The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-28
BRIEF MENTION.

IarQlnaI HOWARD, tue LHg4ISA Gar
dinal, on May l, took possession of
the suburban diocese of Frascati,
memorable to Englishmen as having
been nnder the charge of the last of
the Stuarts, Cardinal York.
Mr.. Patrick O'Regan, who was
chief officer of the British Coast
Guards over fifty years ago, is living
on Brewster street, near City Point,
Boston, aged 1O4 years, and good
for many more.
The Moravians have just been eel
ebrating their 427th anniversary.
This leaves the Edinburg tercenten-
airy far in the rear. The Moravians
claim to be the oldest Protestant
sect in Christendom. They are able
to go back to the year 1857.
Lieut.. Rhodes, who will be re-
membered as the hero of tho steam
ship Columbus disaster, recently lost
his only child Only short time
before the wreck Lieut.. Rhodes
wife and two Of his three children
passed away, and the death of the
last remaining child leaves him
hout family
The first great public work in the
recently reannexed Grecian prov
ince Of Thessaly-a railway be-
tween Nolo and Larissa-was of
ficially opened two weeks ago by
the King of Greece. Among the
shouts of welcome that greeted the
King was the oft-repeated cry from
Macedonia to be again united to
Greece.
The Marquis Tseng has three sons
Duke East, Duke Home and Duke
Pole-the eldest of whom has al
ready lived five years in England,
three of them having been passed in
q public school His age is only
fourteen, and he is already engaged
to be married His general intelli-
gence, acuteness and extraordinary
vivacity" are remarked.
Balaclava, although its name will
be ever famous in history as asso-
ciated with the famous light caval-
ry charge, has hitherto remained an
.unimportant town. 1t is, however,
now beginning to develOpe resources
and bids fair to become a fashion
able resort for invalids. A medical
commission visiting it last summer
has reported very favorably on its
sheltered position and climate.
One of the only two remaining
Roman milestOnes in Great Britain
is in Cannon street, London, the
other being in Chesterholmi in North
CUMBERLAND There is Roman work
about the Tower of London. Uutil
quite recently an old Roman turret
was standing within 100 yards of
Ludgate Hill Station, and in Grip
plegate may yet be seen a splendid
specimen of the original Roman
wall.
The twenty-sixth birthday of
Minnesota as State occurred May
II. The population then Q858) was
barely $4,000, but the growth was
rapid, and in 1860 it was I72,0OO
From that date until the present
time the population has steadily and
rapidly increased until, in 1880, as
shown by the United States census,
the number of inhabitants was $780,
IT'S. AT the same rate increase
the population to-day will not fall
far short of million and quarter.
The grain product of the State in
creased from 32,573,945 bushels i'll
1870 to 76,O45, 425 bushels in 1880.
Farmers in England are taking to
beet growing. In Norfalk they
have undertaken to grow this season
at least 900 acres of sugar beet from
selected seed, and on the faith OF
this an association has been formed
which, long before the beet is ready
will have 100000 worth of plant OF
the ground ready to make sugar a.
fast as the roots come in. The far
mer will get IS a ton for the white
beet delivered at the works, and al
he can grow from fifteen to twenty