Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-05
GENERA ITEMS.

At different points in Virginia and
North Carolina, snow fell on the 10Th Of March
TO the depth of nearly two feet
The latest scheme to get American
pork into Germany Is to ship 1t to England and
have II repacked In English style and then
shipped across the channel
DR.. William II. Van Buren,. one of
the oldest ard best known Of American sur
geons, died In New York city on the 9th inst.
DR.. Van Buren, was considered without an
equal in his profession. He was the founder
Of the sanitary commission of the United States,
so active in caring for soldiers throughout the
war.
The trouble with the Indians in Ari-
IONA and Indian Territory continues to in
crease. The Indians belonging to reservations
are peaceable enough, the wandering tribes
being the cause Of all the trouble. In Arizona
1t Is the Chirichuas the settlers fear most II
is estimated that In less than 10 years they have
killed more than 1000 persons. They are said
TO be the worst band Of Indians In America,
and the agent at that point has telegraphed
Secretary Teller that so long as these Indians
are alive and allowed to be at large, there will
be trouble
Ensign II. j. Hunt. of the Rodgers,
and scanned j. II. Bartlett, II. w. Leach, p. T.
Mansen and John Lauterbsch members Of the
crew OF the Jeanette, arrivedin New York on
the 9th inst. on board the steamer Westphalia
The party left Bolun, at the mouth of the Lena,
October Is last. The first stage Of their Jour
ney was to verkhoiausk, and occupied ten days
IL took ten days more to reach Yakoutsk, nine
days TO reach vitern, and two days TO reach
kirinsk. There one OF the party, Aniguin, an
Indian hunter, who was suffering from small
pox, became so Ill that Il was impossible for
him to proceed further, and Ensign Hunt sent
forward TO lrkoutsk, distance Of tour days,
seamen Leach and Lauterbach, with Thornum,
l,sa alxxtx< - IL
Aniguin and others of the party until the
Indian finally died, January 5. The party was
again reunited at Kirinsk and proceeded to-
gether to Irkoutsk, a distance Of four DAYS.
Thence they continued their journey to Oren-
burg, on the borders of Russia, distance
had been made In sleds over the snowy steppcs
OF Siberia, travelling night and day. At Oren-
burg they exchanged their sleds for steam cars
and travelled by railroad to st. Petersburg,
where they remained for one week and then
proceeded direct to Hamburg, where, on the
The party were met IN New York by Lieut..
Melville and others. They remained in New
York for day or two and then proceeded to
Washington, where they will testify before the
Jeannette inquiry committee. They say they
do not yet know what testimony has been given
by the other witnesses, nor what they can add
to what has already been told as they know
nothing beyond what Is also known to those
who have been already examined. Ensign Hunt
and members OF his party are In excellent
health, and the seamen show no trace of the
trials they endured. They are naturally much
pleased at their return TO this country and look
forward with eagerness to the pleasure of
again meeting the friends from whom they
have been so long separated.
The stockholders of the permanent
exhibition company at Philadelphia have resolv-
ed TO wind up the affairs of the company.
Dukes, the Pennsylvania seducer and
murderer, whose acquittal occasioned 90 much
excitement, has been busted from his seat In
the legislature Of that state.
Lord and Mum, the largest shippers
In Montreal of western produce 70 Great Brit
ain, have assigned. Their liabilities are at
least a quarter Of million dollars.
An Ottawa special to the Globe says
the tory party have formally decided to oppose |
every measure looking TO the promotion of |
reciprocal trade with the United States.