Delta chief., 1884-08-27

eApeOltioD, Is " oe appolnlcu chicA "a tueSou-
resu of Equipment and Recruiting and pro-
NOTED to the rank of Commandant-
The superintendent of the cemetery
where Private Henry is buried refuses to per
nit his remains to be disinterred without an
order from the Federal authorities
Thomas White, late cashier of the
defunct Planters and Mechanics Bank Of
Petersburg, Virginia. shot himself, but not IA
tally. He claims that it was accidental.
Aaron Morris a merchant of HALEY,
Idsho, was murdered and partially robbed
while returning from collecting tour. Sew
eral suspected parties are under arrest.
The Coroner at Long Island City re
fuses TO e1hume the remains of Private Henry
for examination, unless he is requested TO do
so by Henry's sister. He has written to her.
A Mormon meeting which was being
held near Centreville, Tenn, was raided by
masked men last Sunday, aud several Mormon
elders and one ofthe ats king party killed
At the reunion of the Fifth Georgia
Regiment at Macon, on the 2lst, battle-hag
which was captured by the Fifty-sixth New
York Regiment was returned to the Southern
ers-
A fine of 500 was imposed on the
officials OF the Western Union Telegraph com
pany at Chicago for erecting poles and string
ing wires in the streets. The case will be
tested.
The United States steamer Tallapoosa
col1ided with three-masted schooner and
sunk off Cottzge City, Massachusetts,, on the
I'D. The surgeon aud one seaman were
drowned.
A Young man has been found in the
Jerks County, Pennsylvania, Almshouse, con-
fined in q cell with ball and chain to his leg
who was sent to the Asylum for his way
wardness.
A box of dynamite which had failed
to explode was found near the residence Of W.
Z. Blake, an attorney Of Burlington, Iowa,
who had been active in prosecuting the yiolAt-
ors Of the liquor law.
Gen. Butler. on the 18th issued his
letter accepting the nomination Of the Green
hackers and Anti -Monopolists- 1t is 4 vol
luminous document, discussing at great length
the questions at issue.
The Montana and Wyoming cattle
men have established an agency in Montreal
and are ready TO begin shipments over the
Canadian Pacific railway as soon as the Gov
eminent consent Is obtained
The contract between the Post Office
Department and P. P. Kellogg Of Springfield,
Massachusetts,, for certain envelopes and tags,
has been annulled because the contractor has
been furnishing inferior goods.
The Washington officials have ad-
vices that the British steamer Bracadaile. which
left Calcutta on the 4th Of June for New York
BY way of Demerau, has cholera on board.
She will be placed in quarantine
The receipts Of the American Board
OF Commissioners for Foreign Missions, for
the past eleven months, are sa6,ooO less than
for the corresponding eleven months in last
year The Board calls for 10000.
A fire occurred in the Buck Ridge
colliery at Shanolln, Pennsylvania, on the
2lst. While the miners were cndeayoring to
reach 1t through an adjoining pit a sudden in
fux OF gas smothered several Of them.
The Missouri Greenbackers have
nominated Nicholas Ford Of Buchanan County
for Governor, and made no other nominations.
1t is understood that the remainder OF the
ticket IS TO be named by the Republicans.
The Austrian Consul at Pittsburg
hoisted a small flag over the Consulate in hon
or of the Emperor's birthday, and the Chief Of
the Police ordered 1t down, as violating city
ordinance. The Consul stands on his treaty
privileges
Melidoff, the Russian minister, has
informed the porte that Russia insists upon
the payment OF the whole indemnity Of ESQ.,
600 to the Russian sufferers by the Turkish
war. He states that the Porte's offer OF fjO,-
600 Is inadequate.
The Kansas Democrats and Resub-
mission Republicans have formed a coalition
on the State ticket. Gov. Click has been re-
nominated for Governor, and c. X. Holllday,a
Republican for Lieut. Governor. The rest Of
the ticket Is composed Of Democrats.
At South Haven, Michigan on the
2lst, Mrs. Linsley plunged n little tvo-year-
old girl in a tub OF water and otherwise abused
1t because 1t did not promptly say something
The child died and the officers with difficulty
prevented the people from lynching the wo-
man.