The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-01-08
The News In Brief:

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Charleston, S. Co. has 5000 more
children than can be accommodated
in the city schools.
A three days convention of the
Iowa SchOol-teachers association
was begun Monday at Des Moines.
The Duke of Connaught is to sue
coed the duke of Cambridge as com.
'nander. in-chief of the British army.
A committee has been selected at
Berlin to raise a fund for Bismark.
as a national expression of conf.
dence.
At Ballyduff, Ireland, private
vault was broken open and the
coffin Of Mrs. Hilliers was thrown
into glen.
The California Treasury is in IN
impoverished condition, and the
state has 100000 worth of warrants
out.
Jno. c. Emo, the defaulting New
York banker, entered billiard
tournament at Quebec, an won a
gold medal.
In searching the barracks at Paris
the government found evidence
that anarchism is spreading among
the soldiers.
The opening of the Mackey-B Ben.
nett cable for business was the sig
nal for a, reduction by all the lines
to 40 cents per word.
A Nevada miner and capitalist,
recently returned from Alaska, re.
ports the finding there Of q remark
able rich marble quarry, in which,
strange to say, were both red and
white marble Of the finest quality.
Cartridges Of giant powder were
recently thkQwn into the pond be-
lsnging u the San Jose, Cal, water
company, the result being that all
the trout in the pond were destroy
ed. Nearly ton of the Ash were
taken out dead.
Fifteen republics of Spanish
America have exhibits at New Or
leans.
The London financial journal
Money says the past year has been
the most disastrous commercially
on record in England.
A report from Ishpeming, Mich,
says Their. is great disappoint-
ment regarding the Ropes gold
mine, principally because too much
was expected.
The liabilities of the Bohemian
Land Credit company, which re-
Gently suspended at Prague, are
23,00O,OOO forms, and its assets are
n excess of that amount.
Reports from Odessa state that
Turkish atrocities upon Bulgarians
at Macedonia continue, and that
200 christians have been assassinat-
ed in the last few weeks.
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, of New
York, invited nearly 800 children
to a public hall and distributed
among them clothing and toys to
the value of ST. 500 on Christmas.
Christmas dinners were given to
the inmates OF every hospital and
charitable institution il. Chicago.
Seventy children in the Cook coun-
ty hospital found their stockings
filled with toys. Several hundred
poor families were provided with
poultry Or meats by Julius iona /,
no person who applied being re-
fused.
! Samuel ]. Tilden has engaged
rooms at Wizards hotel, Washing
ton City for week beginning March
1, and the fact causes much specu-
lati0n among politicians.
The tug Frederick Ives lost eleven
loaded coal-barges while endeavor-
ing to enter the harbor of New
Haven, and two other tugs with
similar tows have not been heard
from.
| A wager has been laid between
Mr.. Mclaughlin, the engineer, and
Paul Hines, the base ball player,
that the latter cannot catch a ball
dropped from the top of Washing
monument. 1t is estimated that
six feet from the ground the ball
will have a velocity of two miles
nor minute.