Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-02

The proposed organic union between the
British Methodist Episcopal church OF Canada
and the African M Il. church of the United
States has finally been coDsummated. The
Canad, N church takes the name "African" IN
place uf "British" under tine new regime and
becomes the Tenth Episcopal district OF the
African M. Il. church, presided over by Bishop
X. X. Disney. 1be publication department for
the Canadian district Is located at Chatham,
Ont, OF which Rev. Walter Grayson has been
elected general agent.
Burlington, VT, is m de port OF export In
bond, under the Washington treaty.
Reported that 70, COO head Of cattle are near
the Texas boundry waiting entrance into New
Mexico, but the Texas fever quarantine Will
probably be Kept Ia force another month.
The acts Of the South Pegan indians of
Montana, In compelling payment OF 10 cents
per 100 pounds by Canadian rancbmen driving
cattle across their reserve, Is likely to be the
subject Of correspondence between the Do
minion and u. 3. governments.
Students of the university at Kieff, Russia,
are forbidden to assemble In groups upon pain
Of instant dismissal.
Democrats and Butterflies OF the old Key
stone state line "fuse" on the electoral ticket.
Commissioner Gregory, of the civil service
commission, says government employees must
be protected from compulsory contributions
to political funds.
Ii Hung Chang, the famous viceroy Of Pee
Chi Ii and leader Of the peace party 10 China,
whose power and Ii hueDce had been greatly
curtailed by the government, has been rein
stated In all the offices he formerly held.
In anticipation Of prolonged war with France,
China is "layiDg In" large store Of provisions
from San Francisco.
. About $50 Italian and Hungarian laborers
were recently imported into the District OF
Columbia. Workingmen OF the District. both
white and colored, are highly incensed and
trouble /, feared.
The Chinese government has applied through
Mr.. Young, our Minister at Pekin, for 30C(
square feet for It's display at the approaching
New Orleans exposition. Mr.. Burke Director
General, has been written TO upon the subject
by tie Department Of State.
About 100 tons of the standard silver dollars
| have been removed from the crowded vaults o.
| the treasury department TO the new receptacle,
provided for them.
| Four cars Of a Grand Trunk train wer,
| thrown down q 25-foot embankmeut about 81
miles from Toronto few days ago. Two o.
the cars were burned. No lives lost.
zen. Grants Philadelphia house is to b.
sold to liquidate his debts,
Department clerks who ere voters In Obi,
and West Virginia will be allowedto go hom
to vote. The states furnishes them cheaI
transportation.
Blaine is said to be suffering froIa Bright
disease.
| Acting Secretary Coon has been designated
| by the President To act as Secretary Of TIL
Treasury during the absence OF the new Secre
1 tary, Gep. Gresham.
Galbraith McMullin, aged 1O5 years, has Jus
died near oil city, Pa.
The potato acreage and yield IN the Canadial
| prcvipoaa Nau EnoIanH Maui Xorx mr..
considerably below last years.. The Western
crop Il also below the average Rot and grub
| the cause.
Two Jersey COWS suffering from pleuro
pneumonia were killed at Geneva n. y, recent
~. In one OF them the lungs adhered to tn
ribs.
At Paterson, N. j, Charles r. Rice
travelling agent for Chase Bros., nursery
| men, Rochester, killed hiuiself when about 3
be taken to jail on charge Of swindiing hi
employers.
Postmaster General Gresham has been az
pointed secretary Of the treasury, vice Folger
deceased. He took the oath Of Office Just be
fore midnight Sept. 23i.
Gresham is not pleased with his appointment
to the secretaryshlp OF the treasury.
At wake at Verona, Canada, a village o
the Kingston and Pennsylvania railway, II
Gently, several men got drunk and broke dow
| tht bCu WHICH, COubdlutu but COIpse duu Ut ltt
underworld to force liquor down the throat G
the dead body. Failing ia this, they three
whisky over the corpse and departed.
Toronto brewers have abandoned their sirius
gle against the Scott law.
About a quarter OF a mile If the trestl
bridge across lake Pontchsrtam, Louisian
was destroyed by fire recently. This Is III
longest trestle bridge In the world, being
miles In length.
John W. Garrett, president OF the Baltlmor
q Ohio railroad company. Is dead.
Consul General Mason, at Marseilles, report
| to the department OF the state that the whes
crops throughout Europe are unusually lsrg,
resembling those OF 1882, and there is no pros
poet of rise In prices.
Mr.. Blaine spent Sunday, Sept. %, with tn
Garfield family at Mentor.
The Rockingham house, Portsmouth, u. II
one OF the finest hotels 10 New England, hs
burned TO the ground.
Reports come from st. Johns, N. e., OF dan
age TO steamers by icebergs and OF the presenc
Of many berRs In the line Of ocean s.eams
travel.
Great numbers Of firms engaged In pig iro
production throughout the country agree to n
strict production as asked Ia recen: circula
Gen. Bragg captured the Democratic cor
gressicnal nomination Ia the second Wiscoy
sin district on the l50th ballot.
The Lutherans Of New York and New Je
sey claim an increase of membership the pat
year double that OF the Methodists.
The acting postmaster general orders this
| afoer October / first class offices be kept cpe
for money order and registered business unit
6p.m.
Hon. Levi Morton, American minister I
France, Is coming home.
Fourteen incendiary fires occurred ia Cleve
land In 4S hours.
The case involving the citizenship of Chi
nese hoy born in the United States and tn
consequent right OF return to this countr
after visit to China was argued IN the Unite
States Court as San Francisco the other day
Judge Field decided the boy citizen.
Gen. Gordon has been ordered to hasten th
evacuation OF Khartoum.
A Chicago Drummer.