Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
NEVIS IND NOTES.

A petition is circulating III Mount YER
non, Westchester county, \ y. in favor
of annexation to the city of New. York
the boundaries of which are only a mile
away.
Last year our imports from Japan, in
Guiding raw silk, teas, fans, handker-
chiefs, bamboo and the like, amounted
10 nearly SIG 900 900. More than was
bought by any other nation.
In excavating for the foundation walls
for new mill near Rutland, VT, the
workmen found three underground can
non balls and one four FOUNDER, thought
to be relics of the Burgoyne campaign of
| IVY.
Some of the good women of Hartford +,
| Conn have organized Il dresSmaking
and arithmetic school for young women
who want to learn Il trade, and also how
| to take care of their accounts and the
| like. Commercial arithmetic will be
| taught, and n skillful instructor will give
| thirteen lessons of two hours each III
dressmakiHg.
The total receipts of Pennsylvania from
all sources for the year ending Novem-
Der so aggregated 81 ,447 ,060. The eX-
penditures i'll the same period amounted
to 81 1857 ,035. In the expenditures is
included 81 GA ,276 for the common
schools and 1886 ,4l9 for soldiers
orphans schools.
A North Georgia man builds an addi-
ton to his house every time daughter
is married, in anticipation, he says, of
the time when she will bring her husband
and children to live with him. If all
fathers who have marriageble daughters
would do likewise old maids would be as
scarce as infidels i'll heaven.
The little town of Milbury, Mass , has
become locally famous as the residence
of Mrs Anne De GrOote, who has lust
given birth to four girl babies at a single
confinement. All are living, and range
from five pounds TO eight ounces in
weight The smallest will probobly die.
This mother is the wife of poor me-
chanic
Alderman Holmes, who was ordered by
White Caps a few days ago TO resign
within forty-eight hours and leave the
city of Rockford, H., has heard from
his prosecutors again. On the 10Th inst,
a dynamite bomb was found OH his piaz-
"a The fuse had been ignited, but
expired before an explosion could oc-
cur.
A search has just been begun in the
Adriatic Sea, hear Trieste, for treasure
which went down with the French COR
vette Danal in 1912. The treasure con-
sisted of jewels and valuables destined
for an exalted parsonage in Trieste. The
vessel sank as a result of an explosion,
and since, il seems, not vestige of the
craft or its treasure has been found.
John NJ. Goring, of Wappinger Falls,
n. Y. has Il sage palm with quite his
tory. Its age is $50 years. The palm
was originly grown at Mount Vernon and
was owned by George Washington. 1t
was brought from there by Mr.. Van
Rensselaer, and planted in Niblo S Garden,
New York, at the time that resort was
first constructed. The plant stands ten
feet high and weighs nearly 400 pounds.
At Paris, Ky. three young lads-Wil-
lie Hall, Kenney Nichols and Wilmot
Kenney-on the 18th inst, captured
buzzard which had small brass bell
strapped around its neck with piece of
rawhide. On the bell was engraved
"Atlanta, Ga, april 81, 1865 The
buz2ard had gOrged itself from the car
sass, of COW and was easily caught.
After OBTAINING it an hour or two they
released it and it flew away.
An interesting relic was received re-
Gently at the navy department in Wash
ington. 1t was a section, about three
feet in length, of one of the timbers Of