The Dillon tribune., 1886-03-06
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
,,;,sl Down from the Late Tcie:srH,''S.


100000 at per cent.
New York had $500 canal boats in use
:, her canals last season.
new cable is to be laid between the
,-,;ted States and Australia.
Pension payments during February
amounted TO about $11 100000.
Barley Campbell denies the report that
he is either broke or gone crazy.
Archbishop Corrigan. Catholic, was in.
stalled at New York on the 1th.
The treaty OF peace between Servia and
pp,parja was signed Mt Bucharest.
The "Caliinrnia Duchess" is cr.atin. a
sensation in Washiny'o, City society
Beccher gives $1,000 year for the
maintenance Of the Plymouth Church
choir.
The Prussian Cabinet has set down ON
Bisrnarck's proposition for the expulsion of
the Poles.
The New York hnrtcnders publish Il
newspaper, whose first issue gave them
$500 profit.
The Canadian Pacific: Telegraph Com
panv will have its lines open to the pub.
lie on May 1st.
The St. Louis Gas!ight Company has re.
iuccd the price of its products to $1.5o
PER 1000 feet.
The first Massachusetts, Regiment will
erect $4,ouo monument ON the Gettvs.
burg battlefield.
1t tis'estimated that thcr., has been de.
crease of $:,5oo,ooo in the public debt
during the month Of February.
Edward ]. Phelps, United States Minis.
ter and his wife were Yesterday presented
10 Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.
The Chamber Of Deputies have agreed
10 leave to the Government the question
Of the expulsion Of the French Princes.
Cardinal Angelo .Jacobini is dead. lie
was born at Gersano, April IS, 1925, and
vas created 4 Cardinal March -, 1852.
Artic weather prevails in Denmark.
The Cattega, sound and the Great Belt
are full Office and navigation is impossible.
The wife of Sir Horace Rumbold, Brit.
ish minister at Athens, appeals to England
in behalf OF the people Of Greece who are
in distress.
Pope Leo III on last Tuesday cele-
trated the 18th anniversary of his birth, and
the eighth anniversary Of his coronation
the next day.
A. B. Thompson, the negro who out.
ragged Mrs. Lancaster near Glenn Springs,
On the end inst. was lynched at S.artans-
burg, Ga. lie confessed the crime.
The Belgian Government intends to re-
ieve all Trans. Atlantic steamship lines
leaving Antwerp regularly from the pay.
ment Of customs by pilotase and lighthouse
dues.
During the recent cold snap and snow.
storm in Florida the unsophisticated
chickens greedily snapped up the first
snowaakes that fell, supposing them to be
anew species OF food.
It is reported that the House Pension
Committee is becoming alarmed at the
amounts involved in the projected pen
son legislation. This is the first time that
a little item like S1oo,ooo,ooo ever stag
sered pension committee.
NJ. Pasteur mas announced to the Paris
Academy shat his system OF inoculation
proved successtoiin S5s cases of persons
often by mad dog. In only one case did
the treatment result in failure, and in that
case there was hopeless delay in seeking
his assistance.
burns, Hyndman. Williams and Cham
r'oh' the London Socali,. leaders, were
gain before the police court. and after /;
'aFtA"f hearing were committed io. trial
'A the charge Of melting the subjects of
''s Queen to riot. Defendants were per.
''''''ed to furnish hail for their appearance.
Al the Senate Senator Frye has present
gu petition from the citizens OF New Ter
'' praying for legislation tor the legal
''0'ect'on of young girls. Tec petition IS
- printed blank with the words "New
'e'seS written in the body q the print,
.sNs Congress to provide ,xe,nplar"
'>'""s'es for the seduction with or with
"s 'Ae promise of marriage an, for the
,,,iS"cnt ,., OF the persons OF vo,n. girls
g '.'''o' consent, under the age Of It least
;e"FS IN the district Of Columbia, md all