Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-03-22

AT Jersey City two boys were arrest
ed while buying tickets for Chicago going
west to annihilate the Indians They had four
reyolvers, two bowie knives thousand rounds
OF ammunition and 1854 In gold.
In regard To charges in Gov. Buffers
message that traffic In bodies OF the pauper
dead at the state almshouse has been carried on
for a long time, the Boston journal prints n
statement TO the effect that Of 800 deaths I'm
10 years, $50 bodies were delivered 10 medical
colleges according to law There is no record
Of the disposition Of the remaining 1900. They
are supposed to ee buried In the potters' field,
but 1t is alleged that some graves lave no body.
Charges are made that bodies have been pre-
| served In picking fluid and sent TO distant
points in Kerosene barrels. The superintend-
ent states that this was done in a few instances
at the request OF Harvard college In warm
weather.
In spite of the calm of the past few
days, Prof Virgins, Canada's champion crank
claims that his prophecy was literally fulfilled,
as the highest tidal wave ever known Is report
cd at Halifax and kilograms from all parts in
dictate severe tempest. He says he has al
ways entertained the greatest anxiety for the
safety OF people on the shores of the bay Of
Bengal and the gulf Of Mexico. In the former
a major tidal wave of which the minor one on
our coast was the reflection, must have occur
red on the afternoon OF the 10th, London
time, hundreds of thousands of people perish
ing He expressed great fears for the safety
OF the City Of Chester and characterizes this
storm as the greatest that possibly occur
on this planet and the greatness of its extent
Is the only hope OF safety In any particular
quarter. He makes sly dash at the Canadian
and United States authorities for not hosting
their storm signals until after the storm was
actually beating upon the continent. Some
people, he said expected an impossible storm
on the 18th, but he had repeatedly said his object
in making the prediction was for the safety of
mariners as no danger could possibly occur on
land except In the vicinity of the places named
as being exposed TO the tidal wave, but people
liked TO be frightened and chung to their own
Interpretation in preference TO his.
The legislature of Illinois has passed
a bill to punish wife-beaters by whipping.
William White, recently appointed
United States district judge for the northern
district of Ohio, died on the 18th inst.
Jno. Phillips of Hubbard, Ohio. while
asleep walked out of third story window at
the Union house in Youngstown and falling 81
feet was killed.
The New Jersey senate passed almost
unanimously bill prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites or tobacco in any form to minors under
penalty of $40 for each offense.
Patrick Egan, treasurer of the old
land league has landed in New York. He ex.
poets to be in this country three or four
mouths, and 1t is said will make no speeches In
his travels.
The Downing high license bill has
passed the Missouri legislature by one major
ity, and has become a law. The bill requires
the signatures Of two-thirds of the tax. payers
OF block, town or township, leaving tb,
county court and collector discretionary pow
ers a. to granting the license, bond OF 81 ,0OO
to insure an orderly house and to prevent the
sale OF liquor to minors. Upon each license
there will be levied a tax Of not less than $25
nor more than 800 for state purposes and not
less than $3.50 nor more than $500 for county
purposes for every period of six months, the
amount OF tax in every instance TO be deter
mined by the court granting the license. Petit
tions must be renewed annually, The old Sun
| day law features are retained, and there IL
heavy penalty FOR selling liquors to habtual
drunkards. This bill, applies only To country
districts but there Is now in the Senate very
similar act relating exclusively Ia cities of the
first and second class, which will apply to St.
Louis, but whether II will be passed this
sion Is very doubtful.
Clarence Hite, one of the James gang,
recently pardoned by Gov. Crittenden Of Mis-
souri,, Is dead.
| Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Is
land. has been nominated by the Independent
party of that state as a candidate for governor
DR.. Bedlock, of Philadelphia. is nego-
tiating for the purchase of several million
acres Of land In Mexico which Bismarck wants
| TO settle with German cmigrant5.
The Massachusetts, legislative COM
mittee on the liquor law have reported reso
| luton providing for such all amendment To the
constitution that the manufacture aud sale OF
| intoxicating liquors in that state be- prohibited
Hon. David Davis, late United States
| senator from Illinois, was married ON the 18th
inst, at Fayetvie, y. c., to Miss Addie Burr. of
| that place. The wedding was a very brilliant
| affair. The senator and his bride will speud
the summer months In California.
There is great Indignation mt Union
town, Pa, over the acquaittal of n. l.. Dakes
for the murder Of Capt. A. G. Mutt. The court
| and people severely critcise the action Of the
jury.
Mrs. Ellen Birmingham died in Louis
vile, KY, on the 10th inst aged l01 Years. She
was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, and came
| to America 40 years ago. She has lived In
Louisville the past IS years. She retained her
| faculties until four years ago, since which time
she has been helpless.
1t is now pretty generally believed
that the high license bill recently passed by the
| Missouri legislature applies to ST. Louis, which
Is free city, as well rs to the counties In the
| state. Senator Downing, the author Of the bill.
! contends that 1t does and number Of prom,
nent lawyers are of the same opinion.
On the 18th inst. only six and half
feet OF water remained to be pumped out of the
| Diamond mine at Braidwood ILL., The water AZ
that time was coming from the place where the
bodies lay, as 1t bore an insufferablc stencil and
| the men Mt the pumps were obliged occasional
| ly to move away from its influence and pet
fresh air. From this 1t is surmised the bodies
are horribly decomposed.
| Reduced appropriations have render
| ed curtailment of the civil service ex
penditures necessary.
Patrick Egan, now I'm New York. de-
| nies emphatically that the recent EXPLOSION Ia
London was the work Of feniaps.
The Indians of Arizona are threaten
| cd with smallpox and starvation The Indians
referred TO are on the Colorado river agency
and there is no fund available from which the
agent can purchase supplies for them. The
commissioner OF affairs has suggested the use
OF means from some other appropriation. and
ask congress TO reimburse the department AT
the next session.
Lieut.. Hunt and four of the crew of
the Jeannette sailed from Havre for New York,
on the nth.
Owing to misunderstanding of the
terms OF settlement the troubles of the Sprins.
held Clll) iron company with workmen, which
were supposed to have been settled have been
renewed and 1t Is impossible % tell what tbe
outcome will be.
While Mrs. Ann Roland of BRIDGE
port, Conn.,, was kneeling In front of a stove
saying her prayers, live coal fell on her cloth.
ing and SET II on fire. She was shockiuujy
burned and died In few hours. Her three
daughters were badly burned trying to extin.
glish the flames.
a look over the auditors papers nj
the Massachusetts state house shows that Gov.
buffers practice Is not In keeping with his pro-