The Red Cloud chief., 1884-12-12
MISCEIIiNED,S.

4 LARGE number Of nominations were
made to various offices to he confirmed 10y
the Senate on December 81.
THE annual report of the Chief of the
Revenue Marine Service showed that the
relief work performed excelled that of any
ether year. They assisted 30 merchant
vessels shipwrecked or distressed, valued
with cargoes at S7.0O0,ooo, and saved many
whose lives were imrrriled.
\ SERIOUS plague lately took hold Of the
swine near Wheeling, ". Va, and made
serious inroads among the herds. The
losses amounted to thousands OF dollars iii
n few days, and should the present RENE
dies fail the losses will be incalculatle.
The attention of the County Court was di-
recte,l to the matter by the County Health
Board, which urged the Importance
of immediate action. The disease
was u contagious encric fever analo-
gous To typhoid fever in man. II i is known
as hog cholera. Quarantine viii prevail
against il if strictly maintained, and the
Board of Health was instructed TO inaugu-
rate perfect isolation, while the Court en-
acted a severe hog law. The disease made
its appearance on the farm Of j.. W. Mich
oils, in the district, and rapidly spread in
every direction.
THE House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors will endcavor to have a bill pro-
viding appropriations for the Improvement
of rivers and harbors, ready to report 10
the House, january IL. The committee
has decided TO make. as far as practicable,
an appropriation of twenty-five per cent.
of the estimates made by the corps of army
engineers, and TO limit, if possible, the az
gregate to SSD.O01.OO0.
ORRIS a. CARPENTER, once charged with
the murder of Fora Burns Mt Lincoln, ILL.,,
n year ago, but subsequently tried and &C
quilted, was shot at recently in Lincoln by
William H.. Burns, the father of the muir
dered girl. The bullet missed its mark.
Mrs. JOHN HAGERrY, aged sixty years,
was run over and instantly killed a few
days ago in the Wabash yards at Jackson
vile. Ill. Thomas Brunk, the yardmaster,
at the risk of his life pushed from the track
q daughter of the deceased woman and
saved her life.
A SUIT brought by the Public Debt SYM
dictate against the Egyptian Government to
prevent the latter from diverting certain
taxes from the sinking fund To the general
Treasury was lately decided against the
Government.
Az explosion OF fire damp occurred in
the Monongahela and Peters Creek Coal
Company's mine. near Coal Bluff. Pa. n
few mornings ago. and fatally injured two
miners named James Sharpless and Michael
Boyle. The day force. which numbered
about a dozen men had just gone TO work,
and SharplesS and BOYLE were pushing,
when the gas ignited from their naked
lamps. and an explosion followed, which
terribly burned and rendered insenSihlc
both men. Fortunately the other miners
were in n different part Of the mine at the
time. Sharpless and Boyle were rescued
soon after and everything possible done %
alleviate their sufrerings.
II general managers OF the Missouri
River lines at a meeting at Chicago de-
cided 10 order the restoration of passenger
rates 10 Missouri River points. The new
rates are Sl0.J0 TO the river points and the
arrangement is that these rates are 10 run
two years. General satisfaction was ex-
pressed At the termination OF the war.
SECRETARY NcCULLoCH'S recent pro-
nouncement in favor of tariff reform. par
ticularly his Recommendation for a roduc-
ton, or the abolition of the duty upon for
eign raw material, was lately the theme of
discussion in public circles at Wash
Republicans denounced the views
as rank reason to their party, while
Democratic revenue reformers were Jubi-
LIANT that Mr.. McCulloch practically en-
the principles underlying the Nor
rison bill. and vindicated the acton OF
those who supported it.
A HORRIBLE murder was commifsed q
few nights ago at Van Buren,. Ark 20
seph S. Houck. q township Constable. SaS
e~ndeavoring to arrest desperate nan9d
John Williams, and was searching for ha
at the house of another negro when W1E
Hams stepped up behind him with a double
barrelled shot gun and blew the whole top
his head of. Houck died instantly, tho
head being nearly severed from the body,
After doing the shooting Williams mounteg
Houck's horse and escaped to the w9Eas-
He was subsequently, captured by an d
posse.
A TRAGEDY occurred at - e