The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywha
The net falling off in Internal Rev
enue during July and August was $6,094,-
O09
ONE HUNDRED Canadian cattle sus-
spected of being diseased were killed on ar
rival at Liverpool on the Both.
THE United States steamship Monoc-
acy has been ordered back to Corea to
continue the series of surveys begun there.
THERE were twelve vessels quarantin-
ed at Ship Island, from which nineteen
cases of yellow fever had been taken, on the
30th.
PARNELL recently said he hoped that
the migration scheme would render it un-
necessary for Ireland again to ask aid from
abroad.
THE Captain and officers Oft the United
States frigate Vandalia were entertained at
ball and supper by the Montreal Yacht
Club on the 30th.
The Treasury Department on the 3Oth
purchased $40, 900 ounces of silver for deliv-
cry at the San Francisco, New Orleans and
Philadelphia Mints.
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
Housatopic Valleys indicate that the tobac-
co crop will De full average and excellent
in quality.
BISMARCK is reported to have received
so much benefit from the waters of Kissen-
gen that he wishes to return to Friedrich
sruhe, but the doctors urge him to take up
his residence at Gastien.
In an address before the Chamber of
Commerce of Greenock, Scotland, Hon.
Alex. Mckenzie said he thought Canada
would soon return to Free-Trade and that
the idea of separation from England was
absurd.
The Washington Star of the 30th
said it was rumored that an investigation
which has been made will disclose startling
and sensational developments as to how
the verdict in the Star-route trial was
secured.
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 100000 francs) were to
be devoted to the relief of the sufferers at
Ischia.
THE Marielin Chemical Works of
Black Rock, Conn.,, burned on the 31st and
nearly all the stock. The loss on building
and fixtures is So, 900; stock, $4,000. They
were owned by a stock company, of which
N. G. Miller of New York is President.
THE New Orleans Grand Jury in its
recent report suggests as sanitary meas
ure that cremation be established under the
direction of officers of the Charity Hospital
for the purpose of burning the bodies of
those who die from contagious diseases.
HANLAN, the oarsman, returned to
Toronto, Ont, on the 9th, where he in
tended to rest few days pending the
Carlton Place regatta ON September 6,
whence he goes to Cincinnati. He would go
to Australia to row Laycock if reasonable
expenses were allowed.
A REPORT reached Washington on the
2Sth that Secretary Teller had met the
President at the Upper Geyser basin in the
Yellowstone Park, and that an unpleasant
interview followed in relation to the pro-
posed removal of the Apaches to the San
Carlos Reservation. The report was, how
ever, diScredited.
REPORTS of the S0th say the French
harvest returns were unsatisfactory. OF
the eighty-five departments, thirty-seven
report crops above an average, while fif
teen report average crops and thirty-three
crops below an average. 1t is certain that
large imports of cereals will be necessary
the coming winter.
A FREE library was given to the
town of Dunfermline, Scotland, recently by
Andrew Carnegie of New York. 1t was
opened on the 29th by Lord Roseberry,who
spoke in praise of the generous Carnegie.
He also referred to the visit he intends to
make shortly to America, country which
he said had always been dear to him.
REPORTS of the 3lst stated that the
drought in Eastern New England, which
had lasted five or six weeks, had become
so serious that crops had been greatly in
jured, with the prospect of still further
damage if the drought was not uroken.
Farmers were compelled to take their cows
from the pastures and feed them on winter
hay.
THE Washington City Post-office was
supplied with the first installment of the
new postal notes on the 30th. They are
printed in yellow ink and bound in books
of 500, with stubs that are to be filed up
with brief statements of the amounts of
detached notes, and other particulars.
Eighty thousand books have been sent to
the various money-order offices of the
country.
THE following are the Naval Cadets
to be court-martialed for hazing: Cadets
Kness, Moller and Campbell, New York;