Delta chief., 1884-10-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVTTIES.

SOLuLuisslOucI Duuley Va tho SuSioAS
Bureau has resigned, to take effect November
10.
The Chinese have destroyed all the
Roman Catholic chapels in the province Of
Canton.
The French Consul at Khartoum con-
firms the previous reports of Gen. Gordon's
successes.
Harry Clay, who was shot at Louis
vile by Councilman Wepler on Sunday, died
of his wound.
A New York company has contract
ed to complete the last section of the Panama
canal by 1857.
The Pope has given 100000 for the
establishment OF cholera hospital near the
Vatican in Rome.
The gold reserve now in the Ireasu-
ry now amounts to s129, 900, an increase
of about SIS, 100000.
The officials of the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company deny the rumor OF a defalca-
tion in that concern.
General Wolseley! has stopped the
movement of troops to Egypt in view OF Gen.
Gordon's recent victories.
De Merolla, the missing Italian Cor
sui at Baltimore left behind him mourners at
Washington who lose $4,000.
The well-known whiskey firm of
Newcomb, Buchanan & Co., Of Louisville,
KY, have made an assignment.
The Franco Chinese war is stimulat-
ing trade in California. The Pacific mail
steamers carry out full cargoes.
Writer'S brewery at Elizabeth, New
Jersey, was destroyed by boiler explosion on
the 23d. Two men are reported killed.
The Chinese have stopped the coal
supplies to aBritish gunboat which is stationed
at the cable landing near Foo Chow.
Four cars of train on the Grand
Trunk road were derailcd near Pickering Sta
tion and dozen persons were injured.
+. j. Forsells' Sons of New Orleans
have suspended. They represented Barring
Brother, Of London for over fifty years.
An outbreak among the convicts in
the jail at Mandalay, Burmah, ended after
ncNtEul Hhu pSCH
Justice Field, of California, has de-
cided that a Chinese woman cannot enter the
United States on her husbands certificate.
The Court of Inquiry into the loss of
the Tallapoosa blames the Captain OF the
schooner and cxonerates the naval officers.
A report from Khartoum is to the ci-
u hot haa Iafca 4hc
rebels and compelled them to raise the seigc.
At Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, Mrs.
Staggc was sent to the pcnitentiary for life for
poisoning her infant. She confessed In Court.
The wreckers are gathering immense
pontoons at the wreck Of the Taliapoosa, and
will soon commence their efforts to raise the
vessel.
The English War department has for
warded e5oO, eco in gold to General wolseley
to defray the expenses Of his Khartoum cxpe-
ditIon.
The term ef Mr.. Coon as Acting Sec
retary of the Treasury hns expired by limlta-
tion, and the President has appointed Judge
Gresham.
1t is reported that 5000 head of
Texas cattle are along the boundary awaiting
the expiration Of the quarantine to get into
New Mexico.
Le Temps, while growing Mt Eng
lands action in Egypt regarding the sinking
fund, suggests that It may be best to wait final
Developments.
The demented wife Of Deputy United
States Marshal Bernhardt Of New York, stab
bed him in the back inRIcting n slight wound,
and then fed.
The British gunboat Wasp was
wrecked OH Tory Island on the northwest
coast Of ireland, and fifty persons were drown
cd on the 23d.
At the Democratic meeting at Colum-
bus, Ohio, on the 25th, one Of the platforms
broke down, and General j. W. Denver was
seriously injured.
Two fires, evidently the work Of in
cendiaries, burned s25o,O0o worth of property,
in the lumber district OF Cleveland, Ohio. 1t
was fully insured.
Near Carthage, Alabama, negro
named Short who ravished prominent lady,
was pursued by the infur!ated people and rid
died with bullets.
Near Whitestown, Penn, on tho 18th,
German aged 75 years, quarrclled with his
wife about some domestic matters, and ended
by shooting her dead.
A number Of assisted emigrants have
arrived at Galveston from Bremen, and the
steamship company is called upon to give .