Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-26
THE NEWS.

ter-dollar are taken at discount in
| Canada.
Several negro families left New York
the other day for Liberia, in charge of
Rev. Andrew Cartwright, Liberian min
| lister.
The cholera in Egypt has not abated,
| Added to its horrors, famine has set in,
and the people arc actually starving.
The death rate in Damietta, Samanoud,
Mensurah and Sherw,n average from 20
to 100 daily. The native troops have
become panic stricken.
The fight for the speakership of the
next House promises to be very vigorous
from this time forward. Carlisle has
started out for an extended canvass.
Randall is watching every corner care
fully. Cox continues vigilant and ac-
tive, and Blackburn does not omit an
opportunity to give his prospects as
good an airing as circumstances will
permit. 1t is understood in Washing
ton that Carlisle will make quite an eX-
tended tour, visiting the summer re-
sorts of the lakes, thence to the noun
tains, and thence to the seaside, consult
ing with his friends and canvassing
among those whom he hopes to make
friends 1t is great game, the speaker
ship fight. With hundreds of places on
committees to promise, the combina-
tons which one may make are innum-
cradle and the possibilities unbounded.
Every nail mill in the west closed for
a period of four weeks.
Fourteen officers arrested in Spain Tor
completely in disloyal plots.
Mrs. James Hoyes of Milwaukee
crushed to death by freight cars.
Henry Ward Beecher believes that
Arthur will be the next President.
AT last railroad bridge across the
Rio Grande unites the two Republics.
Electric tower at Fon du Lac, Wis,
fell, causing loss of $4,000. No lives
lost,
Boiler exploded at Glen Falls, N. Y,
severely injuring II persons several
fatally.
Missing ledger belonging to the state
treasurer of Tennessee has been re-
turned.
+. M. Kerr, defaulting bank clerk,
returned to Chicago. He was arrested
in Peru.
Mother of Secretary Chandler died
at her home in Concord, n. H., aged
81 years.
Spanish ministers approve tho French
project for tunnel under Strait of
Gibraltar.
Ruff Mcconnell shot Elijah Hayes at
Paris, KY, and then dropped dead from
excitement.
Fletcher, an herb doctor of Paducah,
KY, murdered his wife and her mother
and then fled.
Princess Louise will send number
of her paintings and water colors to the
Boston Art Society.
At Damietta, Maasurah, Samanoud
and Munzaleh, 1876 deaths are reported
from cholera on the 10th.
Issue OF standard dollars for the week
ended July IA, 1921, 400; corresponding
period last year, $4,000.
Two colored men, at Helena, Ark,
anxious to vindicate their ''honor,"
fought duel. Both were killed.
Canada is afraid of cholera, and has
issued an order to quarantine all YES
sells from the Mediterranean coming TO
Canadian ports.
1t takes the United States treasury
cate with the government at Washing
ton and receive a reply.
A steamer which has arrived at Lis
bon from the Congo river reports Hen
nv M. Stanley in good health, but five
Belgian members of his party have
died.
The Baroness Wilson, the Spanish
paper in the city of New Mexico, advo-
eating closer union between the in
habitants of the Latin and American
countries.
According to the New York Herald.
the number of persons killed by acct
dent since January is 1886, and il is
not at all improbable that 1000 more
lives have been lost of which no ac-
count was over made.
The telegraph operator Welch. whose
negligence caused the recent collision
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noad at Plainville, by which several
persons were killed, has been captured
and is now under arrest at Southing-
ton, Conn. He was held under $4,000
bail.
The Kootenay Railway Company has
been organized in Victoria, b. c., with
a capital of $5,000,000, $4,000, 900 be-
ing subscribed at once. Provisional di-
rectors were elected. and the work will
be pushed forward Us rapidly as pos
sible.s The promoters are wealthy cap
italists.
Evidently the Methodist ministers are
firing of the system which obliges them
to change pastorates ut the end of
three years, if not yearly. The subject
was very earnestly discussed both in
Philadelphia and Cincinnati the other
day. and it is not unlikely that a change
is imminent.
The public prosecutor has determined
to withdraw the charges against the
Hungarian Jews so long on trial for al
legged murderous sacrifices and other
crimes, the witnesses of the government
having contradicted themselves and
each other until their testimony is re-
garded by the authorities as untrust-
worthy.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says:
The Chamber of National Deputies is
having.stormy debates on the subject of
religious teaching in the public schools,
which is now the principal topic of the
discussion. The Liberals are in the
majority The Catholics are seeking