The Delta independent., 1890-01-14
BY TELEGRAPH.

it was ever known before.
Judge Brewer took his place on the
Supreme Bench last Monday.
Clafin, the great dry goods prince
of New York, died on the 7th.
Kansas experienced blizzard the
early part of the present week.
The City Hall of Lexington, Maine
was burned on the 7th- Loss, $500.
A great many negroes are leaving
the Carolinas for Texas and Arkansas.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, bet
ter known as Pig Iron Kelley, died on the
cth
4The project OF uniting St. Paul
and Minneapolis into one city is again be-
ing agitated.
New York last year spent $l7 ,OOO,-
900 on her public schools, hiring Sl,9S7
teachers to instruct sos, ,667 pupils.
Cuba's total sugar crop for 1889
was AIS, 3i4 tons, that of 1855 GAO, 40s tons :;
local consumption in 1889, As, 900 tons.
There were 25O deaths in New York
City last Wednesday. OF these 1i7 were
to greater Of less extent due to influenza.
1t is estimated that 5000, 900, 900 of
English money has been invested in the
United Stotes in the past eighteen months.
The building in which the Western
Union Telegraph Compay is located at St
Louis was destroyed by fire a few days
ago.
An Atchison boy fifteen years old
shot himself the other day because his
girl, two years younger than himself, had
Tilted him.
General Crook has made a strong
plea for the Apache Indians held as pris-
oners in Alabama. He describes their
condition as most pitiful-
President Harrison has commuted
the sentence of Dave Lemon, who was tc
have been hanged Wednesday rext at
Wichita, Kan, to Imprisonment for life.
A band of Mexican horse-thieves
ambushed a camping party consisting Of
three men, two women and four children
near chihuahua, Saturday, and shot anc
killed two of the men.
The Rev. Francis Byrn. chaplain o.
the House of Commons and one of ths
chsplaius of Queen Victoria, is reported
to have run away to avoid the consequences
Of debts resulting from turf betting.
Reports of statistics OF locomotive
building for 1889 show slight falling of
from the product OF lSSs. Reports from
about half the car-building companie:
show decline of 70 per cent from ths
| product of lsSS.
Stanley has accepted an invitation
TO attend the banquet to be given in hi:
| honor by Americans in London. American
Minister Lincoln will preside. He vii
present TO Stanley an American flag and
massive silver shield, inwrought with AT
rican scenes.
The venerable Ferdinand de Lessep:
| is waiting patiently for the decision of tn,
examining committee which sailed from
| France the other day to see if the Panam:
canal work is worth prosecuting. H,
| stouuy maintains that he will live to Sc,
the great enterprise finished.
An Associated Press dispatch say.
the municipal election at jackson, Miss
| last Monday passed off quietly" FifteeI
or twenty negroes presented themselves a
| the polls, but on being told there was
| peaceahle election and that their votin,
might cause trouble, they quietly with
drew.
During the performance OF .Joar
dare" by Sarah Bernhardt at Paris Sun
day night the pyre used in the play becam,
| ignited from the surrounding fire Mad
| anne Bcrnhardt who was on the pyre, re
ccived no injury from the fire, but tainted
| Two scene shitters were seriously burue,
while extinguishing the fire.
| The Legislature OF the province o
| Quebec was opened on the .th The Lieu
tenant Governor announced. among o,he
| things, that during the session the Lcgis
| lature would be called upon to pass an &c
| granting 100 acres of land to tho father an,
mother of every family of twelve or nor
| living children, born in lawful wedlock.
I
Since the dedication of Chicago
| Auditorium four weeks ago there hav
| been twenty-ono performances, and tn
| gross receipts OF these and the dedication
| ceremonies amount 10 SaS2,ei5. It is be
| lieved that these figures exceed any recor,
| in the history of amusements in this coun
| try. The leceipts for the last week wer
| the largest
| \ telegram has been received a
the Lick observatory, Mount Hamilton
from Professor 5, W. Burnham, chief o
| the eclipse expedition which was sent from
| the Lick observatory TO South Africa
| which announced that his observation o
the eclipse of the sun on December % wa
| entirely successful. The expedition il
| homeward bound,
| The American Colony in Londoy
held meeting of representatives the othcr
day aud decided to present Henry Nj
| Stanley, the African explorer, with :
handsome testimonial upon his arriva
there. The testimonial will take the form
| of superb clectro,silvor shield, bcarius
in the center the coat-oC arms of tn,
United States, and anil !axoned on panel.
around this centerpiece are representa-
tions OF the chief incidents of his career.
Little Gilpiu added over 81, 800. 900 to tn,
/ la ~A.u