The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-16
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FLOWING OH we'll mas Deen tapped In
Denver City, Col.
AN armless child was born at Browns
ville Pa, recently.
The Sultan has six-year-old son who
plays the piano splendidly.
A RAILROAD to the Whirlpool will be in
operation at Niagara by July.
FERD WARD has been found incompetent
as book-keeper at Sing Sing.
A BUNCH of oats eight feet three inches in
height is displayed at Winter, Cal.
GRANT, Hancock, Mcclellan, Mcdowell
oil dead since last Decoration Day.
A GIRL baby born in New York during q
terrible storm, has been named Cyclonia.
1T is feared in London that q revival OF
the Socialist troubles there is threatened
SENATOR HEARST says if he had it to do
over again be thinks he should not be rich.
A BILL in Massachusetts, Legislature pro-
poses to fine voters IS or more for not vOt.
ing
The strawberry is boycotted on tie
Pacific coast because it is picked by China.
men.
The San Francisco Examiner declares
that it takes only $500 now to bride jury
In that city.
BOSTON is to be permitted to borrow two
and half million dollars for park i'm.
provements.
JIMMIE LEONARD, the man who original
ed reading kilograms by sound, is to have
q monument
A CoNEY ISLAND Snowman has offered
Herr Most $500 week to go there and sit
in an iron cage.
BUFFALO is piqued at being overlooked in
the Presidents arrangements at marrying
and settling down.
MINNEAPOLIS which only consumes about
$50, 900 barrels of -four year, manufactures
over 8, 0OO,0O barrels.
MANY Boston merchants, during the
summer, will close their stores at 5 p. m. !;
on Saturdays at 2 p. m.
MICHIGAN now owes nothing on account
of the late war. Bounties and other claims
have all been paid in full.
The court decides that Ferdinand Wards
wife "has no claim on any funds which her
husband acquired dishonesty"
The Sussex giant who died suddenly at
Appledore, England, although only thirty
six years of age, weighed 546 pounds.
OVER 100000 head Texas cattle are now
on the trail to Colorado. They are in poor
condition, owing to the long drought.
THE conviction Of Most is another excel
lent verdictof New York jury. 1t was
brought about with little or no hesitation.
The Massachusetts General Court has
voted to restrict the hours of labor for
women and children to ten hours per day.
IT is stated by persons in position to
know that the health of the aged ruler,
Emperor William, is rapidly breaking up.
AN old lady in Schenectady, N. Y, said
she feared something was about to happen
to her, and fifteen minutes later was fatally
hurt
A CHICAGO man who began saving hog
bristles at the Chicago slaughter houses
now lives in q mansion, and is worth q for
tune.
A FLINT, MICH, physician recently re-
ceived eighty-four bushels Of horseradish
In payment for bill for professional ser.
vices.
A sEwING-MACHINE which is held in the
hand and operated like pair Of scizzors il
one of the latest productions Of the Nutmeg
State.
ONE of the smallest horses ever seen in
the State Of New York was born at Attics
recently. 1t weighs only thirty-nine
pounds.
some enterprising individuals are victim
izing the greenhorns in Wyoming County
N. Y, by ceiling tin watches without casei
for 81.
RECORDS have been preserved of only
about III, 600 of the dead soldiers, while
the remainder of the 300, 0OO lie in honoret
but unknown graves.
A MAsrADON's tusk, measuring over 81,
feet in length'and twenty five inches in cir
conference at the widest part, has been un
earthed at Rio Vista, Cal.
IT Is proud privilege to announce tina
the Sultan has presented to Mrs. Cox, tn,
wife of our Minister to Turkey, the Crane
Gordon Of the Order Of Cheukat.
New YORK finds her aldermenic trials 81
successful that the series is likely to rur
through the summer-after the manner O
successful popular entertainments in New
York
PREMIER NoRQUAY, of Manitoba, havinJ
been called contemplate liar' on tn,
floor of the Provincial Parliament at Win
nipeg, felled the offending memker with
his fist.
AN artesian well at Middletowu, N. Y.
has been completed after years work 1
is the deepest we'll in the State, it is claim
ed-2Ol0 feet-and yields l25 gallons of wa
ter minute.
Mrs. ELIZABETH WADE, of Madison. Mo.
is seventy years of age, and yet she ha
recently completed Q bed-quilt of LOG.
pieces, using lose yards of thread in Join
ing the pieces.
FIFTY-oNE true bills charging riot Az
conspiracy, have been found by the grand
jury investigating the recent labor riots al
Bayview, Wis, and the Socialist riots a
Milwaukee garden.
THE Proletdr, q Bohemian Anarchists
organ published in New York, calls upor
all cigarmakers of its faithto put poison il
cigars and thus kill ffty militiamen ant
police in the limit Of time it would take tc
kill one with gun.
Win 10000 miles Of Southern railway
changed to the guage of the Northern
lines, all delays in the shipment of cleo
margarine across the country will present
ly be at an end.
ACnIcAGo police captain has discovered
it is alleged, that the original plot of the