The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-01
CURRENT Toplus.


PADpi RrAS has abandoned tho prize
ring for the stage
Barr HARtE Is Ngeing rapidly, and hi,
hair is almost white.
Duane the year lsS6 there were 2.5S5. .67s
hogs packed at Chicago.
TnE Mikado Of Japan gives 500 10 the
Grant monumental fund
CnitAGo railroads are shipping apploN,
onions and potatoes TO California.
Tnr water in the Hudson river is lower
than IL has been for twenty years
SriLL another new word Thomas Ste.
~ens Is 'circumbicyciingn thp world
Rosr-nousE at Clifton, Staten Island,
hnsbo,0 en- Jacqueminot roses hi bloom.
BosroN shoe Shipment, are Ga,O0l chses
ehend Of what they we're at this date last
year
"F,rrr RrrpN iswhat the pages Of the
House call the big Congressman from
Maine
TnK anthracite coal companies have
agreed ON the output Tor the year at 500,
90 tons,
THE comttock lode has been worked to
depth Of 400 feet, and has produced about
s;r1od,0Oo
AmrLr that sends forth forty death
dealing bitsof lend minute is new thing
al Stcyr, Austria.
TBI emigration from ireland for the
year ISIS was G13ep against iGOl6 during
ihc year previous.
Tnr average age Of those who enter col
leEc In this country is seventeen, century
ago u was fourteen.
S1SE London actresses have adopted the
excellent custom Of sending their floral
gifts 10 the hospitals.
FBoa November to March ], 1880. Gin.
rinua,i packed si2 CoI hogs, against 3si.4y5
for tho previous year
A srrti. railway bridge is to be built
across the Mississippi one mile north of Du.
huque, 10 cost tl,oooo
THE coolest place ON earth Is werkho.
jAnsk, in Siberia where the mercury marks
ninety degrees below zeru
Two bad Eggs is the title OF a new
play. II probably has reference TO a cou
Iilc OF New York Aldermen,
A NAuRllgr. license was recently issued
Ia MeadFille Pa couple whose combined
ages amounted 10 ieI years.
Az extensive mino Of rubidum, "a rare
metal worth shooopcr pound has been dis
covered near Rock creek, W r.
'Rrcus" Is a new word lately added 10
the Texan language, and signifies lively
time of the Donnybrook Fair variety I'd
ANAN who died at Burlington, Iowa the
other day, left slu 10 the reporter who
should write the best obituary" OF him
IT is not unusual to sec on posters ndver.
tising church festivals IN Pcnobscot County,
Me, these words in bold letters: "No "''t
ingN
A CHURCH in Norwich. Conn. besides
giving its pastor salary Of $500, pro
yides him with an Office, clerk and
team.
WHITTIER, the poet, writes 70 friend
The long, hard winter has left me very
poorly In health. ! dread to touchpen aud
paper"
THE trouble with Senator Jones, OF Flor.
ida, appears TO be an unsuccessful effort TO
pair with a person not member OF tho
Senate.
Jupcg LYNcH has made a circuit Of the
country this season. Tramps and despe
rndoes, however, do not appear TO be ON the
decrease.
A HofYoKE paper mill hand, seventy
years old. who had always been regarded
as poor. was found after his death TO have
had nearly t5o,ooO.
RrPoRTs continue OF young women OF
Eastern Statesheing converted toMormon
ism through missionaries, and deserving
their homes 10 go 20 Utah.
TaE cell OF Maxwell, the alleged murderer
of Prcller at st. Louis, is cmbellished like a
lady's boudoir, II Is said, and he has the
best fare the market affords
Az enterprislng American at Kobe has
entered into an agreement with seventy
Japanese ivory carvers TO go TO the United
States 10 Introduce their art
HESRY w. J,EnNE, Vice President of the
New York Board OF Aldermen, has been
indicted for bribery in connection with the
Broadway railroad franchise.
POLICEMAN CALL, of st. Paul, MINI.
tramps his beat in shoes that are eghteen
inches long and six inches broad across the,
sole. They are not too large. At
"PooR CARLorTAl' the once beautiful
Empress of Mexico, is reported as nearing
the close of her tragic career at the old
castle of Bouchot, near Brussels.
CARRIE BRAGG is the editor of sthe only
newspaper in the United States that is pub
lished by colored woman. She is unmar-
ried aud lives at Petersburg, Va
IN some sections Of Dakota, where fuel is
expensive farmers will this year grow flax
for fuel. A ton of fax is considered, worth
more for fuel than ton Of soft coal.
PRINCE AUGUST LEoroLp, son of Dom
Pedro, Emperor OF Brazil will visit the
United States at an early day, so the
State Department is officially informed.
THE clergymen of Springfield ILL.,, have
been compelled to demonstrate with some
Of their "best people, against the danger
from over indulgence in progressive
tuchre
Mr.. GLADSTONE declined to recommend
the appointment of day for national
humiliation and prayer, because of the
distress among the English working
classes
The young women in New Haven semi
nary have all written sealed letters to each
other nnder the solenin pledpe that thew