The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.


THE grain trade division of the New York
Produce Exchange has adopted stringent
regulations concerning the proper storage
Of graded grain in warehouses.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, has raised
the quarantine on Illinois and Missouri
cattle.
FEARS are entertained that the British
bark Norshead, which sailed from Sydney,
New South Wales, August 90, for Portland,
Ore, has been lost.
REPORTS from Minister Cox, from his
post in Turkey, represent him as pleased
with his new home, with no idea of return
ing before his term expires.
G. W. LUPToN, wool merchant, of Brad
| ford, Eng, failed recently for 100000.
FIFTY cases of cholera were reported re-
Gently in Venice and adjacent towns.
THE Government Chief of Engineers re-
ports that the celebrated long bridge over
| the Potomac is an obstruction to naviga-
tion and ought to be removed.
THE forty-two shoe factories in Massachu-
setts where strike occurred some months
ago were opened on the 22d under the terms
of the award made by arbitration.
BY order of court, the Richmond (Va.)
Wing has suspended publication.
THE annual meeting and exhibition of the
Northwestern Poultry Association opened
at Fargo, d. T., on the 10th. The exhibition
was a very large and creditable one.
An attempt was made recently to assas-
| sinate L. Lum Smith, publisher of the
Philadelphia Agents. Herald, by shooting
through the glass door of his office. The
| ball lodged in a mirror in the other side of
| the room. No clue.
Dow, SHORT &, Co., private bankers, of
Syracuse, n. Y, assigned recently.
A DISPATCH from Rome of the ed re-
ported the Pope as looking very fatigued
and unwell.
AT meeting of the New York Yacht
| Club a challenge from Lieutenant HEM, of
the British Navy, offering to sail his yacht
Galatea against the New York Clubs rep
resentative for the possession of the
| Queens cup, was read and accepted. The
race will be sailed nexs season.
THE Department of State is greatly ex-
ercised over the fact that the report of Uni
| ted States Consul General Mueller, on Ger
many, found its way to the press dis
| patches In some manner unknown to the
officials the report in question was sent out
without having undergone the diplomatic
| pruning.
RECENT advices from Belgrade say that
| there are signs of a revolt in Che Servian
army, and that it is rumored there that
| Horvatovitch has ordered TIE execution of
sixty soldiers who were implicated in plot
against the Government.
THE experiment of Irish cattle dealers of
chartsring steamers to run in opposition
to the boycotted steam packet line has re-
suited in the complete surrender of the
boycotted company.
CONTAGIOUS Ophthalmia was reported
very prevalent in New York public insti-
tutions for children. Energetic action vas
/ recommended by physicians to avert dan
gerous epidemics.
THE Government of the Argentine Re
public recently gave the Papal Legate his
| passports. He was accused of interfering
in public education and instigating a sort
of ecclesiastical boycotting against Clara
Armstrong, an American school teacher.
THE other evening Mrs. Fred Kohs, of
Wadesvllle, near Parkersburg, ". Va,
went to a store near by, leaving her girl of
four years and her babe of eighteen months
locked up in the house alone. The house
caught fire and the children were burned to
| death
a TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
Ferndale coal mine at Pontypridd, Wales.
on the 23d. Over seven hundred men were
in the c,ine at the time. At least fifty were
killed and scores wounded and missing.
THE family of George V. Korell, of Cleve-
land, o., were recently stricken with trichi-
| noSis, having eaten of raw ham. There
| were hopes of saving their lives.
| SNALL-Pox continues to make fearful raw
! ages in the insane asylum at Tongue Point,
near Montreal
THREE children of Patrick Driscon, One
Hundred and Sixty-sixth street and Tenth
avenue, New York, were burned to death
recently by the house catching fire.
SEVERAL horrible outrages were reported
recently in Austin, Tex, all evidently per-
petrated by the same parties. After out
rage the v;SSims had been Drained with an
ak. Intense excitement existed.