The Delta independent., 1888-11-27
PBLEGRAPHIC BREVlPIES.

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John Bright's health is improving.
Mississippi gave Cleveland plural
rty Of over 5000.
The President denies his alleged in
terview with Judge Rucker.
Harvard decided to forfeit the
Thanksgiving game of football to Yale.
The official canvass Of the vote Of
Connecticut gives Cleveland plurality Of
49,
The Board Of Trustees of Columbia,
College has decided to establish an annex
for women.
James M. Dougherty, the ardent ad-
mirer of Mary Anderson, has been pro-
bounced insane.
The official returns show that Harri-
sons plurality in the late election in Penn
sylvanis was 7e,5U.
Fred Douglass was denied accommo-
iation at one of the leading hotels Of Leav-
enworth the other day.
Official returns from every county in
Iowa gives Harrison 2ll ,552, Cleveland IT,
500, Harrison's plurality 81 ,6os.
The spinning mill Bella, at Rome,
burned Monday. Loss, 10000 Three
children were burned to death.
A. H. Colquitt has been reelected
United States Senator from Georgia. Grady
Of the Constitution refused to run.
| George Foebel, q Chicago Board Of
Trade man, who lost $4,000 on September
wheat and corn, suicided by shooting.
Complete returns Of the late election
in Arkansas give Cleveland, &, 5,sd9; Harri-
son, 5s, ,752; Streeter, 1o,dss; Fisk, el4.
The German Reichstag was opened
by the Emperor in person on the 29d. His
speech was Of q most pacific character.
A convention consisting Of 500 dele
yates met in Wichita the other day to urge
the organization of the Territory Of Okla
homa.
| General Harrison has rendered Eli
iah w. Halford, managing editor Of the In
dianapolis Journal, the position Of Private
Secretary.
| A freight train on the Mexican rail-
road was thrown from the track 1t Sole
dad Monday. The engineer, fireman and
brakeman were killed.
A call has been issued for q constitu-
tional convention at Jamestown on Decem-
ber to further the early admission Of tho
two Dakotas into the Union.
The Umbria made the fastest eastern
passage across the Atlantic last week that
is on record, the running time being six
days, two hours and twenty-five minutes.
A Salt Lake City Chinaman has re-
ccived verdict of 900 against the Union
train on account Of An irregularity in his
ticket
Tho following are the returns Of the
State Of Virginia: Cleveland. Isl, ,s77; Har-
rison, $50, 442; Cleveland's majority, less.
The vote in 1854 was: Cleveland, IA, ,4o7 !;
Blaine, 1sa, ,s56. Total, 2s4, ,sss-a Demo
| cratic loss Of 4, sos.
The official canvass of the vote of
Michigan gives Harrison plurality Of q, :
e66. The total number Of votes cast was
al, go, an increase of e, $50 over four years
ago, and divided as follows: Harrison, 236,-
$40. Cleveland 2is, 4o4, Fisk %, ,oea, Strester
t,542,
The annual report OF First As
sistant Postmaster General Stevenson
shows that during the last fiscal year IL
2ss fourth-class Postmssters were sp-
pointed. During the year 1,645 postofaces
were discontinued and the whole number Of
postofices increased {, ,22asa.
A fire broke out in school building
at Long Island City on the 22nd, and 200
children In panic piled upon and fought
each other in frantic effort to get out
They were piled on the floor at the foot of
the stairway In heaps, and hundreds of
them were badly bruised, but mono fatally
hurt. The fire was insignificant.
The New York Sun speaking editor
tally Of Dakota's admission, says: I'VE
learn by dispatches from Dakota that tho
Democrats there are not less anxious than
the Republicans for admission into tho
Union Of the family Of states. The people
are soon to make the necessary constitu-
tional preparation for statehood, and there
is every reason why favorable action should
be taken in their case at the nrst sessisn Of
the next Congress"
Representative Perry Belmont Of the
First New York district has been rendered
and accepted the appointments OF the United
States minister to Spain, to succeed J. L.
M. Curry resigned. MIR. Belmont will 1t
once transmit TO the governor Of New York
his resignation rs representative, in order
that his place may be filed by special cleo
tion. His resignation ~ . member Of the
House will cause vacancy In the commit
toe Of foreign Affairs Of which he was chair
man.
A special from Valparaiso, Neb..
says that the bank At that place closed this
afternoon. The proprietors, F. Scoville
and G. A. Crafts, fied, leaving many debts
unsatisfcd. "A near rs can be ascertained
this evening the liabilities of the bank will
reach saoo,0Oo. Developments show thu,
Soovillo has altered many Of the notes pay.
able 70 the bank by raising the figures on
them. Both he and Crafts borrowed exten.
sively from their fricnds before lesving.