The Delta independent., 1889-05-07
THE WORLD.
The Pope is seriously i'll.

Bla1ne'S ncaltn Is SAID 10 De very
unsatisfactory.
In the civic parade in New York on
the LIST, there were $4,000 persons.
The Mayor of the new town of Guth-
rie has given notice to the gamblers to
leave the town.
Hon. w. H. Barnum, Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee, died
few days ago.
James Galligan died recently at La
Porte, Indiana, leaving "a children to
mourn his loss.
Eighteen persons lost their lives in
railroad wreck on the Grand Trunk rail
road last Sunday.
Terrible stories of cruelty are re-
ported from the insane asylum of Cook
County, Illinois.
George William Curtis has been re-
elected president of the Civil Service Re
form Association.
Some Pennsylvania troops pulled
down an English flag in New York the
other day amid cheers.
Anthony Comstock applied for ad-
mission to Grant Post, G. A R. and 81
black balls was found in the box.
Fifty people were precipitated in the
water at Kansas City last Sunday by a
broken bridge. A number were hurt but
none killed.
In nearly every prominent city OF
Europe the American Centennial was OBJ
served with appropriate ceremonies by
resident Americans.
w. A. Cuddy, formerly Legislative
| chaplain of Arizona, has paid the govern
ment 2,25O conscience money, amount OF
his salary for saying daily prayer.
A general strike of the building
trades of Pittsburg has been inaugurated
| for an average advance of 25 cents per
day. and union workmen have been sus-
| rended on almost every new building.
A statement prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that there has been
an increase of s., 76s, $50 in circulation since
April l, and there has been a net increace
of a, 9o3 O39 in money and bullion in the
Treasury during the same period.
The Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
Company recently closed contracts with
several of the most exten sive cattlemen OF
Texas for the shipment of 10000 head Of
Texas cattle to points in Dakota The
cattle will be loaded at Armorilla. Par
Handle City, Clayton and points in New
Mexico.
General Crook has received the fol-
lowing telegram from General Merritt il
regard to Oklahoma "Everything con
tinues quiet. Local town governments ar
practically established. propose to visit
the Cherokee outlet, and after arranging
matters there return to headquarters a
| Leavenworth if there are no other instruc
tions."
| Ex-President Cleveland recently
sent this note to an inquiring New Yorl
reporter: 81 am constantly bothered witt
questions in regard to country places al
ready secured or to be secured by mysel
and Mrs. Cleveland. We have no country
place except Oak View; we want none anc
are not on the lookout for one, and WI
would not take one as a gift
Among the families represented a
the recent great ball in New York wer
those of William Astor, Ogden Goelet
| William J. Hamilton, Chauncy NJ Depew
Eldridge T. Gerry, Stuyvesant Fish, Rob
ert C. Winthrop, Abram S. Hewitt, Hamil
ton Fish, Clarence A Seward, Henr,
4 Clews, William NJ. Astor, Levi z. Morton
Stephen B. Elkins and Paran Stevens.
At the annual meeting of the Civi
Service Reform Association resolution
were adopted that the thanks of the asso
citation be rendered to Rt Rev. H. c. Pot
ter for his Just and earnest statemen; o
the duty of the President in reference I.
the exercise by him of the power of ap
pointment to office contained in the ser
mon delivered in ST. Pauls Church on tn
centennial anniversary of the inaugura
ton of George Washington.
The dress which Mrs. Harrison wor,
at the Centennial ball in New York is de
scribcd as a heavy gros grain cut wit
princess train. The waist was tr;mme,
with pearl and silver the corsage bein
filled with gauze held in place with ostric
feathers, as was also the skirt, The from
embroidery of the skirt was in Grecia
key pattern worked in silver and pearls
meeting panels of silver brocade and featt
ers, and shower of silver ornaments fel
from the skirt.
On and after next Wednesday. Ma
/. the railway mail service will not be sub
ject to civil service law rules and rcsuls
tions and all appointments to position
other than to those excepted by law wi
thereafter be made only upon certifcatio
from the civil service commission. An g
fort has been made to induce the Presider
to again extend the time at which the lay
bringing tho railway mail service unde
the civil service law and rules would b,
come operative but he has decided again.
further postponement
Some tramps in the Lamar calaboos