNATI, June 21 - The hot weather has not had the effect of lessening the ardor of the friends of the candidates, and the streets have presented an animated appearance since 11 o'clock. The Americus and Randall clubs of Philadelphia paraded the streets with music and banners, and were soon after followed by the Hendricks club of Indiana. The chief topic of conversation is the letter of Tilden declining the use of his name again for the presidency. While some were disposed to read in the close of the letter his willingness to serve the party, the majority of the leaders looked upon it as a final declination. Hon. Sam. J. Randall and Hon. Henry Watterson took this view. HARTFORD, June 21 - John and Henry Fleichman (?) of Cornwall were fatally shot on Saturday night by unknown persons while returning home. Wm. [William] Burke killed Pat Harris, last night, then brained his wife; all are colored. Burke was arrested. ST. JOHNS, N.B. [New Brunswick], June 21 - Forest fires are doing immense damage; many villages are threatened; work has stopped in several places and the inhabitants are out fighting the flames. LONDON, June 21 - Gen. [General] Cialdini has been appointed Italian minister to France. Two members of parliament from Canterbury, have been unseated. The Gulpare (?), Capt. [Captain] Hawgate's Arctic expedition [unreadable] reformation society protest against the appointment of the Marquis of Ripon, as Viceroy of India. NEW YORK, June 21 - Carrie, who killed the actor Porter, has been acquitted by the jury at Marshall, Tex. [Texas]. Chauncy Bason, a miner, was shot and mortally wounded on the 17th, at Jack City, by an unknown Swede. WASHINGTON, June 21 - Rosedale & Co.'s furniture factory, Fourth Frederic Street, Baltimore, burned on Saturday, with a loss of $200,000. Gordon Moore killed Benjamin, a respected colored preacher of Marion county, Ohio, for criminal intimacy of Benjamin with the former's wife. |
