The Delta independent., 1888-12-04
TBLEGRAPHlC BREVIRIES.

week.
Barnum has retired from the show
business.
A severe snow storm has been rag
ing in the East.
| Senator Blackburn has Withdrawn
the language he used about Judge Rueker.
| 1t is reported that Jay Gould has
purchased the telegraph line of the Atchi-
son Railway.
The American editors were welcomed
TO the City Of Mexico bF President Diaz in
a graceful speech.
The Pope has instructed Cardinal
Gibbins to congratulate Mr.. Harrison on
his election to the Presidency.
Senator Quay claims that the Repub-
cans will have majority Of nine in the
next House of Representatives.
The temporary successor of Lord
Sackvillc West at Washington was mar
ried to an American girl last Tuesday.
General Crook tried to make .
| speech TO 1 200 street urchins il Chicago
Sunday and was overcome by stage fright.
Heavy rains are reported through
out Mexico in the last three days, causing
considerable damage A heavy northsr is
blowing.
The looms of Iown's first cotton mill
were set in motion at Des Moines Tuesday
Of cloth a day.
Boulanger's wife i taking steps to
obtain q divorce. 1t IL stated that one Of
the richest widows in France Is willing 70
marry Boulanger.
Some of the Democratic membsss Of
the G. A. R. are talking Of forming new
| organization to be known as the Union Vet
eran Association
II Is believed that during the coming
session of the Canadian Parliament, ths
Government will enact Legislation restrict
| ing Chinese immigration.
Business is picking up all over The
country. The aggregate clearing house
transactions last week showed an increase
over those Of hast year Of over is per cent.
Henry George in an address in Lon
don Tuesday evening, said that grasping
for land In America was rapidly mading
the country similar to England. He
wanted to utterly abandon iandlordism
| and grant to every child q share in the coil.
/, The official canvass OF the Presiden-
| tial vote of Indiana has been completed.
The total vote is $50, ,94e, divided as 1Dllows:
Republicans eas. .ssi Democrats 9d1 ,ols, Pro
| hibition 9.ss1. Labor 2,op4 Republican
! plurality ASS. General Hovey's plurality
| e,a0o.
A Washington dispatch saye:
Chairman Britain, Of the Inaugural Com
mittee. has received letter from Denver,
Colorado. asking that 500 ladies from that
city be allowed 70 march in the parade on
March 4 Several committeemeu favor
| granting the request.
A dispatch from Boston. Mas Z,
says: Emory b. Turner, formerly Of
| Newbury, New York. hut recently from
| Cortaz, Colo, where he is well known, has
| been arrested in this city for offences CON-
mitsed in the Westby detectives who have
| followed him over |, 100 miles. Numerous
1
A private person living near Mt
,ingham has received letter aligned ..Jsck
the Ripper's Pail stating that both the
writer Of the letter and Jack committed
the recent murders in the whitechapel dis
trict. The writer says Jack is Bavarian
whom he first met aboard ship returning
from America. and who exercised mes.
meric influence.
! The Daily 7elsSraph's correspondent
at ST. Petersburg says the Minister Of ii
nance hopes to induce America to invest
her surplus revenue in the Russian Loans.
| Hence the ulsase referring to the new loan
expressly fixcd the rate of exchange .,
which interest on the present loan will b
| paid in American dollars.
| In tho course Of Thanksgiving ora.
sion At Augusta, Georgia, Henry w. Brady
said: 1--WE give thanks to-day that the LORD
God Almighty, having led US from dcsola
tion intIs plenty, from poverty into sub.
stance, from passion into reason, and from
e.trangcmcnt into love, permits us 10 Ms
scmble hero sand rejoice amid sarnercd
heaps of our treasure"
| H. w. Grady, editor of the Atlanta
| Consultation, is the biggest man in Georgis
to-day. In q legislature which was practi
cally pledged TO the no election Of Senator
| Colquitt, the editor was offered ono hun
dred votes, enough to make him senator on
the first ballot The movement on behalf
I Of Grady came from the people. Tho pasty
| management in Georgia was pledged TO Col
| Quit and this is Ne rsaeon given fn
Gsady's refusal.
Tho President and Mrs. Cleveland
attended The Assembly church On ThAnhs.
| giving, whore several Of the Presbyterian
churches held union services. Tho sermon
was prsached by Rev. DR.. Pilscr. After
serviee the President reviewed the District
National Guard from u stand in front of the
White House, and then wont out 10 Oak,
Wow, where he ate Thanksgiving dinner
With Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom and Mrs.
Hoyt, . Eclative Of Mrs Cleveland. The
day waa generally observed In tho olty.
Tho Republican spell binders" met in
The Firth Avenue Hotel Tucsday afternoon
ana completed the organization Of Rcpub-
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