Smyrna times., 1881-08-17
News Items.

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Twehty-seven American firms will cx-
hibit electrical machines at Paris.
American locomotives arc. going abroad
because they are cheap and good
A British steamer loaded at Baltimore /.
Monday with $500 barrels of flour for
Brazil.
Alfred F.. Jonas, colored man. was>l
struck on the head in brick-yard in Bal |
timore Monday by falling lump of clay
and killed.
The wheat harvest in England is now
in progress. Estimates fix the Weld
nearly at the average. The barley is par
ticularly good.
Hon. John Cochran, representing the
third district in the Pennsylvania State
Assembly, died on Sunday afternoon at
Spring Lake, n. j,
Rev. D. w. Bartine, d. d., prominent
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, died at Newton, n. j., on Satur-
day, aged II years.
A band of cowboys recently attacked
caravan from Sonora on the way to Ari-
| zona, killed four of the party and carried
off $1,000 and the pack animals.
The will of the late Gen. Robert Pat
tersOn, of Philadelphia, leaves his entire
estate, estimated to be worth one million
and a-half dollars, to his family. There
are no public bequests.
On Friday Joseph Nevius, while fixing
electric-light wires in the BOwker Fertiliz-
| ing Works at Elizabeth, n. j., was caught
i'll the shafting, whirled rapidly around
and almost eviscerated
The Hon. Samuel Calvin recently sold
the timber right on tract of land in
White township, Cambria county, Pa, for
$4,000. He bought the land and trees
some years ago for 81 900.
The wife of Gen. Joseph r. Anderson,
of Richmond, Va, died at the Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, Saturday after
noon. She had long held a prominent
place i'll Richmond society.
A violent rainstorm passed over Phila-
dclphia on Saturday afternoon, which
flooded the cellars in some sections of the
city. The roots of u number of unfinished
building were torn OFT and many trees
Frustrated.
Ex-GOv. Bagley, of Michigan, who died
last week, left an estate valued at 5000 900.
He left $1,000 for drinking fountain in
front of the Detroit city hall, and another
clause prohibits the expenditure of more
than $500 for monument over his re-
mains.
The will of the late James Stokes, Of
New York, was admitted to probate on
Saturday. His estate is valued at 81 600.
090. About $4,000 is bequeathed to diff
, ferent sorieties and institutions, the re
mainder is divided equally among hi:
, children.
The general opinion seems to be thai
Cadet Whitaker has been found guilty O
mutilating his own ears, but there ha!
been no official announcement of the
findings of the cOurt-m lrtial. and the
e papers have not been examined by thu
| President.
a The body of man named Hugh Nc
!, Tay was found Sunday in the ALLEGHENY
river, near the foot of Fifth street, Pitts
burg, with several ugly gashes on tn
head. 1t is supposed that he was robbed
g and murdered, as he was known to havt
q had a considerable amount of money OIL
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a Rains have fallen in Missouri, and tn
: prospect for an average crop of corn ha
,, been greatly improved. In Arizona ther
have been disastrous floods, and the run
/, ming of trains has been temporarily sus
, pended upon portions of the Southern
e Pacific Railroad on account of the wash
/ ing away of embankments and bridges.
y A company of Memphis Tenn capi
f. talists have just purchased over 5000
"a acres of coal and timber lands near Birm
ingham, Alabama, and organized tn
3 Birmingham Coal, Coke and Iron Con
l. pany, with a capital stock of $2,O0OOOC
/" 1t is the design of the company to erect 8
re once several large iron furnaces, as we
as to mine coal upon a very large seal
and establish the largest coke works
the South. 1t is claimed that iron can b
made at Birmingham for the cost of tn
ore delivered at the furnaces in Pennsy
vania.