Morris tribune., 1884-07-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monday. June 30,

"onuay. June SUs
Gold has been discovered in Msnominee
county, Michigan.
The Osborne" flat-house irf New York
laty, which is almost compl sted, is fifteen
stories high.
The Illinois Watch company, of Spring
neld, mas shut down for tJhe summer, dispenS-
ing with the services Off 900 employees
A tabernacle in, memory of Bishop
simpson Is TO be erected by thetO Ocean Grove
Camp-Meeting association of New Jersey
A cablegram announcing the shipment of
S15o,OOO in American gold for New York as
signs as r'eason'th money is drug in
London
The Hungarian laborers in the coke
region of Pennsylvania have had enough Of
free institutions, and are sailing for home in
large squads
The first bull.fght on American soil will
take place at Dodge City on the Fourth Of
July. Five matadors and a leader from
Mexico are already ON the ground
The farmers in southern Minnesota are
building cyclone cellars These are deep
vaults, with strong walls and arched roof,
with underground passageway connecting
with the cellar under the houses.
Tuesday, July 1.
Senator Mcdonald was once a saddler,
andfhis friends still call him old Saddle
bags"
A court martial for the trial of Judge
Advocate General Swain will meet at Was b
ington ON Sept. 10, under the presidency Of
Gen Schotield
Bradlaugh has been convicted of misde-
meanor in sitting and voting in the house
of commons as a member for Northampton
after administering to himself form of
oath.
The South Platte country in Nebraska,
formerly regarded as almost desert, now
has abundant crops of grain, and is diversified
by large tracts of timber planted by the
settlers.
A San Francisco society leader en-
gagged the front row Of the dress circle for
Langtry's appearance last week, and filled 1t
with local beauties in decollette dress. The
verdict was they were all more beautiful
than the Lily.
Eliza Blakeny, whose husband was
once prosperous shoe manufacturer in Gin
cinnati, has obtained Judgment for $1,000
against saloon-keeper, under the Adair law,
for reducing Blakeny to the status OF
drunken brute
Near Decatur, some cowardly wretch
threw stone through the window OF
passenger train ON the Indianapolis, Bloom
ington 4 Western railroad, striking y
months-old babe lying in the arms OF its
mother, causing death in few hours.
The sheriff of the Cherokee nation is en-
gagged in taking down fences on all tracts
larger than fifty acres, and contiscating the
wire. He began work south of Coffeyville,
,J- fr01 in.
closures which exceeded the limit fixed by
the council.
Wednesday, July 2.
There are now over sc, 900 postottices in
the United States.
Patti wore $4,000 worth of diamonds
in "Traviata" when she appeared in London
recently.
The ladies of Flint Mich, have presented
to that city a spacious brick building and an
extensive library.
By an explosion in colliery in British
Columbia, twenty-fOur miners were killed
and several others injured.
The Denver & Rio Grande road is un-
able to meet interest to the amount of $685.
OF on its consolidated bonds.
The Waltham Watch company. of
Massachusetts,, has decided to run only four
days each week in July, and to suspend
entirely for half of August.
The shore end of the Mackey-Bennett
cable has been laid in Waterville bay, on the
Irish coast, and the mid-ocean splice will
propably be made about July 20.
The people of Chamberlain, D. T., are
making extensive preparations to celebrate
the Fourth of July, and advertise as one OF
no tho hancriDr of notorious
horse-thieves.
The clearinghouse exchanges the past
week-sS27, 2755 ,2294-are s61, 1921 ,294 greater
than reported fort the preceding week; but
when compared with the corresponding Pc
riod in 1888, indicate decrease Of per
cent
The liabilities of the Marsh Harvester
company, of Sycamore, Ills, are S3OO,0O0
most of which is secured. An assignment to
A. NJ Stark has: been made. The failure
grew out of complications with wrecked book
publishing houses in Chicago.
A movement for the reduction of the
wages of sugar. plantation laboreTs in Louisi
ana at least IS per cent has?been started,
making the average about IS cents day,
with rations. This" causes much excitement
among the hands, who are almost exclu'
sively 'colored.
Thursday, July 8.
The New York city directory for this
year has 300, O29 names indicating 1900, Id
people.
In the Louisiana house of representative
the bill to prohibit prize-fghting in that STATE
was lost; yeas, AZ; nays, 43.
Earl Granville has received dispatch
from Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, giving as
surances of his health and safety.
Minister Lowell is much improved II
health, and has decided not to abondon tn
Fourth of July dinner he intended to give.
David M. Stone, editor of The New
York Journal of Commerce, has not been ali
sent from his editorial chair for recreation
for more than thirty years.
The captain and crew of ship Il
Toulon harbor on which cholera broke on
abandoned the vessel and fled to the wood
near that city. Policemen are looking TO
them.
A number of Chinese farmers in Merce'
county, California, have begun to cultivat
the opium yielding poppy. AS they ar
making a success of it, it is likely that other
will follow in their steps.
A young man faultlessly dressed and TO
lowed by his valet goes through the streets {
London playing barrel organ. He is Lor
Somerset, and he takes this method of raisin
money for the London poor
Rev. E.. M. Meany, the rector of th
Episcopal churah in Santa Fe, N. M, wer
there hopeless consumptive eighteen month
ago. He is now entirely cured. He COZ
siders the climate the best in the world fc
consumptives.
Preparations for the meeting of the 81
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee at LAX
Minnetonka Aug. 10 and ID are progressing
Gen. Sherman will preside, and Gen. Gran
it is intinated, will probably make his fart