The Republican journal., 1886-12-02

Generalities.

A Nlinisterto Austria will probably soon b,
appointed.
One thousand bales of cotton were burned il
Liverpool recently.
1t i proposed to keep the German army
| down tll> year to a peace bas!S-42l ,2l4 men
United States Senator Sewell. of New Jersey
has been sued for libel i'll a political speech
Renewed efforts will be made at the meeting
of Congress TO have the trade dollars redeem
ed.
Another effort Will be made at the nexl
meeting of Congress to pass the Bankruptcy
bill.
The proposals Of the White Star and the
Cunlrd lines to carry the mails have been re-
jected.
A scheme is ON foot to establish Il large col
ony Of colorcd people in fertile section OF
Missouri.
Forty rooms in Queen Nictoria's palace at
Hampton were damaged by fire Nov. 10. inYolY-
Ing a loss of about 500 900.
Two ocean steamers, the Britannia and Bca-
consticd, coIlided Nov. 10 in New York harlor
Both We're badly damaged.
One of the results of the Chicago Stock Yards
strike is the formation of a cooperative pack
iliS company bN hllHnlS Oh I4dDOf.
A committee of the British cabinet, compos-
ed Of Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Michael
Hicks Beach, Lord Ashbourne and Right Hon.
William Henry smith, is preparing bill fol
Ireland.
The Chicago District Assembly of the Knights
OF Labor have passed resolutions declaring
their belief that the anarchists We're unfairly
| convicted.
The First Comptroller claims to have dis
| covered a great many fraudulent practices on
the part of the United States commissioners
in the Southern States.
Adyices have been received in London to the
effect that Il ship crowded with native laborerS
returning from Queensland plantations, found
cred in the Pacific ocean, and 40 lives We're
lost.
At Denver, Col, November II, the mercury
stood at deg, below zero and 20 deg, below
was reported at points in the State, while
railroads in Kansas and Nebraska are blockad-
ed by SNOW.
Official returns from all the counties in Cali
forna give Bartlett (Dem.), Il plurality for
governor of G32 over Swift Utep.) The Demo
cratS have a majority of ten on joint ballot in
the Legislature.
An embroidery factory burned in Jersey
City, Nov. 18th; loss, $1j0,000. Two Pullman
cars burned near Kingston, Ont, the same
morning, the passengers escaping in their night
clothes. Loss, $4,000.
The grand jury at Chicago has ignored the
bill against the Pimkerton men charged with
completely in the death of Terence BigIy near
the stock yards at the close of Il recent strike.
The Pinkcrton men are discharged.
The late storm was one of the worst ever
known on the Great Lakes. The breakwatcr
harbor light at Marquette was washed away.
The lumber barges Mcnownee and Marnette
We're wrecked and fourteen men lost.
The English residents of New York propose
to appeal to their countrymen in America for
subscriptions to erect a statue at Fort Wads-
worth, Staten lsland similar to the Liberty
statue. but representing Queen Victoria.
The Dutch Government is negotiating with
the German Lloyds with the object of having
the steamers of that company call at Flushing
instead of at Antwerp after July 1, 1887. The
Belgian Government opposes this scheme.
Since the rupture of the commercial treaty
negotiations between Germany and Switzer-
land the German Government is preparing for
u war of tariffs. The North German Gazette
predicts the absolute prohibition of Swss
cotton products, Il measure which, it SAYS, will
prove ruinous to Swiss cotton industries and
of advantage to such similar industries in Eng
land.