The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

| business houses and two hundred dwellings
were burned.
THERE were nineteen deaths from small
pox at Montreal on the 18th, being the
/ largest number recorded since the outbreak
of the disease.
| IT is estimated that the total amount OF
damage by the recent storm at Charleston,
S. c., gill reach $2,OO0,OOO. Nearly every
vessel in port and every house in the city
was more or less injured.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports the total value of exports of domes-
tic cattle and hogs and of beef pork and
dairy products as follows: July fSSJ, S.
4SO579; July, 1884, $40, 27S, 049: seven months
ended July 81, 1885, $j6,9O4, 800; same
months ended July 81, 1884, $54, Al, 766;
beef and pork products for the nine months
ended July 81, 1885, So, 70S. O92; beef and
pork products for the same time in 1884,
5000, 800; dairy products for the three
months ended July 81, 1885, 4,03l, 716;
dairy products for the same time in 1884,
| s., 624 $50.
THE strike of the employees of the Queen
and Crescent system ended at Meridian,
Miss, on the Goth, the men agreeing to ac
| cept their pay and quit the service of the
company.
THERE were 1869 new cases of cholera
and l ,547 deaths reported in Spain on the
18th. The plague was thought to be grad
ually decreasing.
AT the State encampment of the Knights
of Pythias at Rocky River, near Cleveland,
o., recently, H. T. Sandman, of Cincin-
natl, and G. H. Farnan, of Covington, KY,
were drowned while bathing in Lake Erie.
THE Georgia Legislature has formally re-
ceived the records of the Board of Trustees
of the Georgia Colony, which were pre-
scented to the State by John S. Morgan, of
London. The presentation speech was
made in the House of Representatives by
General John r. Gordon, and the records
were received by Governor McDaniels,
who made short address.
THE Italian brig Aragon, from Bruins
wick, Ga, was wrecked off the coast in the
nine of the crew were taken off the dis
mantled wreck by the brig Emma Ernst
and brought to Savannah.
THERE was a terrible boiler explosion
recently on the steamer Orgo at Trieste,
Austria. Eight persons were killed and
many injured.
Mr.. CANNON, Comptroller of Currency at
Washington, recently received telegram
from Bank Examiner Gelman, who is in
charge of the City National Bank, of Fort
Worth, Tex, reporting that the bank was
unquestionablv solvent, and would resume
business in few days.
U
hoisted on the French island Off the Victo-
rian coast in the South Pacific, has been
removed by order of Prince Bismarck at
the request of France.
A NEST of counterfeiters was recently
upset in st. Louis. One arrest was made.
The gang was operating in Brazilian cur
renCy.
In the New Hampshire House considera-
ton of the bill to establish the whipping
post for wife heaters was indefinitely post
poned by a vote of 113 to %.
IT was reported that Don Carlos had
offered the Spanish Government the SER
vices of 100000 Carlists to vindicate Span
ish honor against Germany.
THE total values of exports of bread
stuffs from the United States was reported
| at Washington recently as follows: In
July, 1885, S,7l4,305; in July, 1884, So, ST.
754; in the seven months ended July 81,
1885, So, 55S, $50; in the seven months ended
July 81, 1884, $50, $40, 131.
THERE was a heavy frost at Staunton,
I Va, on the night of the Goth. Gardens
and late corn were badly damaged.
THERE was a sudden increase in the
cholera mortality at Marseilles on the
9th.
UNITED STATES MINISTER Cox, in pre-
senting his credentials at Constantinople
on the Goth, assured the Sultan that the
policy of the United States was not to in
terfere at all in the affairs of other coun-
tries. This policy had been found mos6
advantageous, and would be always main
tanned.
THE Treasury Department was recently
informed that a party of armed CubaAs
had lef: the island of Cuba for the Florida
Keys, and it was supposed that their OBJ
ject was to organize a flibustering expe-
petition to overthrow the Cuban Govern
eminent. The party would be arrested on
landing.
AN earthquake shock was felt through
out the Canary Islands on the 9th. No
damage was caused by it so far as reported.
A RIOT occurred recently among the SOL
diers stationed at Bermannstadt, Hun
gary, resulting in the death of one and the
wounding of seventeen.
JUDGE McCUE, Solicitor of the Treasury,
recently rendered a decision that the GUS
tom of giving Government employees thirty
days leave of absence each year was an
abuse that had grown up in the service,
not authorized by any special provision of
law.
Two policemen were found murdered
recently at Geneva, Ill. The crime was
supposed to have been committed by bur-
glars whom they had surprised.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened
throughout Galicia for the benefit of the
exied Poles. Great animosity is dis
played against Prince Bismarck.
A CAMP meeting held by Northern N tn
odists (colored) at Pine Hill, Rutherford
County, n. c., was attacked by an armed
body of Zion Methodists, recently, and
fred into. The Northern Methodists fed
in disorder, seven of them being wounded.
JAMES BAYEEs, Statistical Agent of Da-
kota, in speaking of the wheat crop of that
Territory, SAYS: "In a majority of coun-
ties the threshing is proving an average
of % per cent. less than last year, and
the quality is not quite so good.