Sharp County record., 1886-12-23

loubt.
CONGRESSMAN SwINBURNE, OF New OK
las served notice upon Congressman-elecV
Nicholas T. Kane that he will contest ms
seat in the Fiftieth Congress on tne
ground Of fraud.
THE President has accepted a section OIL
forty miles of the Cascade branch OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad in washington
Territory from the 125th to the lo9th mile
west from Columbia river
SEVERAL petitions have been received
by Comptroller Trenholm from bankers
asking for the retention of Mr.. Serbia as
hank examiner, but Mr.. Trenholm IS de-
termined that Serbia must CO.
IN Mexican diplomatic circles 1t IS De-
,ieved that grave questions will soon ARISE
between Mexico and the United States,
owing to the position taken by President
Cleveland in the Cutting case
THE Treasury Department has deciueu
that Canadian postal cards imported lhVo
the United States are dutiable al rate ol
TWENTY-FIVE per cent ad valorem as prlnO-
ed matter not specially provided 1or'
A
Mp PHELPS. American Minister at Lon
don, is confined to his home with lulnoaso'
hut the worst of the attack is thought to
he over, and he expects to resume Ills
duties at the legation in few days
JrDeE SAGE, in the United States Clrcull
Court at Columbus, o., on the 'th, oruereo
the Bell Telephone case dismissed WlChou'
nreiudice and without record as 1ar as lUs
stains in the Ohio district is concerned
A
TUE bound volumes of the proceeding
oP the first session of the Forty-ninth Con
otass are now ready for distribution
They beat the record OF previous con
crosses, the number OF volumes pelns
nine.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury mas sen
to Congress the estimates OF approPrla
tions required for the fiscal year enuins
June 80 1885 The total amount estlmate'
as required for all expenses OF uhe "o'
ernment, is 1926, 1S5, 794,
yn5T 5TyfitfsaysrptI6ft al. haS GeeeyS, Wifi ai
fetal invitation to participate in an inter-
national exhibition, which is to be held in
Manchester, England, next year, to cele-
brate the jubilee of her Britannia Majesty IS
reign.
- The Comptroller of the Currency says
that Mr.. Serbia was asked to resign on ac-
count of his incompetency The Comp
troller regrets that Mr., Scriba's persist
ence should make it necessary to reveal
the true cause of the desire to make a
change.
THE Shapleigh & Cantwell Hardware
company's stores in st. Louis collapsed
and were subsequently burned on the 1lth,
involving loss of nearly 5000, 900, on which
there was an insurance of about $3.50, 1000
Several lives were lost as the result of the
calamity.
ARTHUR A. THOMAS, who has been ap-
pointed a member of the Utah Commis-
sion, is the present Secretary of Utah Ter
ritory He succeeds ex-senator Paddock,
who resigned for the reason that his pri-
yate interests demanded his presence in
Nebraska.
HENRY G. FLEDDERMAN, sheriff of Balti-
more, Md, has been presented by the
grand jury for attempting to bribe a col
ored voter at the polls of the Third pre-
cinct of the Tenth ward at the recent con-
gressional election. Fledderman denies
the charge.
THE threat of the helpers and engine
men in the local yards Of the Burlington
q Missouri railway at Omaha, to cease
work if their wages were not raised, was
put into effect on the 9th. A force of men
was ordered from Lincoln to take the
place of the strikers.
A WOMAN at Brussels revealed the
place where a number Of the letters
recently stolen from the Ostend express
had been hidden. They were found in the
Rue Blanchissere in drain. The English
police know who stole the mail and are on
the track of the robbers
LIEUTENANT-GENER SHERIDAN has is
sued a notice that "the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland will hold its
eighteenth reunion at the city of Washing
ton on the 18th and 18th of May, 1887, on
which occasion the statue in memory OF
its lamented comrade, General James A.
Garfield, will be unveiled"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, although still
suffering from rheumatic pains, resumed
his official routine on the 18th. He received
an unusually large number OF congress
sional visitors during the forenoon. Gen
erals Sherman and Sheridan were among
the callers. and met Gabriel r. Paul Post,
G. A. R., of New Jersey, who were pres
ent to pay their respects to the President,
The collector of customs at New York
has been authorized to allow free entry OF
certain schoolbOoks and candy imported
and intended fer Hugh NJ Brooks, alias
Walter H. Lennox- Maxwell, now in Jail at
St. Lous. The candy was sent to him by
lis mother in England, 1t is suggested
hat it would not be bad idea to give the
andy close inspection before it is turn
d over to Maxwell.
THE death of Representative Dowdney.
yhich was announced on the 10th, swells
D twel We the death list of the Forty-ninth
ongress. 1t is as follows: Vice-Presi-
ent Hendricks, Senators Miller, of Califor-
ia. and Pike, of New Hampshire; Repre-
sntatiyes ElWood, of Illinois; Rankin, OF |