The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-10
NEWS NOTES.

70 Germany, has left Berlin for St Peters
burg.
BY the burning Of a saw-mill at Friberg,
Germany, in tile Black Forest, the other
day, seven persons were burned to death.
The Glen Rock Manufacturing Company
of York, Pa, has made deed Of assign
ment Liabilities $70,7l0 assets S67,474.
The nomination of w. Bourke Cochran
for Congress from the Twelfth New York
Congressional district has been Endorsed by
Irving Hall
Hon. Nicholas Muller has declined re-
nomination for Congress by Democrats OF
the Sixth New York district on account Of
business cares and iii health.
Forty.eight writs have been issued against
the Riverside Wooden Company, Providence.
r. l., for importing labor from England
under contract In violation OF law.
King Otto. of Bavaria, is suffering from
frequent and violent paroxysms OF insanity
which his friends, physicians and attend
ants believe must soon result fatally.
The Manufacturers Association OF Salem,
Mass. has refused request Of the Knights
of Labor to grant conference on the exist
Ing troubles with tho leather employees
Eight clerks In the Baltimore & Ohio tel.
egraph Office at Boston, have resigned to
escape discharge on the ground OF dsh0n-
esty IN the cashiers Office. which II was i'm
possible to trace to any one man.
Two coal trains on the New Jersey Cen
trail division of the Philadelphia Il Reading
railroad collided the other day on the long
bridge over Newark bay. Twelve coal cars
cd inap nj
The tain hands escaped. '
Tan and II. Duany, wealthy Cubans, of
Rockland Lake, N. Y, with cousin, were
canoeing the other day, when the canoe In
which the Duanys were padding was
swanped, off Hook Mountain, and their
cousins efforts to save them we're unavall-
/ ing.
A special train bearing Bob Taylor. the
| Democratic candidate for Governor, and 200
excursionists, came near being wrecked
Monday at Maryville, Tenn. A rail had
been placed on the track, but 1t was discov.
cred BY the engineer in time. to avert dis.
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A dispatch from Guanajuato states that
Generals Trevino and Narahjo. the we'll
known statesmen and patriots Of tho front
Ter States, have been summoned by Presi-
dent Diaz TO be given an opportunity Of ex-
| planning away the various rumOrS which
have connected their names with revolution
ary plots.
A very destructive fire occurred few
days ago In the village OF Fingal, Ont.
burning the principal business blocks Tho
tire commenced in williams dry goods
store, which WAS totally destroyed, together
with seven other places Of business, includ.
ing Camer0n's hotel. Loss $50. 900; insur-
ance and cause Of fire unknown at present
The New York Tribune says that the
bOndholders of the Houston 4 Texas Cen.
trail railroad have petti0ned the United
States Court to order sale Of the 5000, 900
acres Of land granted the company by the
State Of Texas, and which, 1t is claimed,
will revert to the State il not sold before
November 20. The Tribune adds that It
has a dispatch stating that the petition has
been granted.
The President has made the following
appointments: A. b. Williams, Of Arkan.
sas to be member of the Board of Regis
tration and Election in the Territory Of
Utah; Fred A. Barker, Of New Hampshire,
to be Marshal Of the United States for the
district Of New Hampshire, and signed the
commission of L. N. Buf0rd, of Mississippi,
recently appointed Deputy Fourth Auditor
Of the Treasury.
Two patents have been issued to Mr..
Lucus J. Phelps on duplex telography.
Under these inventions, 1t is claimed that
the same wire used for teegraphng to or
from trains may be worked 'duplex,"
thereby enabling 1t to be used as an Ordi-
nary Morse wire between stations and sim.
ultaneously used for telegraphing to and
from moving trains. The system Is to be
Immediately applied by the Phelps Tele-
graph Company upon the Lehigh Valley
railroad.
An Egyptian papyrus forty-two feet long,
containing oil the chapters of the Book of
the Dead" has just been received and un.
rolled at the Sage Library at New Bruins
wick, N. j. II was secured for the library
about six months ago by the Rev. Dr. Lans.
ing q we'll missionary In Egypt
Experts, because of The infrequent use Of
heratic characters, pronounce It to have
been written nearly three thousand years
ago. 1t is declared to be fuller and more
complete copy than the Turin Papyrus fac
SMILED by Lepsius
The prOtracted drought in sections of
Virginia is having depressing effect
upon the farmers, who are unable, by
reason Of the hard and dry condition
of the ground, to pillow or fallOw theil
land for the sowing of wheat and oats Nc
rain has fallen in this vicinity for nearl.
two months, and the ground has become 81
gun week or two ago, has now beer
| okn Ys,lnc thnra 10 rtx Coll nj
rain, many Of the springs will dry up, ant
the pastures will become worthless for cattl'
grazing.
The statement Is made that 1t has beef
discovered that the Michigan Central, Lake
Shore and Fort Wayne roads have enteret
into contracts with all Of the principal but
ter and egg shippers of the northwest an(
west to carry their freight to New York I'm
til January I, at twenty cents hundret
below the regular tariff rate In cOnse
quence, the Chicago & Grand Trunk which
has no contracts, is shut out from the traffi,
and has three hundred cars lying idle Tn
commissioner of the Central Traffic Asso
citation, 1t is reported, has been called upol
by the latter road to reduce the rate +
figures that will put all lines on an equality
The Commissioner of Patents in his On
nual report to the Secretary Of the Interior
says that the present condition Of the ofilc
Is much better than at the time Secretar Ia
: mar assumed charge Of the department. A
that time the average period that applicant
were forced to wait for decisions was fiv
and halt months, and in some divisions q
; long as thirteen months Now the averag
is three and one third months and but tw,
: are six months behind. Within . shoI
, time, the commissioner believes, the wor
, will be brought up to date The receipt
, for the calendar year 1885 were 1853, 7lO
which makes sum In the treasury to tn
. | credit of the Patent office of almost So. OOO