The Mineral argus., 1884-03-06
nrieoel1aneous NEWS rotes.

boards daily.
DR.. Marshall, Mary Anderson's blackmailer,
was acquitted !
The Ohio legislature appropriated 100000 I
for flood relief.
Letters sent by a courier from Coer 2Alenc
cost 80 cents each.
n. T. Bullock, Dallas, Ca, has lost three
daughters by elopement this winter.
The house in which Gen. Grant was born, at
Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken of in thetlood
At New York, George Parsons, toy dealer,
has assigned. Liabilities, $3O,OO assets, So
OO0.
Edward Pilsbury"s Sons, cotton commission
merchants, New Orleans, have failed. Idabli-
ties, $4,000.
Gen. 10 Shelby of Missouri, the noted ex-con-
fedorate, has Just been fined sou for carrying
concealed weapons.
Seventeen hundred Chinese on the Green
River road, near Seattle, struck because
of a reduction from 81 to 50 cents a day.
John Hadley. Albany, N. Y, left S1O0,tOO to
Miss Louisa Whipple, a young lady of good
name in Troy. Hadley's divorced wife objects.
James E. Seripps, the publisher Of the De-
troit Evening News, has paid to DR.. Donald
Mclean $4,000, Judgment awarded Mclean in
a libel suit
Hartford, Conn, drum major can toss his
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet mp,
and catch it again without breaking step in the
procession.
Two handsome uekIOSb dllGllcu Il 4u7AlOh-
able white folks masquerade in Stamford,
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted when
they unmasked.
In Atlanta there are $2,000,0 600 worth of new
buildings in the hands of contractors and arch
fleets, besides the new capitol, which viii be
started during the spring.
In Savannah, s. 100000 has been expended
during the past year in improvements, much
of which has gone into the river front and
much into private residences.
Treasurer Wyman received from an Ohio
bank two packages purporting to contain
$1,000 each. One was found $3.50 short, and
the other contained two pieces OF fanneL
The HEtna Life and Travellers Insurance
companies of Hartford have each subscribed
$500 for the relief Of the flood sufferers making
a total of about 81 800 subscribed there.
I Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
Ting the affairs of Rev. DR. Mercer, the mil
{ lionnaire clergyman OF Newport, r.. L., because
he cannot supply a 100000 bondsman.
l. D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, Charles
ton, S. c., have suspended. Liabilities, $50,
: 600: nominal assets, $225,0OO. The suspen
f sion is due to bad crops and investments.
0 The committee of citizens in Philadelphia
: raising q fund for the sufferers has decided tC
make Gallipolis the distributing point for sup
j. plies. The chairman announced contributions
O to date amounting to S5,64o.
s Judge Dickey, of the supreme court of Hi
4 nois, has granted a super sedeas in the cast
of Frederick M. Ker, sent to the penltentla1.
for ten wears for stealing $50, GOO from Preston
q Kean & Co., Chicago bankers, which necessi
It tates q new trial.
e In a case before the Michigan supreme com
where the point in controversy was Whethe
r the elopement of a Y wife from her husband
@ with another man, bars her from a clam
her rights in her deserted husbands estate, til
court claimed that it did.
Mr.. Douglass, who has had charge of tn
a district as special agent of the treasury d'
r partment for some time past, Will hereGfte
t have his headquarters at st. Paul, Mimi. IL
in district now includes Minnesota, Dakota, MOI
Us tana and Idaho and the port of La Crosse.
The Virginia senate and house, by a stri
MT party vote, passed a Till fedlstrlctlnS the STA
lie for representatives IN congress. The bill WI
ls Immediately enrolled, signed by the presidiG
q officers, and sent to the governor. The redl
m tricting shows eight districts democratic an
two coalition.
TO Mayor King, of Philadelphia, has forbiddC
III the collection Of political assessment fro
members of the police department, and d.
IN cIares that he will discharge any policema
III who pays one. Il have never permitted a
sessments," he said, "and no man shall be a
to sossed for political purposes
+ At Kansas City. Glessncr & Ross, crack
., and candy factory, was closed by the sherd
ne on an attachment suit of 52S,000 for NOM
nc loaned by Nathan HILL The firm has not y
assigned The liabilities are supposed to !
OF $4,000; assets unknown \ receiver has bee
Nv HDDOllktu. luF llilllltlla ~ HR'5NfNs NAAA ~
Is. sets about $4,000.
n DR.. George Marshall, charged with attomp
M ing to blackmail Mary Anderson, was acquittt
~ in the United States district court at PittsbuT
~ recently. The court ruled that the offense d
Nc not come within the prOyisiOos of the law pr
uo viding penalties for using the mails for Il
purpose to defraud, and, under instructions
" the court, a verdict of not guilty was rendere
It's George w. Cable recently told a friend, WI
II warned him that he Travelled too much, that
as would rather be in the cars rhan at a hott
n His reason was that in the former case !
nc wasn't bothered by visitors. All sorts of PEI
ca pie. he said. hunted him outlook agent
people with pet hobbies which they wantt
~ him to take up and advocate, and other warn
y ties of genus bore.
IL Mrs. Marion Layclre Of New York, offc
part of a mausoleum which she possesses
ne Eastport, L. l., as a resting place for the boo
of Commander De Long. Mrs. De Long +
Il piled that she understood that arrangcmen
"a were pending to bury her husband in VOC
Is. lawn cemetery and that steps would be take
III to erect a monument over his grave. Othe
We wise she would gratefully accept Mrs. Layerrc
II offer.
~ There was an exciting scene at q circus
n Cairo. Egypt. An Italian acrobat unturled {
~ Italian flag, whercupon an English Office
~ walked into the arena and seized II amid gre
~ excitement. The acrobat soon recovered u
30 flag. however, and waved 1t triumphant
mt when he was struck bv n Ercuchman. Amel
II. ensued. Finally some English officers manag
&C. to separate the combatants and claimed the Z
multi. The Italian consul demanded satisfa
en- ton for the insult to the flag. 1t Is hoped I
IN affair viii be amicably settled.
lal Inc doIoWAlS loTllal chSltTiSe vac ~ ~
m can c. Ross, VIII match Meryine Thompson
Ia this city to span John L. Sullivan with ha
of gloves to a finish, for from $1,000 to 5000
ring rules to govern. / will deposit the mon
- in the Ohio National bank, or with any respO
sihle nnrtN agrecaLle to Mr.. Sullivan. as so