Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-08-09
GENERAL NEWS.

LONDON, August 3.---A dinner was given to
| DR.. Norvin Green, president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, in London.
The death of Tuduc, King of AMMAN, is
reported.
The negotiations between France and
China are said to he at a stand-still.
1t is rumored that plot to restore the
monarchy in France has been discovered.
Three Phoenix Park informers have been
refused leave to land at Melbourne Aus
tralia.
A box of dynamite, with lighted fuse
attached, has been found i'll a linen factory
in Scotland.
The authorities in Vienna and the EN-
peror and Empress have subscribed large
sums for the relief of the survivors,
n the British House of Commons yester-
day it was stated that pleuro- o-pneumonia
existed among the cattle in the Eastern
States of the United States.
The average temperature in Cairo under
canvas is I06. The total deaths in Egypt
from cholera are reported to have been 5000.
Cargoes of rags to British ports will be dis
infected.
Ton. Mark A. Blanford, of Columbus, Ga,
has been elected to the supreme court bench,
to succeed Hon. Martin j. Crawford de-
ceased.
A judgement for $4,000 has been grant
ed at San Diego, Cal, in favor of the South
ern Pacific Railroad against the California
A. 4 ,,,l
the sheriff has levied upon the property.
The sale is advertised for August q.
At Cape Lookout, n. c., three days ago,
an immense iceberg foated past here. Three
pilots went to it in boats, and found Green
land kayack, or boat, on it, with the frozen
body of an Esquimaux lying inside the boat.
The body was brought ashore and buried.
The Southern papers refer to the recent So
called Kuklux outrages in Georgia as the ex-
travagances of lawless persons, whose acts
are condemned by everybody just as they
would be anywhere. They are entirely with
out political significance, and have been ex-
aggerated by those who seek to make capital
out of every untoward occurrence in the
many of the offenders are escaped convicts
Patrick Quinn, who upset his boat while
crossing the North River from Fifty y-fourth
street, New York, and drowned two children,
has been arrested. 1t is charged that he en-
ticed Lena Soust and George Soust on board
his boat, and that Lena was heard to scream
after the boat got out into the river.
Br&dstreets report the embarrassment of
Cockroft Black, manufacturers of worsted
yarns, Philadelphia. The firm has confessed
judgments amounting to upwards of 10000,
and execution has been issued. The habili
ties, it is thought, will amount to $40, 1000.
Edward Gamble and Enoch Blood, hosiery
manufacturers, have made assignments for
the benefit of their creditors.
Mr.. Keene's horse Blue Grass won the
racing stakes at Goodwood yesterday.
1t is reported that 1900 deaths from
cholera have occurred in Egypt since the
outbreak of the plague.
The report of Mr.. Parnell's speech on
Wednesday in regard to Careys death is now
pronounced incorrect.
The paper relative to the indemnity for
violence done to American fishermen at
Fortune Bay are feirg prepared by the
British government.
The Presidents passage through Indiana
was something of an ovation of flowers aud
people, and the engine hauling the train was
covered with flowers, and the headlight bore
a large portrait of the President.
DR.. Richardson, Canadian gentleman of
means, scientific attainments and inventive
mind, resident in Washington, has invented
machine or device by the aid of which he
proposes to go over Niagara Falls.
The steamer Butte was burned on the Mis-
so9ri river, above Fort Peck, on Monday.
The boat aud cargo are total loss. The
Butte was a new boat, and was valued at
$4,000. The passengers were landed
safely.