Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-15

VHE amount reQulTeu u MdIutdlu mum
cipal Government in New York. City for
the new year is estimated at $35, 4s6, 320.
THE colored people of Norfolk, Va, cele-
brated the anniversary of emancipation on
the LIST by a grand parade.
THE Grant national monument fund was
$113, 215 on the LIST.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, was in
augurated at Albany on the LIST.
F1TzHuGH LEE was inaugurated Governor
of Virginia at Richmond on the LIST.
THERE were six thousand callers upon
the President on the lst.
FOREIGN.
In Joint convention of the two houses of
the French National Assembly on the 2Sth
NJ. Grevy was reelected President of the
Republic of France by 1876 majority.
A TORONTO paper says the wrecking laws
of the United States and Canada are dis
graceful enactments, and that the statute
of the Dominion is both unwise and in
human.
IT was reported on the 2Sth that Russia
and Austria were secretly arning, and that
both these countries had e n orders to En-
gland for large quantities Of stores for
their respective armies.
THE Wing peers of England, headed by
the Duke of Argyle and Lord Harrington,
announced on the Goth their determination
to make a hot fight against Glldstone's
home-rule measure for ireland.
The French Cabinet resigned on the Goth,
and President Grevy had called upo1sADe
Freycinet to form a new Cabinet.
THE value of the crops in Ireland during
1885 reached nearly e1,65o,00o This is large
ly above the average for the last decade.
Mr.. GLADSTONE on the Goth received four
hundred letters Of congratulation on reach
ing his seventy-sixth birthday.
PAsrEUn, of Paris, had on the Goth eradi-
Gated all symptoms Of hydropho5ia from
the Newark IN. J.) children sent across the
Atlantic by charitable people.
CAPTAIN Policy, for a long time Ameri-
can Consul in Cuba, committed suicide on
the Goth on the island of Barbados.
ADvIcEs of the 29th from Dublin state
that the catch of fish off Eagle Island,
Innishoffin and many small isles near the
Mayo and Galway coasts was very meager
the past season, and many persons were in
a starving condition.
A GAS main burst on the Goth at Kings
ton, Can, asd several persons were seri-
ously ill from inhaling the gas, two having
died.
THE volcano in the State of Colima,
Mexico, was in q state of eruption on the
Both ult., causing great excitement through
out the region.
AN Italian residing in Victoria, B. c.,
undertook recently to transport seven
Cinnamon to the shore of Washington Ter
litory. Seeing an American revenue cutter
in the distance, he killed his passengers one
by n and heaved their corpses overheard.
The Orange-Catholic riots were renewed
on the Both ult. at Conception Bay, New
foundland, An Orange mob attacked and
fatally wounded two men.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL STEPHENSON, COM
mander of the British forces in Egypt, a
few days ago attacked and routed a large
force of Arabs near the village of Kosch.
The fight lasted three hours. X
A TERRIFIC snow-storm prevailed on the
Both ult. in. Scotland, and the railways
were blockaded.
On the 31st ult. Russia and Austria were
armed at every possible point: Turkey was
still massing troops on the Macedonian
frontier, and Greece showed no signs of dis
banding her forces.
AN Arab army was marching north from
Khartoum on the 31st ult., and the insur.
gents recently defeated by General
Stephenson were massing for a fresh at
tack on the British forces. England had
1900 soldiers in the Soudan.
THE annexation of Bullnah to the British
Empire was formally announced on the
LIST in India and England. Officers ap-
pointed by the Viceroy of India are to ad-
minister the Government.