Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-06

PUBLISHED By
Herald Publishing Association.
PHILLIPsBURG. KANSAS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
AMONG the legacies left by Count de
Chambord was large one to the Pope.
SECRETARY FoLGER arrived in Detroit,
Mich, on the 2Sth on the Revenue cutter
Fessenden.
THE French Ambassador arrived at
Saigon on the Doth with the treaty which
was signed at Hue on the 25th.
THE United States steamship Monoc-
acy has been ordered back to COrea to
continue the series of surveys begun there.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging in
the vicinity of Bar Harbor, Maine, on the
28th, and upward of 1000 acres had burned.
PLACARDs appeared in Paris on the
2Sth inviting citizens to rally to the sup
port of the monarchy under Louis Phil
lippeII.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, was Civ
en- public banquet by number of lead
ing citizens Of Detroit, Mich, on the even
ing of the 2sth.
ISAAC II. LOCKWOOD was convicted
in the United States Court at New Haven,
Conn, on the 29th, on the charge of using
the mails to defraud.
A CAPE Town dispatch of the 28th
says the Supreme Court rejected the appeal
of O'Donnell to be tried there, andhe sailed
for England on that date.
SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS damages is
the amount claimed against the owners Of
the steamer st. German, which sunk
the Woodburn recently in the English
Channel.
REPORTS to the 29th from one hun
dred tobacco towns in the Connecticut and
Housatonic Valleys indicate that the tobac-
co crop will be full average and excellent
in quality.
THE Salt Lake Gu. To Tribune office
was in a state of siege on the 28th by reason
of telling some too palpable truths. 1t was
protection.
THE plans have been completed for
the proposed new silver vaults under the
cash room of the Treasury Department.
The storage capacity of the vault will be
100000 silver dollars.
BISMARCK is reported to have received
so much benefit from the waters of Kissen-
4l,,A - 70 To EriJ rio h
sruhe, but the doctors urge him to take up
hisresidence at.Gastien.
A VICTORIA, (B. CO. dispatch of the
25th says that, subject to the sanction of
Parliament, all matters in dispute between
the Dominion and British Columbia have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
A GRAND fete under the auspices of
the press of Paris was given at the Tuiller-
les Gardens on the evening of the 9th, the
proceeds of which (3OO,O francs) were to
be devoted to the relief of the sufferers at
Ischia.
JULES BARBOT an old and well-known
actor was knocked down and robbed in
New York on the night of the 9th, and in
endeavoring to escape, one of his assailants
was shot dead by his pal, who intended the
bullet for policeman.
IT was reported on the Doth that
Henry NJ. Stanley had closed the Upper
Congo to commerce. The King of Dahomy
had liberated the garrison of Portuguese at
Fort Whydah on condition that the place
should not be coded to England.
The Irish National League of Great
Britain will hold convention the 9th OF
September. A programme has been re
solved upon, the principal features Of which
are self-government for Ireland and direct
representation of the laboring class in Par
lament.
VIENNA dispatches say the amodnt o.
wheat available for export is estimated
at (, 800, 900 meter centals; of barley, 5000,
900 meter centals. 1t is expected that nC
rye or oats will be available for export
The Hungarian wheat crop is estimated a
a full average.
HANLAN, the oarsman, returned tt
Toronto, Ont, on the 9th, where he in
tended to rest a few days pending thu
Carlton Place regatta on September 6
whence he goes to Cincinnati. He would g
to Australia to row Laycock if reasonable
expenses were allowed.
IT is announced from Washington
that until the President returns and pro
mulgates the new rules governing examin
ations for promotions, appointments from
the ranks of those who have passed tn
Civil Service Commissions examination
must be only to the lower grades.
A REPORT reached Washington on tn,
2Sth that Secretary Teller had met tn
President at the Upper Geyser basin in tn
Yellowstone Park, and that an unpleasant
interview followed in relation to the Pre-
posed removal of the Apaches to the Sal
Carlos Reservation. The report was, how
ever, discredited.
AT the close of business on the 25tl
the National treasury contained gold col