Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-02-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Mlcnlgan sofa zso6, ,f4S Oarrels OF
salt in 1888.
A Chinese paper at San Francisco
has suspended.
An Ohio hunter has captured o fouI
! cared rabbit.
Florida alligator hunters earn fren
81, 900 to $4,000 year.
t Intoxicating drinks are excluded
from the U. s. senate restaurant.
Barnum owns building in New
York which rents for sos 900 year.
The Commercial hotel with dozen
stores burned at Cernwell, Canada,
last week.
| A tramp who was sent to jail in
Indianapolis developed milignant
case of smallpox.
| The Virginia Legislature has ap-
pointed committee to investigate
charges of horrible brutality IN the
state prison.
A deputy sheriff in East st. Louis
fred shot at couple Of fugitive
thieves Thursday and hit . woman
in the foot
There are indications that Mr.
Buckner's bill for the issue Of nom
legai-tender notes viii not obtain the
support Of his committee.
The Mexican government has oon-
tracted with Boston man to plant
1000, 900 trees in the Valley of
Mexico within four years.
A girl baby given away by its
mother in 1876 IN Lynchburg, Pa,
has fallen heir to 100000. but the
baby hasn't been found Jet.
Hon. George A. Post, Of Pennsyl-
vania, is the youngest member Of
the house of representatives. He il
twenty-eight years of age.
The president of the United States
Cremation Society says there are
5, 900 persons in the United States
pledged to have their bodies burned.
During the altercation in Chicago.
between Steve Alexander and John
johnson, two negro gamblers, the
| former was shot dead Mt the faro
table.
CINCIxNATI has subscribed 1l2,-
600 towards the expenses Of the ma
tional Democratic convention and is
going to send big committee to try
and secure it.
Governor McLane, Of Maryland.
has sent the draft Of six bills to the
Legislature in the interest of working
people, and urges in message their
careful consideration.
The contribution boxes in Trinity
Church were robbed q few nights
ago in New York City, and the rob-
bers then went to the vestry and
drank three bottles Of communion
wine.
The Philadelphia photographers,
who pleaded guilty to making and
selling obscene pictures, have been
sentenced each to one years impris-
onment and to pay tine Of $500.
The amount of the fortune left by
Holloway, the famous pill manufac-
turer, can only be guessed at; but
for several years it is known that his
net profits averaged $1,000. 900
year.
James Egan, ex-speaker Of the
New Jersey house ofrepresentatlyes,
has been sentenced to one months
imprisonment ana $500 fAe tor at
tempting to bribe member at the
last session of the Legislature.
The best farmer in Georgia is a
widow seventy-two years cid. She
has been . widsw for thirty-fve
years, and has managed her own
business during that tine. She
lives in Dooly county.
Captain James Hunter. Of the sal
vation army, is in Jail at Bridgeport,
Conn. He was fined $5 under city
ordinances for leading q procession
through the streets, and refused to
pay the fine.
General Longstreet's administra-
tion as United States marshal OF the
Northern District of Georgia has
long been under cloud. It is be-
ing investigated again, and plenty OF
pay dirt is bsfng struck.
Burglars succeeded in opening
fonr safes in one building in New
York last Wednesday night and get
ting awsy with the entire contents.
1t is looked upon as the most success
fnl safe blowing on record.
i A prisoner ia the Canton, Ohio,
Jail saw a ghost last Thursday night.
He described its appearance so accu-
rately that the visitor was readily
recognized as the man who was
hanged there last summer for wife
| murder.
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