The Delta independent., 1886-11-16
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

The suit testing the validity of Bell S
telephone patent was decided in Bells favor.
st. Peters Roman Catholic Cathedral
in Allegheny City has been destroyed by
re.
A squad of soldiers now guard the
statue of Liberty on Bedloe's island, New
York.
The seasons yield of corn is estim-
ated at 1,66s, 600, 600 bushels, or y bushels to
the acre.
Troops have been sent to Caldwell,
Kansas, to prevent an influx into Indian
Territory.
Sullivan and Ryan had fight in San
Francisco on the 18th in which Ryan was
badly punished.
A sailors chapel is to be built in New
York by money left by W. II. Vanderbilt
for that purpose.
1t is said that 2l3 men have signed Il
roll agreeing to join Cuttings fillbustering
expedition into Mexico.
Southern California will show wine
crop of /. 10000 gallons this year, and a
raisin crop of 200 O0oo boxes.
A convention of all the Trades Unions
in the United States and Canada is called to
meet at Columbus. Ohio Defenders s.
The New York Sun" declares in
favor of Samuel J. Randall for the Demo
cratic Presidential candidate for ISIS.
The cost of the United States navy
for the past fiscal year was sl7,676, ,+6s, and
that of Indian maintainance =, 81, ,523.
Prince Waldemar, the third son OF
the King of Denmark. has been unanimous
ly selected as the new ruler OF Bulgaria.
The Executive Committee of the Paris
Exposition has granted 10000 francs with
which to construct tower ss4 feet high.
Archer, the famous English jockey.
committed suicide while suffering from
typhoid fever. He leaves fortune of f25o.
600.
Evidence is said to be accumulating
tina; Fotheringham, the express messengers
=
souri,.
Rev. Archibald Alexander Hodge. d.
D.M. l.. D.. Professor of Didactic and Po-
lemic Theology at Princeton College is
dead.
An increase of $5.6l7 in the average
daily receipts is noticed since the recent re,
duction of fares on the New York Elevated
railroad.
The Hualpai Indians in Northwestern
Arizona are reported to be in destitute
condition, and General Miles has orders t,
feed them.
The Chicago pork packers have re,
scinded their resolutions by which they
agreed not 10 employ any member of a labor
organization.
Statistics show that in October, 1886.
the percentage Of paupers in London was =.
TO the thousand. In 1880 the percentage was
~ 10 the thousand.
The Austrian explorer, Henklemann,
has been murdered by the native Africans
His ears and heart We're presented TO the
oldest member of the tribe.
A boiler explosion and subsequen,
fire in Philadelphia cigar-boN factory was
the cause of many girls and women being
badly MANNED and burned.
Nice has been visited by enormous
waves from the Mediterranean Sea and a
great many lives We're lost and an immense
amount of property destroyed.
The Adjutant-General makes n very
fiattering report upon the possibilities of the
militia of the States, but he says they need
better arms and more instruction.
McCabe. the Doodle Alderman of New
York, has been placed under the care of his
wife, but he is held under $4,000 bonds for
trial should he recover his reason.
The Methodist Church in Canada has
three preachers who are millionaires-W. m E.
Toronto, and G. A. Cox of Peterboro.
An attempt at Chadwick. Missouri,
by 100 Bald Knobbers" to spill all the
whisky in town was resented by the people.
who drove them on with the loss of one
wounded.
Suit hasbeen brought against Mayor
Grace, of New York, by the Receiver of
Grant Il Ward to recover sl5O,000, which ii
is asserted he received through fictitious
contracts with Ferdinand Ward.
An expert visited the Metropolitan
theatre, New York, at its opening one night
last week. and figures ont that the wealth
represented in the parterre boxes was s'0S.
40 600, and in the first tier boxes ~, 80 600.
The receipts from Internal Revenue
taxation during the fiscal year were sll6,-
ar2 500. The Commissioner estimates the re-
ceipts for the current year at sllS,00O, 600,
with oleomarysrine rs an unknown factor.
The workingmen of New York are so
elated over the result of their recent muni-
cipal campaign that they have decided to is
sue call for convention for the purpose
of forming permanent national organiza-
tion. -
DR.. Veasey of the Agricultural De-
partment recommends the establishment of
an experimental station to ascertain If the
buffalo and gramma grass may not be re
placed by some more nutritious food for
cattle.
Prince Roccaiovina. Bonaparte. who