Delta chief., 1885-11-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

very Ill.
Kansas City has raised $1,000 for the
sufferers by the Galveston fire.
During the fiscal year, there were
$50 arrests by the Pestoffice Inspectors.
The barbed wire men have agreed to
limit their production and advance prices.
The Oregon Legislature elected j.
Fl. Mitchell as Senator on the third ballot.
Congress will meet on the 9TH of De-
cember. The session will probably be lengthy
one.
The Alcazar, an elegant new music
hall, was opened in San Francisco Monday
night.
The New York gossips say that MIR.
Manton Marble is writing a silver clause for
the Presidents message.
The Baldwin murder trial at Atchi-
SOD, Kansas, ended in a verdict Of guilty OF
murder in the first degree.
General Sheridan does not agree with
under the care Of the army.
Lord Salisbury informs the English
electors that the church question is the vital
issue in the ensuing election.
The Indian tribes about Battleford,
Northwest Territory, are reported to be form
ing an alliance against the whites.
A young man named Lee was killed
by the explosion Of the boiler OF q steam
thresher, near McPherson, Kansas.
The clearing house exchanges con-
t!nue to indicate most gratifying improve
ment in the business Of the country.
At the opening of the Reichstag the
Emperor's speech expressed the lhope that
peace would be maintained in Europe.
The stage from the Silver King mine
to Casa Grande, Arizona, was robbed Of 5000
in silver bullion by one masked highwayman.
Tho French Canadians in Montreal
and Quebec are in an exceedingly turbulent
and dangerou. condition over the hanging Of
Riel.
A probably incendiary fire burned
the new colored female seminary at QuitmAn,
Georgia The people were opposed TO It's loca-
tion.
The Executive Committee Of the Ma
tional Teachers Association have decided TO
hold the National Convention next year at
Topeka.
Annie Lyons, discharged domestic.
Is charged with putting arsenic in the -four
barrel Of Chas. W. Parker, OF Boston. The
girl has been arrested.
President +. G. Perkins OF the Chica-
go, Burlington and Quincy, and Vice President
A. Z. Touzalin have rented houses In Colorado
Springs for the winter.
During the last fiscal year IA arrests
were made by the Secret Service officers Of the
Government, nearly all Of which were con-
nected with counterfeiting.
Noah Carey and Susan Mathew, both
colored, were taken from their cabins in Happy
Hollow, near Nashville, Tennessee, and terri
bly, beaten by masked gang.
A Chinaman who pcrsonated another
In using a certificate was sentenced in the
years. imprisonment and q, 900 fine.
4 John B. Bowman. one OF tho most
prominent citizens OF East St. Louis, was shot
in the back Of the head by some unknown per- |
son, and almost instantly killed few days |
ago.
Director General John w. Glenn Of |
the North, Central and South American EIye |
sition, has resigned and cI-Director. General |
Samuel NJ. Burk has been appointed u the DO |
sition.
Some 400 students reinforced by |
thousands of citizens Of Montreal paraded with |
French flags and burned Sir John Mcdonald |
and others in figy on account OF Ricl's exc
cution.
The Supreme Council of the Choctaw
Nation has accepted about 200 negro families
into membership In that tribe. This action |
will stand II the Washington Government ap- |
proves.
Seventy-one thousand dollars has
been received for the Galveston fire sufferers.
The work OF relief igoes on actively, but the
destitution will not be altogether relieved for
sometime.
Noah Cherry, a negro, who attempt-
ed to outrage Alice Powell, a little girl In
Princess Anne County, Virginia, and then mur-
dcred her, has been lynched. He made full
confession.
Lieutenant-G General Sheridan and In
spector-General Baird will leave Washington
In few days by direction Of the President to