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


After July 10th no person can be APP
pointed to positions in the government
employ except lac pass creditable ex
animation.
There is a movement on foot in Wash
ington To erect monument to Luther
in that city, to be unveiled on the foul
hundredth anniversary of his birth, No
vember 10.
The Denver exposition is now open
'Sand-Lot" Kearney is laboring in
Chicago.
After October LIST, letter postage will
be only two cents
Nearly 100000 persons are employed
in the mines of the United Kingdom.
Work will be resumed on the Wash.
ington monument about September 1st.
Twelve English physicians are to be
sent to the cholera infested cities OF
Egypt.
Superintendent Of the Mint, Snowden,
argues that the government should re-
deem the trade dollar.
Capt. Webb, the English swimmer,
is in training for his perilous feat OF
shooting Niagara Falls
A Columbus journalist is writing q
history of the Ohio Penitentiary, with
sketches of the convicts.
Kansas statistics show that their state
has more than one million inhabitants.
1t has had wonderful growth.
Architect Hill says he will resign il
he is acquitted of the charges against
him. Office seekers to the front.
AT n lawn tennis party in Bedford
England, Mr.. De We're shot Miss Mckay
dead and then blew out his own disor.
dered brains. Jealousy.
The President will start on his trip &c
Yellowstone Park about the Sd of Au-
gust. All grumblers are to understand
that Mr. Arthur foots his own bills.
1t is said that the twelve men chosen
as jurors IN the trial of Polk, the de-
faulting treasurer of Tennessee, cannot
read. Why not 60 to the asylum al
once for jurorsa
A young man in New York under
sentence of death for numbering hi.
sister-in-law wants a new trial because
he says he can prove he was drunk
when he committed the crime.
There are great floods in the valley Of
the upper Rhine, especially on the
Swiss border, and in the mountains
Scores of houses and bridges and miles
of railroad track have been swept
away.
IL is announced from the capital tina,
no case of yellow fever has appeared
on shore in the United States and it il
believed that the precautions taken will
prevent its ingress beyond quarantine
limits.
General Crook made remark in
Washington, which shows that he obeys
orders strictly and also shows the mis-.
taken policy of the government in Ger.
tain cases. He said: ~ have often
fought Indians in obedience to orders
when / knew they were right and the
government wrong"
Rev, j. G.. Noble of Atlantic High
lands; n. j. sent his obituary to several
New York papers, announcing that he
intended to commit sLicide. He could
not be found for several days. When
he appeared and said that he had made
several attempts to take his own life,
but that the Savior restrained him.
An official acquainted with every
stage of the recent conference between
Secretaries Lincoln and Teller, and In
dian Commissioner Price and General
Crook, says General Crook in effect adj
mitted he was defeated, and was only
allowed to depart on condition that the
Apaches should be put on the San Car
los reservation. The war department
officials are reticient about the matter
De Lesseps says the Panama canal
will be completed in 1885,
Ninety-seven bodies have been recov-
cred frcm the sunken steamer Daphne.
The Ontario government will grant
50, 900 for the relief of sufferers by the
London floods.
Bradlaugh has applied for an iDjunc-
ton to restrain the sergeant-at-arms of
the House of Commons from preventing
his entering the House.
Miss Murphy of San Francisco was
married at London recently to Sir
Charles Michael Wolseley, baronet, the
ceremony being performed by Cardinal
Manning.
Germany proposes that all the mari
time powers unite in constructing the Sec
ond Suez canal, and that it be placed un-
der the charge of an International COM
A bad state of affairs is reported
from Egypt. Sixteen towns are infect
ed with the cholera. The death rate is
slightly decreasing at Damietta. At
Cairo 100 deaths are reported daily.
A disastrous fire occurred at Har-
beck's dock Brooklyn, N. Y, and valu-
able property destroyed to the amount
of 81 100000. Twelve firemen were Sc
riously injured, but no lives were lost.
Capt. j. G. Douglass was arrested in
Boston the other day for smuggling q
Chinese carpenter into that port. The
captain claims that he put him ashore
in self-defcuse. This is the first arrest
under the new anti. Chinese law.
X. G. Mitchell, editor of the Duluth
(Minn.) Tribune is under arrest, on a
charge of attempting to secure 5000
acres of land, covered by 10000, 900
feet of pine lumber. Mitchell has OBJ
tanned widespread notoriety by his
bitter anti.religious utterances.
M. w. Wilkinson, well-to.do and
highly respected farmer living near
LincolnC 20. Missouri was assas-
by an unknown person who en-
tered his house and shot him with
double-barreled shotgun while he was
asleep. A thousand dollars is offered
for the arrest of the assassin.
AT tho mario editorial oop yoot;or M