The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-07

Custom House at New York on the 29th nit.
During 1884 the number of persons killed
on railways in Great Britain was ], l3I las COM
pared with 1.l67 in the previous year,. The
number Of injured was 4,10O (as compared with
4,1S7 in 1SS3l.-While demoliShing an old
chimney in Otsego County, New York, recently,
workmen found S97 in Continental money.
dated l776 and 1777. The printing on the notes
was perfectly legible and in general they were
in good condition. The package consisted of
one $40 bin, two $50 bills, one s., one s., two
Soc, one 81, and one Sh.-The Governor of
Montana has issued proclamation requiring
quarantine of 90 days on cattle from Missouri,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New
jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,
District of Columbia Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas Illinois,
and Indian Territory Irwin Mcdowell,
of San Francisco, has been i'll for some time
past with an affection of the digestive organs,
and his physicians have given up all hope of
his recovery.--At WoodwarI's sale of trotters
at Lexington, Ky, Wednesday of last week,
Edward Blaine Of Wisconsin, paid $4,000 for
the stallion Lexington Wilkes.-The earn
ings at Sing Sing New York. prison for
the month of April were 500 1919; cxpend-
itureS, Sli,T5S.93 leaving profit of S6.O05.s6.
In Auburn, in the same State, there WAS
deficiency of $3.50 for the mouth.-The
b ody of AdolPh J. Truchess, of New York
city, was cromated at Lancaster, Pa, on the
1st inst.-At the sale OF James Franklin's
Kennesaw yoarlings at Nashville, Tenn,
on the Ist inst, bay FLY by Luke Blackburn
and Arizona was sold for S.. 050 to Dryer Bros,
of New York.-The degree of Medical Doc
tor was conferred on the lst inst on NJ. Laura
Ewing, Alice S. Parkhurst, and Clara Stein
bruener, of Maryland, by the Womam's Medi-
cal College of Baltimore.-The State commits
sioners on contagious diseases among domestic
animals visited pittsiield, Mass. on the lst inst,
and pronounced the swine distemper raging
there to be hog cholera. One herd has lost
twenty hogs in Two woolls, and the rest have
been ordered kiiled.-A movement is to be
inaugurated IN Philadelphia to raise subscrip-
tions for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
The United States grand Jury at Topeka, HANS,
has returned indictments against sixty eight Of
the Oklahoma boomers" separately, and gen.
eIal Indictment against the remainder of the
Arkansas City colony, charging them with in
citing and engaging in a rebellion against the
GoYernment.-The University Of Pennsylva-
ria on the lst inst. conferred the degree of Doc
tor of Medicine on 107 graduates, and the de-
gree of Doctor OF Dental Surgery on 40 grad
uates.-Mme. DarriGS, widow Of the late Pres
dent of Guatemala, and party left San Fran
cisco for New York on the 1st inst.-Rev. Dr.
S. ID. Burchard, pastor of Murray Hill Prcsbyte
rian Church, New York, whose alliterative
phrase, "Rum, R0manism and Rebellion" at
rrac;ed so much Alteration during the last Presi-
Dental campaign, preached his farewell sermon
in his church last Sunday.-TheTe is a bitter
fght between the Prohbitionists and saloon
keepers at Red Key Ind. Attempts have been
made to blow up and fire saloons, and insurance
companies are revOking policies. The dcstruc-
ton of the village is feared by fre.--1n &C
cordance with the act of 1879, Charleston be-
came, on Saturday, the capital of West Vir-
ginia, and all the State archives and Govern
ment PROPERTY were removed from Wheeling to
that city.-Ex-Secretsry Frelinghuysen, who
has been in state Of stnpor for the past fort
night, without appreciable change, is thought
TO be sinking.-The Catholic College of the
Holy Ghost, in Pittsburg Pa was dedicated
on Sunday last.