Delta chief., 1884-12-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Congress met on the 1st.

The French ministry has resigned.
Governor Cleveland will resign the
Executive chair at Albany January6.
The President in his annual message
favors the suspension of silver coinage.
Eighty cases of hydrophobia are re-
ported In Vienna, with eleven deaths.
Mr.. Gladstone's Redistribution bill
will confer the franchise on 1000, 900 citizens.
The performance in New York for
the benefit of the Actors Fund yielded $10,-
OO0
Five Mormons have been convicted
| OF polygamy in Prescott, Arizona, during the
the week.
The Citizens Committee offer S., 200
for the detection of the ballot box suffers in
Chicago.
The New York Aldermen passed the
Broadway surface railway resolution over the
Mayors veto.
Many mills and factories in the east
which have been closed are resuming on re-
duced wages.
Jay Could friends contradict the ru-
NOR that he had bought out the Postal Tele-
graph Company.
A threatened riot among the Coolies
on the Island of Trinidad resulted in the death
of fifty Of them.
Francis ID. Moulton, who was prom
inent in the Beecher-Tilton scandal, as mu-
tual friend, is dead.
Melville, the bigamist, was sentenced
to seven years in the Ohio penitentiary, the
full extent Of the law.
The United States steamer Boston,
was successfully launched at Roach's ship-yard
At Chester, Pennsylvania
The loss by the partial burning of
Fishers piano factory In New York was $780,
900. Total insurance, s25O,0OO.
The iron mills of Pittsburg are max
ing sweeping reductions in their pay rolls by
reducing wages or discharging men.
Howard Sullivan, of New Jersey, the
murderer Of Ella Watson, was hung Tuesday
morning. He confessed his crime.
George Rankin, of Woods Run.
WuhS hauuhbb buppooSo
empty gun, shot and killed his mother.
St. Louis is endeavoring to perfect ar
rangements by which that city win become .
center Of the wool traffic of the country.
The Irish-Americans are endeavoring
to raise fund of 100000 to pay the Irish
members Of Parliament an annual salary.
The Oklahoma colonists announce
their intention Of moving from Arkansas City,
Kansas, into the Indian Territory at once.
The National Guard OF California
will send battalion OF ssventy-iivc men, to
participate in the inaugural ceremonies, in
March.
The stables of the Halls Springs Pas
senger Railway in Baltimore burned. Fifty
one horses persisted. Loss, t2o, 600; insurance,
$1,000.
The Utah Commission in their report
to Congress recommend that more stringent
measures be adopted for the suppression Of
poygamy.
A general suspension of work is
probable at the numerous mills Of Carnegie
Brathers Il Co, Piitsburg. They employ
5000 men.
The heads Of the labor organizations
n Plttsburg will hold meeting to consider
the way for relieving the striking Hooking
Valley miners.
A delegation of Arapaboe and Chey-
enue Indians are in Washington endeavoring
o secure q legal title to their lands in the In;
dian Territory.
James Nolan is being hunted through
the mountains in Virginia Tor killing his
brother iu-law, Calvin Smith, at Monnt Pleas
ant, Kentucky.
The private banking firm Of Rayncr,
S,agrave d Co., at Toledo, OHIO has assigned.
Their secured liabilities are f2Jo,0o0; unse-
cured, s15OCoo.
While the Salvation Army were hold
ing meeting in large hall In saco, Maine,
he building was fired by an inccndiary. No
body was injured
The Galveston NeUS claims that that
city is the natural outlet as seapot for TWEEN
ty states and Territories containing popu-
lation Of II, ,276,000.
the Union Pacific earnings for Octo-
Der were s2,G8i, 900, or s2s6,Oo0 less than in
October, 1888 The expenses were q, 177,0O0,
a decrease Of s296,O00.
1t is rumored that the Eastern fur
mace men contemplate reduction Of one dol
lar per ton In iron In order to compete with