The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-14

much improved during the past season,
has withdrawn its prohibition OF July @,
1885.
THE safe in the Post-ofice in DanviIle,
KY, was blown open the other night and
all the money taken.
KANGHRAN & Co., retail dry goods
dealers at Broadway and Ninth street,
New York, have made an assignment.
Liabilities, s115, 900; assets, nominally the
same.
DETECTIVE DRYsoN recovered SIS, $50 in
bills, ETC., of the missing funds of the Lam
caster, Mass, National Bank, which was
in two vslises buried under pile Of stones
at Tinmouth, ten miles from Rutland, Vt.
d. n. SMITH & Co., agricultural imple-
ments, Richmond, Va, have failed; liabil-
tiles, SIS, 00o
THE Australian harvest is over. Ninety
thousand tons of wheat will be available
for export.
TIE night of January eth was remark
able throughout the Missouri Valley for in
tense GOODNESS and nipping wind.
In Henderson County, Tenn, temper
ance and anti-temperance factions are at
war. Recently the latter faction burned
down a school house at Sand Hill, near
Juno.
THE new French Cabinet is as follows:
President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs, De Freycinet; Minister of
the Interior, Sarrien; Minister of Com
merce, Lockroy; Minister of Finance,
Sadi-Caenot; Minister of Public Instruc-
ton, Goblet; Minister of Justice, De Male;
Minister of Agriculture, De Vile; Min
lister of War, General Roulanger; Minister
of the Marine and the Colonies, Auber;
Minister of Public Works, Barhant; Min
lister of Ports and Telegraphs, Granet.
A MOTION was filed in Topeka, on the 18th,
in the Superior Court, against the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, asking
the court to restrain the payment of
dividends and asking also for the
appointment of a receiver. The move
was instigated by Detroit shareholders and
was fellow to the one recently brought to
restrain the payment of interest on the
bonds of the Sonora Railroad
LATE on the afternoon of the 9th, during
the heavy snow storm, the front and mid
die part of the large four-story warehouse
occupied by h P. Forwood & Co., Trabue &
Co. and ]. B. Balmsforth & Co., at Louis
vile, KY, all cotton and commission mer-
chants, fell suddenly, overturning stove
and starting destructive fire. Mayor NJ.
H Wright, manager, and ]. B. Balmsforth,
one of the proprietors, was killed under the
ruins The loss amounted to S110,000; in
surance, $4,000
THE Richmond (Va.) Wing, which sus-
pended publication December %, has been
bought for 5000 by Abner Anderson and
Judge A. W. c. Nowlin, and will be started
as Democratic paper.
JUDGE THURMAN has rendered a decision
as umpire in the arbitration between the
operators and miners of coal in Ohio He
fixes the rate at sixty cents per ton, which
is the amount asked for by tie miners. The
operators wanted to pay fifty cents.
A DISPATCH from Denver of the Sth stated
that not train had reached or left that
city east for two days. The weather was
moderating and the blockade would be
raised.
THERE were 299 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet'S during the
week ended January Z, against 297 in the
preceding week and 44S, 345, 3-2 and 152 in
the corresponding weeks of 1882, respec-
lively. About 81 per cent. were those Of
small traders, whose capital was less than
| 5000.
THE opening of the American exhibition
in London has been postponed to May,
1857.
THE st. James Hotel at Batavia, n. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently. Two men
jumped from. tie fourth story window and
were badly injured. The loss was $4,000.
IT was rumored in army circles at Wash
ington that the President would recon-
mend to Congress the passage of bill au-
thorizing him to fill the Office of Judge Ad-
vocate General of the army. General
Swain, who formerly held that Office, was
sentenced by court martial to suspension
FOR twelve years; st tie end Of that period
| ne will he placed on the retired list. The
President was not certain about his legal
right to I'LL the Office without an act Of
Congress.
THE Legislative Committee appointed to
investigate the result of tie recent election
| in Hamilton County (CincinnatD opened
its deliberations on the Sth. Over fifty
| witnesses were summoned.
ALL the mules in the Preston mines at
| Ashland, Pa, numbering thirty-six, were
| drowned recently. The water gained on
the pumps so rapidly that the animals
1 could of ho