Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-12-27
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.

| BabDit the soap man, has been sued for
SIOO,OOO damages by the husband of female
detective to whom Babbi had paid $4,000.
| For the week ending December Is, 37s, 49l
| standard silver dollars were coined In the Unit
| ed States minis.
Carlisle is the fourth KentuckIan who has
been speaker OF the House.
Over !, ZOO, 900 OF Mark I waln's books have
have been sold, one-third of this number hay
ing been purchased in England.
Luigi MONT, the young Scllian of Longfel
lows Wayside Inn, has been American con-
| sui at Palermo for the last IL years.
| Twenty-three skeletons found In making an
| excavation In Dickey county, Dakota are be.
| lieved to be those of a scouting party sent out
| from the 9th Iowa cavalry to fight Indians In
| 1868.
| The United States supreu, court has de
| cided that the conviction of the Indian, Crow
Dog for the murder of Spotted tail, Is illegal,
| and that the Indian must be tried In the usual
way by the tribe 10 which the murder was com
mitted.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Association of
| Philadelphia does not like the Moody and
Sankey hymns, one prominent divine of that
august body declaring ''the hymns were
| enough to turn the stomach OF a spiritual
| man."
Mormon missionaries arc doing good ''busi-
ness" In Texas.
Lieutenant Danehower is to marry soon
daughter OF ex-Speaker Sloan, of the New
York Assembly.
The trial Of Elliott and co consplrators at
Dublin has been postponed owing to the sick
| ness Of one Of the jurors.
Rev. w. T. Clarke, once editor of Tilton's
Golden Age, and of late years editorial writer
on the New York Express, is dead.
After the preliminary hearing in the New
Orleans riot case all the prisoners but one were
discharged, and he was held for manslaughter
Reorganization of the Senate postponed I'M
I'll after the holiday recess.
Another expedition for the relief of Lieut..
Greeley is proposed
Irish politicians aud others in Washington
are very indignant at the course pursued by
Minister Lowell in regard to O'Donnell's exc
cution.
Over 10000, 600 bushels of sweet potatoes and
$50, 100000 bushels CT Irish potatoes are raised
in this country each year.
Three fremNn In Lowell, Mass, were crushed
under falling walls at a fire In that city. AL
though seriously injured they will live.
Whisky men say that unless the extension of
the bonded period Is granted, $40, 600 600 I'm
taxes will be squeezed" out OF them IN the
next two years.
One Of the bills introduced in the House the
other day has been presented to every Con-
gress since 1852. Like Tennyson's brook n
will probably Ego on forever"
Railway mail service was placed on 5000
miles of new roads from July TO December
10, mostly IN the south, west and northwest.
A proposed practical joke of boys at Paris,
Illinois, resulted in the shooting of two others
one fatally, and perhaps the second
BY boiler explosion in Pittsburg oil re-
finery six persons were injured and three of
them may not recover.
Gen. Grant has been informed by telegram
that the Bartnoldi statue is finished.
Poole, who murdered Kenney in Seville
place, Dublin, July 4, 1882, was hanged on the
18th In that city.
The khedive CT Egypt has notified the Eng
lish government that he cannot meet the pres
ent emergency I'm that country unless support
cd by other than Egyptian troops.
In the Banks county, Ga. kuklux case five
men pleaded guilty and were sentenced 10
two years imprisonment and $500 fine each.
Richard Wagner, a naturalz ed citizen of
Philadelphia, went to his home In Poland a
few weeks ago and has been sent to Siberia
for life for having come % America to eyade
military duty.
There Is every prospect Of the passage of a
bankrupt law at this session Of Congress.
George Grant murdered Pat Jones, polise-
man of Kansas City, about year ago. He
has been twice sentenced TO death for the
crime, and the supreme court 90 Missouri has
just remanded the case, giving the murderer
another chance for his life.
Washington Territory politicians petition
President Arthur TO appoint Mrs. Dunway,
leader OF the woman's suffrage cause, as gov.
ernor OF the territory.
Victor Hugo wrote 10 Queen Victoria inter-
ceding for O'Donnol. Irishmen in Paris
adopted resolutions thanking the great novel
LIST for his effort.
Matthew Arnold delivered lecture In WASH
iugton the other night and was introduced to