Smyrna times., 1881-06-29
News Items.

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Asevere thunderstorm did much damage
at Washington Monday.
Colonel Dudley, the new Commissioner
of Patents, has assumed office.
Stanley Africanus is still alive and has
just been heard from at Congo.
Only twenty persons escaped unhurt
from the Mexican railway calamity.
Silas c. Herring, the safe manufacturer,
died suddenly in Plainfeld, N. j., Friday
The income to Kentuckians from the
yearly sale of trOtters is fully one million
dollars.
The Harvard crew defeated the Colum-
bia crew in four-mie race at New London
Monday.
Governor Hoyt has decided to reduce
the Pennsylvania militia from 5000 to
800 men.
The trial of Midhat Pacha and others
for the murder of Abdul Aziz is in progress
in Turkey.
Mrs. Marie Hammond, belle Boyd), will
probably give dramatic reading at Cape
May this season.
Schreiner's German band. which nlavs
at Long Branch, receives 49,. 900 for its
music this season.
The next session of the National Diyi-
sion of the Sons of Temperance will be
held at Concord n. Fl.
The Chicago lumber dealers Exchange
Monday advanced prices all along the line
from 30 cents to 81 per thousand.
Counterfeit Dimes have been put in cir
cuiatiOn i'll Philadelphia. The street car
conductors report them to be numerous.
Why will you let your horses suffer
from lameness when you can get Kendall's
SPAWN Cure. Read their advertisement.
There have been .OOO. 900 applications
for Office under the present administration.
! why, they are more than Il Regular Army
Kendall's SPAWN Cure is highly recon-
mended by Prof Williams the wonderful
/ Horse trainer. Read their advertisement.
| General Grant has exchanged bows with
the President. What will the ex-Primate
do about it? Perhaps he will never speak
to Grant again.
Rev. John Jasper of Richmond, whose
celebrated aphorism, The Sun Do Move. =
has given him national reputation, is
seriously i'll.
The first new wheat of the season i'm the
Petersburg market was sold Thursday Mt
$l.25 per bushel. 1t was raised in I4unen-
burg county,
Nearly eight hundred different summer
excursion routes with the fare, are given
i'll the new issue of the PENNSYLVANIA rail
road excursion book.
Llttleton Hatchett, cOlored who was to
have been hanged Friday in Brunswick
county, Va, for murder, has had writ of
error granted in his case.
VIM. P. Eustis, of Pittsfield. Me. has
been nominated by the prohibitionists OF
the second Maine congressional district to
succeed Hon. VIM. p. Frye.
Mrs. Elizabeth d. Wanamaker, mother
of Mr.. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia.
died suddenly Monday morning in that
city: The stores will be closed until
Friday.
VIM. Cafe, of Boston, is under arrest at
Jersey City, charged with stealing cloth
ing and jewelry from Te-Ting, a Chinese
prince. He was committed in default of
security.
The loss of nearly 200 lives by an acci.
dent near Cuantla is the first unfortunate
incident connected with the railroad move.
ment in Mexico, which has been In the
full tide of success.
The comet arose soon after the Primate
went down. The greatest of American
statesmen has created commotion in the
heavens as well as on earth. That's what
Platt believes, anyway.
The Great Eastern is to be sold at auc.
ton. She has always lost money for her
owners except when engaged in layinp
cables, and there is not enough of that
work to keep her busy.
Hundreds of Men, Women and Children
rescued i'll every community from beds OF
sickness and almost death and made strono
by Parker's Ginger Tonic are the best eyi.
dence i'll the world Ofits sterling worth. Post
Commencing with July 1st, the Cbesa.
peake and Ohio Road will increse its loco.
motive powers at the rate of one engine
every ten days until the contract for forty
new locomotives, made a few weeks ago
is filed.
The local inspectors of steam. vessels
and the Customs officers are doing good
work in watching the excursion steam.
boats leaving New York city for the diff
terent resorts on Sundays, to see that there
is no Overcrowding.
John GriscOm, at noon Monday, weighed
163 pounds, a loss of / of a pound since
Sunday noon. During the "a hours he
drank As ounces of water. His total loss
of weight in the 36 days since he began
his fast has been 34l pounds.
Hadi Mehmed, Fahir Bey, the wrestler
Mustapha, and the sergeant Mustapha
have been convicted as murderers of the
late Sultan Abdul Aziz; Midhat Pacha,
NOuri Bacha and Mahmond Pacha have
been found guilty as accessories.
Relics of the United States shin Huron.
wrecked several years ago off the fatal
Currituck, have just been found. A small
safe dug up on the shore contained a num-
Der of coins and naval medals and n
heavy plain gold ring with no inscription.
Texas ii benefted immensely by the
railroad BOOM" In that State there are
1000 miles of railroads in process of con-
struction and 5000 miles projected The
Gould combination has invested 81, ,000, 900
in the state, and is now constructing 700
miles of new road. & nVYgfr rWfFTH