The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-20

ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
STROTH ER BROS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
THE American Rapid Telegraph Com
pany's lines are to be extended to tn
Southwest.
GEN. II. j. HUNT, commanding the
Department of the South, was placed on tn,
retired list on the 14th.
THE receipts of the Patent Office fol
the fiscal year were 81 ,O95, ,SS4, being $3O5,
SS9 more than last year.
THE Dakota Constitutional Conven.
tion voted on the 14th, "a to SO, against in
serting prohibitory clause in the consti
tuition.
ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD COLLINsON,
who commanded the expedition which went
in search of Sir John Franklin in 1850, died
On the 18th.
THE Greeley relief expedition has al
ready cost the Government 100000, aside
from what will be claimed for the loss OF
the Proteus.
THE American Pathological Society
closed its session at Philadelphia on the
I4th. Michigan was chosen for the Con-
yention in 1885.
THE federation of the trades and
abor unions at Washington had taken
steps to organize a society to protect young
women from the insolence of dudes.
The Ohio convention to choose dele
gates to the Louisville Colored Convention
1ad been postponed to the Goth. The Mary
and colored voters will send a delegation.
The Directors of the Second National
Bank at Warren, o., entered suit on the 18th
against the bondsmen of defaulting Cashier
Fuller, to secure the amount of his bond
E15,000.
THERE were continued reports on the
10Th of the damage to unmatured crops by
,rost throughout the Northwest. The
Eastern States also suffered to a consider
able extent.
MEssRs. Moody, McGranahan and
Whittle, evangelists, leave the country Oc
;ober for Ireland, on an active missionary
campaign. They intend operating in the
south of ireland.
A TRADE-UNION conference in Bir-
ningham, Eng, on the 18th adopted reso-
ution calling on the Government to take
possession Of uncultivated lands for gen.
eral distribution.
THE Congress of Commerce and
Industry at Amsterdam adopted resolu-
ion recommending the adoption of a BIZ
metallic monetary standard throughout
Europe and America.
In the investigation as to the cause of
he recent Riverdale steamboat explosion
,n North River, N. Y, it was shown that
he boiler was leaky, and that the engineer
lad once blown up a tug.
THE White Lily is the name of a
secret society which is fomenting a revolu-
ion against the Chinese government on
ihe Yang Use Kiang River, much after the
fashion of the Black Flags in Anam.
LIEUTENANT DANENHOwER, formerly
Of the Jeanette, and Mr.. Tyson, formerly
,f the Polaris, had expressed their willing
less to take part in another Arctic expedi
ion for the relief of Lieut.. Greeley.
THE Greeley relief expedition had
'eturned on the 18th and reported being
lnable to reach the men at the Arctic
station. The relief ship Proteus was
wrecked and the crew returned TO New
ioundland in the Yantic.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Wash
ngton Money Order Office, based upon the
-eturns for one week from 100 smaller
money order offices, show that forty-two
per cent. transmitted by the money order
service was in postal notes.
EXPORTS of domestic produce (exclu-
sive of specie) from New York for the week
ended the 11th Sc, 107, ,1O7, against $7,172,696
he previous week. Total exports since
January 1, $247, ,OO7, against $232, ,511 ,S46
for the corresponding period in 1882.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says: The total paper circulation now out
standing is 1881 ,757 ,O69; total coin circula-
lion, $743, ,347 ,573; grand total, S1,575, ,104,
j42. Assuming the total population to be
j2,OOO,OOO, the distribution per capita would
oe 5000.
: A WOMAN with an alias for every city
she visited has been victimizing citizens of
Easton, Pa; Indianapolis, Ind; Coving
,on, KY, and lately Wheeling, w. Va. She
pretended to establish Mosaic Art class,
collecting money in advance and then leav-
ing for fresh fields.
A BOTTLE was picked up on the 18th