The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-18
NKwsof THE WEEK.

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party Of New Jersey met at Asbury
Park, about 140 delegates being present.
W. l.. Hope of Monmouth county,
was made permanent chairman.
An election was held in the Cherokee
Nation, Indian Territory, for Principal
and Assistant Chiefs, judicial officers
and members Of the General Council.
The returns indicate that Dennis w.
Bushyhead, National candidate, has
been reelected Chief, but that the
Unionists have secured a majority of
the Council.
AT the monthly meeting of the Vest
ern Nail Association in Pittsburg, it
was unanimously decided to order a
general resumption of the mills for four
weeks. No change was made in the
card rate.
A number of Minneapolis millers
met representatives of all the North
western railroads in Milwaukee, for the'
purpose of obtaining a readiustment of
grain rates to the East by way of Du-
luth. The millers say the difference is,
at present so great that they must eithf
get lower transit rates or close the{r
mills. No decision was reached, anil
the conference adjourned until yester-
day. The meeting failed to accomplish
anything, and the millers returned home.
The Kentucky Distillers' Association
met in secret session in Louisville,
Resolutions were adopted for the APP
pointment of a committee to confer
with committees from other States for
the purpose of bringing the whisky
trade into united ~aetion.n
The driver boys of the H~ollenback
mines of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company present bill of griev-
ances. They say that seven car loads
of coal represent a days work for
the miner and laborer, while the drivers
who take these cars out OF the mines
get only ~three-fourths of a days pay
therefor, and they now demand a full
days wages. Should their demand be
refused a general strike is expected this
week at the Hollenback, Diamond and
Empire mines.
Plans are being prepared at the Treas
ury Department for additional vaults
Ito accommodate the excessive ac-
cumulation of silver dollars.'' One
of these vaults will be built in the
basement of the Treasury Depart
ment, the other at the New Orleans
mint. g
The Postmaster General approved a
Design for the 2-cent stamps to be used
on stamped envelopes. 1t is similar to
that of the 2-cent stamps recently APP
proved.
A large vein of silver is retsrted
to have been struck by men digging a
well on a farm FIVE miles north of Yates
Centre, Kansas. The ore has been
assayed and is said to be very rich. Z
Mr.. Bee, the Chinese Consal at San
Francisco, says the report of the Snug
Cling of Chinese into Washington Terri
tory lis a neatly disguised job to divert
the attention of the authorities from
the heavy opium smuggling carried on
in that section On the other hand,
the Acting Secretary of the Treasury
received a telegram from the Collector of
Customs at Tacoma, Washington Terri
tory, reporting the capture of a sloop
engaged in running Chinese G cross the
line from British Columbia" The
Collector also says that ''nearly 100
Cinnamon have landed at various
points on the northern frontier, in boats
and Indian canoes, within the past few
days.
The report Ii1t the British Minis
ter to Guatemala had been insulted by
President Barrios, is not credited in New
Orleans. m,
A Confederate reunion was held at
Mckinney, Tex. about 40 000persons be-
ing present. Among the speakers were
General Cabell, Governor Ireland, ex-
Governors Throckmorton and Hubbard,
and Congressman Wellborn.
The American Forestry Congress met
in st. Paul. The President, George
b. Loring, in his address, said that
''clearings in the old settled parts of the
country were being filled up with trees,
so that in Ohio, Maine, New York and
ofbar Gtatac 4bo naraaua IF fo,,ooto xuae
growing constantly greater. In other
States, where the subject of forestry has
gained some attention, it is also on the
gain" The following officers were
elected President, George B. Loring,
Massachusetts,; Vice Presidents, III. G..
jolly, Quebec, and George l.. Becker,
st. Paul ; Recording Secretary, N. II.
Eggleston, Washington Corresponding
Secretary, b. Z. Felnon, Pennsylvania +;
Treasurer, Charles Mohe, Alabama /;
Executive Committee-B. G. Northrup,
Connecticut /; Marion Highly, Ohio J.,
G. Knapp, Florida ; j. S. Hicks, New
York, and J.. L. Budd, Iowa.
The American Rifle Team arrived in
New York from England. Isl Harry
Parkes, Governor of New South Wales,
and Archibald Forbes, the London
press correspondent, arrived in San
Francisco from Australia. - Mrs.
Fanny Sprague, by advice of her coun-
sci, General Butler, has accepted the
offer of the Union Company which
bought her homestead, to lease it to her
during her life at one dollar per month.
FOREIGN.