Smyrna times., 1886-03-17
News Items.

The Egyptian government expects
to derive a large revenue from the pc
troleum discovered on the Khedive's
dominiOns.
Stonewall JacksOn's old war horse
died at the Soldiers Home at Rich
mond, Monday Morning, of old age
his skin will be stuffed.
The managers ofthe New Brunswick,
N. j., Savings Bank are going to pay |
Cashier Ogilby's deficit of almost $780, /
600; they have raised 100000.
The Governor of Virginia has signed
the Local Option bill. Both sides are
preparing for the coming struggle. The
law does not compel a vote to be taken.
The Rev. DIR. BristOr, the indicted
clergyman Ofthe Spring Valley Church
N. Y, was ordered out of The Metho-
dist parsonage Monday and given forty
hours to vacate the premises.
The President according to the
Washington correspondent Of the
SDrin0feId Republican, is worried and
uneasy, not in his ideas of what ought
to be done, but how to do it,"
A peculiar form of influenza is rag
ing at Canton, o., and over 5000 -peo-
pie are affected. Over 1000 school
children alone are confined to their
homes and beds. The alliction resem-
bles epizoOty. None of the cases have
resulted fatally.
The Payne Investigating Committee
of the Ohio Legislature found out ON
Saturday that ex-senator Elmer White,
editor Of the Defiance Democrat paid
< off 81 ,485.30 worth of mortgages on
i his newspaper after serving one term
3 in the Legislature which elected Mr.
$ PAYNE to the United States Senate.
r Friday morning masked rObUer,
+ took possession of the baggage car of &
y train near Joliet, Ill, and after killing
y the express messenger, H. ). Nichols
n they robbed the safe of $21 800 in casl
a and valuable goods; the car gave evi
IS dence of bloody struggle and Nichols
m head had been battered all oyer with {
e. pokerI the United States EKpFes
Of Company is the loser,
sr THE Loss OF THE 0REGON.-Th
ne great ocean Steamer Oregon sunk o
r, Monday morning near Fire Island ligh
Sc in 20 iathOms of water. There wer
ar S96 persons aboard all of whom weT
III saved. The story reads like Il bit c
ct fction-a page from some imaginativ
he authors tale of the sea There ar
ld several remarkable features prcscnte
is, by the accident. The first is that
as was possible to sink such mammot
of shin nv simply colliding with >,'hn u
u
lr- in the steamers coal hold. Another
mt that not u single life was los, and Il
Or, Cunard company is still ahle to 50
nj that their RECORD remains clear in tn
100 particular 1t has now been demOnstr
he ted that with all the skill, the scienc
to- and the ingenuity OF mnn, the shl
we bull Ter cannot construct Il craft thi
ks under some conditions is not liable
fnd the bottom Of the sea. In spi
Of the fact that the water rushed in
the terrible breach like the stream of
mill race, it was eight hours after {
collision that the vessel quivered NJ
of settled beneath the surface. The u
ing fortunate schooner and its crew We
on never seen after the crash and presuI
lst. ably sank at once.
re- As the facts of the sinking of I
civ steamer Oregon gradually come 10 |
of surface the impression IS strengthen
The that some one blundered. For the
tire on board the missing schooner it was
rial fatal blundor and for the owners of
= a Oregon very expensive one. So
ght as known there was no excuse at all
ore a disaster, as the night was clear a
,ec- the sea was quiet. Upon the sett
rye ment Of the question of responsible
.rty hangs a long list Of suits for damal
ila- on the part of passengers who w
rhe compelled to abandon their valuabl
Ide. The wreck was complete and the hu
of steamer rests for over one hundred f
ded beneath the waves.