Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-05
HERE AND THERE.


a boy who fell into well fifty feet
deep, at Columbus, Ca, was unhurt,
but felt "awful funny going down."
John kankhak, of Meriden, whip
ped his wife recently because she
wouldn't 60 to his church, and the
courts are to decide whether he was
right.
There is life in the Rugby colony
vet. New settlers Of an industrious
kind are buying land, and it looks as
though the predominating element
may become German.
A young thief, known as George
Miller, was found to be a girl on being
arrested at Canton, Ohio. She had
for several years passed for a boy, even
among the sneak thieves with which
she associated.
Grace Greenwood says that Carl
baldi left sadly divided family. The
children Of Anita do not harmonic
we'll with the children of the peasant
wo nan, Francesca, still less with tt
widow herself.
The sport Of two Michigan boys
was to take younger playmate into
the woods, bind him to log, whip
him cruelty, and torture him with
lighted matches.
Chautrey was paid $4,000 for his
statue of Pitt, $4,000 for Rendert
Blair, $4,000 for Watt, $4,000 for
Grattan, $4,000 for Wellington, and
| $4,000 for Sir L. Monro.
Tennyson sees no one without an
appointment, especially in the Amer
lean tourist season, when he retreats
from the Isle Of Wight to secluded
nook Of Hampshire.
A San Francisco policeman arrested
a man for trying to rescue some per-
sons from a burning building. AL
though the officer was too drunk to do
his duty, he construed the prisoners
act as all impertinence,
The Roman Catholic Bishop Spald-
ing, Of Illinois, says that Protestant
ism is rapidly declining in this country.
He characterizes the Protestant mis-
sions as ''disgracetul failures, and the
Methodists as sentimental convul-
sionists."
Newcastle-on-T Tyne has been con-
stifuted city by royal charter. From
1861, when the Tyne, which previ-
ously was only 64 feet at low water
i'll depth, was deepened at cost Of
f4,OO0,00O, Newcastle dates its COM
mereial greatness.
Mr.. Benjamin Webster, the cele-
brated actor and manager, recently
deceased, in letter written immeci-
ately previous to his decease, claimed
to be near relative of Daniel Web
ster. Mr.. Webster's daughter is the
wife of Mr.. Levi Lawson of the Lon
don Telegraph.
John Laurence Godson, an under
graduate in Dutham University, Eng
land, was the other day sentenced at
the Durham Assizes to nine months
hard labor for sending letters to the
Dean of Durham with the intention
Of extorting money by offering to dis
close Fenian plot to blow up the
cathedral.
A committee OF persons eminent in
art and archaeology has been formed in
England for the purpose of resuming
and completing the excavations al
Ephesus, on the site of the Temple
. of Diana, under the superintendent
Of Mr.. j. T. Wood, who carried then
on for SO many years for the trustees
} of the British Museum.
Bishop Hurst announces in the In
dependent that-rum selling has beer
utterly and forever destroyed in Iowa
'sThe great avenging sword of thi
long tolerant people" he exclaims
= "cleft it asunder on the 9th of June
: and moral cyclone has hurled one
half Of it into the Mississippi and the
other into the Missouri. The frag
> ments will never meet again"
Mrs. Scott-Siddons sued, the othe
IS dav, to recover f3,500 for a breac
of agreement from Messrs. Gatti a
the owners of the Royal Adelphi Thea
: tre in London for the purposes of
: theatrical entertainment. At tn
close OF the case for the plaintiff tn
counsel for the defendants submitte
that there was no evidence of a com
: pletcd character to 60 to the jury. Th
! Judge was Of the same opinion, an
a juror was, by consent, withdrawn, o
terms which were not stated in tn
/, Court.
The chief field for the efforts {
Mormon missionaries would appear t
y. be Scandinavia. The last Mormo
= cargo landed at Castle Garden, abou
500 in number, came direct fror
Gothenburg to Hull, England, wher
they were met by several Mormo
}. elders from Liverpool, now the centl
Of Mormopism in England, Scotlan