Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-11-29
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tar to communicate with the rest OF Spain.
Great pearl discoveries are reported in the
Gulf of Mexico. One was sold for 10000
francs.
Maurice Guignard, a workman at st.
Ouen in France, has inherited S4,0O0,OOO
through his wife.
At the age of 1S Edward Blewett, of Ere
mont Neb., was 5000 in debt, but is now
worth nearly 100000.
The master tailors in the British army
complain that they have very little chance
Of promotion, and they want a change.
There is $25, 900 in New York, awaiting the
order of John Anthony Barnes, who left
Boston in 1869 and has not since been heard
| from.
Walter Cooper, prominent English gypsy,
died recently, and his body was drawn to the
churchyard by favorite mare. The mare
was then sacrificed.
The London and Northwestern railway has
decided, 'in difference to the prejudices Of its
American customers" to institute the system
of checking baggage.
Three hundred London cabmen recently
struck against paying a guinea day for
their cabs and succeeded in having the price
reduced to sixteen shillings
In the first five months Of 1888 there were
laid 2,271 miles of railroad. The south con-
tributes nearly one-third. California has 279
miles and Georgia is next with 1875.
The last French rife, as described, has a
ball so small that soldier can carry 900
rounds, shoots with new sno5eless powder,
and its bullet pierces brick wall eight inch
es thick at 500 yards.
There was such glut Of southern vegetp-
bles in the New York market the other day
that thousands of crates were emptied into
the harbor. This was done to secure de
mand for the next arrivals
The Liverpool and Manchester Ship canal,
which is to cost $50, ,OO0, 900, and be built g.
seven years, will be d1edged by German
dredging machines as the English contractor
finds nothing in England to equal them.
The mammoth timber ship at the Finger
board, Nova Scotia, is about two-thirds
built. Mr.. Robertson states that there are
81 GOO pieces already in this ship, and he ex-
poets 1000 pieces will be required to finish it.
The English farmers have turned against
the sparrows as pest to agriculture, and are
Offering rewards for their destruction. It is
uSSeTGeu JndJ UueSe vicious DlTuS cause a loss
to agricultural England of $40, 900, 900 to $780,
100000 per year.
Two young men of Racine, Wis, locked
the door of the Methodist church in that city
during the service, ana it became necessary
for deacon to climb through window and
unlock the door before the congregation
could be released.
1t appears that besides having ships with
no guns, England has cavalrymen with no
horses. For example, the Third regiment of
Household cavalry has but 800 horses for
1890 men, and II, 900 dragons and hussars
have but 10000 horses. In the German army
tho usual proportion is 1000 horses to 700 |
men.
Moscow Jackson, a sleeping car porter on
the Central Georgia railroad, has been in the |
employ of southern railroads since 1888. He
was a slave and sold by his master to the |
Macon and Western road, now a part of the |
Central, and was for eighteen years put |
down among the valuable assets of that cor
poration.
The skeleton Of an Indian who was killed |
in what is known as the "Kilburn fight" of |
l755, was recently plowed up in a field near
Walpole, n H., where the fight took place. |
1t was in this famous encounter that two |
men, two women and two boys defended |
themselves for six hours against 400 blood
thirsty savages.
Tho expression dark horse,n now in such !
general political use first occurred in Lord !
Beaconsheld's Young Duke" Here is the
"The first favorite was never
heard of, the second favorte was never seen
after the distance post, all the ten-to-ones
wero in the rear, and dark horse which had
never beon thought of rushed past the grand
stand il sweeping triumph
When the United States Fish commission
steamer Albatross was in the Straits of Ma
gellun, where she spent a month making col
lections, she ran out of ice So she steamed
into Eyre sound, where icebergs are often
found floating, made fast to a nice berg, cut
Off big blocks of ice, which were clear and
solid, and took on board six tons, which
lasted until she reached Panama.
The African explorer, Lieut.. Kund, the
leader Of an expedition which started from
Battanga into the interior last November
md reached lat degs north and long. 10
legs 80 min. east last February, was recently
attacked by hostile tribes while crossing the
Isannaga river on his way to CAMERON.
Both he and his companion, Lieut.. Tappen-
beck, were wounded by rifle shots, but their
INJURIES are not serious.