The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1884-04-17
PERSONS AND THINGS.

and furniture.
John c. Perry, who had accepte,
the position Of Justice Of the Suprem,
Court Of Wyoming, was siriekel
with paralysis IN the streets Of Brook
lyn Monday. He died in two hOurs
Il is rumored that the Greely part,
have been rescued from a mass O
floating ice By a whaler. The stOrl
comes from st. Johns, Newfoundland
20 the Navy Department, bat lack
oOfF0bOratiOn, unfortunately.
Nine. Piecoiomlni, the once cele
brated pFima donna, whose name th'
boys Of twenty years ago used 90 tr3
TO prOnOunce seven times Ia quiel
succession and vet keep straight faces
is 10 be given a testimonial benefit Il
London, where she lives In poor cir
eumstanees.
The steamship Reliance, built lasi
year and valued at $3.50, 600, wa
wrecked OF Bahia, Brazil, with hel
cargo, including 1000 bags Of coffee
The passengers, crew, and mails weri
saved. Minister Osborne, en- route
from Brazil 10 the United States, wa
on board.
Emma Abbott says the acoustic
properties Of the Mormon Temple are
better than those Of any other build
ing she ever sang In 30 good, indeed
that once she stood ct one end Of il
and heard one single pin dropped
into 3 mans hat" at the other end.
And IL wasn't . roliing-pi1, either.
Aguers has been received with con-
siderable cordially 10 some parts OF
Cuba. Volunteers have joined his
standard to the number Of 400, aud
be has reached the mountain district
% often before known IS the strong
hold Of rebellion. What was appar-
entity an Insignificant hlibusteTing
expedition has developed into an In
surrectlOn which may prove formid-
able.
A circular just issued by J. E.LOck-
wood, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent Of the Kansas City, Fort Scott
a Gulf and Kansas City, Springfield
q Memphis line, announces that all
trains between Kansas City and
Springfield are now running regular
AIr VIII AENENAA04 MuAAGNEE
any source. The road bed and track
Of the new line will be 80 improved
during the present year, as to make
another interruption to business on
account Of high water, almost an i'm
possibility.
Safe, Notwithstanding, upon
returning 10 his store, on Galveston
avenue, from dinner, found his IcleFk
very much excited. The clerk said
that q stranger came in and after ask
ing and paying the price for 3 cravat,
which was one dollar, picked up the
entire box, containing a dozen, and
went of with them. ibid he pay
you de dollar ." asked Nose. "Yesh
responded the clerk. "Nell," then,
We makes, anyhow fifty per cent.
profits on de investment. ."-GdlUeS-
ton NeiUs.
A glass-making firm in Plttsburg,
Pa, have been manufacturing glass
textile fabrics during the past twelve
or eighteen months. A rod Of glass
several feet long and half an inch in
diameter, and heated to the proper
degree, Is attached at one end 10 a
large Tapidly-Feyolving wooden drum,
and thereby drawn out to a fine
thread. This process Is repeated till
enough glass has been spun, when Il
Is wound on bObins and woven like
cotton, fax, or silk. The fabrics
thus produced are very beautiful and
pliable. The glass they made Of Is
very soft by the addition Of lead.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April IL
Representative Warner to-day re-
ported from the committee on pen
sions. bounty and back pay, a bill
providing that every person specified
In the pension laws, who served for a
period Of three months or more, who
has an honorable discharge and is
not receiving q pension or q greater
pension than that provided BY the
bill, and who is now disabled by Tea-
son Of any injury or disease which
there is reason TO believe originated in
the service, shall be entitled to re-
ceive q pension during the c0ntinu-
ance Of the disability at q rate proper
tiOnate to the degtee thereof The
bill further provides that dependent
parents shall only show by cOmpe-
tent evidence that they are without
other present means Of support than
their own manual labor or the con-
Of others not legally bound
for their support.
There is q legend that al the death
Of Charles V. the accusing angel APP
peared in Heaven with q catalogue Of
deeds which no advocate could palli-
laid desolate, cities
sacked and burnt, lists Of hundreds Of
thousands Of widows and children
brought TO misery by the political am-
bltion Of q single man. The evil
spirit demanded the offenders soul,
and Il seemed a. II mercy itself could
not refuse him the award. But Rt
the last moment the Supreme Judge
The Emperor, he said,
had been sent into the world at a pc
culiaI time, for a peculiar purpose,
and was not to be tried by the ordi-
nary rules. Titan has painted the
scene: Charles kneeling before the
Throne with the consciousness, as
became him, Of human lnfirmitles,
written upon his countenance, yet
neither afraid nor ableet, relying in
absolute faith that the Judge Of all
mankind would do right.
A local paper recently stated that
Colonel John A. Martin, SecrataTy Of
The National committee, would have
The distribution Of tickets to the Ma
liOnal convention, and since then be
has been overwhelmed with letters lt
ls impossible for him to answer. The
statement was entirely erroneous.
Tickets Of admission to National con-
ventions have all been distributed
pro rata to the delegates, who are the
only persons who win have tickets TO
give away. and e is useless for sppli-
satiOn 20 be made 10 any one Else.
Persons who write 10 Colonel Martin
i0r ticket8 will therefore only subject
him 10 unnecessary annoyance and
themselves to futile trouble, There
Is en- extreme demand for seats this
PEAR, and for that reason the securing
of q large ball was urged IN com
mittee, it being the wish 20 accomo-
late as far as possible the friends OF
he delegations who would come to
lown II able to get place in the hall.
There viii not, however, be such q
distribution Of tickets as
here was at the last convention be-
,ause Of the preoautiOn 20 leave the
matter entirely Ga the hands Of dele
Iates.-Cficag0 Elter-OcedH.
The Parsons, North Platte & Dem
yer railroad company filed its articles
u incorporation yesterday with the
Secretary Of State. The object Of the
,ompany Il 70 build maintain and Op-
rate 9 line Of railrOad from Parsons,
n Labette county, Kansas, 10 Denver
Colorado also q branch line from
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