Sharp County record., 1885-05-07

Gen. ALBERT HlBo recently aHlIlaIeN
with the Magnolia lodge OF masons al
Little Rock, 60 which lodge he belonged
years ago,
A California editor, fined $5 before a
| justice of tie peace, credited his honor's
delinquent subscription by the amount
and sued him for balance Of 81 30.
Joseph W. Phillips was elected to the
/ Office Of county and probate Judge, at the
! special election, on the 2$th ult., By only
SO majority over the Wheel candidate, IN
jackson county.
A clause in NeV HaHpshire mans
will is said to read as follows: "And | do
give and begueatA to NJ dear wife SlO,-
600 is case she remains single eight weeks
after my death"
Typhoid maiaria has prevailed at
Plymouth, Ra., 70 such an alarming eX-
tent recently, that all business is practic-
ally suspended The use Cf uncleau water
is said to Zoe the cause,
Hayana and San Domingo each claim
to have the only genuine skeleton or
Christopher Columbus, and a congress OF
historical experts is to meet next Septem-
Der to decide which frame did belong .
Christopher.
G, N. Jordan, of New York, was ap~
pointed tgeasurer of the United GSates,
few days ago, Mr.. Wyman having re-
signed. The new treasurer took control
of the offco on the Grst inst, at which
time Uncle Sam ready each was counted
"a wink is as good as a nod to blind
horse" was said by man with a gtlt
neck, who wanted to nod but couldn't.
Why any sane man should wish either
to wink or nod at blind horse 10 one
can tell.
"I'll make spoon or spoil a horn was
the thought Of man who never made
spoon in all his lie, and who knew per-
fectly wei! that he couldn't make one
and only took mean mans delicious de-
light in spelling horn, For a man who
likes to take his horn straight The intro
duction Of Gpoon always spoilg It,
A bad boy at Washington was recently
the cause Of quite a fruitless but anxious
search throughout the astronomical world
Taking freely he placed it in the lens
of the largest telescope in Che obseryato-
ry, and the following morning the astron-
omer telegraphed all over the universe
that he had found new and remarkable
star Of the thild magnitude in !OEon'
They must have a democratic postmas'
ter at Tuscumbia, No. Thieves broke
into the postoffice the other Aight and
stole several bottles of liquor. Of course
no good republican would keep liquor
about his o& ice Pioneer Republican.
No; and the better the republican, the
less liquor is he likely to kecp lying
around-outsiSe.
A few months ago Miss Astor brought
from Europe $4,000 worth OF laces, silks,
diam onds, etc. She being rich, this was
deemed reasonable personal outfit and
all was admitted free Of duty. About
the same time poor woman brought
over enough hanuel to make two petit
coats. doll for her grandchild, and some
other trifes, and they were contiscated
by the inspecting officers of the United
States.
A gentleman named Burt, living near
Arkadelphia, upon going home to supper
on the evening of the 28th alt, not finding
his wife and little daughter in the house,
instituted a search for them and their
bodies were found in the eistern, whlsh
contained fourteen feet Of water. 1t ID
thought that the mother, seoing her babe
fall into the cistern, in her great agony o'
excitement, sprang in to save the child
and both we're drowned.
In reference to the petition for the par
don of Jefferson Davis, recently sent to
Washington by his Mississippi friends
the Franklin Tidings say:
We venture to assert Jefferson Davis
would not accept pardon, For i'll 50 do
inc he would acknowledge himself tt
have been a traitor, and virtually guilty
of high treason. He was rebel, but d
traitor-neyer. Let the old man alone
and let him pass his days at home beside
the sea, conscious of the fact that he Ii
loved by his friends and hated by only
those he has no liking for; and when h'
passes away the South will rise as to
man and erect shaft to his memory tba
will make Washington's monument pale
into iusignificance,
An exchange, in summing up wha
girls should learn, mentions the follow
ing: They should learn to sew, cook
mend, be gentle, value time, dress neatly
keen a secret to be self-reliant, mind