The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

DOAco VI olalSc7 tHio Scaooli.
There are Is, 900, 900 wqrkingmon
out Of employment 10 Chicago.
The MOravians have Just been cele
brating their 427th anniversary.
Over 800, 900 cans OF fruit were put
up at Conneaut, O., the past season.
Another silver mine is reported 10
have been discovered in North Georgia.
Over one hundred thousand persons
pay taxes on real estate in New YORK.
The aggregate losses by the Hook
ing valley strike foot up over 81 ,00O,
600.
The Armstrong well in Penusylya
mia is flowing 1900 barrels of oil per
day.
-Four million pounds of wool have
been received at Abilene, Texas. thus
season.
Gardening is practically taught il
more than 10000 primary schools IA
France.
"A whale eighty feet long WAS
washed ashore at BOlinas. Cal, a few
days ago.
Three billion wooden toothpick's
are now annually made in this country
1t Is said.
Pennsylvania spends about 5 1900
0O0 yearly in providing for free common
schools.
Threats of lynching are driving
Mormon missionaries rapidly out OF
Tennessee.
Fifty thousand men will be em
ployed on the Panama Canal during tue
dry season.
New buildings of the value of S42.
this year.
John B. Cough delivered hIs hrst
temperance speech ia New York forty
years ago.
The postal service OF the United
States costs the Government this year
SAG. 225, 900.
The new capitol at Bismarck, OAK
itol in the West.
Three hundred thousand dozen of
eggs were destroyed by htg II Water
loo, la, recently.
The French Minister Of AgrlcuIt-
ure is in favor Of reducing import du
ties on cereals.
Jersey City has a debt of over SIS,
900, 900, and there Is nearly 81, 1000, 900
In taxes unpaid.
Andrew Carnegie. the PItsburg
millionaire, owns more newspapers than
any man In the world.
James Rilly founded the Universe
lists in England III 1860 and John Muir
ray in Boston in 1870.
The assessed value Of real and per
sOnal estate property in the State Or
New York is $3,0l4,4 9l 1872.
Petroleum wells to the number or
1890 were put down in 1888, against
1860 in 1882 and 1852 in 1881.
Indiana employs $500 men and S.,
000,0 0 in getting 25,O0O,OO0 tons or
coal out of 2O6 mines yearly.
1t is estimated that the wool clip
of this year will amount to 300, 900, 900
pounds and be worth S85, 900, 900.
"A new counterfeit fiye-dollar note,
national currency, ls reported to have
made its appearance in New York.
The garnet districts Of Arizona aud
New Mexico are looked upon as the
possible diamond fields Of the future.
"A telegraphic dispatch vas lately
sent from Kansas City 10 Scotland and
an answer returned IN forty minutes.
"A father and son are under sen
tence Of death in a Louisiana prison,
and for separate and distinct murders.
One hundred and one thousand
oranges were borne this year by trees
on an acre of land in Plant City, Flor
ida.
1t Is estimated that the AVERAGE
daily consumption of eggs throughout
the United States amounts to 5000
900.
oil is now extracted from the seeds
of grapes in Italy. Young grapes
yield most, and black kinds mort than
white.
A New Jersey girl, it has cOme 10
light. dOnned her brothers. clothes and
voted In hls name at the recent cleo
ton.
The total production OF cigars Ia
this country, a. estimated by M Of tho
largest manufacturers, is about 5000
000, 600 a year.
The English Postmaster General
says the condition of the English work
ingman has not been improved during
the past fifty years.
-Oskaloosa, Iowa, is said TO have y
spring that will tan skins either with
the fur off or on, In from twenty-tour
TO twenty eight hours.
"A Gutenberg Bible was sold Ia
London. a week OF 10 ago, for SIS, 500.
There are said to be but two copies OF
the book in this country.
There were l,664 pictures exhibited
which 203 have been sold at prices
ranging from a guinea to $1,000.
-Judson ". Lyons, colored, has
been admitted to the bar at Augusta,
Ga. He is the third colored man thus
admitted in that city since the war.
In a population of 623, 900 in Goa
necticut thse are 5000 persons who are
more than 50 years Of ago. OF this
number twenty-One are centenaTians.
What is claimed TO be the largest
grain elevator in the world has been
erected at Newport News, Va, by the
Chesapeake 4 Ohio Railroad Company.
"A cremat0rium rs to he built Ia
New Orleans by the cremation society
OF that city, which has purchased %
building lots Of ground for the purpose.
The Pequot Indians, whose tribe
now numbers less than go, have APP
psaled to the United States authorities
70 protect the graves OF their ancestors
against relic hunters.
The chief attraction OF Winches-
ter, Va, is the double cemetery ia its
suburbs. On one side of a stone wall
are buried over 1000 Union dead, while
oysr SUO0 Confederate soldiers lie On the
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