The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-11
MSCEELkNENUS.

A LARGE number of nominations were
made to various Offices to be confirmed by
the Senate on December Sd.
THE annual report of the Chief of the
Revenue Marine Service showed that the
relief work performed excelled that of any
other year. They assisted 246 merchant
vessels shipwrecked or distressed, valued
with cargoes at $7,O0O,G00, and saved many
whose lives were iInporiled.
A SERIOUS plague lately took hold OF the
swine near Wheeling, w. Va, and made
serious inroGds among the herds. The
losses amounted to thousands of dollars in
few days, and should the present reme-
dies fail the losses will be incalculable.
The attention of the County Court was di-
rected to the matter by the County Health
Board, which urged the Importance
of immediate action. The disease
was a contagious eneric fever analo-
gous to typhoid fever in man, and is known
as hog cholera. Quarantine will prevail
against it 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 endeavor to have a bill pro-
viding appropriations for the improvement
of rivers and harbors, ready to report to
the House, January II. The committee
has decided to make, as FAR as practicable,
an appropriation of twenty-five per cent.
oc& do h--f fha Of
engineers, and 70 limit, if possible, the ag-
gregate to $50, 100000.
ORRIN A. CARPENTER, once charged with
the murder of Fora Burns at Lincoln, H.,
year ago, but subsequently tried and &c
quilted, was shot at recently in Lincoln by
William II. Burns, the father of the muir
dered girl. The bullet missed its mark.
MRS. JOHN HAGERTY, aged sixty years,
was run over and instantly killed a few
days ago in the Wabash yards at Jackson
vile. III. Thomas Brunk, the yardmaster,
at the risk of his life pushed from the track
daughter of the deceased woman and
saved her life.
A SUIT brought by the Public-Deb Syn
dicate 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.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred in
the Monongahela and Peters Creek Coal
Company's mine, near Coal Bluff, Pa, q
few mornings ago, and fatally injured two
miners named James Sharpless and Michael
Boyle. The day force, which numbered
about 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 insensible
both men. Fortunately the other miners
were in a different part of the mine at the
time. Sharpless and Boyle were rescued
soon after and everything possible done 70
alleviate their sufferings.
THE general managers of the Missouri
River lines at a meeting at Chicago de-
cided to order the restoration of passenger
rates TO Missouri River points. The new
rates are S1O.J0 to the river points and the
arrangement is that these rates are to run
two years. General satisfaction was ex-
pressed at the termination of the war.
SECRETARY MCCULLoCH'S recent pro-
nouncement in favor of tariff reform, par
ticularly his Recommendation for a reduc-
ton, or the abolition OF the duty upon for
eign raw material, was lately the theme of
wide discussion in public circles at Wash
ington. Republicans denounced the views
as rank treason to their party, while
Democratic revenue reformers were jubi-
liant that Mr.. McCulloch practically en-
dorsed the principles underlying the Nor
rison bill, and vindicated the action of
those who supported it.
A HORRIBLE murder was committed
few nights ago at Van Buren,, Ark. Jo-
seph S. Houck, a township Constable, was
endeavoring to arrest desperate named
John Williams, and was searching for him
at the house of another negro when VIII
liams stepped up behind him with double
barrelled shot gun and blew the whole top
of his head of. Houck died instantly, the
head being nearly severed from the body.
After doing the shooting Williams mounted
Houck's horse and escaped to the woods.
He was subsequently captured by an armed
posse.
! A TRAGEDY occurred at NechesTius