The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-18

on her premises In pembroke square,
London. The neighbors considered it q
| nuisance.
BY late report all the railroads IL
Great Britain stand to-day at an averagt
cost of S2O4, 900 per mile, anG pay Eve pei
cent. on the investment. The average
cost of all the railroads in existence in the
United States to-day is SOS, 400 per mile
THE first installment of thirty boats fol
the Nile expedition has left England. Ont
hundred and thirty more are to follow.
OWING to the depressed condition of tht
numbering trade in Canada a number Of
yoyageurs have determined to accept ths
offer of the British Government to join tht
Gordon relief expedition under lord VOL
seley. 1t is thought by many British off
GERS that they will not be able to stand the
Soudan climate.
The Russian Minister at Pekin has no
been instructed to ask for fulfillment Of
the treaty of 1878, as had been previously
reported.
SAM JACKSON, a colored man who out
ragged thirteen-year-old white girl re
Gently near Monticello, Ark, was taker
from jail by masked mob and lynched.
| THERE has been a rupture in the rela.
tions existing between the Vatican and
the Republic of Costa Rica. Valfre,
Papel Nuncio, has been ordered to re-
main at Rome.
THE English Government has submitted
proposition to the Egyptian authorities,
offering to take seventy-ive per cent. Of
| the Alexandria indemnity if it is paid al
once or in instalments, to run over period
of ten years.
A GREAT ball in honor of the Gar and
Czarina was recently given at Warsaw.
The United States Consul at Lyons re
ports to the State Department at Wash
| ington that the French wheat crop of this
year will exceed that of 1888 by thirty
million bushels, and that the crop is excel
lent. The wheat yield of England will
also be abundant. In consequence of the
abundance the price of grain declined
rapidly.
MERvYN SMITH a wealthy citizen OF
Montreal, who married handsome Amer.
lean girl named Kate Wheeler ten years
ago, has become jealous of an English
coachman, and has entered suit for sep
aration.
IT has lately come to light that the late
Lord Ampthill, when a Washington at
tache, was so sure that he would suddenly
fall dead from heart disease in some place
where he was not known that he always
carried in his waistcoat pocket a card in
scribed with his address.
THE seed-leaf tobacco crop now being
harvested throughout the country is said
to be the best and heaviest for many years,
1t has recently come to light that Private
Henry, of the Arctic exploring party, was
discharged from the army once for for
gerry.
The appointment of Viceroy of India has
been conferred upon Lord Dufferin.
TYPHOID fever has broken out in one OF
the British regiments at Cairo.
The Social Science Association adjourned
to meet at New Orleans next December.
Their next annual meeting will be held at
Saratoga, September, 1885.
FRANK H. MASON, United States Consul
at Marseilles, lately received the com.
mendation of the State Department for re-
naming at his post during the cholera epi.
demic and furnishing valuable informa-
tion.
DURING the first eight months of this
year 112, ,512 immigrants entered Canada.
OF these 1920 passed through to the
United States.
On recent date there were 996 cases of
cholera at Naples and 32S deaths. Several
deaths occurred at Avelino, Bergamo,
Campobasso, Cremona and Cimeo. At
Genoa there were twenty-one deaths.
THE English Consul at Alexandria re-
ported recently that many families were
reduced to a suffering condition for lack of
the indemnity awarded to them, and have
sold their certificates to spectators at a
discount of fifty per cent.
IT was recently reported that the French
had captured Mahonora, in Madagascar,
south of Tamatave.
FOUR students of the Collegiate Institute
at st. Catharines, Ont, were drowned in
the canal near Port Dalhousie, not long
ago.
THERE has been some excitement lately
about the reported inhuman treatment by
the Spaniards of a former Cuban officer
confined in a dungeon.
The American and British scientists re-
Gently made an excursion trip to the
Rocky Mountains.
THE death of NJ. Jean Auguoren Banal,
a well-known chemist and physicist, was
lately announced at Paris.