The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-05-02

HalSteAU ana McLean arc nOG US
black as they paint each other.
Mrs. Langtry has just added $4,000
more to the sum invested by her in
New York real estate, thus swelling
the amount to $4,000.
Jay Gould has appointed "a woman
as freight agent at Castleton, H., on
the Detroit and Indianapolis division
OF the Wabash Railroad.
Senator Vance, describing the pres
ent illness OF his wife, says she is "suf-
foring from a regular old-fashioned
ten-commandment cold"
The weather may grow warm and
the ofiice-seekers lose their energy,
but the Republican should be turned
out of Office for all that.-NeW York
SUn.
Joseph Pulitzer, editor OF the New
York ITOrtd, has transmitted Hon.
Wm. NJ Evarts, Chairman OF the Bar
tholdi Statue Committee, $4,000 re-
ceived by the World from 25,675 pco-
pie for that fund within the past
month
1t begins to look if Mr.. John r. Nc
Lean and Mr.. Murat Halstoad, OF
Ohio, would not leave enough of each
other to make even one candidate for
Governor This is great misfortune.
Neither gentlemen can well be spared ;
both are just splendid to have fun
with.
The forrest fires now raging in New
Jersey and the interior of Pcnnsylva-
min are but the beginning Of that Sc
ries which annually sweeps across the
country, entailing the destruction OF
millions OF feet of lumber and often OF
human life and homes Started often
by the hand Of an incendiary, but
oltencr by the spark of locomotive,
their prevention has thus far seemed
impossible and owners OF land have
been without adequate redress.
The public is waiting to see which
is to prove the more powerful, the cat
tie rauchers or the United States
army. The ranchers have not folded
their their tents and departed from
Oklahoma yet, and they Intimate in
terms more forciblc than elegant that
they are not going to- Major Drivers
has been ordered bv General Hatch to
see that they 60 and not to allow
them to stand on the order OF theil
going. II he executes his orders there
may be small war between the COW
boys and the troops.
The Rumor that Russia has sent q
powerful squadron to cruise off the
coast of Italy just to overawe the Ital
inn Government and drive its notion:
of friendship for England into nonen
ity may be true, But Russia will moi
overawe italy in any such manner
Italy's naval power is very little infe
rior to that OF Russia's own and tht
italian navy could very easily handl,
any squadron that Russia would b,
able to spare for overawing purposes
Such action on the part OF Russii
would only deepen and strengthen
Italy's purposes to help England by
every means in her power,
An Albany physician says ;--"Ther'
are no signs Of President ClevelanC
breaking down, Notwithstanding al
the stories OF that kind that are being
so freely circulated. He is as light OF
his feet as he ever was. ! have seei
him almost every day from the frs
time he came to Albany as Goyerno
of New York, and have 10 hesitation
in saying that he is rs well to-day il
every respect as he has ever beer
since | have known him. There is II,
evidence of billiousness or malaria
fever OF any kind about him, and h
told me that he had no cause OF com
plaint in regard to his health
he Supreme Court Of Kansas i
now considering very delicate case
involving principle Of practice no
yet passed upon, so far as known Il
retiring for the purpose OF deliberat
ing over case it had Just heard, III
jury resorted to prayer as a means q
aiding members in their delibcration,
The defeated party to the suit appeal
ed from the verdict of the lowe
court on the ground that the jury wa
unduly influenced The final deci
ION will be watched with interest. il
rors are now excluded on the gfoun
that they read the papers and are an
bilious To become Intelligent, and it
not unlikely that piety may at son
time also be urged as u disquahiic
ton. Whether it viii be accepted ,
not it is impossible to say, bat il erin
inals were the arbiters il passes witt
out saying that no man OF pray,
would ever enter the box.