Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

rich In the precious metal, and now there
is a gold craze among the inhabitants OF
the little city.
A man who has Just served his term IN
the Nebraska state prison has brought
suit against the attorney who defended
him. He claims that he was convicted on
account of the lawyers malpractice, and
demands $4,000 damages.
Patsey Collins, while shovelling grain
In the top of big Niagara Falls Touring
mill, fell into the hopper, slid for eighty
feet through spout eight by ten inches
In size, and shot out unhurt, with six
tons OF grain, into car standing on the
track below.
A few years ago woodchucks did so
much damage in La Porte county, Ind,
that bounty Of twenty cents was offer
ed for each woodchuck scalp. Since then
some $4,000 scalps have been taken, and
within the last three months the county
has paid Sl,9S9.20, which represents
5l96 OF the pests.
a watchmakes says that the multitude
of telegraph, telephone, and electric
| light wires in large cities has much to do
with the variations and stopping Of
watches that hitherto have been good
time-keepers, and that manufacturers are
trying to invent means to provide against
this magnetizing Of watches.
A young woman of Bethany, H., in
vited large party to some private theat-
ricals at her home. In the course of the
play a marriage took place, the young
woman acting the part of bride. Just
before the guests went home they were
told that the marriage was bona tide
one, and that that was really what they
had been invited to see.
Within the last decade China has taught
Russia that she intends, at all costs, to
maintain her rights, France that an inva-
sion Of Chinese territory is neither glori-
Gus nor profitable, and England that it is
better to have her as friend than an en-
envy All this, II Is said, is due to the
fact that recently Chlnaman, some
Chang or Chun, of extraordinary ability,
has been made prime minister.
II. G. Rush, of New Danville, Pa, has
published what he considers q startling
astronomical theory, that upsets all OF
Kepler's laws and the old doctrine that
heavenly bodies move in ellipses, para
bolas, and hyperbolas. He proposes 10
show that the form of all orbits is circu-
lar, and that the central force may occupy
any position in the orbit from centre to
circumference, the circumference only
being excluded,
About fifteen years ago tho sight OF
Mrs. Dewitt Smiths left eye became i'm
paired. She was treated by number OF
eminent oculists of Wooster, Ohio, but
all agreed that the eye was hopelessly de
stroyed, and that 1t was but question of
time until the injury would affect the
sight OF her right eye and make her hope
lessly blind. On going to bed the other
night Mrs. Smith was greatly troubled
4 by acute pains in the injured optic, the
lids OF which kept constantly twitching,
The pain kept her awake nearly the entire
night. Finally she dropped into restless
sleep. When she awoke the pain was
gone and the sight Of her left eye had re.
turned and the sight Of both her eyes to.
day is as good as it ever it ever was.
Some OF the jewelry in the United
States treasury, captured during the war,
aud now TO be returned TO its owners, is
OF considerable value. An exceedingly
handsome set, most Of the pieces of which
bear the name OF NJ V. Mora, to whom
} they were : Christmas present in 1859,
consists OF most exquisitely cut canoes,
surrounded by valuable pearls and set in
FN- ANeAfN NOANs IL COuslSLH Oh n Drdce-
let, brooch and earring, and must have
cost considerable when bought. A paste.
: board box marked "Mlss McRa, from NJ
Dlas," is also filled with number OF a..
ticles OF lewelry, consisting OF pins Of all
kinds, some set with precious stones
and some delicately chased; valuable
/ rings and gold buckle for the waist
Another box OF much the same size con.
tanned rings, fob chains, gold pencils and
some gold pins, while a third, In the con-
dition OF It's contents, nearly all OF which
were broken, gives evidence Of the great
haste with which the things had been
gathered together after sudden alarm.
There are also some seals beautifuIlv
craven with heraldic devices, and
one of the most curious things in
: the collection is an old.fasbioned
, English bulps-eye gold watch, with its
crystal about one-quarter of an inch
thick. Up. McRa" Is scratched on the
back Of this chronometer, while the mon.
ogram &c. A. So is engraved on the ont
! side OF the case. The name tMcRan
appears also on number Of loekets and
: rings, and 1t is believed that when the
McRa family have put in their claim and
taken out all that belongs to them, there
VIII DC but one-tenth of the articles left
-N%es