Delta chief., 1883-03-07
NUMBER i
Ansorts.

All Sorts.
Texas has now 500 miles Of railway cornplet-
ed
There are over 5000 blind persons in the state
of Arkansas.
Orange tree are being planted all along the
Mississippi coast.
In London there are now thirty-nine theatres
giving performances.
The brown ladies of Axiom, on the African Gold
Coast, wear bustles.
Gen. Fremonts son, who is named after him is
master in the navy.
The Texas cattle drive for the coming spring is
estimated at 10000 head.
IN the year 1882 the Hot Springs railroad carried
5000 passengers
Rabbit hunting by moonlight is now fashion,
able sport in various portions of Illinois.
Dakota has 2I national and 81 private banks,
with an aggregate capital of SIC. 10000.
Misfortunes never come isingly The great
food and Mrs. Langtry struck Cincinnati on the
same day.
The plaintiff in an Indiana breach of promise
suit is a widow of thirty-four, and the defendant
boy of eighteen.
In drilling for artesian well at Chesterfield,
loNa, u sirtdul pi euDstiuCe WIS
which is believed to be magnesia.
The government hires vault in safe deposit
company in St Louis for the storage of silver dol
lars and has about 81 10000 in it.
A three-year-old boy in North Carolina was
scalded to death few days ago by a cupa hot
coffee which he pulled upon his head from
table.
In the Egyptian war one English bullet in
man more than thirty German shots in q
hundred hit the enemy.
In Charles City, Ia. the marshal is authorized
by ordinance to arrest all young men under the
age of fifteen found upon the streets after eight
O'Clock AT night.
The Melbourne Argus states that the wreck ofa
vessel OF about 800 tons has been discovered at
Fay river New Guinea. The natives report that
the crew, numbering seventeen, have been eaten
by the Keewai tribe.
Tho ,iyir1 words of young Com raander RawseE,
leader of the Highland Brigade, 10 Sir Garnet
wclsely afler the victory of Tcl-elKebir. deserve
place in history. They were: General, did
lead them straightg
yirginian named John E. Gross dreamed the
other night that he out chase and a. the
stag turned to bay, sprsng violently from his bed,
and. striking upon a chair, received injuries.
which 1t is feared will prove fatal. x
One OF the oldest men on active duty In the
treasury department a, Washington is Col Geo.
Kent, of Bangor, Maine brother of the late Gov
ernor Edward Kent, Of that state. He is now
nearly eighty-seven, but is as hale and sprightly
as most men Of fifty.
A Washington Territory official says that there
are four pursuits which man can follow in the
northwest with more show of success than else
where-yiz-. wheat raising. mining, numbering
and fishing. The wheat belt extending from
Boise, Idaho. to walla. W. T., contains 5o,"o.ooo
acres of land.
The scheme Of reclaiming land by filing in the
Back bay of Boston has proved a profitable enter
prise for the state. The receipts from the sale Of
amour, to 81 lI57 600 and the outlay has been only
sI.e5oeee Besides this profit, ffly acres have
been added To the deep-wa,cr arca of the harbor.
sisjv. Phipps, the notorious Philadelphia Aims
House punderer. IS stiil in prison in Canada. but
is '-as well as might be expected under the cir
bun,stances" He is treated with all the constd-
crlticn dre 10 man who wears the uniqne dis
iincrion having stolen the roof of the building
intrusted to his care.