The Daily State Journal

BY
TELEGRAPH
FROM WASHINGTON CITY
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS
DEATH OF MRS. GRANT'S FATHER
THE
BOSTON
TEA-PARTY
THE CALIFORNIA SENATORSHIPS
LATEST FROM EUROPE
HURRICANE IN ENGLAND
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
MANY LIVES LOST
FRANCE AND
SPAIN

WASHINGTON.
Death of the President's Father-in-Law
WASHINGTON, December 16.—Colonel
Frederick Dent, the father of Mrs. Grant,
died at midnight last night. He was 88
years of age.

Colonel Dent has resided for a long time
at the White House as the guest of his
daughter. He never abandoned his Democracy,
and his somewhat forcible denunciations
of the prevailing action in its highest
places, has been one of the features of
the Executive mansion. His death was
quite sudden. He ate his breakfast and
smoked his cigar yesterday morning.

His daughter, Mrs. Casey, is quite ill at
Philadelphia, and an unfavorable effect from
the sad news is apprehended.

Congressional.
WASHINGTON, December 16.—The
House is discussing the bill for the repeal
of the bankrupt law.

Senate,—Unimportant. Mr. Morton's
resolution seating Pinchback is now up.
Mr. Stockton is speaking. No early result
expected.

Mr. Morton's resolution is that the
credentials of Pinchback for a seat in the
Senate for six years, commencing the
fourth of March, 1875, being in regular
form, he is entitled under the law and
usages of the Senate to be sworn in, and
that whatever grounds of contest there are
to his rights, they should be made thereafter.

NEW YORK.
Financial
New York, December 16.—Stocks
active and irregular. Money 7 bid. Gold
112.
Exchange, long 9; short 10.
Governments strong. States strong.

Marine,
New York, December 16.—Arrived,
City of Galveston, Crescent City, Holland.
Arrived out, Gaelic, Oceanic, Abyssinia.
Olympia.

CALIFORNIA.
The Senatorships.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.—The
Democratic caucus nominates J. P. Farley
for the long and Judge Hoger for the
short term.
Both are claimed as anti-
railroad men.

MASSACHUSETTS.
The Great Boston Tea-Party—Anniversary
of 'One Hundred Years Ago.'
BOSTON, December 16.—The New England
Woman's Tea-party celebrated the
one hundredth anniversary of throwing the
tea into the Boston harbor yesterday afternoon,
in Faneuil Hall. About 5,000 persons
were present. Colonel T. W. Higgins
presided. Wendell Phillips made an
opening address, giving an historical account
of the destruction of tea in the Boston
harbor; other addresses suitable to
the occasion were delivered.

The meeting adjourned after adopting a
resolution recommending that measures be
taken to defeat Mr. Frelinghuysen's Utah
bill.