The Dickinson press., 1885-02-28

Fond EsSp' d Ia i iae;'' sud sslssi F; q Il. i e. aea
Racine; sentinel, E. H. Henry, Omro; trustee
for three years, Ira Kimball, Waukesha; rep
three years, G. H. Ross, Milwaukee; alternate,
p. W.. Ford, La Crosse. The officers were in
stalled and the place and time of the next
meeting fixed at Fond du Lac, the first We'd
nesdayin March, 1856.
There are said to be u.s. GOO people out Of en-
ployment in New York, $4,000 of whom are
IN
George Oliver, aged thirty, probably fatally
stabbed his wife in Boston and then fatally cut
his own throat.
Alex. Boyd of New York has sued his wife
for half of her estate, which she promised him
when they were married.
Mrs. James Russell Lowell died in London at
2 o'clock on Thursday, the 10Th inst. The fu-
neral will be strictly private.
Edward S. Gould. the author and philologist,
was struck down by a horse while crossing
broadway N. Y, crushing his skull.
The main portion of the Mansion house, on
the old Waldo Adams estate at East Watertown,
Conn, was burned recently. The house was
valued at $4,000.
III Arkansas senate defeated, by q vote of
~ to 10, the bill regulating railroad freights,
the main feature of which forbids charging
more for short than for long hsuls.
A West Point cadet named Wright, who re-
Gently resigned from the military academy be-
cause he was unable to keep up with his class,
has been confirmed by the senate as q second
lieutenant in the army.
A party of Iowa excursionists ut Anderson
vile, Ga, after being heartily welcomed by
citizens, caused universal Indignation by start
ing away singing, "Wen hang JEFF Davis to a
sour apple tree" The citizens got ahead Of
them by wire, and they received no more cor
dial receptions.
Secretary Teller is virtually charged with
suppressing or destroying documents called
for by Senator Hill regarding land frauds in
New Mexico. If the story told in connection
with them is true it will possibly afford material
Tor some one to move the expulsion of Mr..
Teller from the senate.
A destructive fire occurred on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, between Second and
Front streets, a locality devoted entirely to
large warehouses and business houses. Nine
large business houses were almost completely
burned out; Six damaged, while four others in
Cured losses which many thousand dollars
cannot repair.
The Grannis Block, Dearborn street, Chica-
go, was burned recently. The Giannls
block was erected three years ago by w. {. D
Grannis, president of the Union National banl
at a cost of about SIZE, 900. The building wai
insured for 100000. Its tenants were for thu
most part prominent in their professions, hav.
ing Offices expressly fitted up, which fac,
makes estimates of furniture, ETC., mount ur
well toward $4,000.
Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, who was wounded
Mt the battle of Abu-Klea, died on the 10th inst
at Gakdul Wells, to which place he had beer
removed. His death casts a gloom over tbs
~entlreBritish army. Surgeons stated that Gen.
recovery was hopeless from the first Lord
Wolseley's dispatch says: Gen. Stewart will
be buried at the entrance of the valley leading
to Gakdul. No brave soldier or more brilliant
leader ever wore the queens uniform. Eng
land can ill afford to lose this young gener al
Postofices Standardization: Cumber-
land, Burleigh county; Murray, Brown coun-
ty. Minnesota: Belle River, Douglas county.
Montana: Winnecook, Meagher county. Post
masters Commissioned-WiIliam B. Fish, Ana
m1osa, Iowa., II; C. Coolbaush, Hamburger,
Charles A. Spencer, sheboygan Falls, Wis;
Nehemiah Davis, Jr., Fairmont, Oak. William
H. Hughes, Roosevelt, Oak. s. NJ. Haskins,
Eagle Bend, MINI; S. A. Nelson, Axleson,
Neb. Josiah Shull, Drummond, Mont. vii.
liam Napier: FreM9ehtown, Neb.;F p. seho1-
Cumberland, Oak. Henry 2. Murray, Murray.
Oak. Catherine Reuter-. Belle River, Mimi;
Ralph Barry, Winnecook, MINI.
A printed protest OF large proportions against
permitting Masonic societies to participate in
the dedication of the Washington monument,
has been received by the congressional COM
mittee charged with tho arrangement Tie
signers claim to have 1900 signatures. The
protestants say the Masonic order has no more
right to any such distinction than the Hiber-
mans or any other secret order. The stone
sent by the pope for the monument was, they
say, broken up and thrown into the Potomac.
Why, they ask, are Catholics snubbed and
Freemasons honored? Tho Masonic order,
American and unrepublican. Its public dis
plays are pompous and barbaric, its titles ex-
travagant and lordiy, its constitution despotic,
its oaths extra judicial, which, they say,
should be suppressed by law. They pray that
only such ceremonies as are national in their
scope and American in their character be per-
mitted. The protest came too late for action
by the committee.
1t is announced that in view Of the fall of
uAN II OoS VI vi oOA0Ou Luf-
ing rendered the main object of Gen. Wolse-
ley's expedition impossible, the governmenthas
deemed it expedient to change the whole plan
of the campaign in Soudan. Gen. Bracken-
bury, who succeeded the late Gen. Earle, has
been ordered to abandon his advance on Der.
Der and to concentrate his troops at Korti.
Col. Sir Redvers Butler, who evacuated Gubat
on the 18th and withdrew his forces to Abu-
Klea, has also been ordered to fall back on
kortl. All the available troops in Wolseley's
command will be concentrated at that place
and at Debbeh and Kerosk, the main body be-
ing at Korti 1t is probable that Gen. Wolse-
ley may evacuate Korti and retire to
Debbeh, where the desert routes from
O%mbarman, Ell Obeid and Darfour
converge on the Nile. Gen. Wolselcy will
there await help from England At Korti the
general could be surrounded. In his retire.
ment all available supplies will be swept up,
and the whole army entrenched at Debbeh
could hold it's own, ii necessary, until the lis.
ing Of the Nile occurs. Dongola, Hannek
and various other points of the river between
Deba and Halfa are held by weak detachments
of British troops, and there is a line of tcle.
graph which possibly might DO maintained,
while the steam launches on the clear reaches
could keep up some sort of communication
with the second cataract