The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-16
FLASHES FROM THE PRESS.

A cotton congress is advocated by Southern pa
pers.
Elmore J. Fitzpatrick Is urged for Governor OF
Alabama.
Lord Barry'' Is the latest cause OF suspicion
In Chicago.
The Southern States banana crop last year was
unusually large.
Champagne made from oranges is becoming
popular Florida beverage
The South Carolina papers have expectations, It
is pity they have nothing else
Grant has bottled Butler again. This time with
Q veto cork says the Boston Post
The county Of Warwick, virginia, contains
neither minister, lawyer, nor doctor.
George Smith, an English bangman, who pre-.
sided, &C.. at sixty executions, Is dead.
st. Louis has professor OF Poisoning.n Connec.
ttcut has one In prison-Mrs. Lydia Sherman.
:; According to Judge . Gcokins. Edwards county,
nurse girl, with mania for numbering her
little charges, IS the horror or Harrodsburg, Ky.
A carload OF I've buf1alo and elk recently made
transit OF Iowa on their way to some Eastern
park.
The carriage owned by Lewis Cass nfty years
s Iioh l. - use % 0asSas' wagon ~ BAY CITY,
Belfast. Ne, Is giving It's hull energy to ship.
building, business IN that line being unusually
brisk.
Middle Tennessee is outragtng all the fner feel.
ings Of Pennsylvania ~ shipping iron to Cali
1ornia.
There is not drunkard In the Texas Lersla-
ture, but nearly ell the members are moderate
drinkers.
A Troy concern shipped three tons OF paper col
lars to New Zealand on Tuesday. Comment is I'M
necessary.
Ben Hill, ex.confederate, says:-"we were more
cheated than conquered into surrender. Il Is Jer
Davis turn"
Abingdon, ILL.,, claims the model Town Board,
not one of whom chews tobacco or drinks intoxi-
eating liquors.
The annual Convention Of the ohio state Ed.
torlal ASSOCIATION will convene at Columbus on
Four men from bayfield,, Wis, caught seventy.
hve pounds OF brook trout In q stream near that
place In less than ttty minutes.
Or the 200 criminals In the Iowa Pentteuttary 2so
admit themselves as incorporate, while twenty.
one claim to have been temperate.
close estimate shows that 1850 persons have
registered at the st. James ana Grand National
Hotels Of Jacksonville, Fla. since November last
Good Intent Ii the name Of an Iowa town. and
although 1t Is not very sckIy season, we are
assured that already he'll Is paved with Good In
tentlans.
Foreign IRE insurance companies received in
indiana S461, 1898 above all losses and foreign life
companies received 1926 $50 above their losses the
Bobbs complains that his wife il an innationist.
She blows him up every day, and makes him circu.
late until he actually eels that he is beyond re.
An old United States land patent was recently
entered Tor record In Genesee county, Michigan.
It was dated Ia October, 1886. and signed BY An
drew Jackson.
Foster the new Judge OF the United States Dis.
trict Court OF Kansas, has astonished the lawyers
OF that region by requiring them not to smoke or
wear their hats In court.
The Montgomery Ne,cs don't believe that Living.
stone Is dead, or that there Is Stanley. He will
next doub5 whether there ever was DR.. Living
stone or country called Great Britain.
The crusade in Manchester Iowa, last Friday,
came to an unttmelv end. The ladies' were peted
with rotten eggs and the gentlemen attending
them were assaulted, and the meeting broke up In
general confusion.