Smyrna times., 1881-06-08
News Items.

There is great heat and drought in
Havana.
Serious riots and disturbances continue
in different parts of Ireland.
DIR. Tanner of fasting fame is peddling
patent liver pads in Kentucky
Young mules are in large demand in
Kentucky and bring from $50 to $50
Twenty five new buildings i'll three
months is what BrOoksville, Fla, claims.
A dynamite mine near the Gatschina
railway station, Berlin. was discovered on
Monday
Sales of the incoming wheat crop have
been made in Lexington, KY, at so cents
per bushel
About two-thirds of the apples in Ohio
have blighted and fallen Off within the
past two weeks.
A cotton manufacturing company has
been formed at Augusta, Ga. with capi-
tai of 81 100000.
In Fannin County, Texas, grasshoppers
are found in millions, and farmers are in a
great state of alarm.
Wheat birds have totally destroyed
large field of the growing grain of McLen-
mar County, Texas.
Mr. Gladstone says the British Govern
ment has resolved to use vigorous repress-
i've measures in Ireland.
Dorsey is no worse person than he was
six months ago; but he is obliged to buy
his own dinners nowadays.
Nevada is completely Overrun with
grasshOppers. They consume crop, leRv-
ing nothing green behind them.
underground railway schemes in New
York under the Presidency of General
Mcclellan.
Messrs. COnkling and Platt still firmly
block the way to choice of their success
sOrs. This is a sort of resignation that
doesn't resign.
Miss GriswOld, Bret Harte's niece, made
her first appearance at the Grand Opera
House, Paris, on Monday, in the character
of OpheliG. 1t was genuine success.
There was a severe frost in the neighbor-
hood of Montreal and Paisley, Canada,
and Watertown, n. Y, Sunday night. 1t
did great injury to the growing crops.
The jury at Princess Anne, Md, in the
case of Elijah Sterling, whose murderous
attack on his wife has been fully reported,
have decided him to be insane, and he will
be sent to the hospital to-day.
Eight hundred thousand dollars is the
measure of yearly saving already secured
by the clever hand of Postmaster General
James. 1t always and forever pays to
have the right man in the right place.
The appropriation for the Census Blu.
reau, it has been discovered, will fall short
of the sum needed to complete the work
the clerical force has been dismissed, with
the privilege of doing volunteer work.
Mr.. NJ. +. Morse, Westbnro', Mass, men.
tiois to us the gratifying information, that
ct. Jacobs Oil relieved him of n very
Severe attack of Sciatic Rheumatism and
is an excellent thing.-BostOn Mass.
CbltiUGtOr.
We are now getting two German immi-
grants to one Irish immigrant. This is a
very accurate measure of the distress
which prevails in the two countries. The
Irish make the lOudest complaint; but the
German tyranny is the more burdensOme
Either is bad enough.
Philadelphia will have no fireworks on
the coming Fourth of July. Mayor King
has issued a proclamation notifying the
public that the manufacture, sale, or offer
to expose ta sale Of any fireworks is un,
lawful, and that the laws prohibiting the
firing of the same will be rigidly enforced
II Is not probable that any prosecutions
against the Star-Route jobbers will be
begun before fall This delay, it appears
from Washington dispatch, Is occasioned
not by scarcity of evidence, but by the
fact that the hands of the Government are
all the time being strengthened by the
discovery of fresh testimony.
Ex-MayOr stokley, Of RhlladelphIe has
been elected president, of the @XtIaqtiC
and Gulf Coast Canal and 0keeoh0hef
Land Company" As has been heretofore
stated, this company proposes to reclaim q
large section of Southern Florida, general
ly called the " Everglades" by draining
the swamps. The scheme involves the
construction of canal about 800 miles in
leiigtiif.sN'''." '.....
n suaGEsrIoN,-Mr, Vennor's predc
ton of frost between tho 9th and 10th O.
June having been verified by destructive
trosts in Western New York Sunday night
the Philadelphia North american suggest,
that he be christened the Canadian 3Ven
norable Certainties," on the ground thai
the term is quite as euphonious and equal
~ appropriate as WRs that of "Old Probs. ,
for the original 'prsdictef! -
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J The spirit of benevolence seems to bt
! abroad in Louisville; By. Recently !.
EeIqlllg Merchant pfthat city gave $4O. O.OOt
tof the Parhoag pf hqllqatlhg 2 debt Of Oh,
OF the principal churches of that etaity, atIS
! now lady living on the leading resideTnecIs, TeIs
street proposes TO donate and vaoate he
palatial residence to the Protestant church
es OF Louisville, upon this one condition
. that they raise $30,00 in addition to he
own generous contribution-the obiec
being the establishment of o benevoIen
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