Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1879-05-29


british, was killed in an engagement with his
rother's troops.
ENGLISH RULERS IN AFRICA.
General Sir Garnet Wolsley has been
ppointcd supreme military and civil COM
landcr of the Natal Transvaal and certain !
ther districts that ndj0in, and are included |
n the seat of war, it having been deemed wise !
n the present emergency to divide the Cape |
4 Good Hope governments into four dis |
ticts. Sir Bartlc Frcrc remains as goyernorof |
APE Colony,
THE CHINESE ENVOY.
The Chinese ENJOYS have been received |
~ the King of Spain, and negotiations for
reaty relative to the importation of coolies
ntO Cuba commence this week. The Spanish
government insists upon the coolies paying
heir own passages, and requires the Chinese
o agree never to employ foreigners as consular
'r diplomatic representatives in Spanish do
niniOns
MOUNT ETNA.
The volcano Of Mount Etna is in full
Eruption. Three new craters have appeared
near the town of RandazzO, at the northeast
foot of tho Mountain. Streams of lava are
lowing down the western slope. Several vii
lagos are threatened with destruction, and
there is great alarm among the inhabitants.
SUSPICIOUS.
Two suspected parties were arrested at
Keif on the 26th. Among their effects the
police found bomb-cascs, several bottles of
chemical explosives, four revolvers, two
p0inards and several forged passes,
MISCELLANEOUS.
HOME MISSIONS.
Tie Womcn's Home Mission society
held u long session at Saratoga on the 30th to
consider the question of union with the society
in Boston, and to have head quarters in New
York. Resolutions were adopted to the effect
that the executive board be and is hereby au-
thOrized and instructed to transfer their
works, assets and papers to the new Women's
Home Mission authorized by the American
Baptist Home Mission society to be formed
under the auspices of its board whenever in
the judgement of said executive board such
new women's society shall have been organ
lied according to the true spirit and intent of
the action of the American Baptist Home
Mission society.
EDITORIAL EXCURSION.
The members of the Missouri State Press
Association passed through st. Louis on the
29th from Columbia Mo-, where the annual
convention of the association has lust been
held and with their sisters, and their cousins
and their aunts, numbering altogether some
$50, left on an excursion to Put-in-Bav, via
Toledo & Wabash, fine train having been fur
nished by that road.
AN EDITORIAL SPREE.
Over 100 members of the Missouri State
press association left Columbia on the GOTH
where the annual convention of the association
has just been held, and with their sisters, and
their cousins and their aunts, numbering some
200 made up an excursion to Putin. Bay by a
hne train furnished them by the managers of
the Toledo and Wabash road.
THE REEL on TnE ARKANSAS.
The steamer Cherokee or None Such ar-
rived on the 2ith at Fort smith, Ark, from Ar.
kansas City, Kan. with a full cargo of wheat
She reports the Arkansas river above, low but
navigable for small boats. Twenty thousand
bushels of wheat will come down from Arkan-
sas City during the June rise.
TnDEN's INCOME TAX.
In the clerks Office of the U. S. circuit
court on the Goth, the United States district
attorney filed his bill of discovery in the case
of the United States against Samuel J. Tilden
to recover for alleged deficiencies in his in.
come tax. The bill will facilitate matters
and make an early trial possible.
MASONIC CORNER STONE AT NEWTON
The corner stone of the first Masonic
Temple in the Arkansas Valley and the second
in the State was laid on the 26th at Newton. A
large delegation from Wichita, Hutchinson,
and other points were present. A grand re-
ception was given in the opera house in the
evening.
COINAGE.
The coinage executed at the United
States mint during May; gold, number of
pieces, 39,400; value, S7S9,SG0. Silver, num-
bcr of pieces, 100000: value, sl,300,OOD,
Base number of pieces, 455GO0; value. 5i,7Os:
total number of pieces, 1880 900; value, 81.
O9i ,jOS.
SILVER IN ARKANSAS.
1t is reported that rich ore has been dis.
covered in Montgomery county near Hot
Springs, Arkansas. Though no true fssurc has
been reached stamping mill is ordered and
IN its way. large number of claims arc
'taked off, and there is heavy rush to the re-
sion.
COINAGE.
The coinage executed at the United
States mint during May; gold, number of
pieces, 39,490; value, S7S9,S00. Silver, num-
Der of pieces, 800 900; value, 81, 100000. Base
number of pieces, 455 1900; value, si7O8; total
number of pieces, l7,050,90O; value S2,O9i.-
jOS.
REFUSSING CERTIFICATES.
The Treasurer of the United States has
decided that four per cent. refunding certif-
Gates may be deducted by the national banks
in making up their somi.annual return of
average capital subject to duty, the same as
the law authorizes in case Of U. s. bonds.
DISCOURSE FOR ExoDEs
At Topeka on tine 26th, Rev. Joseph
Cook, Of Boston, spoke before an audience of
1000 in the city park. His subject was "the
chief cause of the negro exOdes.n Governor
st. John presided over the meeting Mr.. Cook
gave him Sl00 for the Freedmans society.
NEW MASONIC TEMPLE.
At Newton on the 2Gth the corner stone
vas laid for the first masonic temple in the
Arkansas Valley and the second in the State.
delegation from Wichita, Hutchinson, and
)ther places were present. A grand reception
vas given in the evening at the opera house.
REFUND1So CERTIFICATES. H.
The Treasurer has received the last of
hc sl0 refunding certificates from the bureau
If engraving and printing. This closes all the
oans of subscription to the four per cent.
ponds and no one need hereafter apply at the
reasury department for them.
TIE EDITORIAL MEETING.
A call has been issued to the Kansas
State Editorial Association to meet in Topeka
IN the 18th of June. They leave here on the
3th and embark from Chicago by steamer at
p. m. on the evening of the llth.
PROFESSORS WHO ARE GOOD suaPENDERs.
The entire sophomore class of the State
of California were expelled on the |