The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

starting up or full time.
-Horsefesh is largely used for food
In Manchester, England.
In the last Colorado blizzard twelve
men were frozen to death.
The boycott of the Protective
Union store at Glen Cove still con-
tinueA
An expert typefOunder can rub two
sides of 2S7 900 agate type in six work
ing days.
The Monongahela Valley miners
who were recently defeated threaten TO
strike again.
-Spiritualists have become 50 nu-
merous at Atlanta that they propose to
build a temple.
in 1866 Rochefort, now an inldel
communist, indited a sonnet to the
Virgin Mary.
"A farmer in Ohio says he has de-
veloped a breed of chickens which lay
two eggs a day.
"A wire factory at which 300 per-
sons will be employed isto be started at
Valley Forge, Pa.
An Independence (Inyo county,
baby is three months old and only
weighs 4 pounds.
Nearly all the mines in the Seattle
Nv. IT, coal region are now operated
without Cinnamon.
There are now in the Southern
| States 139 cotton seed mills. In 1866
there was not one.
There are at present 1888 window
glass pots in the United States, of which
49, are In operation.
For fourteen years South Carolina
has exempted manufacturing COM
panles from taxation.
Times are so dull in Dalton, n.
H., that men work for so cents a day
and board themselves.
An Indian and a Chlnaman are the
partners in the stationery business in
RushvIlle, Nebraska.
Blonde Yankee school ma'ams in
the Argentine Republic marry rich just
as fast as they a land.
The wheat crop of Colorado for
1888 was 1858. 000; all OF 1t wac Used
for home consumption.
An Albuquerque Judge kept ajury
out without anything to eat or a place
to sleep for thiIty-SlX hours.
"A pretended physician was lynched
near Denver, Col, for causing the
death of one of his patients.
Nova Scotia miners oppose the
removal of the duty on coal in recip-
rocity with the United States.
"A babe born in the court house at
La~wrenceburg, Ind, has been chris
tened Ohio Flood WallIngford.
The British Columbia Assembly
proposes limiting the amount of land
one man car WI to $40 acres.
Six children have been killed, Il
at a time. by falling over a banister in
one tenement house in Cincinnati.
Nearly every oyster that is brought
up at the Mexican Gulf pearl fisheries
is said to contain a pearl of some kind.
"A number OF bOarders in a San
Francisco hotel went away because
Johnny Sullivan was received as a
guest.
Wild coffee, which proved to be of
good quality Wnv roasted and made
up, has been found g.Swing in Butte
county, Cal.
"A military balloon Just invented in
France is shaped like a whale and pre-
sents an extraordinary appearance. when
raised i'll the air.
The eight-hour law agreed upon by
the Congressional Committee on Labor
is intended to cover all national Gov
eminent employees.
Public seats, at convenient corners
and by spaces in the streets, are asked
for as a public boon for fatigued pedGs-
trians in Liverpool.
"A new industry has sprung up at
New Orleans. Heads Of Sarge fish are
dried, mounted and sold for taoae ard
mantle ornaments.
"A Hindoo loom, complete, is worth
6S cents, and weave shawls, silks and
muslins which our most expensive ap-
paratuS cannot equal.
Judge Rutherford, of Paris, Ark,
has decided that selling brandy peaches
without a license lays the offender
open to a fine of $1400.
AT Acworth, Ga, a few days ago.
two persons about to enter into the
bonds of matrimony, stood upon a
tombstone to be welded.
The new Notifications around Paris
are no safeguard, according to German
military authorities, but its siege would
be more difficult than in 1870.
1t is said by one who has tried it
that cayenne pepper %sprinkled upon
hot lannels will afford instant relief to
persons troubled with neuralgia.
The lead mines of England are
ceasing to pay. Within q few years,
100 mines have been closed and $4,000
men thrown out of employment.
The western nailers who have been
on a strike over sever months are as
determined as ever, and they have
prospects of winning at ali points. "
"A Paris letter writer says Mrs.
Mackey has a literary agent regularly
in her employ, whose duty 1t is to keep
the world informed OF her movements.
"A church at Terre Haute has been
built in Just sixteen days from the
time the corner stone was laid. 1t is
woods, with windows of sapphire and
IuDy glass;
The trade IN patent medicines
amounts to about So, 900, 900 per am
mum, and of this $40, 600, 900 a year is
spent in advertising. There are 5000
kinds in the market.
The floods in the Ohio Valley this
season destroyed between Cairo and
Pittsburg two iron and three wooden
railway bridges, and three iron and
forty-seven public bridges. The fifty
bridges had an aggregate length OF
7447 feet, and 1t will cost 100000 to
replace them,
There are eight ministers in Maine
who have been ordained fifty-one years
or more, and the venerable DR.. Caru-
theirs, of Portland, has been in the min
lstry for the remarkable period Of three
score and four years. One of the eight
the Rev. J.. L. Halves, Of Lltchheld
still supplies for the church in that