The state journal., 1884-11-08
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE COUNTRY.
Scissored from Our Many Ex-
changes and Condensed for
Ready Reading.

N.Y., was idlutC-
James Gordon Bennett has fV,
homes in nearly as many differen
countries.
lhilip Armour, the Chicago ''porl
king" is credited with fortune O.
o., 100000
The claims OF the Duke of Cum
berlsnd to the throne of Brunswick
are rejected.
Ell Mahdi, the false prophet, sleeps
during the day and transacts bust
ness at night.
Mary Cross. Row confined at Gov.
iogton, KY, Jail, has lived thirty-two
days without food.
Mayor Edison, O. New York, Tues
day, appointed General Fitz John
Porter police commissioner.
-Four colOred men charged with
murder we!e " ched a few days
since near Baton Rouge, La.
Gus Douglas, c,lored, of Bowling
Green, died of apoplexy. His wife
Inherited $4,000 from the Ogden
estate.
Vassar college has graduated 500
students in the IT guar course Since
the year 1867 q Of these died, and
1873 married.
A colored coal miner named John
Johnson dropped dead in bar room
In Lexington, KY, last Saturday.
Heart distase.
There are four colored candidates
for congress in South Carolina: E.
J. Dickerson, Il. s. Deas, VIM.
Elliott ard Robert Sma!ls.
Two colored deacons at Columbia,
s. G., held praying contest Sunday
for purse Of $l2. Endurance, it
seems, was to decide the curious con
test.
A Bradford, Pa, dispatch says that
The "ArmstIong No. O. the biggest
oil we'll yet discovered, had been
gushing oil TO the enormous extent
of 252 barrels day.
A. Ii. Glimkr, Of the Boston Hub,
has resigned The honorary commits
sionership o. the department Of col
ored exhibits for the worlds exposi-
ton Of Massachusetts.
On rice plantation, near George
town, S. G. John Bradley, colored,
shot and killed another man, with
which he had dispute about a sweet
potato Bradley escaped.
Sitting Bull has an enormous
head. lie wears number 73 hat,
which is larger than was Daniel
Websters. He has salary during
his present engagement of 5000 a
month.
The white employees of Doris cir
Gus attacked the colored ones while
travelling on their special train in
Georgia, last week, and threw
number of the tran while under way,
and three were fatally injured.
Glasgow Times: Allen county
h.d her first colored jury last week.
As the culprit tried before the dusky
jurors wen; up on a fine of $50 and
ten days in Jail for breach of the
peace, it is reasonable to suppose that
the twelve did their duty.
A double headed baby was born
sometime ago in Chattanooga, Tenn,
Of colored parents, but the child was
dead when born The heads as we'll
as the body was perfectly formed.
The case i. a remarkable one and
excites the interest of medical men.
WilliAm Jones, who assaulted
Charles J. CUTE su on the 10th of
November, 1881, was tried in the
criminal court at Washington on
Monday last. The jury found YER
dict Of not guilty. The charge for
which Jones was tried was assault
and battery with intent to kill.
On Monday Henry Newton, a
colored collier of Wyeth county, Va,
while on his way to work was shot
by some person concealed in the
bush. Newton, who is not fatally
wounded. says his life has been
threatened by number of republi-
cans on account Of his being demo-
crat.
AT San Paulo, Brazil, twenty eight
convicts succeeded in breaking out
of their cells and surprising and dis
arming a sentinel and then the guard
OF twenty.tour police and an officer.
The officer they butchered in his
bedroom, and then wounded FIVE of
the police-two MORALLY. Twenty
seven convicts escaped, but FIVE were
recaptured.
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