The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-03-11
WHOLE NO. lOl
A charity ball in Chicago netted

A charity ball in Chicago netted
$4,000.
Omaha is to have a hall million dol
lar hotel.
Jay Gould's son George is engaged .
to an actress
There is trouble with the street car
drivers in Baltimore.
Gen. Hancock left less than $1,000
in personal property.
The Prince of Wales will visit Can
ada and,United States.
China is threatening to retaliate on
Americans in that country
A fund for a Cough monument has
been started at Lowell Mass.
The employees OF the studebaker
Wagon Works are also on strike
The strike on Gould's roads looks
as if it would be the biggest one yet.
Senator German receives more cali
ers than any other man in the sem
ate.
Hauta ua1sfg
The "tory trick" to trouble Glad
stone seem to have signally fail
ed.
Tickets are now being sold from
San Francisco TO New York for
$40.
Cinnamon continue to meet with
rough treatment on the Pacific
slope.
Ex-Congressman Grow, of Pennsyl-
vania, is a candidate for United States
senator.
Mrs Hancock's friends in Washing
ton talk OF presenting her a house in
that city.
4 The condition OF Won Moltke does
| not improve and he is likely to die at
any moment
If Senator. Jones should win the De-
troit widow, every one would say he
was right in staying.
|
Ex-Governor Cameron, of Virginia,
has resumed the practice OF law at
Petersburgh, Va.
} Harrison .Phmbus, the Old Point
I Comfort hotel keeper, left an estate
valued at $500,000.
Judge Thurman is in robust health,
and fourishes his bandana like sig
nal service storm flag.
The Hendricks monument fund at
1 Indianapolis has reached $4,000 and
n has stopped growing.
s 1t doesn't matter how much benevo-
t fence man processes, unless he puts
q ashes on his sidewalk in icy weather.
The strike on the Gould system
:, grew out OF an employee of the road
u attending knights OF Labor con
9 yention.
ii Schumakers oat meal establish
o msnt, at Akron, Ohio, the largest in
|. the world, was destroyed by fire, Loss
> 100000.
.r Bishop Beckwith confirmed the sem
d tence against Rector Armstrong, and
1t he is suspended from the ministry for
N FIVE years. 8N
" A benevolent North Carolina ed
~ " itor agrees to put on his free list the
;. name Of every mother OF twin boys in
= the state.
n. Senator Jones, OF Florido, is paired
n with Bowen, of Colorado, on all polit,
ID, ical questions, and goes on with his
i'd wooing. waTg isan eel@m litw
Gn 1t was with some difficulty that two
members of the Kentucky Legislature
ag we're prevented from perforating eacl
other with pistol balls Thursday.
- :. In Fresno, Cal, barber shop the
furnish music for the BARRIERS to shaw
by. Something had to be done t
80 drown tlse groans Of the victims, n
~ doubt, but 1t would have been cheNI
al or to have sparpened the razors.
cal when tnarried you" she hisseC
81 thought sou were a much bette
man."
''s "And so was" he replied. min
ne' is not the first good temper that hi
NY been ruined by matrimony:"
- A New York man, who claims thi
he has discovered where the Garde
of Eden was, Offered tosell the info
aass nation for one hundred thousand dc
tt'e lars. We don't want to buy it uni
are we know whether or not there are Al
@n- snaaOes there now.
"a sag. Mr.. Eggsize," said a ms
cha.5t to a coal dealer, "that last To-
aw' OF coal you cent me was more tn
IN half slate"
lot, 'tHalf slater echoed the coal ms