The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-25
Items of Interest.

60 lU,OOo.
The Be7 Hill monument fund in Georgia
amasnts to OILY $500.
A Mexican womaa Ill years OF age died a
few days ago at New Laredo.
The resignation Of Lieutenant Commander
Gorringe, U. S. n. has been accepted.
The number of farms in the United States
has increased 81 per cent. in the past ten
years.
A London physician says the English spar
row is subject to smallpox and can easily
spread the disease.
Tie microscope shows the hair to be like a
coarse, round rasp, but with the teeth ex-
iremely irregular and ragged.
The prices of sugar in England have in
creased in consequence Of the new American
sugar tariff.
The death of James Gamble, ex-Judge and
| Congressman, was announced at Williams
port, Pa, recently.
More than 81, 100, 900 hN been sent to the
German flood sufferers through a single
house in New York City.
Preliminary steps ha>e been taken for the
erection of q bronze statute of Martin Luther
at Washington, j.. @.
Threats have been been made to blow up
re Kremlin Palace ut the time of the Rus
sim Czar's coronatinn-
The Missouri Free-Trade League was o.
ganized at Kansas City the other evening.
Ex-Governor Phelps was elected President,
Kansas is doing its best to make gambling
a felony, but it is Que thing TO make gam
bling a felony, another to catch your felon.
The bond of ex- Treasurer Polk, of Tennes-
see, having been reduced to $50, 900, he has
been enabled to give ba and has been TO
Il ased from custody.
In some of the factorit in Toronto, Cam
ala, young girls are whipped for disobedi-
ence and neglect of work, and a society OF
ladies has been formed fur their protection.
John Crawford, Audit r of Arkansas, find
Jog his accounts short. has handed the
President Of the Senate a mortgage on his
teal estate, running two years.
Informers in several Spanish towns ea
posed the workings of a reasonable society
with funds and secret tribunals recently, and
tile authorities made over five hundred
arr ests.
At q recent execution in Japan thirteen
strokes of a sword was found necessary to
decapitntion- The edge of the instrument
had been bluntcd purposely that the agony
of the doomed might be as great as possible
Fourteen Roman Catholic Bishops ii
France have been summoned before the
Council of State fg publishing the Papal de
cree placing certain t~reatises of education OF
the index expurgatorius.
Another great plot has been unearthed il
Brussels by the discovery of compromising
documents. From the discovery arrest;
here expected to be made in Berlin, Vienna,
st Petersburg and Paris.
Pare, one of the communists who en-
deayored to destroy the city of Paris, France
died in Montreal, Cana, q few days ago il
absolute want. The French Government
has refused permission for his return.
The two-ccnt postage stamp will hurt tn
postal card. So the people say. 1t is wortl
an extra cent to have the Writer'S privati
business covered with an envelope. Posta
cards are somewhat open.
II is said that G. P. Huntington, of tn
Southern Pacific Road, has purchased 70
SIS, DOC, 600 Morgan's Railroad in Louisian
and Texas and the Morgan steamship lines
md will ask Congress to amend the bill TO
the consolidation Of trans-conthiental roads
Mr.. j.. Clerk Maxwell, experimenting il
1868 with the best apparatus, arrived at tn
conclusion that electricity travels at the rat
of ia, 800 statute miles per second, or abou
90, 600 miles per second slower than light
In submarine cables and the ordinary wiz
lines its course is greatly retarded.
At the present time there are 100, 900, 90
standard silver dollars in the Treasury wit
the prospect of a certain increase of betweel
81, 600, 900 and 50, 900 a month, and tn
probability of some now in circulation find
ing their way back to the Treasury. This
the giant accomplishment of our franc
legislation.
In paying out wages to his workmen
manufacturer in Marseilles, Ill, privatel
marked 500 in bills. Within two week
S942 of this money was deposited in til
local bank by saloon keeperl That is til
maelstrom that is sucking up the hard earne
gains of our working men and sapping tn
very foundation of domestic comfort an
woman's peace. The rum mills are til
graves of human industry, human morality
and human happiness. Without them til
world would be another Eden,
The quantity of gold in the world is not S
large as it is commonly considered to be
There is not more then the worth of CT, 900,
900, 600. whn.A is about half pure gold an
silver. The annual production is nbou
elo0, 900, 600 worth, and the production hi
decreased ~forty-four per ceat, during th
last thirty years. The production Of silvel
however, has increased 100 per cent, an
equals that of gold. one-third Of the sol
goes to wear and tear, one-third goes int
circulation and one-tnird into the arts an
manufactures. All the gold in the worl
would make a pile only 81 feet wide 10 fe'
long and Is feet high.
AllcOck's