The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-11-14

their children. The general prevalence of th,
| blessings of health throughout our wide LAND
has made more conspicuous the suffering anC
| sorrows which the dark shadow of pestilencs
has cast upon portion of our people. Thu
heavy affiictin even the Divine Ruler hai
tempered to the suffering communities; and
universal sympathy and succor have followed
| to their relief, and the whole nation may re-
jOice in the unity of spirit in our people by
! which they cheerfully share anOthers bur
dens.
Now, therefore, l, Rutherford B. Hayes
President of the United States, do appoint
Thursday, the 18th day of November next. q,
day of national thanksgiving and prayer
and earnestly recommend that, Withdrawing
themselves from the secular cares and labors
the people of the United States do meet to-
gether on that day in their respective places OF
worship, there to give thanks and praise II
Almighty God for His mercies and to devOutly
beseech their continuance.
In witness thereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal ofthe United States t.
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this SOtl
day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
and the independence of the United States thu
one hundred and third. II. B. HAYES.
By the President:
WM. n. EvARTs Secretary of State.
QUIErING DOWN.
The secretary of the interior has receiv.
ed from Governor Lew Wallace, of New Mexi
co, letter informing him that since the pub
LEGATION of the Presidents proclamation the
lawlessness existing in the Territory on the
Governors arrival had almost entirely subsid.
ed, and that he has every reason to believe nc
further trouble need be anticipated.
TOO HONEST TO LIVE.
The stockholders of the New York SUI
gar refinery have decided to retire from buf;-
ness and sell the refinery. The refinery had
been run until all its surplus was exhausted
when finding it was a losing enterprise while
others, by a secret process, were making mon
ct, il was deemed advisable to quit business
and sell out the property.
ANOTHER EXPOSITION
A meeting has been called at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. in New York, to consider the
holding of an international exhibition in New
York in 1880, the centennial year of COnstitu-
tiOnal Government in the United States. The
call has been signed by a number New York's
prominent merchants bankers and manufac-
turers.
GOOD PAY.
The first Comptroller of the Treasury
has issued a circular promulgating the recent
opinion of the Attorney General to the effect
that United States Marshals are entitled to
mileage on each writ served, even though sew
eral may be served at the same time, provid-
ing they are not against one individual.
BLAZER DEAD.
Captain Richard Blazer, who during
the war was leader of the famous Blazers
Scouts" which met and vanquished Mosby' 9
at Gallipolis, Ohio. He had exposed himself
while attending his brothers family in the
infected district.
LET THE IDEA SHOOT.
Capt. Pritt. of the regular army, detail
ed for the work, has taken forty-seven Indian
children. gathered from the agencies up the
river, to Hampton. Va, where the children W Ii
be placed at school at the governments ex-
pense. The children average about fifteen
years of age.
FIVE PER CENT,
The offer of the Messrs. A. F. and +. ?.
Boas. of the late Reading Saving Bank, to pay
ffty-five per cent. having been accepted by the
creditors and approved by the United States
Court in bankruptcy, the payment Of the first
dividend Of five per cent. will be commenced.
VAIL RESIGNS.
Theodore NJ. Vail. general superintend-
ent of the railway mail service, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect upon the ap-
pointment of his successor. W. B. Thompson.
of Toledo. is named at the pOstoifice depart
ment as the probable successor.
WILL APPEAL.
1t is stated that number of cigar man.
ufacturers will appeal to the Supreme Court
of the United States from the decision OF
Judge Bond. recently delivered in Baltimore,
prohibiting the sale and manufacture of cigars
at retail in the same department.
MEXICAN REFORM.
The Secretary of War has notified the
Secretary of State that Mexican residents of
Santa Rosa had demanded of the American
denying the completely of the Mexicans
with the late Indian raids in that section.
WILL CLOSE.
4 special dispatch says an unpleasant
rumor is afioat that the jefferson Nail Works
at Steubenvilie, Ohio. the largest manufactur-
ing establishment in that region, giving en-
ployment to 200 hands. is about to suspend
operations, at least for the winter.
RAILROAD SOLD.
The indianapolis, Bloomington and
Western railroad sold at Bloomington ILL.,. un-
der decree of the United States Court to q
committee of bondholders for one million dol
lars.
QUARTER CENTURY.
Bishop l.aughlin. of Long Island, cele-
brated. by a grand mass of thanksgiving in St.
James Cathedral. Brooklyn. the twenty fifth
anniversary of his conservation to the Episco-
pacy.
NOT GULLY.
X. c. Spaulding. of San Francisco. an
Ex-Navy Pay Inspector. has been tried for ut
tering false navy pay certificates and found
not guilty.
CoLoRED roLIcE.
The police department of Memphis has
been recognized. Eleven colored pafrolmen
were appointed to serve regularly on the
force"
SICK GOVERNOR.
Ex-Governor Shepherd. of Washington.
is quite i'll with pneumonia. though his symp-
toms are not regarded as dangerous.
KNOX KNOCKED.
Charles Knox. the New York halter, has
made an assignment His liabilities are stated
to be S2OoO00; assets not known.
THE INTERIOR
Secretary Shurz has returned to Wash
ingtou and resumed his official occupations at
the Interior Department.
CLYNER-
Hester Clymer. Democrat. is. reelected
to Congress by over 5000 majority.
COMMERCIAL.
WEEKLY GRAIN REyIEw.
We are indebted to Messrs. Lynde,
Wright 4 Co. of Kansas City, for the following
reliable review of the grain trade.
Whca;-The general depression in English
grain markets that followed the late CONNER
ciAl failures throughout the United Kingdom
has, in . great measure, given place TO . more
hopeful feeling and values once more are be-
ginning to rule in favor of the producer. Car
goes off the English coast are readily taken for
French account, and late cables report higher
quotations
As we have previously noted. preference is
given our winter wheat and lover erades of