The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-16
CURRENT NOTES.

VOhnENx NOACos
I Judge Tourgee's "a Fools Errand" has
not proved success as a drama, and the
company which went on tour with It mas DIS
banded. i
Mrs. Martha Foster Crawford, who left
Tuscaloosa, Ala, 80 years ago, for missionary
work in China, is now on visit to her native
land. NJ - a. - - |
The total value of the exports of petroleum
and petroleum products from the United States
during the eleven months ended November 80,
1881, were $44,4I5,673; for the same period in
1880. '$3I,464, oo7.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild purchased
for his wife the famous necklace Of pearls sold
for $I3I, 900 at the auction Of Nine. Blanc's
Jewels. The Monaco lady's diamond studded
fan was, by the way, valued at $4,000.
Gilbert De La Martyr evidently spoiled
tolerable preacher to become a poor politician.
He made q two-hours' greenback speech at
Bloomfield, ILL.,, the other night, but his au-
dience numbered only rs men and shaggy
dog.
One Mcdowell has filed papers to contest
the election of Congressman George, of Ore
gon. It appears he received only four ballots,
but claims his constituents were inundated
from voting for him, and this prevented his
election.
Gov. Long has caused the Massachusetts,
state flag to be run t. the masthead on the
state-house roof at Boston, Some Of the local
papers find in the act hint that nation must
still be spelled with the little and state with
the big s. len. "a ..'c
There are s. savings banks in Connecticut
with as, 366 depositors and deposits amount
ing last year to $50, s22, 600. Forty-four Of
the banks, with $50, ooo, 900, or nearly three
quarters of the deposits, paid per cent. in
terest to depositors last year.
, There exist in the Bengal presidency III
vernacular papers, with $4,000 subscribers.
Forty-fve of these. with circulation of &c, 900,
are published in Lower Bengal, and the re-
malnder in the northwest provinces, the Pun
jaub, Central India and Rajpootans.
The Cincinnati tax-levy for 1888 is $2.22
on the $Ioo. Last year it was $3.Io. The
levy includes the state tax lag cents), the
school tax (89 cents), the county tax (2I g
cents), and the regular city tax ($I.3I 6-Io
eents). The total valuation of the county is
$I99 III, 900, and of the city $I6I, 4o4, 900.
There were imported at New York, in 1880,
I,2II animals of various races, chiefly thor
oughbred horses, Norman draught horses and
Shetland ponies, Channel Island cattle, herds
from Holstein and medium wooded sheep from
the British Isles, valued at $33S237. In 1871
the number was 1861, and the value $964,
687.
Ex-senator Gwin, of California, is said to
have discovered his wife in Kentucky at the
washtub as he rode up to the house to get his
dinner, on his way to Tennessee and Missis-
sippi. She had splendid pair of bare arms
and was otherwise SO attractive to Gwin that,
after he had ridden whole day on the way
toward home, he drove back again, introduced
himself and proposed to marry her then and
there. E.r. 49,
The Southern Railway Gazette, which has
been looking into the matter, discovers that
the south is better provided with water power
than any other section of the country. This
is peculiarly so of the Atlantic slope, the four
states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Car
DINA and Georgia having water power equiva-
lent to I4,ooo, 900 horse power, four times that
of all the steam engines in the world. The
Yadkin river of North Carolina alone has force
sufficient to turn $I2,ooo, 900 spindles. Here
is another source of wealth in the south, of
which but little has been said.