Morris tribune., 1883-10-27
NEWS IN ERiEF.

Matthew Arnold, tao English lissra'
teur, has arrived in New York.
Pittsburg reports the iron trade in
good condition and prospects for YORK ali
winter.
Three children went skating at Elk
horn, Manitoba, recently, and were drowned
by the ice giving way.
There are 29,S69, 500 bushels of wheat,
and L, 45l, 9Sl bushels of corn in sight in
Canada and the United States
Ramsey Mckee, well-to,do farmer,
living near kewance, H., committsI suicide
by strychnine bscause he was calaboosed FOR
drunkenness.
A 14-year old daughter of a farmer
near Richmond, Ind, took Rough ON Rats
sufficient to kill herself because her father OBJ
jected to her marrying farm hand.
"Gath, the celebrated correspondent,
denounces the recent civil rights decision in
the most severe terms, declaring, that all
things considered, it is moro infamous than
the celebrated bred Scott decision.
1t is asserted at Boston that S. A. B.
Abbott recently nominated for lieutenant
governor in place of Pierce. declined on tbs
Democratic state ticket, also declines for
lack of sympathy with Butler.
Sixty-fve thousand names are regis.
tered on the voting list in Boston. The Re-
pubiicans have appointed a vigilance CON-
mittee of 700 TO guard against fraud at the
polls, and each polling place will be watched.
A party of Mexican bandits siezed an
old capitalist, intending to carry him oil,
when his servants opened fire and killed two
OF the bandits, wounding another. The rob-
bers fled, first, however, killing their pris
oner.
Fires at Miles City, Montana, de-
stroyed about $4,000 worth OF property, in
one block, and being beyond control and
threatening other blocks keg of powder was
exploded III its midst with the effect'of stay
its progress.
James McDermott writes to The
Brooklyn Eagle denying the charge that he
was an Irish nformer and declai:ning that
any man who says he is, Lies in his throaE"
Notwithstanding all OF which, O'Donovan
Ross. raitcTatcs the charge.
A young man Of Is years has turned
up at Portland, Maine. who is like Jacob, IN
search of a father. 10 thinks be may be the
original and only Charley Ross, and will test
the matter as soon as he can get money
enough together to go to Philadelphia and
sec Air. Ross.
An address, signed by John Quincy
Adams, Leverett Saltonstau and other prom
inent ~ state men who are Democrats, but
have lIot been known as active politicians,
has appeared, in which DaTnocr itic voters
are warned that Butler is as dangerous as a
Democrat as be was as Republican.
Gen. G.. B. Raum, in an article in
The North American Review, objects to the
long tenure feature Of the civil service reform
rules, because it is obnoxious to the institu-
tions of the country AMI will create privi-
legged class: and to the competitive feature,
because, he says, it viii prevent the head of
department from obtaining the man he
wants and knows is best fitted for vacancy,
and force him to take one seActed by COM
mission which can not know all the qualitica-
tons needed.
A Burmese idol was ignorantly put
upon the stage in the Chicago Dime Museum
where the Burmese priests are exhibited, the
result being that the priests passed an entire
day prone before the little god. At the end
of the day they voiced a vigorous protest.
explaining that it was their bounden duty to
PROSTATE themselves before their idols when
ever they were in their presence. They were
were indignant, and the managers Of the
museum had the idol taken away and made
the fullest apologies.