, 1889-01-23
FLASHES.

pLk nun tIusJ Is Del0R FORMED at
Louisville to control the output OF all
Southern furnaces.
An earthquake accompanied by n vio-
lent gale occurred yesterday at Athens,
Megara and Arachova.
&The president has approved the act in
Greaslng the appropriation for the San
francisco post Office site.
At Scituate, Mass. Monday, two head
less bodies, believed to be those of
wrecked sailors, were found on the shore.
Seven persons we're killed yesterday by
the falling of rock in a tunnel of the
Wales.
Miss Harriet Coffin, the heiress who is
mad over Actor Kyrle Bellew, has been
taken to the Middletown, N. Y, insane
asy lum.
The Charleston Me1cs and Courier SAYS
the cotton crop this year will be the
ARREST ever made and will approximate
81, 500, 900
The strike of brakcmen on the Lake
Erie II Western road at Lafayette has
been compromised and the men have re
turned to work.
Rev. Thos. Marcy, a superaun iated
Methodist clergyman at Newtuwn, Mass,
committed suicide Monday night. He was
10 years old.
A cruiser belonging to the British Aus
trallan squadron has been dispatched to
Samoa, where she will arrive at the end
OF the current week.
At Hoboken. n. j., Yesterday +. d.
Ruchtsamen, a wealthy retired banker.
sulcided by shooting. His mental facul-
ties had been failing for some time.
The Boston wool market the past week
has been firm with a fair de mand and
with prices practically unchanged on
territories and other unwashed grades.
A dispatch from Berlin says there is no
truth III the report that Germany has
come to an agreement with the United
States In regard to the difficulty in
Samoa.
Lady Salisbury and Lady Roseberry
called at the residence OF Phelps, United
States minister, in London yesterday aud
presented Mrs. Phelps with a superb
bracelet.
The Irish Parliamentary Fund Associa-
ton OF America yesterday issued an appeal
to the liberty loving people of free Amer
lea for money to help Parnell defend his
suit against the TINS.
A Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of intoxicating liducrs
passed the lower house of the Pennsyl-
varia legislature yesterday.
The steamer State of Nebraska, which
sprung a leak while on her voyage to
Glasgow Saturday. has been placed in a
dry dock in New York fer repairs and
the passengers will sail sail Thursday on
the Guion line steamer Nevada.
The report of Anthony Constock. Sec
rotary and agent of the Society for the
Suppression OF Vice, reviews the work of
the society for the year and says that
Henry Chase of Boston and G. K Ben
net of San Francisco have also done some
good work.
The s cre'ar, o. the TT, a 'uIy has ap-
proved the recommendation of acting APP
praiser Stearns OF New York for the re
moval of nine examiners and samplers
IN the appraisers Office as the result of
the recent examination into the alleged
customs frauds there.
Collector Ross, who has been collector
fourteen years at Halifax without rcpri-
mand, has resigned at the demand of the
Canadian government because he allowed
an American skipper to get the best OF
him, by conceding to ship fish to the
United States from that o t, whereby
Canada case as far as his act could do il
was surrendered.
Before the Parnell commission in Lon
don yesterday a man named Farragher
deposed that Archbishop Walsh in Dew
tits defence advised him not to pay rent.
He (Farragher) was evicted. He was
afterward employed in the office of the
Dublin branch of the league. He car
rled letters, some of which contained
checks from Patrick Egan to Mullett the
Invincible.