, 1888-10-25
FLASHES,

N'Nh' LIE, N.Y. ONl. -t.-USnGTa
passenger agents interested in New Or
leans traffic net to-day to consider a prof.
ect for running through steamers between
Liverpool and New Orleans with the view
to building up direct immigrant traffic.
The British American national a~ssoeia-
ton to-day adopted 4 report making eli
glble to membership any male person of
good moral character who is already, or
intends to become an American citizen,
being not less than eighteen years of age.
of British birth or a son or grandson of
such person.
Washington.-The president will leave
Washington Thursday evening, and after
viewing the business mems parade at
New York Saturday will return to Wash
ington.
Jacksonville, Fla-The rigid quarantine
heretofore existing in this state is Sc
riously interfered with by the political
campaign in Florida, but now that the
lever is abatlng more activity is notice
able, especially among the Democrats, who
Chicago.-The bail of Il. A. Gardner,
the opium %smuggler, was reduced by
Judge Blodgett to-day from S., 900 to
gltDOO- LID OulSC lCpICStDlS lDlI ue=
PENDANT was held in SIS, 200 bail 10 Buff
falo on the same charge, and found it DIFF
ticult to give bonds of $1,000 more here.
Jacksonville 1t is reported that fever
has existed in Enterprise since June.
Nearly twenty cases are reported, with
two or three deaths. DR.. Neal Mitchell
reports thirty-one new cases for the TWEEN
ty-four hours ending at 6 p. m. There
were four deaths. Total cases, 3,9O3;
total deaths, 337.
Cincinnati. John Schaller. a laboring
man, cut the threats of his wife and self
this evening. Both are dead. Jealousy
was the cause.
st Louis. The trial of young Talmage.
son of the late general Manager Talmage
of the Wabash road, for the murder OF q
telegraph operator named Tidd at Bruins
wick, Mo-, last January, was begun at
Kytesville yesterday. The case is attract
ing interest owing to the standing of the
defendant.
B~lackshear, Ga.-While Joseph Whit
aker (colored) was absent from home his
house caught fire and his four small
children were burned to death.
New York.-Governor Church, of Da-
kota, yesterday received over 50, 600 con-
tributed through the Herald, for the re-
lief OF the starving Hebrew families in
Ramsey county.
Fernandina, Fla.-New cases of yellow
fever, fourteen; no deaths.
Minneapolis. By the falling of an
overladen scatfold at the new Soldiers
home this afternoon one man was injured
so badly that he died this evening. Three
others are injured and may not recover
Ottawa, Ont.-A petition addressed to
the governor general in council has been
received by the department Of state from
the inhabitants of Victoria, B. c., beg
ging for improvement in the mail service
between Victoria and San Francisco. The
petitioners say the terms of the union are
not being complied with and their require
ments are not met as they should be.
New York.-Four ocean steamships
left this port almost at the same hour this
morning and shipping circles are aroused
over the possible race between the City of
New York of the Inman line, the Cunard-
err 6 allia of the North German:line, the
Lloyd steamer Trave and the White Star
line Brittanic. The Trave was under way
at 8 o'clock, the others leaving hall an
hour earlier.
New York.-Blaine arrived here to-
day. lie remains until TO morrow night,
when he will address a mass meeting to
be held in Madison Square garden.
London.-At the Newmarket Hough-
ton meeting the Newhurst plate was won
by Donovan.
Chicago. -Four men giving the names
Of Harry Lewis, Lutte B. Witch, James
Mackey and James Klink, protesting to
be Wyoming stock men, are under arrest
here charged with forging a signature
to tickets issued to them by the Burling-
ton road for cowboys to help them with
a consignment OF cattle and then sold
them to scalpers.
London.-The general impression is
growing that the Times case is weaker
even than its enemies imagined, and the
task confided to the attorney general is
beyond his power. Should he continue at
his present speed another week will not
see the end of his speech.
London.-A Paris dispatch says that
Patti will create the role of Juliet in
Gounod's opera,