Richland beacon., 1880-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T Is proposed 10 cut DdkOtd iuto t"o
strips, running east and west.
Two sleighs have been sent from
Poughkeepsie to the Emperor Of Japan.
WHAT is Nihilism? Nothing when
YOU are used to it. Bankruptcy is some
thing like it.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Virginia
to organize society of the descendants
of the Cavaliers.
KENTUCKY produces more than fif-
teen times as much tobacco as Connec-
ticut. 1t ranks first in the list of TO-
bacco producing States.
THE Duke Of Newcastle is sixteen
years old; Marquis Camden is eight;
Earl Russell is fifteen, and Lord S)uth-
ampton is thirteen.
MICHIGAN hasn't the worst highways
in America. Wagons 20 down no fur
ther than the wagOn-bOx in soft
weather.
Harvard Student" Informs the
Boston Transcript that only one of the
seven buildings in the college yard is
provided with suitable means of es-
cape in case of fire.
The Alabama cotton planters are
wild on cotton planting. Food crops
arc neglected, and exclusive attention
given to cotton. Same in Northern
Mississippi; but little wheat is sown.
GENERAL ROBERT TOoMBs has been
selected to deliver the annual Grafton
before the literary societies of the Uni.
versity of Mississippi in June next, BY
the unanimous vote of the students.
EUGENE SCHUYLER will receive So
600 for his Life of Peter the Great, COM
menced in jScriIner's Magazine in JAN
nary, Schuyler reserving all rights of
after publication. The engravings alone
of this series will cost $25, 900.
Ex-JUDGE HILTON, the business sue
cessor of a. I. Stewart, has purchased
the WOOdlawn Mansion and two kun-
bred acres of land at Saratoga, and in.
tends 10 make a park with handsome
drives through it.
The first balloon ascension in the
United States was made in Philadel-
phia on January ., 1893. by Mr.. Blanch-
ard. The ascent was witnessed by a
large crowd of sp, ctatOrs, among whom
was General Washington.
HENRY L. CLINTON, the principal
counsel for w. II. Vanderbilt in the
Vanderbilt will case, has sent in his
bill to his client. 1t amounts to $3.50.
600. It is made up in items, and each
particular service is specified. Mr.. Van.
derbilt has refused to pay it.
THE historic island of jamestown, in
the James River, where the first settlers
Of Virginia made home, is reported to
have been purchased by Mrs. Malania
Brown, of New York. 1t comprises
l,400 acres, chiefly covered with
orchards. The only buildings on the
island are dwelling house aud paper
mill.
Bon INGERsoLL threatened to perse
cute the Rochester newspapers if they
published his lectures entire, as it wa,
copyrighted and worth money to him
He limited the space for reporting it tG
a column and half, into which one
newspaper crowded the whole lecture
by using small type.
THE first steamships that crossed the
Atlantic were the Sirius and Great
Western. The former sailed from Cork
April 4, 1888 and the latter from Bristol
April s, 1888. They both arrived in
New York on the 18th of the same
month, the Sirius being only twelve OF
fifteen hours ahead of the Great West
trn.
If this weather continues much
longer the wise grocery merchant will
bring down that maple sugar (?) in the
attic, vintage Of '76, carefully dust the
same, place it in a conspicuous place in
the front window, and surmount the
pile with a sign made with q marking
brush on section of cheese box cover
M MApl shUgaR.-L ockport Union.
A YOUNG Cyclops with an eye ia the
middle of his forehead was born of 9
mulatto mother in New Orleans net
long since, and might have lived to bt
ths terror of whole community had
not fate decreed otherwise. 1t did moi
long survive its birth, and ia now the
chief object Of curiosity in New Yorh
Museum.