The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
NEWS GOSSIP.

GENELlAL NEWS GOSSIP
DR.. Mccormick and Bishop Athenry are
about to visit the United States. Tae oh.
ject of their visit is to raise funds for the
promotion OF the migration scheme in Ire
land. Two companies have been formed
in Ireland. and are already organizing a
system of migration which they hope will
lead to a great diminution of the prevailing
distress in The crowded districts, and by q
more equal distribution tend to develope
waste lands, and promote agricultural pur-
suits where that industry has practically
become paralyzed.. They propose to render
stimulate production, making such terms
as are reasonably within the mems of the
tenant. Emigration has been so unrelent-
ingly condemned by Mr.. Parnell and his
followers as to make the very word hate
full. Migration is o che cry, and its re-
snlts r looked forward to with great
hopefulness by its philanthropic pro-
mOters.
The late Judge j. g. Blacks literary pro-
auctions will be published in book form,
and will comprise three large volumes. A
short time before his death the JUDGE told
an intimate friend that he had been en-
gagged in refreshing himself regarding the
events of the time of secession of which
JEFF Davis wrote. This work, which would
have been characteristic of the Judges
great power as q writer was never compile
ted. at one time, when he was told be
was out of danger, he said: "WelI, 1 can
attend to Davis now" But his work was
never again taken up. New complications
in his disease arose and resulted in his
death.
Judge Lowell of Boston has sustained the
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the American Bell Telephone comp my vs.
Amos E. Dolbear ct al, which was appealed.
The petition for injunction and questions
tor decisions we're whether the telephone
described by Refs anticipates the Bell tele-
phone ana whether Dolbear's apparatus in
tlinges Bells patent. 1t is held that the
invention OF Refs was not in authorization of
Bell. Whatever may be the merits of his
(Dolbear's) telephone, he employed in it at
least q part OF Bell's process. The decision
isfor the complainant.
Harry Dankoehler, a compositor in the
office of the Sturgeon Bay Advocate, set
$500 m OF solid minion in eighteen and
three quarters consecutive hours. He
licked up his stick at $50 q. M. Friday and
dropped it at 1:15 a. m. Saturday last. Two
cups OF coffee at 9 o'clock p. m. vas all the
oourishment taken during the whole time.
After four hours of sleep he began work
again in the morning as usual. Robert
Bonner, set many yea,e ago. on sibet of $40,
$500 ems of solid type in twenty hours and
twenty-eight minutes steady work.
IA competitor at the Ontario Rife associ.
alton matches offered the register keeper &
to give him-a score of t~hirty-two out of 9
possible thirty five. The register keeper re-
ported the attempted bribery of the council,
and the competitor was ordered off he field
All bis entrance fees and prizes were for
feited and himself forever disqualified from
competing at any military rife match in
Canada.
Reports from different localities In Ohio
showlthat the fruit crop is a failure. Ap
pies, peaches and pears are very scarce,
Grapes are rotting badly and the supply Of
all kinds offruit is far from bein inade.
guate. Potatoes are doing finely, but arr
high In price. Bugs and maggots Ne de,
stroying nearly all the cabbage, cucumber,
and squash crops.
The tax assessors of Newport have Just
completed the valuation of the city, and
have assessed the real estate at 81. O59, 0O(
and the personal property at s., 463. 400