Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.
THE PTrH OF THE NEWS
PIouANT PARAGRAPHS FOR POPULAR
PERUSAl.
Being Summary Of the Principal Happen
ings and Noteworthy Events Of the
Past Week. Boiled Down for
the Hurried Reader.

Tuesday jan ~.
The Iberty bell hss reaches New Or
leans s
The army appropriation BIN provides for
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The Rsn phone patent has been yoidei
ia Canaia FOR negligence
Fourteen persons have been killed by an
avalanche of snow at Ivrea, Italy.
Commander George D. B. Glilden diei of
consumption st Cambridgeport on Sunday.
The police of Hambul have been warned
Of plot to b NV up the Bourse by dynamite.
Suspicious tin box found in Montreal post
Office Dynamite suspected, but no one dare
open it.
An ocean rate war is in propress between
the Hamburg, American and North German
Lloyd
Capt Eals will get $4,000 for every foot
OF water he will secure on Galveston bar,
5000 from Uncle Sam and $4,000 from the
city.
indianapolis saloonists viii make fight
before y!elaing TO ths police commissioners
IL o'clock law.
Tennessee will Investigate rumored peniten-
tiary outrages and general looSeness OF her
prison management
The Berlin progressists are arranging for
an immense meeting to protest against the
proposed incr sase in the duties upon Amerl-
can grain
Wednesday. Jan. ss.
Texan farmers are posying.
A heavy eGrthquake shock was felt at Val
paraiso.
Great religious revivals in the owns about
Reading, Pa.
Typhoid fever is quite prevalent at Bel
laire, O., and of dangerous type.
Mississippi levees south of VicAsburg are in
better condition tnan at any other time since
the war.
Chief Engineer Melville wants to go to the
north pole again il some wealthy man will
ht him out.
A state dynamite bill similar to the Ed
munds bill was presented in the Massachusetts
senate and referred.
Colorado silver men, in session at Denver,
will oppose legislation tending to reduce the
rate Of silver coinage
ul-s ---4-z-ss sasa--&s4- 6larE-s1 loaN sr-'
shaft fell, fatally injurlng two miners, VIM.
Bomback and Christ. Clink
The Moody meetings at Scranton, Pa
have resulted in a subscription of 35,OCO tC
the building fund Of the Y. NJ G. A.
The run on the New Haven Comm Saving:
bank has ended. Over S259,OO0 were pail
out, and more was on hand.
Fred. Douglass gets a 0,O01 life interest
in Miss Attilis Assigs will The money a
Fred s death will go to the New York 5. T
L. A.
Chief Engineer Melville, of Arctic fame
proposes another expedition to the Nortl
Fole by way OF Franz josef Land. He ha!
volunteers for every position. and only
wants patron Of the enterprise
Tie New York socialists do not respond Il
the overtures Of the New York anarchists t.
get up a Sunday demonstration in commora
ton Of the London dynamiters
An attempt to import foreign laborers int
the District Of Columbia by an Italian labo
agency in New York receives no encourage
ment from the district authorities.
Thursday, Jan. 30.
The Bank Of Englands rate Of discount ha
been reduced to four per cent
Tarentum, Pa, prescriptional glass stamp
ors have won their strike.
Edward Perry was killed by an engine ol
the Wabash road at Danville, Ind.
Theodore Hapenny, the Pittsburg gambler
worth at one time $ie0, 900, is dead paupeI
John H. Inman, the cotton broker Of Ne'
York. has purchased the elegant Newpor
villa owned by @. Z. Baldwin, OF New OH
recently president of the Louisville and Ma
vile railroad. Mr.. Baldwin has not occup.e
It since he was SO badly squeezed" in Wa
street about year ago
Joshua K Osgood, the well known temper
ance reformer and the father Of the "Reforr
Club" movement in Maine, is dead.
Mrs. Judge Jas L. Cole, a Plaquemin'
La widow, found in bel, murdered by burg
lars, who took her jewelry.
HH Warner, the safe kidney advertiser
Of Rochester N. Y, an old Ohio man, is
candidate for governor of New York.
Charles j. Rogers, penitentiary wardel
Portland, Ore., was hanged for murderin
another warden last October. Died game
0lcVeu utuuboss
Riley Pile Pickett county, Tenn, moo
shining desperado, is in the mountains hidiI
from a band Of lynchers He has Killed
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