Smyrna times., 1885-12-30
News Items.

Famine is reported among the fish
ing population of the West coast of Ire
land.
The icehouses in Maine and along
the upper Hudson in New York are
being filled.
Fresh troubles with the Indians are
threatened in Washington and Arizona
Territories.
Thesilver congressman are persuaded
that no bill against the coinage can
pass the Senate or House.
Chicago will ask aid for the exposi-
tion to celebrate the 4OOth anniversary
of the landing of Columbus.
General Lew Wallace foresees a gen
eral European war-blood upon the
face of next Summers moons.
M. Grevy was reelected President of
the French Republic by a Joint maiori-
ty of both Chambers of 1876 votes.
Mr.. Bigelow's resignation of the as
sistant treasurship at New York has
caused the President much embarrass-
ment.
Mrs. F. E. w. Harper, of Philadel-
phia, is conducting a temperance cam
paign in the colored churches of Wash
ingtOn.
Jack Burke defeated Mike Cleary in
the third round in Chicago, knocking
him senseless. Cleary was assisted
from the platform.
1t is stated that many families of
whites have been massacred in Arizona
by the Apache Indians and no general
mention made of it.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll now sur
prises many of his friends who have
not seen him for some months by his
noticeable reduced size.
The Car is about to reinstate Prince
Alexander of Bulgaria in his former
rank in the Russian army and acknOWl-
edge the Bulgarian union.
Speaker Carlisle is said to have COM
plete the formation of the House Com
mittees, the chief fight being over the
Foreign Affairs craftsmanship.
The gale on Saturday beat mercilessly
over Cape Cod, uprOoting the famous
town tree" in Plymouth which had
graced the common for over a century.
Charges are made that Collector
Hedden and Surveyor Beattie, of the
New York CustOm-house, have con-
nived at the fraudulent undervaluation
of invoices.
The sum of $118,OOOh has already been
spent in stamping out the smallpox
epidemic in Montreal, and a further
large sum will be required to meet
obligations. Compulsory vaccination
is now being strictly enforced.
The american Grocer reports the to-
matO pack of 1885 at ], ,434, ,006 cases of
twO-doZen cans each, against 2,021 Ut
cases in 1884 and 9, ,943, $40 cases in 1888.
Delaware's contribution was 63,177
cases, against n, 800 cases in 1884.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is
about the cOldest season of the year,
the sun is about three million of miles
nearer the earth than it was in the
Summer. The earth at this time hap
pens to be tilted away from the sun
and we are on the cold side of it.
President Cleveland was as prompt
as the House of Representative and
the Senate in dealing with the bill Civ
ing Mrs. Grant pension, so that Mrs.
Grant had the qualification ofreceiving
official notification on Christmas Day
that $4,000 annually would be paid to
her for the remainder of her life from
the United States Treasury.
The Republican members of the Ohio
Legislature from Cincinnati who have
been counted out by partisan Demo-
cratic courts, do not intend to attend
any of the caucuses of the Republican
members of the Legislature at the
opening of the session, but when the
House is organized they intend to
claim their seats and make things very
lively for the Democrats until they got
them.
The WOman's Christian Temperance
Union having succeeded in getting its
observation-disclosures bill
adopted in fourteen states in the Union
want Congress to give it the prestige
of national legislation and compel the
study of the effects of alcohol on tn,
human system in the District of Col
umbia and the territories. Senator
Blair has fathered the measure in the
= Senate.