The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1885-04-17
NEWS in BRIEF.

AuAOhuc " NioiI AAOioHu CNCiJ JN"'
The Baltimore police are enfOrc
: ing the city ordinance against fol
tune telling.
The MormOns propose to pun
chase Statehood as relief frou
Federal prosecution.
Still balloting without result OF
: the United States SenatOrship il
the Illinois Legislature.
The three last Lord Chancellor
of England have al been Sunday
school teachers.
Henry Irving, Miss Terry and /
portion of their troupe sailed TO
England on the Arizona Tuesday
Secretary of tue Treasury Man
ming was at Greystone yesterday
comforting with Mr.. TiIden.
Cyrus W. Field proposes to re
tire when he has completed fifty
years of active business in New
York,
The Kimberly Diamond District,
South Africa, exported more than
&20O, 900 worth of cut and uncut
stones during January.
Temesvar, III Eastern Austria, a
city OF $4,000 people, is said to be
the only town in the world lighted
exclusively BY electricity.
Among the 1900 laws regulating
the French press Is one centuries
old, which Furnishes the proof read
er with death for even one blunder,
The cigar makers of Chicago are
uniting and will take into their or
ganizations all classes of wOrkmen,
including strippers.
Jay Gould's gardeners asked an
advance of 20 cents per day, or
from 81 % to 81 so, were refused,
aud then went on IA strike.
The Riel rebellion is assuming
menacing proportions in northwest
Canada. Troops are being rapidly
sent to tho scene of trouble,
Justice Andrew Wylie, of the
Supreme Court, District of COlum.
bia, has notified the President that
he desires to be placed on the re.
tired list. He is II years of age.
1t is computed that $50, 900 peO.
pie 90 into London by rail every
day to earn their livelihood, and
leave it at night, aud yet an acci
dent rarely occurs.
Savage dogs that kill their mas
ters are condemned to curIOns
form of death in Japan. They are
shut up ia box with a little food
aud thrown into the sea.
President GartieId's two sons,
who are visiting Col, Rock we'll,
called on President Cleveland re-
cently. 1t is the first time they
have entered the White House
since September 1881.
Tho Egyptian government pro-
poses to abolish all export duties on
cereals; to reduse navigation du
Ties to increase The import duties
on foreign tobacco, and TO make 1t
compulsory upon dealers of for
ei2n tobacco to obtain govern.
ment license,
The returns Of the census taken
in 1882 give the population of Rus.
Sia in Europe as numbering $40,
521, of whom 3S,651 ,077 were males
aud 39,227 ,544 females, making,
with the Grand Duchy of Finland
and other parts of the empire, to-
tai OF over 102, 100000.
There is about $4,000, 900 invest
ed in wild animals IN the United
states, not including elephants.
There are sixty elephants in the
United States, ranging in price
from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t an ele.
phaAt is trained aud acclimated it
will bring $4,000. But those that
are stupid and cannot be trained
never bring over $4,000 or $4,000.
During the month of March the
United States New York Sub
treasury paid 1S4,SOO checks
drawn upon the government. The
total amount of money called for
by them was SS, 800. $780, ,65 and the
checks themselves, if piled up one
on top another, would make a
seventy-seven feet high.
They weighed GIG pounds.
The salary of the occupant of the
White Honse is never applied iof
by the President but is made out |
in the form of a voucher at the end |
Of each month. and signed by the
Treasurer of the United States in !
regular order with hundreds of |
other vouchers. The private sec
retary is always given the money,
but the department requires the
receipt to he signed by the Presl-
lent personally. The monthly
is 81, ,166 GO, but tor March,
the month just closed, Dir. Cleva.
land drew S3SSS 81, and Mr.. Ar
thur $277 70.