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

Elder Morgan, presiding elder of the
Mormon church, left Chattanooga, Tenn, with
100 converts for Utah, from all parts OF the
south Ninety missionaries south claim 900
converts annually.
DIR. Otto Wilhelm Strive, director of
the imperial observatory at Pulkowa, Russia,
has arrived to test the object glass completed
at Cambridgeport on the order OF the Russian
government. The glass Is the largest ever con
structed, being 30 inches In diameter.
The mayor and postmaster of Empire
City, Kan, issued an appeal for aid to nurse and
care for the 80 persons who are down with
small pox The city Is quarantined against by all
surrounding places and the disease is said To
be on the increase. Much distress prevails and
money, provisions and medicines, particularly
money to pay nurses, are needed badly.
Despairing of overcoming the OBJ
structions In the Braidwood mine, which now
make difficult the search for the remaining
bodies, correspondent states that the owners
| are considering proposition to close and abRn-
don the mine and erect over the entrance a
monument to the memory Of those entombed.
The suggestion is opposed by friends Of the
dead men,
An earthquake shock was felt
throughout California on the 81 of March. In
southern California the shock was very severe.
An accident occurred on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad which threw = north
| bound passenger train from the track. Sixty
| persons were more or less injured, but no lives
were lost. The train was going about 40 miles
| an hour, when for some cause II left the track
and rolled down the einbankment 80 feet. Two
| sleeping cars were completely wrecked and one
car burned. The cause Of the accident was
| broken rail.
Nearly dozen of the principal lead
| ers of the prohibition movement In Missouri,
including DR.. j. A. Brook, president of the
state temperance association; Senator Is. Gratz
Brown, the Rev. Dr. W. e.. Elliott, chancellor
OF Washington university In st. Louis, and ex-
Gov. Cnas. 7. johnson, have been in consulta-
ton regarding the action OF the Legislature In
refusing TO submit prohibition proposition to
the people OF the state, and TO consider. what ia
best TO be done for the promotion OF the cause
| They will issue an address, In which they will
declare that they do not propose to organize a
distinct party, but will try TO shape the matter
so that the next legislature shall be composed
| OF members so FAR committed to prohibition
that they will vote to submit a constitutional
amendment to the people on that subject. They
intend to make prohibition direct issue at the
next election, and express a belief that they
can carry the legislature.
The Finance Minister of Canada has
announced the changes In the tariff list. The
| free list will include books, bound, printed
| over seven years or printed by any government
| or scientific associations, not for trade, manu-
| scripts, chronometers and compasses for ships.
| Copper In sheets, Iron and steel, old and scrap
iron beams, sheets or plates, and knees for iron
or composite ships, street railway bars or rails,
| fish plates and In sheets for manufacture
screws, tobacco and snuff, specific duty OF
| twenty cents pound; turpentine, spirits, ten
per cent. bells, except for churches, thirty per
cent, now dutiable according to MATERIAL cloth
| of other materials than cotton or woolens is
made uniform at thirty per cent. vaseline and
similar preparations Of petroleum in bulk. five
cents In bottle, or six cents per pound; Wooden
hosiery the same as wooden clothing; dress and
costume cloths under twenty-five inches wide
and weighing not less than three ounces per
square yard. twenty per cent yarns Of wool or
worsted, two-ply or more, different colors, COM
bined or mohair yarns, white or any color, i'm
ported by manufacturers, twenty per cent. !;
agricultural implements and machines to pay
a specific and ad valorem duty equal to thirty
five per cent, portable machines, spades, hoes
| and forks, the same.