The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1885-04-25
General News.

Colorado has two million head
of meat cattle.
Cholera is reported to have APP
peared in the Crimea,
President Barrios, of Gautema-
la, who kicked up the fuss in Cen
trail America, is dead
In Porto Rico an outlay of two
dollars will elothe an entire family
of SIX persons for a year.
The Yosemite Valley is to have
a hotel built by the state of Cali
fornia, which hNs appropriated
$4,000 for that purpose,
A Washington special says that
on Saturday last there were t.
900 Of the smallest post-oflices va
cant by expiration of term.
The congregation of which Rev.
DR.. Burchard was pastor has dis
solved and the alliterative veteran
has been turned out to grass,
The cottage on st. Helena once
occupied by Napoleon has been
purchased by the Jesuit fathers
who will found a college there.
The Chinese government pays
the German gunners in its service
$3.50 month and guarantees their
families $500 in case they are
killed by the French.
Paddy Ryan and Sullivan have
agreed to fight with small gloves
at Butte City, Montana, for the
championship belt, $4,000 and two
thirds of the excursion money.
Under the local option law los
of the 137 counties of Georgia
have adopted prohibition on trial
and the feeling in favor of the To-
cal option system is said to be
growing.
The Republicans in Chicago will
contest Carter Harrison's election.
A ballot box was stolen in the
Third Ward. Harrison claims a
plurality Of $40 to 500, and invites
contest.
The fast trains from New York
to st. Louis are a complete sue
cess. Trains leave New York at 8
a. M, arriving at st. Louis at 7:30I
?. m. the next evening. Fastest
time in the world.
Lawton & jackson is the STYLE
of a law firm at Savannah, Geor-
gia. One of the firm will be the
United States minister at the court
of Russia and the other will be the
United States Minister to Mexico.
The state of Texas bids fair to
become a prohibition state. Only
sixteen votes were cast in the house
of representatives of that state in
opposition to the proposition to
submit prohibition constitutional
amendment to the people.
With the completion of the
Frisco Railroad bridge across the
Arkansas river at Fl. Smith the
live citizens Of that promising city
propose to have a celebration
which, in its magnitude, will sur
pass anything Of the kind ever
Witnessed in the West.
The supreme court has decided
that a married wOman's separate
estate cannot be held for debts
contracted by her husband as her
trustee in a nominal sense, The
debts are not binding on the wo-
man unless expressly contracted by
her in her own behalf. This is
one more triumph for lovely wo-
man.
Transmitting water power by
electricity has been successfully
practiced in Switzerland for near
ly year past. A dynamo ma
chine attached to a turbine wheel
in mountain torrent near Blenne
furnishes power for two shops, to
which it is conveyed over wires.
Perhaps the time when a thousand
horse power can be turned on by
opening the circuit from Niagara
falls is not 50 far off after ALL
A STORY from London states
that to spare extra expense, a we'd
ding party, consisting of six per
sons, drove to the church in one
cab, five inside and one ON the box.
After the ceremony was over, the
clergyman began to address a few
appropriate words to the newly
couple. While he was
the bridegroom made his
way to the clerk and said: 81 say,
| wish you'd ask your guv'nor to
cut it short, as we've hired the cab
by the hour"
The female employees of the