The Delta independent., 1888-06-05
TELEGRAPH BREYTIIEN

General Sheridan is rapidly improv-
ing.
The debt statement shows decrease
during May of 81 .6ls. $685..
Heavy rains and high winds have
been prevailing in Kansss.
Henry George has been expelled
from the United Labor party.
The Prohibitionists adopted the wo
man suffrage plank by large majority.
Grants tomb was the center of at
traction in New York on Memorial Day.
George William Curtis has been re-
elected president Of the Civil Service Re-
form League.
Omaha has been selected as the
place where the next General Conference
of The NJ. Z. Church will be held.
The bill promoting Sheridan to the
rank of General has passed Congress and
been approved by the President
Gen. Fisk of New Jersey and Mr..
Brooks of Missouri are the nominees for
President and Vice-President on the Pro-
hibition ticket
The Cabinet of New South Wales is
making a stubborn fight to prevent the
landing Of Chinese in that colony through
the action of the courts.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue reports an increase of G, 5OO, 900 barrels
in the production of malt liquor for the year
ending March 81 over the preceding year.
The Pennsylvania railway has ordered
the discharge of all employees on the lines
east of Pittsburg and Erie whose services
can be dispensed with. About 5000 men
will be discharged.
The Moscow Gazette commenting on
the recent scare over the condition of En-
a ruin, must be content to play the part of a
peaceful commercial nation"
The Anarchists will resume the pub
licaiion of their propaganda, the Alarm. 1t
will be transferred from Chicago to New
York and printed in English. Herr Most
will have hand in 1t.
About 500 delegates were present at
the opening of the Brewers convention at
ST. Paul. President Miles said the result
of the Supreme Court decision in the Kan
sas casCs had stimulated the Prohibition
lists in every direction.
The United States steamer Yantic
has been ordered to Port au Prince, Hsyti,
where revolution is threatened She car
ries four heavy guns besides full compile
ment OF machine guns. The Atlanta will
probably soon follow her.
Mr.. Blaine's house in Augusta was
broken into some time ago during the fam.
ily's absence, and all OF the .family's politi-
cal correspondence and private papers, in
yolving financial topics, which were in his
library, were overaauled, carefully exam.
ired and a portion Of them abstracted.
The President reviewed the process
sion in New York City on Memorial Day.
There were ffieen divisions OF Grand Army
pass, and all OF them saluted the Presi-
dent. The floral division, which WAS the
last Of the procession, conta ined forty
large trucks filed with flowers TO be placed
on the soldiers graves in the cemeteries.
Rev. DR.. Samuel Halliday, for twen-
ty-two years past Beecher's assistant at
Plymouth church, has rendered his resigna-
tion. There are many rumors that 1t is the
beginning of disiptegration of the church
membership because Of dissentions. Some
members, however, favor pensioning HallI-
day.
Edwin Booth has purchased the
house at No. l6 G:amercy park, New York,
for $4,000. lie intends spending 800 600 in
fitting 1t up and will then present il to the
Players club" Ii Is intended to gather
in the building the finest picture gallery
and library relating TO the theatrical pro
fession in the world.
The commissioner of the general
land office has completed tabu!ated state
ment showing that the total amount of land
actually returned to the public domain and
opened to entry and settlement since the
fourth day OF March 1885, is 50, 600, 10 acres.
Also statement showing the total amount
recommended by the land Office for restor-
stlon still pending, amounting to i, ,4lo, ,o5s
acres.
1t is announced that the pope
will send friendly and comforting letter
TO the Irish bishops expressive of his con-
slant purpose to abstain from anything
which could in the least check the true in
terests OF the Irish national movement The
propaganda considers the conduct Of the
London Tablet (the Tory organ Of the
Ca,hol:cs), In misconstruing the papai re-
script for the purpose of irritating the Irish,
extremely blamable."
The storm which swept over Eastern
Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsyl-
vania Monday afternoon was of a very de.
structlve character, and the aggregate loss
to buildings, crops and railroad and tele-
graph lines will! foot up many thousands Of
dollars. Several lives were also sacrificed
and a number Of persons injured. About
Point Pleasant and Huntington, West
Virginia, at Canton, Ohio, Beaver county.
Pennsylvania, and through the oil regions
the storm was particularly severe, the hail
falling in torrents, while the wind was very
violent
A special from Bramwell, Mercer
county, West virgiuin, says all the miners
In the Blue Stone district went out on a
strike yesterday for two weeks pay, and to
add to tho excitement negro was arrested