Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-12-07

PHILLIPSBURG. K
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The English parliament is prorogued
to Fsbgdary 10.
. FHE public debt reduction for No
vember will be barely $4,000, 900.
JOHN T. MORGAN has been elected to
the United States Senate by the Alabama
Legislature.
TIE French Cabinet has resolved to
send a pacific expedition to report on the re-
sources Of the Congo region.
ESTIMATES of the federal departments
for the coming fiscal year are larger than
the appropriations for last year.
SECRETARY FOLGER's offer to redeem
bonds at sight, without rebate, caused only
about 81, 100000 to be surrendered.
GEN. ANDREW S. HEBRON; Congress
man-elect from the Sixth louisiana Dis
trict, died Of heart disease the other night.
THE schooner Roderick Dhu, just
arrived at San Francisco, reports some
rough experience with cannibals in the
South Sea Islands.
J. 7. UPDEGRAFF, Republican Con-
gresham ELECT from the Seventeenth Ohio
District, died at Mount Pleasant, near Steu-
benvilles Nov. 80, aged go.
II. D. NORTON, principal clerk of the
finance division of the Post-ofice Depart
ment, was removed on the 1st for alleged
completely with the star reuters.
REAR ADMIRAL WYMAN, who died
few days ago in Washington, D. c., of
apoplexy, was appointed to the command
of the North Atlantic squadron in 1879.
FORTY-sIX Russian students have been
expelled from the St. Petersburg University
and their parents placed under police super
vision. Twenty three others are suspended.
REV. JAMES BEECHER, a half brother
of the Brooklyn pastor, has been sent to the
asylum at Middleton, n. Y, for treatment
by physicians familiar with mental dis
eases.
DUBLIN is proclaimed under the cur
few clause of the repression act, the police
being thereby authorized to make arrests of
all suspicious characters abroad in hours of
darkness.
A MONUMENT to the Confederate dead
| was unveiled in Magnolia Cemetery, Charles
ton, S. c., Nov. 30, in the presence of
10, ZOO persons. Senator Butler delivered
the grafton.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will signal Washington to all parts of
the country, December to Z, for the con-
venience of those who wish to take ObserYa-
tons on the transit Of Venus.
MEMBERS of the English Parliament
have called Lord Granville's attention to
French designs on Madagascar, claiming
that the English trade and population on
the island are five times those of France.
AFTER due consultation among the
powers at Washington, it has been decided
| to recommend reduction of taxes on cigars,
tobacco and liquors and on special licenses,
and the abolition of all other internal reYe-
nue..
THE Garfield board of audit has al
lowed DR.. Bliss $4,000, Drs. Agnew and
Hamilton So, 900 each, Drs. Reyburn and
Boynton s., 900 each, and Mrs. Edison $4,000.
Steward Crump can have $500, and Private
Secretary Pruden $500.
In delivering his last lecture as pro-
lessor at Harvard, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes was presented by the students with
cup bearing an appropriate couplet from
his writings. His chair is to be taken by
DR.. Thomas Dwight.
In the House of Commons the other
day Parnell's motion to discuss the admin
istration of the Land act was refused.
Trevelyan said if Davitt and Redmond con-
tinued their incendiary speeches, meetings
of the National League would be prohibited
THE new penal code of New York, SC
far as it refers to the observance Of Sunday,
is to be enforced by the police commission
ers. Corporation Counsel Andrews recon.
mends that in case of doubt as to what con-
stitutes necessary labor, policemen should
apply to magistrates for warrants.
CORPORAL BLUCHER, of the Second
Artillery, post schOolmaster at Fort Nc
Henry, Baltimore, Md, a ineal descendant
OF the famous marshal, has been rendered
by Baker Pasha a staff position in the Khe-
dives army. He has served as military at
tache of the German legation in Egypt.
A MAN named Martin, employed as 6
compositor in the government printing
office at Dublin, has been arrested for con-
nection with the murder of Detective Cox.
The lord lieutenant has applied to parlia
ment for extra pay for the Dublin police
Sixty thousand applications have been mad
for relief under the arrears Of-rent act.
IT is said that the Mexican authorize
are going to make q claim against the Unite'
States for Galveston Island, Texas, whic
includes the city Of Galveston. It seem
that in the cession of Texas to the Unite