The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-12-19
THE NEWS.
KILOGRAMS CONDENSED.

TELEGRANS CONDENSED.
The Queen Of England is indisposed.
The Princess Alice is dead. Diphthena
Terrible foods in New Jersey and New
American Electrical Society meet, al
Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas meets in
Houston, Tex.
New discoveries of rich lie I'd veins, al
Leadville. Col.
"A terrible rain storm in the State Of
Massachusetts,.
All the places on the Hudson and Della.
ware Inundated.
Family slaughtered by masked brutes
near Waco. Tex.
heene. the great speculator, bulling the
Chicago market heavily.
Rufus Norris and Joe Low, fight with
Knives at Keokuk, Iowa
Investigation of the Cunningham whisky
case resumed in Peoria, III.
Two supposed murdcrers burnt at the
stake in Custer county, Col.
Freddy Rowder. a deaf and dumb boy,
drowned at Jacksonville, Ill
Mamie Love:t, a Carrollton, ILL.,, belle,
elopes with travelling agent.
John Jackson, of Mansfield, Ohio, dies
from eating trichinsted pork.
King Humbert has accepted the resig-
nation Of the Italian Ministry.
Moses Bloom, a prominent Chicago
Board OF Trade man, goes broke.
Mike Cain, Of Champaign, ILL.,, run over
and mutilated by = railroad train.
Hon. John C. Lindley nearly burned to
death by coal oil lamp explosion.
Matters in Braethitt county are reported
% be in worse condition than ever.
Indictment found against VIM. B.
Wolfe, Of Vincennes, Ind, for murder.
The Ohio State Grange menorialized
Congress TO repeal the tax on tobacco.
Robert H. Fewell. Sedalia, Mo-, dies
from the effects Of slung-shot wounds.
Edward Elliot, a prominent banker OF
Jacksonville, Ill, falls dead in his barn.
Government troops arrive at Hot Springs,
Ark garrison TO be established there.
Julia Corbin, young married lady Of
Leroy, Mich, hangs herself in the woods.
Notcanof, Panslavist agitator and Rus
sian State Counselor, expelled from Austria.
A deputation Of the Homeopathic Fever
Commission arrive At Memphis to investigate.
Winter camps for =, 900 men are being
prepared on the Southern frontier of Austria.
The Chamber of Deputies at Versailles
has iuvalidated the election of Duke Decazes.
Charges have been made against thirty
i've Of the jersey City police for neglect of
duty.
Prisoners break Jail at Brambridge,
Ga, and kill John McGoughey, . respectable
citizen.
Another Chicago provision operator gone
John Pattie, Of Madison. Ind, bankrupt for
$65.0O0.
A decrease of So per cent. in Tennes-
aee assessments is shown for 1878, compared
with 1877.
J. w. Ran, claiming to represent the
St. Louis Undcrwriters' Agency in trouble at
Memphis.
Chinese Minister Ithung, at Frisco, with
suite of sixteen persons, to sail for Russia
next month.
The President has recognized Joseph
Francisco de Zamacona as Consul of Mexico
TO New Orleans.
Murphy's success in New York has thus
far resulted in 10000 signatures to the tenn
perance pledge.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
passed. into the hands of the Atchison Topeka
4 Santa Fe Road.
Some thirty marine insurance compan-
les have perfected = scheme for pooling their
business next year.
Secretary Sherman appoints VIM.
stretcher Chief of the Loan Division of the
Treasury Department.
The Atlantic d Pacific Telegraph Com
psny declare dividend of three-quarters per
oent for three months.
Barber shops and cigar stands, drug
stores and saloons in Evansville, Ind, must
shut mp shop on the Sabbath day.
Mrs. Pirens, of New York, has been ar
rested for exhibiting her baby, months old
and fifteen inches long. in the Bowery Museum.
A meeting Of capitalists, was held at
Cleveland. for the purpose of devising means
for the improvement Of the harbor at Duluth.
The Executive Committee of the Honest
Money League meet in Chicago and decide to
extend the work of the league to all the States.
P. f. Rice Furguson. route agent of
the New York Post Office Department. was ar
rested for tampering with the mails. A large
number Of opened letters were found in his
house.
The Countess of Landsfeldt, daughter
Of Lola Monies and Louise l.. of Bavaris, is in
Chicago. and booked for lecture on "Woman's
Work"
Arrangements have been made at Sgd
ney, Australia, for an international scull race
providing Hanlon, Courtney, Higgins and Boyd
will enter.
The impression prevails in Washington
that there will be no change made during this
session of Congress in laws regarding tobacco
and cigars.
Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong
ssnd an address 20 the Queen Of England, ex-
pressing admiration for and confidence in
Gov. Hennesy.
The Minnesota vote on the proposition
for the recovery and destruction # old railway
bonds resulted in 1881 votes for and IS. 1868
against the proposition.
The Trenton. n. j., Court has confirm
ID the Judgment of the Camden Court in the
case of Ben Hunter, sentenced TO be hanged
January 10th for the murder of John Arm
strong.
The amount of grain shipped by lake
from Toledo. O., during the season Just closed
was: -four. 225 100 barrels: wheat 10000
bushels; corn, 6.5o0,000 bushels; oat~, 100000
bushels.
Rev. James Stephenson. OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. Cincinnati. and presid-
ing elder Of the Dayton District has been su.-
pended on charges of immorality and drunk
OpsaA
&LVTH CONGRESS.
On the 10th Mr.. Wallace re-opened the
silver business by introducing bill to author
ise the exchange of subsidiary coin for trade
dollsrs- Mr.. spencer. from the committee on
military sff.irs reported favorably the Senate
bill authorizing the appointment Of DIR. Junius
L. Powell. m assistant surgeon in the United
6sates army. In the explanation Of the bill
be said DR.. Powell had already rendered ser
vices - assistant surgeon but be could not be
regularly appointed because be served in the
Confederate army when . minor. During Q
brief debate on the bill Beck gave notice that
tomorrow he would introduce . bill to repeal
section 1918 of the revised statutes of the Unit