Morris tribune., 1884-02-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monday. February ne.

now in session at Lincoln, ILL.,, favors tho
tariff Of 1861.
The secretary Of the treasury in Mex
leo has imposed per cent additional duties
on all goods entering after May Is.
The winter packing Of hogs in
Chicago shows a decrease of 459, 1000 COM
pared with the corresponding period of last /
year.
The editorship of The London Times
has been rendered to Leonard H. Courtney,
of the treasury department, who for years
has been a regular contributor.
Mrs. Joseph Cook has entered the
lecture field taking for her theme "The |
Temples and Tombs of Hindostan," and illus
trating her remarks with stereopticon views
Tuesday, February 10.
John G. Fremont is reported to be
seriously i'll at his Staten Island home.
The knights of Labor have petitioned
the Canadian parliament to abolish assisted |
emigration to the Dominion.
Some enthusiastic hunters in Waco,
Tex, chased an animal for several miles,
thinking it a wolf, but it proved to be yell
low dog.
Bradlaugh has o brother who is ac-
lively engaged in evangelical work. and who
hopes for the would-be Nj. P's conversion to
Christianity.
The concert given in Cincinnati by
Abbey's company for the benefit of flood
sufferers realized S7,641.6O, and the money
was placed in the hands of the Cincinnati
relief committee
The decision of the Illinois supreme
min thn Hot. lou
caused the Chicago council to pass an Or
dinance fixing licenses at $500 for spirituous
liquors and $3.50 for beer, to take effect
Immediately.
Wednesday, February go.
After strike of seven months dura-
ton, all the Pittsburg glass factories have re-
sumed work.
G. S. Palmer, of Vermont, has been
nominated as associate justice of the supreme
court of Dakota.
Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper, daugh-
ter of the story-teller, is described as an old
maid schoolmarm
Wheat remains inanimate in English
markets and flour is cheaper. The cargo
trade is unusually sluggish.
Mr.. Irving's engagement in Chicago
"e1o OLO lelI EOoo OfC2 LII 6aALOkACct. ii1O
receipts for the three weeks were nearly
S55OOO
The governor of California is about
to call an extra session of the legislature to
take action in regard to the unpaid taxes of
the Central Pacific road, which aggregate
$1,O74,OOO.
At a meeting in Chicago of the
executive committee of the Western Export
association it was resolved to raise $4,000 by
assessment to make good the losses sustained
by distillers in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
Thursday, February 81.
AS being without precedent, the
refused to appropriate $1,000 for the flood
sufferers.
Six hogs recently killed in the
vicinity of La Salle Illinois, were discovered
to be infected with parasites.
President Gable, of the Rock Island
road, says the stock is so distributed that
Vanderbilt cannot secure control.
The Iowa senate has passed the
Donnan bill prohibiting the manufacture Of
ale, wine, beer, and all intoxicating liquors
whatever by a vote of IS to Is.
The motion in the British parliament
to censure the Gladstone ministry was de-
feated-31i to 262-the total vote being 573
The Irish Nationalist thirty-four in number,
voted against the government
Matthew Arnold, at lunch given in
his honor by French and English citizens of
Montreal, took occasion to reflect on the
Roman Catholics for their illiberal doctrines,
whereupon several of his hosts left the table.
Virginia will send to the National
Republican convention at Chicago two sets
of delegates. Malone and his friends are
understood to be hostile to Blaine, on &C
count of his opposition to their Readjuster
schemes
Friday, February 22.
Gen. Fremont has completely re-
covered his health
: A lecturer on the Indians says
there are no swear words in the Indian
language
Returns from 100 counties in Mis-
souri, show an increase of $40, 900 900 in tax
able property over the assessment of last
year.
While at target practice in the
suburbs of Erie, Pa, John McLoad deliber-
ately fired at two boys, who were passing,
, wounding both seriously. He has not been
arrested.
HughJ Jewett is director in twenty
railroad companies, Samuel Sloan in twenty
three, Jay Gould in twenty-four, George B.
Roberts in twenty.six, Augusta Schell in
twenty-eight, Sidney Dillon in thirty six,
and Frederick L. Ames in fifty two.
Gold to the amount of $2,000,000
was shipped from New York to Europe
The sheriff of Dallas county, Texas,
has gone to Kaufman with trained blood
hounds to run down negro murderer.
Mrs. Parnell, the mother of the Irish
agitator, is in extremely feeble health, yet
she attends meetings occasionallyiand delivers
addresses.
Cattle-raisers state that the late
t storms have killed 10 per cent. of the stock on
the Canadian and Beaver rivers, and that
the Remainder are quite thin in flesh.
The grading on the Mexican Central
road has been finished, and the gap in the
track is only thirty miles. The first remittance
to Boston from the earnings of the compa ny
, has been made.
The carnival at New Orleans opened
by procession of the Knights of Momus.
A military parade will take place, and a
| colossal statue of Gen. Lee will be unveiled
by his daughters
} A gold watch with bullet in the
back of the case, where it lodged after going
through the timepiece, belongs to w. r. Nc
Gunnigle, Of Saginaw, Mich. It saved his
fathers life during the war.
, Senator Plumb has reported from
the committee on agriculture q bill to pro.
vide for the erection of the department. of
int, iyn
for making the chief officer Of that depart
ment cabinet officer, with the title Of secre-
tary Of agriculture and the same salaries as
other heads Of departments. 1t also provides
, for an assistant secretary of agriculture, with
the same salary now paid the assistant secre-
tary Of the interior
Saturday, February 81.
The German semi-official journals
openly demand the recall of Minister Sargent.
! It is stated that the wheat and fruit
crops in Southern California will be greatly