Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
TIE aesthetic Oscar Wilde sailed for
Europe afew days ago.
PAY-DIREcroR EDWARD C. DoRAN,
of the United States Nayy5was retired few
days ago.
BISHOP BENsON'S acceptance OF the
Archbishopric of Canterbury was officially
announced few days ago.
TAE Treasury Cattle Commission, the
other day leased tract of forty acres at
Passaic, New Jersey, for station.
THE first Chinese missionary from
this country to China, Rum Sing, left New
York few days ago on his way to his mis-
sion. ........-. .,..-
M. DE LEssEPs recently announced
scheme for the creation OF an inland sea in
Africa, to be prosecuted by private enter
prise.
AT the recent sale of articles accumu-
lated in the Dead. Let, er Office, the proceeds
amounted to 81 ,497, which sum was depos-
tied in the Treasury TO the credit of the
POst-ofice Department.
Four hundred tobacco-growers of
New England held a meeting at Hartford,
Conn, few days ago, and adopted petit
tion to Congress to impose duty of 81 a
pound on all foreign tobacco except from
Cuba.
FACTIONS of the Creek Indians were
at war in the vicinity of Okmulgee, Indian
Territory, where desperate battle occur
red few evenings ago. A detachment Of
Federal soldiers were sent to the scene and
disarmed $50 of ChicOte's men.
The naval hospital at Portsmouth,
Eng, was visited the other day by Queen
Victoria, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke
and Duchess of Edinburgh, who conferred
decorations on a number of eonvalescent
patients of the Egyptian campaign.
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THE President the other day issued an
executive order setting apart certain lands
In Dakota Territory for the Turtle Noun
tain band of Chippewa Indians, and such
other Indians of the Chippewa tribe as the
Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle
thereon.
ALL differences between the
manufacturers and employees in the shoe
trade at Cincinnati, o., with reference to
the schedule of wages flor the next six
months ending June 20 next were amfcably
adjusted few days ago by board of ar
bitratiOn.
In a communication to a London
eng. paper-the other day the Acting Gov
ernor of Iceland, the Bishops and other per-
sons of note said that Notwithstanding the
large donations received, there would be
great distress from want Of food in Iceland
during the winter.
The Khedive's decree degrading
Arab and other rebel pashas has been pub
lished. Public degradation was carried out
the other afternoon in the presence of two
battalions of the new Egyptian army. Only
a few Europeans and about a hundred ma.
tives were present. The prisoners had
started for Suez, whence they would be
transported to Ceylon.
MAJOR GAsKELL, of Dublin, Ireland,
one of the Government Committee on emf.
grafton, in a recent interview at Boston,
Mass, on the subject of Irish emigration
said this desire to emigrate is caused by the
inadequacy of crops. The object of Gaskelp.
visit is to inquire into State laws which beal
on emigration, and see what arrangement
exist for the reception OF emigrants. Thu
object of-the British Government is not t.
send these people out against their will no.
to stimulate emigration, but to help all wh'
are determined to go, but do not possess thu
means.
ESTIMATES of the expenses of TIT
Government for the appropriation bills il
course of preparation by the House of Rep
resentatives Washington were in amour
as follows: For pensions, SOL ,575, 900; for
tifcations, $1,OOO,OOO; navy, 500, 481, O75
legislative, executive and judicial expenses
$21 $40, 170: sundry civil expenditures, $34,
-, 1915; District of Columbia, $775, 149. Tn
pensions, Notifications and navy bills viii
be ready for report to the House immedia
tely after New Years. day. There remain
for preparation the general deficiency bill
and possibly river and harbor bill.
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For the five months which ende,
with November last, the number of immi
grants arriving in the United States wa
pa, GIL, against 291, 800 for the correspond
ing term in 1SS1-a falling off Of 46,7Ot
For the month of November last the arrival
numbered 40, 625, and in November, 1881
+ the figures were 81, 5S6-showing a reduC
tiOn Of 10,961. In the five months this yeal
Great Britain and Ireland sent 59, $50 c
their people, or ID, 122 less than last year
| Germany's quota for the same term this yea
| was 81 3O7. Last year it was 100, 479, the re
| duction this year being 16, 172. From Swede
and Norway the arrivals in the five month
of 1892 were $685. less than in the sam
months for 1881; while Canada sent 81, 81
in the period named for 1882, and only 81 Al
i in 1881. No other country named in the re
turns gave US more people this year tina
j last.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture,
his report to Congress relative to the wor
of his department, makes formidable ez
hibit of the distribution Of seeds alon
Under the special appropriation by Cor
gress OF $50. 600 for seeds to. the Souther
hoOaed districts, 59s,95e packages wei
sent. divided As folsoWA. Vegetables. 4l4
SIS; feId eofns q. 61ss heE4 peess q. so flel
besns, Geld millst 1856 fed CO.
{, ton. I59. TIE Whoie puHl5er Of seede EEL
out 81 the 6ureaa du1ine The year was !
packages or thes paskas.