The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27


STROTHER BROS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
EXTENSIVE preparations are making
for the reception of the American Bishops
at Rome.
The annual report Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company shows net earn
ings of $2,51S,5s9.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR received the Cor
can Embassy on the 18th at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, New York.
THE monument erected by the State
of Kentucky to General Zachary Taylor
was dedicated on the Goth.
THE siXtieth session of the Illinois
Annual Conference of the NJ. E. Church be-
gan at Danville on the 18th.
HENRY L. PIERCE declines to be a
candidate for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts,.
THE Diamond Match Company has
issued circular making a fifty per cent.
reduction in wholesale price of matches.
CONGRATULAToRY telegrams were eX-
changed on the 21st by officials and COM
mercial bodies of the United States and
Brazil.
THE Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention, which met at Baltimore on the
18th, nominated Robert NJ. Mclean for
Governor.
The French have suffered another
check in Tonquin, the "YeIlow Flags, ,"their
allies, being disastrouSly repulsed near
Hal Phong.
Hon. WM. FAXON, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy under Gideon Wells, died
suddenly of heart disease on the 18th at
Hartford, Conn.
BY direction of the President Cadet
Arthur L. Beebe, fourth-class United
States Military Academy, has been dis
missed for haZing.
THE failures throughout the United
States and Canada for the week ending the
21st numbered 1SS, compared with 173 for
the previous week.
GOVERNOR PATTISON has vetoed the
concurrent resolution of the Pennsylvania
Legislature stopping the pay of members
after September 10.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is the guest of
Seth Barton French at Newport. r. L, who
gave grand dinner in his honor on the
evening of the Goth.
The International Northern Tel
egraph Company filed its certificate of in
corporation in New York on the 18th. The
capital stock is $5,000,000.
SECRETARY TELLER has ruled that q
settler under the Oregon donation act of
1850 does not forfeit his right to land by
failure to file notice under the act of 1853.
THE press of Melbourne. Australia,
express dissatisfaction with Lord Derby'S
dispatch condemning the proposed annex
alton of the South Pacific Islands to Aus
tralia.
POSTNiAsTER-GENERA GRESHAM pro-
poses to visit all the principal post-offices,
learn their needs and the needs of the SER
vice generally and write his own report to
Congress.
THE Chinese Viceroy at Canton, ap-
preciating the fact that the American Con-
sui maintained a conciliatory attitude, has
assured him that a prompt arrangement of
American claims would be made.
LAWRENCE BRAINERD, A. o. Brain
erd and Chas. Wyman, Directors of the ST.
Albans (Vt) Trust Company were indicted
on the 21st by the Grand Jury for violation
of the penal clause of the charter.
THE National Association of General
Baggage Agents in session at Chicago
passed an unconditional resolution of con-
demnation on the existing system of check
ing baggage at hotels and residences.
SECRETARY FOLGER holds that under
the Civil Service law when names are GER
titled to him from which to fill vacant offices
he is bound to give preference to any hon
orably discharged sailor or soldier whose
name may be on the list.
THE acquisitions upon the Post-otfice
Department by postmasterS for new two
cent stamps are so large that the contract
ors are unable to supply the demand and
the Department consequently is reducing
amounts called for in acquisitions.
FRENCH operations in Tonquin are
suspended until the arrival of reinforce
mentS. The blockade is confined to search
ing vessels for articles contraband of war.
The French government has withdrawn its
order to English builders for river gun
boats.
The Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department has received from
Boston one of the five-dollar notes of the
Irish Republic, previously reported in cir
culation here. 1t is said by the treasury
experts to be fair imitation of the United
States treasury notes.
INFORMATION from Guaymas, Mexico,
is to the effect that they have fever there
every year, but this season the physicians
said it was yellow fever, and the people,
becoming scared, lay down and died like