Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-06-19

Lieut. Col L. N Batchelder has received
from Mrs. Grant and taken 20 Washington the
swords, medals, and other tokens OF honor
presented TO Gen. Grant both in this country
and on his trip around the world and to South
America and Mexico. These articles were
turned over to Mr. Vanderbilt 10 go toward
Inc liouidation Of the Si50,O00 debt which
| Gen Grant incurred to MI. vanderbilt IN con-
nection with the Grant * Ward trouble.
-Adit. Gen. Drum has completed a list Of
casualties in tho Federal army during the late
war. The aggregate number Of deaths Is
shown to have been $685. 400. OF these ~ 495
! occurred among Union soldiers held as prison.
ers of war. The total number Of troops re-
! ported as furnished by the various States I'M
/ der the various calls is 2, 772 4OS. Some of the
1 returns were duplicated. and it is estimated
| that the actual number was about 2'5OO.OOO.
POLITICAL.
The platform adopted by the Ohio Repub-
lican State Convention favors Nauonal
Bureau OF Industry; demands legislation that
/ shall harmonic capital and labor; denounces
the importation of contract labori demands
protective tariff, and the restoration OF the
wool duty.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The Oueen has accepted the resignation
of the Gladstone Ministry and has summoned
the Earl of Salisbury to form new C99lnet,
The Marquis started secretly at midnight for
BalmoraL
"A fire broke out in the India Museum
"apnex" 10 the great building in which Is
being held the International Exhibition OF In
ventions in London. The damage is serious.
The treaty Of peace between France and
China, which has just been signed, supulates
that the Chinese Government shall collect the
taxes at PaOshun and Langson, but that
French Consus shall be stationed at those
places to guard the interests Of France. The
treaty is to hold good for ten years, and does
not prejudice any former treaties between the
two countries.
Cholera in Spain is spreading, and the in
crease in the number of cases now daily re-
ported is causing great alarm among the peO-
pie. In Valencia there have been As new
cases reported in one day. Castellana de Ia
Plana announces IS deaths, and there are go
suspected cases in the province of Murcia. The
Spanish government has prohibited cholera
incubation in districts where the disease has
not appeared.
The St. Petersburg NOUosti reafirms its /
statement that the Ameer Of Afghanistan is
dead. Il says rumors arc being received .
continually, both from the Caucasus and the .
Afghan frontier, Of the assassination OF the 4
Ameer. The NOUosti adds that the people Of .
Afghanistan arc in state Of great excitement, /
the rumors of the death of the Ameer having I
reached them, followed by the other rumor /
that Ayoub Khan. now informed in Persia, will I
take the place Of the murdered Ameer, through .
the Vaccinations Of Russia
Three quarters Of the town of Grodno,
Russia, including the Government offices and .
numerous churches, has been destroyed by .
FIRE. The loss amounts to several million .
roubles
The British Resident Of Cashmere reports .
that earthquake shocks of great severity con-
tinue. The towns of Baramulla and Sopur .
have been utterly ruined and 900 persons .
Eleven cases Of cholera and two deaths
from the disease were reported in Madrid .
Spain. At Castellon de la Plana, forty miles .
from Valencia, 4 cases were reported. The out .
break Of cholera in Madrid has created STAN
pede.
The gas which generated in the coal bunk
ers of the British iron turret ship Infexible,
at anchor off Portsmouth, Eng, exploded. Fif-
teen of the crew were severely injured, three
of them fatally The vessel itself was some-
what damaged.
The Car Of Russia has sanctioned the tax
on coupons The new law will go into effect
on the first day of July.
Queen Victoria has created Lord WOlseley
a Knight Of the Order Of st. Patrick, in sue
cession to Lord O'Hagan.
The English Government was defeated in
the House of Commons on the second reading
of the budget, which was rejected by vote Of
264 to 252.
A terrible accident has occurred on the
railway from Kosloff to Rostotf, on the river
Don, Russia. A bar Of iron was placed across
the track by robbers, and a train which came
along was thrown from the rails and demOl-
ished The number Of killed and wounded is
seventy. The robbers, who were waiting for
the smash up, plundered the train. The
wounded and other survivors were completely
terrorized and could make no resistance.
The German dispatch boat Pomerania has
captured and towed to Wilhelmshaven another
British smack, for fishing in prohibited waters.
"A formal treaty of peace between France
and China has been signed.