Morris tribune., 1884-02-20
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Monday. FEBRUARY II.

Each of Earl Granville's replies to
Mr. Lowell in the case of Patrick O'Donnell
was confined to q single sentence.
The khedive of Egypt cherishes the
fear that there are plots against his life, and
daily sends his wife to the kitchen to inspect
the food prepared for him.
George w. Cass and others have Sc
cured at Springfield license to organize the
Chicago, ST. Louis & Southwestern Tele-
graph company, with a capital of S5.000,0O0.
The Bankers & Merchants Tele-
graph company has purchased the lines of the
Pacific Mutual, and proposes to complete
circuit from Chicago to Bismarck and Dem
ver
A meeting to honor the memory of
Wendell Phillips was held at Faneuil hall,
Boston Julia Ward Howe was among the
speakers. Instead of parading on st. Pat
rick's day, the Irish will give lectures in the
evening, the proceeds to go to the Phillips
statue fund.
Tuesday, February 12.
Thomas Cheney, for the past seven
years editor of The London Times, has passed
away.
St. Louis claims to have mannfac-
tured last year, 23, 900, 900 pounds of tobacco.
which beats the record.
Mrs. Mary Lynch, residing in War
lren township, Brewer county, Iowa, died at
the advanced age Of los years.
At banquet in Paris De Lesseps
stated the scheme for creating a sea in the
desert of Sahara will shortly be realized.
Judd Crouch, of Jackson, Mich, has
been arrested for an attempt to murder De-
tective Brown, and furnished bail in $4,000.
Over $4,000 of the 4, 440,822 pieces of
mail matter that were sent to the dead letter
office last year contained checks, money, ETC.,
to the amount of about Sl,09O,0OO
Ri. Moore and George W. Wyatt,
the only colored members of the Texas legis-
lature, sit apart from the other members and
appear to be spectators merely of the pro-
ceedings.
Thomas Kinsella, editor of The
Brooklyn Eagle, is dead. He was postmaster
under President johnson, a member of con-
gress, and delegate to three national Demo-
cratic conventions. He leaves large for
tune to a wife and five daughters.
Wednesday. February l3.
A new brand of stove-polish has
been named in honor of Fred. Douglass.
Augusta, Ca, still depends on vol
unteer fire department, and an old bell
tower to locate fires.
A Youngstown, Ohio, man, named
Altzhul, went insane because his employer
accused him of dishonesty, dying maniac.
The grand jury at Fargo, D. T., is
about to investigate the removal of the cap
ifa1 into nf NJ
Orday.
Vanderbilt is credited with recent
large investments in stocks Of the roads CEN
tering at Chicago, and in coal properties in
Pennsylvania.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says
Wendell Phillips, who abominated titles,
would have been called Col. Phillips had he
lived in the south.
Oscar Wilde has just completed his
lecture tour in Ireland. Miss Lloyd, the
young lady whom he is to marry, accom-
panied him everywhere.
Frank James has been held by the
federal court at Kansas City, on a charge of
robbing a United States paymaster at Mussel
Shoals, Ala. 1t is likely he will be tried in
Alabama.
Bradlaugh has applied for the
stewardship of the Chiltern hundred, in or
der to surrender the seat he claims in the
house of commons, and a writ has been issued
for all election in Northampton to fill the
vacancy.
Thursday, February Ia.
Mrs. Kate Chase, formerly Mrs.
Sprague, is travelling in Germany.
r11,o l., 5;o, -, 4ho Coo
Francisco mint receive each So. rs day.
The Mexican government has appro-
priated $780, 900 for suitable representation
at the worlds exhibition in New Orleans
A portrait of Wendell Phillips will
be painted for Faneuil hall, Boston, but Mrs
Phillips objects to the erection of statue.
Gen. Sheridan has gone to New York
to have conference with Gen, Grant. The
latter is still forced to wear crutches to get
about his house.
A congressional apportionment bill
was passed by a strict PARTY vote by the Vir-
| ginia legislature, giving eight districts to the
Democrats and two to the CoalitioTsts
An attempt is being made in Boston
| to break the will of Mrs. Eliza F. Eddy, who
left SAC, 900 to Susan B. Anthony and Lucy
| Stone Blackwell in trust for the woman
| suffrage cause.
Secretary Lincoln's proposed trip to
| Chicago has been abandoned, he deeming it
| proper to give his whole attention to the
management and distribution Of the award
| to the flood sufferers.
While giving an alleged spiritualist
manifestation in the Imperial palace at
| Vienna, Bastian, who bore malodorous rep
utation in Chicago, was exposed in his tricks
by the Grown Prince Rudolph.
| Friday, February Is.
George Alfred Townsend has written
drama entitled "Oliver Cromwell"
Gen. Robert Toombs en- Wendell
Phillips. Gle was an internal machine set to
music"
A BOOKSELLER of experience prophesies
| that this will be the greatest year of racing
in history.
| Mexico proposes to send to the worlds
| exposition at New Orleans a band of musicians
and a corps of cadets.
Fish tugs at St. Joseph, Mich, can
find only few of the 600 nets they cast be-
| fore the recent storm,
IuEeo aGGeleldlGS LII tuS - oaGS LuutttC
asylum at Utica, N. Y, were arrested for
causing the death of a patient
| Bills are before congress asking the
appropriation of $40, $780, QUO for the erection
| of eighty-nine public buildings
/ Seventy-two oal-pits in Pennsyl-
| sylvania. employing 5000 men, will on Mon
| day resume work at the wages paid last fall.
| President Arthur has ordered the
promotion of Lieut. Rhodes, of the revenue
cutter Dexter, for heroic work at the wreck
Of the steamer City of Columbus,
Lord Butte has given an order to Miss
| Edmonia A. Edwards, the American negro
sculptures, to execute marble statue of the
Virgin Mary for one Of his chapels,
I'll There were 1875 accidents last year
in the Pacific coal mines; 1913 deaths, making
| 1853 widows and 51s orphans phere was one
death to every 10000 tons taken out.
| For the third time since the year
| opened, northern Texas wears mantle of