The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-14

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tine man in Turner county claims to
have killed over eight hundred wolves
this season, selling the skins to
traders and scalps yielding bounty.
He says he runs them to their lairs
with hounds, and digs them out, max.
Ing $500 n month.
An acknowledgement man tell
ing about wonderful parrot hanging
in cage from the window Of a house
which he had often passed, said;
at cries Stop thief so natural, that
every time ] hear 1t I airags stop.
George w. Jones, to whom was first
applied the phrase "the watchdog of
the treasury" is living at Fayetteville,
Lineoln county, Tenn, in robust
health at the age Of eighty years. Mr..
Jones served in Congress for eight
consecutive terms. He found his
stumbling-block when he jumped
over into the arms OF the Secessionists.
The concession granting the right
to lay cable between Portugal and
America, which was obtained some
time ago, has been transferred to a
joint stock enterprise entitled the
American and British Continental
Gable Company. The first section of
the cable to St. Michaels's one of
the Azore Islands, win be laid in Sep
tember.
The National Cremation Society
enrolled several new members at a
meeting the other night at its rooms,
445 North Fifth street, and now i'm
cludes forty-five members. Three of
these are women. A stock company,
composed largely OF members of the
society, is engaged in raising money
to build crematory, but as yet the
amount is small.
At Danville, picked nine recently
played the nine of Richmond base
ball club. There was spirited con-
test and betting ran high, At Danville
the grand jury indicted about twenty
of the betters. The trial has Just
taken place. The jury hung and was
locked up for twenty-four hours. To-
day they agreed upon verdict OF
guilty, finding the betters $500 each
= land costs.
The messcnger-boy Is 80 called af-
ter the famous Messenger breed oI
race-horses; but moi because of his
| swiftness. 1t was on account Of thu
!, sl0wness Of the former, the name hav
, ing been bestowed ironically, after the
Indian fashion of nomenclature, which
makes it proper to call a great COW
ard Observation-Disclosures, and the
bravest of all the braves Man-Airaid
= of-a-Boilcd-Hcn,
In 1891 Il Ruthlahd county gentle
man had twins added to his family
The births took place about hal
: hour apart, one baby coming to Hgh
!" at IL AS on the night OF December 81
' 1881, and the other younghster put
ting in all appearance little after l.
o'clock on the morning Of January /
N 1882. Here we have circumstanc,
&c Of twin children whose birthdays oc
y on different days, different month
d and in different years.
=" Mr., Lowell may intend to resi- sn
but not one responsible person seem
'e to know anything Of the rumore'
:; step. London Truth says: "The al
1t preaching resignation Of James Rus
10 sell Lowell, the American Minister
T. win cause universal regret" Wash
ington dispatches indicate that ther
= 10 no foundation for the story. Nj
nj Frelinghuysen said last night that h
knew nothing whatever Of the ma
n Il ter
's, Samuel H. Clemens, "Mark Twain,
is member of Rev. Mr.. Twitchell
4 lchurch In Hartford, and so was til
n Hate Ex-Governor was "higher up j
~ The church, as the humorist expresse
a. it, and used to pass around the plat,
J One day Mark Twain said to the g,
bo governor: "See here, governor, the
let you collect the tho donations, br
they would never let me do it." "Ol
'ls yes, they would" said the ex-governo
W adding, "that is, with bell-punch."
81 A young lady In Wisconsin ",
N standing on the veranda, with her To-
He er's arm around her, enjoying thu
der storm in perfect safety, when Il
y young man left for a moment and 81
'er was struck by lightning. The yom
eo man was censured for leaving her u
'fe protested. Since that occurrcnc
-, when storm comes up, it is amusir
rs to see the girls rush to the protectic
TX of their favorite lightning-rods. II
VI thing will work as well here as in w
consin, girls, and we are alwa
sk, ,lisengaged during thunder storm.
SIT Miss De Ia Rame, otherwise "0uida