Delta chief., 1885-04-01
TELEGRAPHIC BRBYITIES.

The exports of specie last week were
$484,237
A number of Postoffice Inspectors
have been requested to resign.
The President has rented a pew in
the First Presbyterian church in Washington.
The President has nominated Hon. S.
8. Cox Of New York for the Turkish mission.
The Chicago Democrats have nomi-
mated Carter Harrison for Mayor, by acclima-
ton.
The New Jersey Capitol building was
damaged by fire on the 2lst to the e1tent Of
100000.
The depot hotel at Sedalia, Missouri,
burned. Loss, $4,000. The guests had mar
row escape.
The New York Assembly has passed
the bill providing for the reservation around
Niagara Falls.
All applicants for clerkships in the
Navy Department are referred to the Civil Ser
vice Commission.
The Democrats of Cincinnati have
nominated George Gerke for Mayor. He is a
prominent brewer.
The report that the boomers from
Texas and Arkansas are steadily invading Ok
lahoma is reiterated.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
his physical afiliction.
The Michigan Carbon Works, near
Detroit, burned. The loss is less than e2OO,-
900; one-half insured.
The bill providing for compulsory ed
ucation in Ireland passed Its first reading In
the House Of Commons.
The Union Pacific Company's books
show that the company owes the Government
balance Of $47 for 1884.
Reports from Vienna state that Rus
sia is preparing for war, and silence is imposed
on the Russian newspapers.
Among the gifts to Emma Neveda on
Monday night at San Francisco, was purse Of
g, 900 from her old schoolmates.
Orth STEMS second trial at Kansas
City, for the killing Of Fredericks, resulted In
his acquittal on the ground Of self-dcfense.
The tone Of the English press is ex-
ceedingly warlike. II 1t correctly represents
the country, Russia must retire or fight.
It's rumored IN London that an un-
favorable reply has been received from Russia
in relation to the Afghan frontier question.
Mr.. f. d. Clark Of Mississippi, the
new Assistant Secretary Of the Interior, who
has been III with pneumonia for some days, is
dead.
The French have met with defeat in
Tonquin. General Negrier admits that the
Chinese proved too much for him, and he lost
200 men.
The Texas House Of Representatives
has passed the Constitutional Amendment pro-
viding for popular vote on the question OF
prohibition.
The warehouse OF the Continental
Sugar Refinery, at Boston, with TO- 900 barrels
Of sugar, was burned. Lose, 100000; insur-
arce, e75,000.
Sunstroke, typhoid and dysentery are
increasing among the troops at Korti. They
will be removed to entrenched camps further
down the river.
Earl Dufferin, the Viceroy Of India,
has gone TO the frontier for q conference with
the Ameer Of Afghsnistan relative to the
boundary dispute.
Much suffering for want Of food is
reported from Baxter, tGIlmer and Calhoun
counties, West Virginia, where the crops last
year were failure.
Reports from Tamai are to..the effect
that the Arabs are sending their women and
children TO the hills, and making other prcpar-
stiops for defense.
The harbor Of Victoria, British Col
unbis, is unprotected, and the Russian fleet
can reach there In eighteen days sail. The
inhabitants feel uneasy.
The Secretary of the Interior says the
cattle companies must evscuste Oklahoma, and
II they fail to go within reasonable time, the
military will put them out.
A strike has occurred among some Of
the coal miners near Wilkesbarre, Penn, be-
cause deductions were made for the rock which
was mixed with the coal.
A movement is on foot to divert the
Texas cattle trade from st. Louis and Chicago
to Cincinnati, where cattle will be slaughtered
for the neighboring markets.
The Hasheen surprise is unfavorably
criticised in England, and General Graham
will probably be recalled. The London press
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