Delta chief., 1885-09-09

There were fifty-six cholera deaths in
Toulon on Saturday Seven thousand persons
have fed from that city.
Since the outbreak of cholera in Spain
$40 persons have been attacked by the
cholera and s2,6l9 died.
The steamer Hanoverian, from Balti-
more for Bremen, was wrecked in fog of the
coast Of Newfoundland.
The French Government has 'prohib-
tied anti-German demonstrations by the Span
ish residents In France
The Russians have expelled 14O Prus-
SLAMS from Warsaw. They were chained to-
gether md marched to the frontier.
The gate receipts of the Sullivan
McCaffrey fight were nearly $9,475. Sullivan
has received GO per cent, or s5,6S4.6o.
John B. Finch, Chairman of the Ma
tional Prohibition Committee, predicts $1,000
Prohibition votes in New York this fall.
Nearly an entire block of frame tene-
ments in Albany, New York, burned, and
twenty-five or thirty families are homeless.
John I. Morgan, Jr., son of Sena-
tor Morgan Of Alabama, and Mrs. Della Stella
were drowned while beating on the Potomac
A coal miners strike has been inau-
gurated in the Monongahela River mines.
1t is expected that 4 900 miners will take part
In It.
General Crook reports that the hos
tile Apaches are twenty-five miles south OF
the Mexican boundary line snd moving south
ward.
Secretary Manning is credited with
unit in their desire to abolish the sil ;er COIN
age law.
The officials at Washington have de-
cided to send two COMP auies OF United States
troops to Rock Springs, Wyoming, to guard the
mail route.
Mr.. Parnell says if home rule is re-
fused to the Irish, the Irish party in Parlis-
meht Will make # impof slble for either party
to legislate.
Prestan, the lawyer who led the Pan
anna insurrection and burned tie city OF Colon,
was banged at Panama, August IS, latter a trial
by the courts.
The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer ST. Paul, from Onnalaska, recently
arrived at San Francisco, bringing %, s96 seal
skins, valued at q, ,0OO, 900.
Three Of the Township Trustees of
Daviess County, Indiana, have disappeared.
The missing funds are estimated variously
from Sc, { % to s20o,0Oo.
The Coroner's inquest in the Walkup
Mrs. walkup in the poisoning, and warrant
was sworn out for her arrest
The Treasury officials estimate the
decrease in the public Gebt for August at
81, 600, COO. About $4,000, 900 has been paid
out for pensions during the month.
Mr.. Stead, tie editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette assumes all the responsibility in the
Armstrong case and announces that he will
return to London at once and answer for him
self.
In the United States Court at Leaven-
worth, Judge Brewer decided that the grant to
the Atchisop, Topeka & Santa Fe road for
branch line in the Seosho Valley, was void, and
that company could not claim the lands under
1t.
Two highwaymen held-up stage
eight miles out OF Helena, and as one OF the IN
had given the plot away a sherias posse cap
tured them at the opportune moment. jack
son is the name OF the man who will be held
for trial.
1t is reported that Gen. B. F. Butler
has applied to the Supreme Court for an In
junction restraining the execution OF the Pres
ident's order in regard to trespassing cattle
owners, until the case can be heard by the Su-
preme Court.
Joseph Helm, shoe manufacturer r
Of Louisville, Kentucky, and the Treasurer OF
a couple Of benevolent societies, walked ous OF
the back door OF his house on Tuesday last, and
has not been seen since. His downfall is at
tribuied to policy and lottery playing.
The belief is growing among the mill
tsry and other friends Of General Gordon that
he really escaped alive from Khartoum aud
succeeded in fleeing to the equator. so strong
has this faith become that a mission has been
organized to search for and rescue him. The
work OF preparing this mission for Its enter
prise is now almost completed.
OF the 1882 Presidential postmas,ers
in the United States, changes have been m .de
in 4s7 cases since the adjournment Of the Sen
ate. The list OF nominations for offices is now
being msde In the Postoflce Department to
receive the signature Of the President, and II
viii be transmitted to the Senate upon the be-