Delta chief., 1885-06-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVIT[ES.


The Kentucky tobacco crop is thirty
days behind and threatens to be of an inferior
character.
Judge Allen, of Boston, refused the
application of Mrs Sullivan for divorce from
he pugiist
VeryI heavy rains are reported from
the vicinity OF Waco, Texas, damaging the
crops seriously.
The French Government has ordered
the priests to vacate the Pantheon within for
ty-eight hours.
The Cabinet have decided that there
is no warrant in law for reopening the New
Orleans Exposition.
Rie! will probably seek some shelter
behind his American citizenship when he Is
breught w for trial.
A fire in Studebaker's lumber yards
insurance, S5O,O
THE remainslof Victor Hugo have been
removed to the Arc de Triomphe and laid in
state on a catafalGue.
N~'-'
Middleton, who holds the chief and thirty OF
his braves as prisoners.
1jTwelve buildings, with their con-
tents, burned at Phoenix, Arizona Loss, 80
600; insurance, $4,000.
The Brazilian Ministry have adopted
a programme for the gradual abolition OF
slavery in the Empire.
w. c. Smith, postmaster at Holden,
Mo-, was found to be $500 short In his accounts,
and he committed suicide.
Some $500 worth of American
patent medicine have been seized by the Gus
toms officers at Montreal.
The Convention of Wool Growers at
St. Louis adjourned sine die after adopting
series Of protective resolutions.
The British Commission on the Al
CHAN frontier report that they have been well
received by the people OF Herat.
During the ten months which ended
April 30 tie excess in the value Of the exports
over the imports was $lG2, 09G, ,35l.
DR.. n. L. Buck, of Oakland, Califor-
mia, was shot dead at his door by Henry F.
Prindle. The murderer was arrested.
Twenty-four victims of the Apache
raid have been buricl snd still the raiders have
not been made to suffer by the cavalry.
The Coroner fixes the responsibility
for the loss OF life in the recent fire at Cinc!n.
natl upon the occupants OF the building.
The contract for printing postage
STAINS for the next four years has been award
ed to the American Bank Note Company.
Adolph Spreckels, who shot NJ. II.
D. Young OF the San Francisco Chronicle last
November, is now on trial AZ San Francisco.
The First Comptroller of the Curren-
cy decides that mutilated bonds cannot be re-
deemed unless the mutilated parts are
counted for.
Powhatan Pete, n negro who was con-
fined in the Brownsville, Tennessee, Jail
for burglary, was taken out and hanged by
masked mob.
James Murphy, n Kansas City bar
Der, shot and mortally wounded Gottlleb
Weinland an inoffcusive German, without
provocation.
James n. Day, the confidential clerk
for Martin & Runyon, bankers of New York,
droppcl $4,000 Of his employers money in
Wall Street.
Captain Belknap, President of the
board to examine and report on the trial trip
o, the Dolphin, announces that the trial trip
was satisfactory.
The BraZos River was swollen to an
unusual height by a tremendous rainfall, and
much damage resulted at Waco, Texas, with
some loss OF lie.
The Board Of Health of New York
have been indicted by the Grand Jury for their
inexcusablc delay In abat!ng nuIslnccs in the
tenement houses.
The iron makers of Pittsburg are
comforting with the manufacturers upon the
new scale, and the opinion is expressed that
no strike will occur.
Two squaws from Geronimo's raid
ers have been captured. One OF them had FIVE
gold rings which It Ia thought were plundered
from their victims.
During the month of May twenty
seven vessels have reported that they were In
jurcd by Ice in the Atlantic. The quantity OF
Ice is unprecedented.
Three women and six children were
few days ago. The bodies OF two OF the hIld-
ren have been recovered. -
The Commissioner of Agriculture is