The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The army worm has destroyed al
least 5000, 900 bushels of oats in one
county alone in Illinois.
A cartoon I'm the Dublin National
Comic Journal represents Hibernia
repelling box of dynamite offered
by a skeleton.
In Darlington county, s. c., on
Thursday, stroke of lightning killed
four men and dangerously wounded
ten other.
The widest excitement prevails in
New Haven, Conn, over the discov-
cry in the water of the body of Jen-
ME Cramer, the handsomest girl in
the city.
An Ohio woman owed her hired
man $500. She married him to square
the account, and then for $50 got a
divorce, thus saving $500,
The Polo quadrille, just introduced
at the watering places, is like the old
basket quadrille, and the feature is a
very rapid all hands.
The New Orleans Picayune has
been making list of Crescent City
millionaires. The largest bondholder
on the list was "A cotton-planter, who
confessed to $o,000,000.
During Saturday afternoon aud
Sunday morning l48 deaths occurred
in New York City, sixty of which
were produced by the intensity of the
heat.
Vanderbilt has offered $500, 900 for
the grounds and buildings of the Ro-
man Catholic Orphan Asylum, on
Fifth avenue, opposite his residence.
He proposes to turn the Block into a
private garden and park for himself
and his chill iren. The offer will
probably be accepted.
In Ireland trade is still considered
generally by the occupation beneath
them, and the lawyers, doctors, and
clergy In Dublin regard themselves
as immensely superior to merchants.
This folly is largely kept up by the
women.
The notorious "The." Allen, the
wickedest man in New York, was
married the other day to a refined
and handsome young girl, worth
Si42, 900, and will reform, he says.
He was divorce a few weeks ago.
The Denver and Rio Grande Com
pany contemplate building 1900
miles of railroad in Utah within the
next five years. They will give en-
pleyment to at least $1,000 people,
and Salt Lake will be their head
quarters.
Butte, Montana Territory, Is only
six years old, and has grown more
rapidly than any other place in the
North west. Its present population
is estimated at 5000. There are 148
stamps IN motion in that district.
The place supports one of the liveliest
papers in that Territory, The Miner,
which has recently came out as an
eight-page daily.
Inquiries as to the prosperity of ne
gro farmers In Louisiana we're sent to
all parts of the State by the New Or
leans Picayune, and the replys show
clearly that cit Is within the reason
able ambition OF any healthy colored
man now to own land, and to estab-
lish himself in an independency."
In the case of the State VS.. Clarence
Gray, convicted of murder In the sec
ond degree, at Redwood City, Caliior-
mia, the motion for a new trial was
overuled, and the defendant sentenced
to twenty years in the State Prison.
Gray, 1t will be remembered, killed
Cheney, editor of newspaper, some
time ago. He had several trials, In
.one or two of which the jury dis
greed.
Here's positive fact that occurred
in one of the public schools in this
State recently: A small boy was asked
to name some part of his own body.
He thought for a moment then re-
piled "Bowels, which are five In
number-a, 0, |, o, u, and sometimes
~ and y"