The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-08

The Pacific Mail Line lG3 fatsta ttlt
passenger rates for Chinese from 50
70 $50 per hsad for the purpose Of
stopping the exodus nov iu progress.
The monument reared 20 ihe mein-
ory Of Fl Maihi IN size Soarai', D q
tower OF birch. " iteSs.sLed and
bearing the inscription Tine Ambaes-
adoF Of God"
w. @. Mitchell. OF Batesburg. >. c.,
recently found on his lot q queer stone
which the State Geologist 10 Column
bia pronounced 20 be diamond worth
at least 100000
The Catholic young men Of Cam
bridge, Mas, have just opened 9 me
gymnasium which cost 500, 900.
While under the cOEtrOl Of Catholics
the gymnasium is for all EhO viii
patTOnize il.
The official year book Of the church
Of England shows that during the
last twenty-five years the church has
raised and spent for religious and ed
ucatiOnAl purpose the sum OF $i0I,-
S08. Is5.
For the past three months the wa
ters Of Lake Michigan have main
tanned q higher range at Chicago than
for fifteen.years previously. Through
the st. Clair flats vessels have two
feet more leeway In draught
The London Lancet and other med
ieEl journals favor Professor BrissOn's
treltInent for hydrophObia IN prefer.
ence 10 NJ. Pasteur's. IL ls claimed
that BrissOD's method effects cures
even after rabies has developed.
A gradual subsidence Of the water
10 the Southern rivers Il reported,
but much damage is yet feared. At
Cincinnati the Ohio river has reached
a helghth of hfty-three feet enc aud
One-half inches, the pighest point
since the great deluge Of 1882
Mr.. David L. Davis, Of Readville,
Mass. who has been an emplOye OF the
Boston and Providence railroad for
fifty years, has received from the cor
pOFation q check for $500 In reeOgnl-
ton OF his hsif-century Of faithful
service.
Beriah Brown, who is q candidate
for the gOvernOFship Of Washington
Territory. was editing q paper In San
Francisco when SumpteF was fired
upon. His Southern sympathies were
50 strong that his ONCE was mObbed
and the editor fed to Mexico.
Joseph Coffin, an Englishman who
died 10 Cincinnati recently at the age
of 81, was buried In g coffin which he
constructed himself. Il was painted
In red, white, and blue and the lid
was decorated with stars and stripes
and q portrait Of the old gentleman.
Fire broke out in the Planters
House, the Oldest hotel In st. Louis.
There were about $50 guests and fifty
employees 10 the house ct the time.
All escaped save four servant girls
who persisted from heat and suffOca-
ton. The main portion of the build
ing was not damaged and the loss was
only about 5000.
In the Capitol, Montgomery, Ala,
is religiOusly preserved q large bible,
printed by the American Bible SOcie-
ty In 1851, and bearing upon q fy-leaf
this sentence: 1.-THE oath Of office, as
first President Of the Provisional Gov
eminent Of the Confederate States Of
America, was administered to Jeffsr-
son Davis upon this bible by Howell
Cobb, President Of the Provisional
Congress, at the front portieo Of the
Capitol in Montgomery, on the 18th
day Of February, A. d. 1891" The
book, 1t may be added, is still used Ia
swearing Ia Governors Of the State.
A general order has been issued by
the War Department announcing the
following assignments Major Gen
eral J. 81. SchOfield, to the Division
Of the Atlantic Major General A. II.
Terry, to the Division Of the Mis-
souri,; Major General Howard TO the
Division of the Pacific; Brigadier
General Crook was to-day relieved
from command of the Department Of
Arizona and assigned to the Depart
ment OF the Platte, formerly conf
manded by General Howard. Briga.
dier General N. A. Miles, now 10
command Of the Department OF the
Missouri, has bean assigned 70 the
Department Of Arizona.