The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.


Boston has charity that furnishes
free rides for the poor.
Alad in Texas lately died from the ex-
cessive use of toothache drops.
"Fear God and take your own part" is
to be the motto of the new state OF
Dakota.
The big stockmen of Texas have hired
armed fence riders to watch their iron
fences.
Highway robbers take their walk
abroad about 2 O'Clock in the morning, in
New York.
The Marquis of Lorne has had twenty.
five live muskrats shipped from Montreal
to Scotland.
General Thomas L. Cliugman of North
Carolina has obtained Q Iatent for an
electric light.
Boston milk inspectors find in some
cases forty per cent. water, and arrests
are to be made.
The names of $50 or 800 postmasters
will be sent in to the senate by the pres
ident during the next session of con-
gress.
It is estimated by the Record that
there are 10000 liquor shops in Phila-
delphia, of which one third are I'M
licensed.
Three women of Cobb county, Ga,
are in Jail for murder-one for killing
her husband and the other two for in.
fanticide.
The yearly meeting of Friends at Rich
mond, Ind, has drawn together multi
tude far in excess of anything ever be.
fore known.
The reason advanced by Henry L.
Taylor, of Belair, Md, for asking for
divorce is, that his wife will not let him
read the bible.
There are many cases of typhoid fever
in Boston, attributed by some of the
journals to the bad state of the water
furnished the city.
Judge Noonan, of Baxter county,
Texas, denies the term vagrant as in.
GLIDING not alone loafers and bummerr,
but gamblers as we'll.
There were ffty-eight babies on ex-
hibition at Tompkins county fair, N. Y,
and the prize was taken by a two year
old girl named Simpkins.
A company of Milwaukee men have
purchased sixty acres of land near Han
nibal, NO., in which they are to open
extensive quarries of stone for use in
lithographing.
The streets of Natchez, Miss, are 90
dirty that the newspapers of that place
are sarcastically chronicling of finding
small boys who had mysteriously disap-
peared in the dust.
Robert Ipgersoll, q waiter in an Og-
den, Utah, hotel, was fined 81 recently,
for taking the part Of the landlady, who
was about to be attacked by hoodlum
who refused to pay for his meal.
A two.year old child in Barren county,
Kentucky, weighs 1877 pounds, and is
the last of seven children who are re.
markable for their enormous adipose de.
velopment. The parents are both small.
The Hartford Times has made Charles
r. King, OF that city. more or less his.
toric, by describing him Is o man who
is master Of twenty-five distinct trades,
and is "a good musician and one Of the
best rifle shots in the state" into the
bargain.
A new chime OF bells, which Is said to
be the largest in the country, has been
presented to Holy Trinity church. Phila-
delphia, by Joseph E. Temple. 1t was
made in Belgium, and consists OF
twenty eight bells. the heaviest of which
weighs $500.
Fence cutting in Texas seems to have
become q sort of epidemic. and nobody
knows where it will stop. The stockmen
offended by fencing in land they did not
own; this led to depredstions by others
who wanted free ranges, and now in some
sections nobody's wire is safe.