The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS

THE whole line of the Central Pacific and
its branches north of Goshen have been
leased for a term of ninety-nine years to
the Southern Pacific Company, the same
corporation which recently leased the line
of the "Sunset" route between San Fran
cisco and New Orleans.
CHARLES H. RUGG, the Maybee murder
er, of Long Island, has been refused new
trial.
HIRAM H. KIMPToN, formerly a Wall
street broker, and worth about 100000,
was recently committed to the care of the
Commissioners of Charities and Corrections
of New York. He had beggared himself by
drink.
THE Collector of Customs, the Surveyor
and the Appraiser of the port of New York
have been appointed as a commission
to examine into the complaint that the
present drawback allowances in sugar were
unjust.
THE force of the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving has been reduced to ninety -two
men, Congress having failed to appro-
pirate the money needed to increase the
quantity of notes furnished for redemp-
ton and exchange.
IT was reported on the 31st that Osman
Digua had evacuated Tamai as well as
Hasheen.
OLIVER BROTHERS & PHILLIPS South
Side Mills at Pittsburgh, Pa, have started
up full in all departments. Work has also
been resumed at Oliver & Roberts wire
mills.
pTHE Emery candle factory burned; at
Cincinnati recently. Loss, 100000.
IT was estimated that 10000 sheep had
died in Greene County, Pa, in the last
three months. The scarcity of feed and
the unusual severity of the winter and
spring combined to bring about this result.
A DISPATCH received on the 1st stated
that the insurgents had burned Aspinwall.
THE Indians, ON the 1st, vacated Battle
ford, in the British Northwest, going in a
westerly direction. The settlers felt con-
siderably relieved.
THE Presidents of the seaboard trunk
lines met in Chicago recently and agreed
to stop the cut rates.
MAJOR DEVICES recently arrested fifteen
Oklahoma colonists. The military were
securing the disputed territory for colo
nists. 1t was reported in the boomers
camp that Couch would be rearrested.
SPEAKER HAINEs, of the Illinois Legisla-
ture, distinguished himself on the 1st by
dismissing all the House employees, much
to their CONSERVATION.
POLISH papers state that at recent ban
quet at Odessa the Russian officers ordered
to join the Circassian regiments responded
with enthusiasm to the toast, ''The coming
war with England"
A COLLISION occurred with the Paris
police at an Anarchist meeting in the
Place de POpera. Forty arrests were
made and order was finally restored.
ORsoN P. ARNOLD, a poiygamist, was
arrested recently at Salt Lake on an in
dictment for unlawful cohabitation, and
was released on 81 800 bail. A. NJ. Musser
was also arrested on the same charge.
A BOY who resided near indianapolis
died recently from drinking whisky, jug
of which he sole from a farmers wagon.
BROWN, the deposed State Auditor of
Iowa, has commenced quo warranto pro-
ceedings to obtain possession of the Office
again.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Land
Office, has made an order that no cases
heretofore made special shall be acted upon
until they have been reached in the regular
order of examination. This order does not
include cases already approved for patent,
and in such cases patents may issue.
A MAN, giving his name as Jones, cleared
several thousand dollars out of Buffalo oil
spectators recently. He was in collision
with telegraph operator, who gave him
the points intended for the brokers, the
latter being ''milked" accordingly.
THE United States steamer Dispatch will
join the flagship Tennessee in the West
Indies, subject to orders to sail for Aspin-