Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-15

Gov. Buckley, OF Connecticut vetoed
the ballot reform bill passed by the legisla-
ture.
One parcel Of real estate in New York
rity was sold by auction recently for
HO5, 900
The enlargement In Russla's trade in CO
reals is next TO Americas in its remarkable
rapidity.
In Clay county, Ind, there are 1000 mi
ners and their families are in a nearly des-
titute condition.
Striking silver miners In Russia set fire
TO factories and houses, and IL persons
were burned to death.
The famous Stewart will case in New
York city has been settled upon private
terms among the litigants.
The doctors who performed the autopsy
on mind reader Bishop have been ind ,cted
for violation of the sanitary law.
The supre me court in Wyoming territory
has decided that the owners of land may
fence the same even if in so doing they in
close public land.
1t requires the stings OF sixty healthy
honey bees to Kill man in fair health If
you can dodge al over fifty you are pretty
safe for place in the next Fourth of July
procession.
1t is predicted that a substitute will DO
found for iron within the next twenty-five
years. but II this comes true 1t is ten 70 ono
that Yankee discovers it, But what need
Of substituted
Wiggings has come out of his shell to de-
clare that the earth is gradually receding
from the sun. 1t would be easier for the
sun to do the craw6sh act, but he woa't
have it that way.
Rain, snow, gales, freshets, conflagra-
tons, disasters on lake and ocean ana ca
lamities on land marked the last week ia
May. No human agency could have plan
ned a worse week.
II you want TO express yourself emphati-
cally TO your enemies hereafter tell them to
go to Hayti. 1t Is just as warm and uncom
Portable as the other place and there is no
doubt as to its existence
American tools, American lamps, Amer.
can rocking chairs~-all are superior u the
same articles manufactured in the Old
World, and exhibited at the Paris EXPOSE
ton. Our brooms, carriages and buggies
attract great attention and admiration.
Australia already furnishes us much
agricultural competition in European mar
kets, and her rapid growth will soon render
her more able and active, but she is never
likely to cause our wheat growers we'll
grounded alarm. New Zealand, on the con-
trary, as a wheat growing country, has no
equal in the world, with the exception OF
Dakota.
1t is little singular that the late conser-
vative ministry of Brazil should have op.
posed the granting Of compensation to,
x-slavcholders for their enancipated
slaves while the liberals favored the plan.
In consequence tho Shareholders in parlia-
ment have gone over TO the liberals and
overthrown the conservative ministry.
Premier Alfredo OF the latter party will
make no appeal 10 the people on the ISSUE,
and the shareholders will probably secure
large sum from the imperial treasury in ex-
change for their property" destroyed by
the state.
1t is estimated that Niagara Falls will
recede two miles and then remain station
airy, their height at that point being eighty
feet, instead OF l6t, as at present. The sup
position is supported by an argument which
appears reasonable. The present site is a
limestone formation some eighty or ninety
feet thick, with shsly foundation. AS
the shale is washod away, the limestone
breaks off, and the falls take q step back
ward. But the end of the shaly deposit
will be reached TIVE miles from the present
falls, and then the rushing water will have
more than 1t can do 10 wear away the solid
precipice over which it will be projected.
Old Cassius NJ. Clay of Kentucky proves
his stanch Americanisli by advocating the
determination of the English sparrow. In
u letter to the Louisville Courier Journal
he SAYS: 1.-THE English sparrow is graniv-
orous, and, like all granivorous birds eats
insects only sparing.y when pressed by
hunger. Inscctfvorous and iiesh-eating
birds, as the crow the blue-iay, the black
bird, owls, hawk, etc, are always lean in
the flesh while all the grain-eGters are fat
when we'll fed. The English sparrow is
generally fat the year round and is deli
cious bird for the table. The restaurants Of
the city SHOULD understand this and aid in
the destruction ofthcse pests"
The situation in the Conemaugh valley
seems to have changed for the better.
Fears of All epidemic of sickness at Johns
town and of sickness resulting from the
foul river water in the cities and towns be-
low, have been dissipated. The state has
assumed the task of clearing Johnstown
and the neighboring towns from the debris
of the flood. Contributions OF money con-
tinue 10 be made from oil sections of the
country, now amounting to about s., 900 900.
The Cambria Iron Works and other indus
tries are being started up. The Joss OF life
in the valley is now pretty accurately esti-
mated at between 5000 and 10000. In other
portions OF the state anu along the Po-
tomac river, where immense damage was
done, measures of relief are being system.
attcally applied.
Taking IL altogether there never was a
time when our country was enjoying great
er prosperity than ut the present moment,
and yet there are thousands Of people In the
land who are fussing and Tuning about the
hard times. No doubt but what many OF