Morris tribune., 1885-01-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Missouri has 7s5, 1872 school children, Of
whom A, TVS are colored.

Missouri has 1855, 1872 school children, Of
whom A, TVS are colored.
A healthy 13months. old child in Bates
county, Missouri, has three distinct heads.
! A tobaeconist In Easton, Pa, recently
received 5000 pennies in payment for u debt.
Miss Rose Coghlan, the actress, has
adopted motherless babe, aud cllristened it
Agne, Rosalind.
A babe was born ct Knoxville, Tenn
recently, which weighs only eleven ounces,
and is just six inches long.
The average gold yield of the mines Of
Nevada county, California, ranges from 3d.
900 900 to 81, 0oO, 900 per year.,
An English doctor asserts that person
who can move his ears at will ia *u>picious
character and can not be truste |.
The Crouch murder case cost Jackson
county. Michigan, $4,000. The persons i'm
plicated claim that their expenses have been
$25, 900. t---
q Owing to the difficulty of obtaining
human skin to graft over graduating
wounds, London physician is using the skin
of frogs with great success.
John Snyder, one of the oldest resi-.
dents Of the suburb of Williamsburg, Pa,
emphatically declares that the tmbers in
Noah's ark were cut in Westmorsland
county. ,,,,. e. s.
Inquiries for iron at Chattanooga have
increased, and two furnaces have been blown
in Employees in different manufactures
have been augmented, and the outlook is
moro cheerful. .l,'5HEEE/ H.
Capt Daniel Annistead, venerable
"a -" IL l ~
messed twenty presidential inaurations. He!
jefferson, and has been at every one since.
A bill was introduced In the Indisns
senate Friday prohibiting aliens from hold
ing real estate. The judiciary committee
eported favoring tho indefinite postpone
ment of the bill for constitutional conven-
ton, r. ., .y..tr..a Eg1 aft b. .a.5's-
1t Is stated that the Cisco bank failure
at New York was brought about by the sis
tiers Of John A. Cisco deciding to have the
estate liquidated, and withdrawing the
amounts bequeathed them by their father
from the concern IN 2sEss Bk- y
The question Of branding cattle Is agaia
being considered by Montana stockmen. A
hide not branded will bring 81 to so moro
than one side-branded, and the present Gus
tom is estimated to cost Montana breeders
alone 81 ,0oe, 600 q year. - = 80
A 3OO.pound hog, owned by Farmer
Buchanan, at Roscoe, Ill was accidentally
hurled under straw-rick last October. The
animal was unearthed Thursday, alive, and
found to weigh but twenty-five pounds but
has increased its ayoirdupois materially
since its discovery.
Three clubs of the American association
have informed the president Of the National
Base Ball league that they do not indorse
the proposed amendment allowing Mr..
Lucas, of st. Louis, to enter the league. This
is construed to mean that Lucas can not be
admitted unless the league disregards the
national agreement
West Vrginians, particularly those who
wagered that Wilson Democrat), for gov
ernor, would not have 5000 majority in the
state, are disputing tbs returns of Randolph
county, which officially give Wilson 85B ma,
jority, instead of 500 as previously an
nounced. The belief is that the ballots of
Randolph county have been tempered with,
and an investigation will be demanded.