Morris tribune., 1884-12-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The steamship Great Eastern will saD
for New Orleans Dec, 81
The First National bank of Carlinville,
Ills, has gone into liquidation.
Henry NJ. Stanley has ust..receivM the
Phi. D. degree from the University Of Hella.
Six hundred thousand pounds of fish
were taken in the Milwaukee fisheries thi.
season. F.; .i-,s= !.
Edward II. Ludlow, the veteran real
estate dealer of New York, passed away
Friday. ~. = .s6sso,s
Fire at Boswell, Ind, Thursday night
swept away six business buildings, creating
a loss of S20,000 " rs =
Heavy rains fell Friday in the st. Pc.
tersburg (Va) region, breaking up the long.
continued drought.
Woods, Perry & Co., lumber merchants,
burned out at Cleveland two months ago,
have resumed business.
If the farmers in Iowa gathered $780,
600 bushels of corn per day, it would take
fifty-fiye days to gather the crop.
The average hotel bill of the cowbows
at the st. Louis convention was $275, of
which S197. Is was made at the bar.
Numerous fatboats, with cabin attach.
ments and families on board have passed
Burlington, floating down to New Orleans
and the big show.
The Lafayette Journal property, with
its franchises, will be sold at auction to the
highest bidder, on Friday, Dec. 26, by II. L.
Wilson, mortgage.
An Indiana man bet his sweetheart on
Blaine, and when, after the election, she
went over to the other fellow, he accused
her of playing him false. Some men are
never satisfied. -.s rse's.'1~ 1 =
Private letters from English officials in
India state there is a dangerous condition OF
affairs in that country, as the feelings OF the
natives were never SO excited against Eng.
land as at present. 81
At San Rafael, Cal, Thursday night, a
buggy containing six persons was struck by
locomotive at a crossing, two being killed,
one fatally injured and the fourth having an
arm broken. The others escaped.
Herman Linde, the Shakesp earean
reader, claims to have discovered at Louis.
vile Rembrandt's picture of the slaughter
of the Innocents," and purchased it for 500.
Art connoisseurs have been seeking for years
for this painting.
The wife of Eli Boiling, respectable
colored man of Egg Harbor City, Pa, who
began to turn white twenty five years ago, Il
now, to all appearances, a white woman, che
only traces of her African origin being found
in her kinky hair.
In settlement of an election wager Mr..
Lang undertook to ride bull around the
public square of Kirwin, Kan. He was
thrown off three times, and finally gave
cowbow SIS to finish the circuit, which he did
in spite of the violent disapprobation Of the
bull
Because of advances made secretly by
President King, the Middletown On. "
National bank closed it's doors Friday morn.
ing. Its capital was $500, 900, and the sur.
plus Sis, 900, and the statement is made that
the depositors will be paid in full Senator
Van Wyck, of Nebraska, is one of the
directors Of the broken bank
Beliefs are expressed that the "long
strike" in the Hooking valley will soon end.
Some twenty of the persons indicted for out
RACES have been arrested and viii be tried
for conspiracy. The railway bridges burned
have been replaced and traffic has been re.
sllmed. The output from the mines, IL IL
expected, will soon reach its normal pro-
portions sr 80
A man calling himself Charles M Mer.
ryman has just decamped from Wayne town.
ship, Ohio, taking with him the pretty
daughter of a wealthy farmer and 81, 600
fraudulently obtained. He claimed to be q
relative of an influential family in the dis
trict, said he was an attorney, and procured
the funds to help regain a mythical fortune
left by English cousins.