Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

L
ernment to send strong force to open COM
munication with Khartoum.
Ir was reported on the 23d that hum
Portland. Ore. There is complaint of
mismangement in the postal service over
the Northern Pacific.
SEVERAL of the inmates of the Indi-
annapolis Blind Asylum were slightly poi
soned recently by some unwholesome food.
a PARIS dispatch says the Chinese
Ambassador has informed the British For
eisn Secretary that war between France
and China is unavoidable.
OK the 23d Andy Taylor was hanged
at Loudon. Tenn. 1t was the first private
execution in the State, the gallows being
hidden by screens.
For the seven days ending the 23d
the business failures throughout the United
States and Canada, numbered 247, against
2:s5 for the previous week.
A MANUFACTURER in Pennsylvania,
who neglected to put up a fire escape when
notified, has been mulcted for $4,000 dam
ages by an employee who was crippled in
escaping from his burning factory.
THE effect of the recent massacre in
the Soudan has been to call in question the
propriety of the proposed withdrawal OF
British troops from Egypt.
In the year ended November l there
were 262 National Banks organized; the
total number in operation, 1922. Charters
of 916 hanks expire in the next two years.
In Boston about 1,2OO street lamps
have been displaced by electric lights.
In Siberia political prisoners are rep
resented as going mad and committing sui
eide on account of the treatment they re-
ceive.
On the 25th Charles Trum shot him
self al his sweetheart's grave at Pittsburgh,
Pa.
On the oath the American Bishops ut
Rome were given a banquet by Cardinal
Jacobni.
The Government of Germany has re-
Gently ordered 100, ,OcO tons of railroad ma
terial.
THE new bridge across the Missis-
sippi at St. Paul, Minn., for the Manitoba
Road is of stone arches. 1t is 2,lOO feet
long and cost Stj0O,O0o.
Oh the 2Jth grand military review
of 5000 troops, with seventy-five guns.
was held at Madrid in honor of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
The semi-centennial anniversary of
the running of the first locomotive on the
Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad is to be
celebrated early next year.
fORDERs have been given the Viceroy
of Nankin to begin hostilities against the
French in the event of All attack on Bac
Mini.
On the 25th GARNER won the billiard
match with DAILY at Brussels by a score OF
1900 to 1850. Another match is to be
played at Lyons.
Ir is said the adoption of the new
time standard is only preliminary to the
adoption of a uniform code of signals among
the railroads.
AUsTRIA's production of steel rails
will reach $4,000 tons this year, an in.
crease of $4,000 tons over last year.
In Philadelphia, Pa, electric light
wires are being placed underground on one
of the principal avenues.
DURING the fiscal year the Life-Sav-
ing Service rendered assistance In three
hundred cases of disaster.
ACCORDING to tests of American and
English steel rails, laid side by side for
thirteen years in Pennsylvania, the former
are the more durable.
The Sheriff of Matthews County, Va,
has received a section Of artillery to be
used in protecting the Rappahannock oys
ter-beds against dredgers. %s
A REPORT from Madagascar states
that the French have bombarded a town
without giving notice, killing five British
subjects, and destroying large amounts OF
neutral property.
THE Egyptians being about to send
out an expedition to try and keep open q
road for retreat from Khartoum it looks
probable that the Soudan Provinces are tt
| be abandoned for the present.
THE Comptroller of the Currency ad'
vocates reduction Of revenue and conver'
| sion of the longtime four per cents into
| threes as measures to prevent undue con
/ traction of the National Bank circulation
THE Asiatlc squadron has received in.
structions from Secretary Freylinghuyser
with view to protect American interests
pin event of war.
THE murderer of Mr.. and Mrs. King
| at Hickman, KY, is reported to have beer
| arrested.
| IT is reported that Ell Mardi, the False
Prophet, is already in Khartoum.
THE inquiry into the Proteus disaster
has been adjourned to December 70.