Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-14
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atlVeS OF the late Charles dickens, the
collection Of his earlier plays and
poems announced for publication in
London is to be suppressed.
The city of Davenport, Iowa, is
sued for damages by a man whose
daughter was taken to pest house
under the mistaken belief that she had
smallpox. She died Of the rough
treatment.
The latest composition by the auth
or Of "See that My Grave is Kept
Green" is petition to be pardoned
out of the Indiana State Prison, where
he is serving term of two years for
forgery.
The complaint is made by the To-
ronto Mail that English journalists
"can't seem to understand that Canada
is bigger than the United States, and
are always making blunders about To-
calities.'
The Russian author Turguenief is
said to be suffering from heart disease.
He feels intermitting pains in the
breast, and cannot sleep. His appe-
tite is excellent, but he can neither
stand, walk, nor ride.
A boy fell into creek at Oxford,
Ind, and went home in wet clothes.
His angry mother said that she wish
ed he had stayed in the water TAX
ing this remark to heart, he returned
to the stream and drowned himself.
The season at the Engadine, in
Switzerland, has proved a bad one.
Last winter there was hardly any
snow, and it was abominably warm;
per contra, the summer has been
abominably cold and wet, a piercing
wind alternating with driving rain.
The visitors are, therefore, already on
the wing.
Winncmucca, princess Of the Piutes,
is Of the opinion that within fifty
years there will not be an In
dian alive. 81 dare say" she resent
fully adds, "the white man is better
in some respects; but he is a bigger
rascal, too. He steals and lies more
than the Indian does. | hope some
other race will come and drive him
out, and kill him, like he has done us.
Then will say the Great Spirit is
just, and that it is all right"
The Benton family of Scarburgh,
Cal, have turned their farm into a
separate kingdom. The nine mem
bers passed formal declaration of
independence few months ago, and
crowned the husband and father as
king. They hoistcd new flag over
the home, announced that their hun
dred acres was no longera part of the
United States, and refused to pay
taxes. They are to have war on
their hands, for the Sheriff intends to
make an invasion.
In the heat of the Cincinnati fight
over the temperance question, the Ga
zette excitedly asks: ''Is it not true
that the late librarian and present rec
tor of the Cincinnati University, the
Rev. Thomas Vickers, he who prays
with bowed-down face, and then
breaches that there is no God that
answers prayer, or that cares more for
praying than cursing-has sustained
himself in his remarkable career OF
oficeholding by means of ward poll
tics, through courting favor of the
beer INTEREST,""
Owing to the low prices of tobacco
in Europe, the tobacco cultivation
once so fourishing in the island Of
Java is said to be rapidly declining
the planters being in consequence
much distressed. The Java Bode, q
Dutch local journal, States that lately
in the eastern portion of the island
three estates were sold collectively
for the trifling sum of $500 gilders
though only three years ago a bricl
tobacco shed on one of them cos
100000 guilders.
George Holland, son of the lat,
comedian of that name, has been al
actor for years, and nobody who ha
seen him on the stage would CUES
that he had not all his senses fully de
. veloped, and yet he is SO deaf that h
does not ordinarily understand wor
that is said by the others in the play
He manages to get along withou
. cues by carefully studying the line
: which are to be spoken with his owl
and then watches the lips of the speak
ers to learn when to strike in.
On Sunday afternoon, August q
the old French flagship Muiron, cal
rying twentyfour guns, foundered o
!. Toulon. This vessel was the very on
upon which Napoleon Bonaparte en-
barked to return to France from HI
memorable expedition to Egypt ;
the close of the last century. Th
Muiron has for some years been use
}. for the police service of the por
: That the career of vessel with tt
particular associations mentione
ha,lJ have haan fnallv closed on fl