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SERGEANT Mason cobble.
shoes in the Albany peniten'
tiary.
A NEW industry has develop.
ed in Florida-raising cocoa
nuts.
HENDERSON will have two
congressional aspirants. Web
Flanagan and Col. James H
Jones.
JUDGE THURMAN. OF Ohio, be
lTeves IN a stringent license law
as the only solution Of the liquor
question.
De La MATYR, ex-congress-
man and greenback chief of In
diana, is now stumping Iowa in
iavoroi prohibition.
SoME of the papers think that
Judge Ireland should make a
statement of his position on i'm
portant matters Of state policy.
Ar Xenia, Ills, VIM. John
son, aged thirty, killed his wife
and then shot himself. The
couple were living unhappily
together.
The lecturing tour of Mrs.
Jesse James does not seem to
be a success. The receipts for
one night in St. Louis were only
ten dollars.
IRELAND is a general favorite
Tor governor with the people
and the papers of west Texas.
The papers almost with one ac-
cord support him.
THE North Carolina republi-
can state convention is now in
session at Raleigh. The men,
bership is about equally divided
between whites and blacks.
GEN. ]. B. RoBERTsoN, indie
pendent candidate for governor.
opened the canvass in his own
hehalf by making a speech at
Comanehe on Wednesday even
ing.
The Texas and St. Louis mar
row gauge railroad has been
completed to McGregor springs,
twenty miles west OF Waco. at
which point it crosses the Santa
Fe road.
WHAT has become OF Gen.
Grant, anxiously inquiries the
San Antonio Express. It says
Grant has not been heard OF in
the newspapers for months.
He is not dead.
In 1872 the Standard Oil
company had capital Of s2,-
100000. Its capital is now es-
timatcd at SIS. 100000 and in
addition sIo.ooo.o 600 have been
paid out in dividends.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has APP
proved the sentence of dismiss
NAL in the case of colored
lieutenant Ripper. Flipper is
now tipped and Topped COM
pIetelY out of the army.
The aggregate ages of a
couple married at Winchester,
Kentucky, the other day,
amounted to I47 years. The
groom is II, and the bride is 20.
Ask somebody older than me"
A GENTLEMAN who has had
experience in publishing a tenn
perance paper says the temper
ance people are SO temperate
in their patronage that the pub
Usher will be left to starve to
death.
The fastship Alaska has made
another quick trip over the At
Iantic, this time beating her pre-
vious record and reaching
Queenstown from New York
not quite seven days out-an
average of over 400 miles a
day.
The Austin Statesmen says
the first bale of new cotton of
this years growth was received
in Shreveport on the 10th inst.
It was grown in Louisiana, and
for the first time in many years
Texas viii not get the first bale
to market.
The friends of Gen. Sherman
and other officers scored a vic
tory in the house yesterday, by
getting the age for compulsory
retirement from the army fixed
at O. instead OF 81 years. The
change seems a sensible one, as
many officers are as vigorous at
that age as others at fifty.
CAPT. ]. C. HUTCHINSON and
Col. Chas. Stewart, of Houston,
both of whom are prominent
and able men, are rival candi-
dates for congress from the First
district. They are said to have
met in joint debate at Harris
burg and a wish is expressed |
that they arrange a discussion
at Houston.
The ungallant Kansas City |
Times objects TO the appoint
ment of Miss Phoebe Couzens
as a member Of the Utah COM
for the reason that she |
doesn't know anything about
being married once, and is,
therefore, incompetent to deal
with the complicated matrimon-
ial system Of the Mormons.
In the house of representa-
tives at Washington on Wed
nesdsy one ofthe members call
ed another A liar. There Is