Morris tribune., 1884-03-19
The NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday, March 10.

In the Hooking and Sunday Greek
valleys 1890 miners are idle because of the
haulers strike against reduction.
The first fast mail train from New
York, with the postmaster general and party
on board, has arrived in Chicago promptly.
The cotton exchange of Galveston
unanimously adopted resolutions urging
Texas congressman to oppose the further
coinage of silver dollars
Ten towns in Ulster county, New
York, voted mo license" Ellenville women
threatened to boycott merchants who sup
| ported the whisky interest.
Tuesday, March II.
Marshal Field, of Chicago, has taken
out a permit to erect an eleven-story structure
in that city.
Gen. Grant held reception in his
| parlor in the hotel at Fortress Monroe. His
| arrival was honored by the firing of ma
tional salute.
A snowslide half mile wide in the
Little Cottonwood, Friday, swept away the
works of the new Emma mine and killed
twelve persons.
A great assemblage at Tresvillo wit
messed the driving of the last spike in the
Mexican Central railroad, making a continu-
Gus line from the capital to the Rio Grande.
Gen. Berdan, the American who has
so long supplied guns to foreign powers, has
invented new one which, he asserts, sur
passes all others in its rapid destructive
powers.
Wednesday,, March I2.
Wizards portrait of Wendell Phillips
will be presented to Harvard college by
Joseph Cook.
The treaty OF peace between Chill
and Peru has been ratified by the Peruvian
constituent assembly.
Several fashionable churches in the
east are considering the propriety OF charging
admission the same as theatres.
The British training-ship Warspite
has rescued so, 400 children from poverty and
degradation and trained them for the sea.
Twenty-seven clearing houses report
81, rs, 62S, 05S clearances the past week, show
ing an increase over the corresponding period
of last year exceeding 11.6 per cent.
Active preparations are being made
at Dodge City, Kan. for the convention of
the Western Kansas Stock-Growers' associa-
ton, beginning April 2. The association
owns $4,000, 0OO worth of cattle; and leading
cattle-men throughout the union will attend
the gathering.
Thursday. March IS.
The senate has ratified the Mexican
treaty by a vote of Al to 20.
The Massachusetts house has passed
the bill Furnishing wife-beaters by flogging.
The manufacture of perfumes from
local grown flowers is becoming an extensive
industry in Florida.
Capt. Hunter, of the Salvation army
at Bridgeport, Conn, sues the chief of police
for ST., OO0for false arrest.
At the Kennel club exhibition in New
Haven 400 dogs are shown, three of them
being valued at S., 900 each.
Sitting Bull is being taken to Min
| neapolis by Maj. Mclaughlin to see some
thing of life among the whites.
There were twelve victims of the re-
cent avalanche at Woodstock, Colo, the
bodies of ten of whom have been recovered
Fred Douglass, although constant
attendant on the woman suffrage convention
in Washington, was quietly ignored on &C
count of his recent marriage, notwithstand-
ing his bride was always prominent in the
cause.
Friday, March Ia.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron cele-
brated in Florida his S5th birthday.
The deficit in the indirect taxes in
France for January and February amount
to II, 500, 900 francs
The Massachusetts, house, by vote
of IA to 30, defeated the bill to extend munic-
| ipal suffrage to women.
There are 219 students at the Texas
| state university, thirty of them young women,
who are classed with the men.
The yield of lard in Cincinnati this
season is reported at II, 475, 900 pounds, de-
crease of 1896, 900 pounds from last season.
Western manufacturers Of brass are
said to have formed syndicate to control
the market. Three large establishments have
| already been absorbed.
In opposition to the wishes of the
| supporters of Blaine, the Maryland Repub-
ican committee decided to have the delegates
| to the Chicago convention elected by district
| conventions.
A bill has been introduced in the
| legislature of Massachusetts, which prohibits
! the exhibition of deformed persons who are
| minors or insane, and of persons who have
an appearance Of deformity produced by
artificial means.
Saturday, March 10.
Yellow fever is claiming many VIC
Tins at Tehuantepec, Mexico.
England proposes to regulate the
sale Of patent medicines in that country here
! after.
The recent floods destroyed fifty-fve
bridges in the Ohio valley, which it will cost
| $40, 600 to replace.
The French have occupied BAG Mini.
The victors had seventy wounded, and the
| Chinese loss was heavy.
Twenty-one students were graduated
by the Woman's Medical college of Pennsyl-
vania at Philadelphia.
During the stay of the white ele-
| plant in England more than 10000 visitors
have passed the turn-stiles at the Geological
gardens.
The governor of Texas paid reward
of 500 for the arrest of .fence-cutter in
jackson county, while the fine imposed by
the court was only $40.
Bradlaugh, while endes.voring to
| speak at Bridgewater in opposition to per-
| petual pensions, was suppressed by a shower
! OF rotten eggs, fruit and fireworks.
Winter wheat in the district about
jackson, Mich, is in promising condition.
The secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture of Kansas reports the crop in that state
| in an average condition.
Trichiniasis, engendered by home
bred pork, has developed at Sc yeral places in
| Germany. The Lyons chamber of COM
MERGE entered a protest against the en-
barge on American hog product.
Baker Pasha's restoration to his rank
as colonel in the English army, which was
| taken away from him some four years ago,
| is now being urged in London; but, as such
action would require the queens consent it
is not probable that the movement will sue
| coed.
How She Thanked Him.
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