Dodge City times., 1885-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


On the night of the oath very heavy
thunder storm, accompanied by a gale,
prevailed throughout New England. 1t
was exceedingly severe in Boston and sub.
urbs. Many houses and other buildings
were damaged by lightning.
THE entire town of Wasserburg, Bavaria,
was destroyed by fire recently. Over sixty
business houses and two hundred dwellings
| were burned.
pox at Montreal on the 25th, 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., will reach $2,OOO,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 1885, S..
O.579; July, 1884, $40, ,27S, ,O49; seven months
ended July 81, 1885, $56,904 1863; same
months ended July 81, 1884, $54, All, 1866;
beef and pork products for the nine months
ended July 81, 1885, S67, 1902; beef and
pork products for the same time in 1884,
$780, 800; dairy products for the three
months ended July 81, 1885, $4,03l, ,716;
dairy products for the same time in 1884,
$,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 1859 new casss of cholera
and 1,547 deaths reported in Spain on the
25th. 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-
sented 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 a short address.
THE Italian brig Aragon, from Bruns-
wick, Ga, was wrecked off the coast in the
recent storm. The captain, his wife and
nine of the crew were taken off the dis
mantled wreck by the brig Emma Ernst
and brought to Savannah.
THERE was 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
unquestionably solvent, and would resume
business in few days.
The German flag, which was recently
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-
tion of the bill to establish the whipping
post for wife beaters was indefinitely post
poned by a vote of 173 to 55.
| 1T 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, So, ,3O5; in July, 1884, 1881,
754; in the seven months ended July 81,
1885, $s5, SOS, ,9s2; in the seven months ended
July 81, 1884, $sO,546, 131.
THERE was a heavy frost at Staunton,
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 28th, 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 most
advantageous, and would be always main.
tanned.
The Treasury Department was recently
informed that q 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 filibustering expe.
pedition to overthrow the Cuban Govern.
ernment. The party would be arrested or
landing.
AN earthquake shock was felt through.
out the Canary Islands on the 9th. Nc
damage was caused by it SO far as reported
| A RIOT occurred recently among the sol.
diers stationed at Hermannstadt, Hun.
gary, resulting in the death of one and the
wounding of seventeen.
JUDGE McCUE, Solicitor of the Treasury
recently rendered decision that the Gus.
tom of giving Government employees thirty
days leave of absence each year was al
abuse that had grown up in the service
not authorized by any special provision o.
law.
Two policemen were found murdered
recently at Geneva, Ill. The crime wa
supposed to have been committed by bur
glars whom they had surprised.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been openet
throughout Galicia for the benefit of tn
exiled Poles. Great animosity is dis
played against Prince Bismarck.
A CAMP meeting held by Northern II Ia
odists (colored) ar Pine Hill, Rutherford
County, N. c., was attacked by an armed
body of Zion Hethodists, recently, ant
fred into. The Northern Methodists fet
in disorder, seven of them being wounded
JAMES BAYNEs, Statistical Agent of Da
kota, in speaking of the wheat crop of tina
Territory, says: "In . majority Of coun
ties the threshing is proving an averag
Of 25 per cent. less than last year, ~