Morris tribune., 1884-03-05

A cow-horn measuring four feet
eleven inches in length, anl eighteen inches
around the base, is on exhibition at Month
cello, Fla, and is supposed to be the largest
cow-horn in the world.
At Toledo, Ohio, Robert Bailey (col-
ored) was convicted OF marrying a white girl
contrary to the statue of 1910, and was SEN
fenced to three months imprisonment and
500 flne--the full penalty.
Mr.. Gladstone, in introducing a fran
chise bill in the house of commons, expressed
the opinion that the Unites States recovered
so rapidly from the civil war because every
capable citizen had vote.
The car of Russia has decided to
convene council, composed of representa-
tives of the ruling classes. to consider whether
a powerful Nihilist party really * ~, I.
how to crush it out or satisfy its WAL.
The largest fax oil mill in the wosll
is to be erected in Sioux City, Iowa.
The widow of the immortal John
Brown, Il Harper's Ferry, died at San
Francisco.
The Massachusetts, house has passed
bill furnishing free school books to all
pupils of the public school.
A national bank, with $4,000, 900 cap
ital subscribed, to be called the Metropolitan,
has been organized in Chicago
The Great Eastern is to be brought
to Antwerp during the International exhibi-
ton there in 1885 and used as a floating hotel.
A bill has been introduced in the
Iowa legislature to extend aid to farmers
protective associations engaged in contesting
the legality Of barbed-wire patents.
Georgia is very productive state. It
appears among her statistics that there is an
average of sixteen and two-thirds babies born
daily throughout the year, including Sun
days.
Governor Stoneman has resolved to
call an extra session of the legislature of Cal
'ifornia to take measures to force the Central
Pacific road to pay its back taxes, aggre-
eating $1,O00,000
Seven seamen of the United States
steamer Michigan, now lying at Erie, have
volunteered to go out on the Greedy relief ex
| petition, and have passed the requisite ex
animation by surgeons.
Alfred w. Mckinney, of Troy, N. Y.
died in Florida, and the wife carried the
body home for burial. On arrival it was
| found that the box contained only an empty
casket.. The body bad been stolen en- route
Marsh T. Polk, the defaulting state
treasurer Of Tennessee, died of heart disease
at his home in Nashville He had beer
sentenced to imprisonment for thirteen
! years, but was released on bail to await 6
hearing of his case by the supreme court.
The federal court at Nashville, OF
the petition of the railroad companies Of
Tennessee, enjoined the state railroad com
mission from interfering with the business O.
the roads. The judges hold that the act O
the legislature creating the commission is il
conflict with the state and federal constitu
tions.
Andrew j. Carnegie, head of til.
great Pittsburg Iron company, is about t.
build granite mansion on Cumberlan,
island, near Fernandina, Fla. This island
famous as the burial place of Light Horse
Harry Lee, and, with wild deer roaming
through its forests, it SURPRISES any privat
| park in England.
John Lowe, secretary of the Canadian
department of agriculture, was examined b,
special parliamentary committee at Ottawa
and swore that the statistics issued fror
Washington as to the immigration to tn
United States from Canada, were incorrect
and that American custom officers had bee
instructed to fraudulently augment the mum
Der of persons leaving the dominion.
The English government is about t.
send to Washington courteous dispatc
relative to the countenance and assistanc
given to dynamiters by American citizens
The clocks discovered in the London railwa
stations are said to have been made in th
United States, and in one of the valises wa
copy of The New York Sun of Feb. {
The police arrested three men and seize
their stock of dynamite, on information tina
they intended to blow up the courts.