The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-29
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tar to communicate with the rest Of Spain.
Great pearl discoveries arc reported in the
Gulf Of Mexico. One was sold for 10000
francs.
Maurice Guignard, a workman at st.
Ouen, in France, has inherited 900
through his wife.
At the age of 1s Edward Blewett, Of Ere
mont, Neb., was 10000 in debt, but is now
worth nearly 100000.
The master tailors in the British army
complain that the have very little chance
of promotion, and they want change.
There is $4,000 in New York, awaiting the
order of John Anthony Barnes, who left
Boston in 1862 and has not since been heard
from.
Walter Cooper, n prominent English gypsy,
died recently, and his body was drawn to the
churcbyard by a 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 Tor
their cabs, and succeeded in having the price
reduced to sixteen shillings.
In the first five months of 1888 there were
laid EEL miles of railroad. The south con-
tribute, nearly one-third. California has 2'9
miles ani Georgia is next with l95.
The last French rifle, as described, has
hall so small that soldier can carry ~
rounds. shoots with a new smokeless powder,
and it, bullet pierces brick wall eight inch
cs thick at 800 yards.
There was such glut OF southern vegeta-
bic, in the New York market the other day
that thousands Of crates we're emptied into
the h1rbor This was done to secure de
mapd for the next arrivals
Tho Liverpool and Manchester Ship canal,
which is to cost s3O00O,000, and be built III
seven years, will be dredged 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-thlrds
built. Mr. Robertson states that there are
81 coo pieces already in this ship, and he ex.
poets 1909 pieces will be required to finish IT.
The English farmers have turned against
the syarrows as pest 10 agriculture, and are
offering rewards for their destruction. 1t Is
asserted that these vicious birds cause loss
to agricultural England of SAC, 900, 900 TO s5J,-
10000 per year.
Two young men Of Racine, Wis, locked
the door of the Methodist church in that city
.l,, haOQnla
for deacon to climb through a 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 500 horses for
800 men, and 1900 dragons and hussars
have but 1900 horses In the German army
tho usual proportion is 1000 horses to 700
men.
Moscow Jockson, sleeping car porter on
the Central Georgia railroad, has been IN tine
employ Of southern railroads since 1898 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.Hght," Of
1853, was recently plowed up in field near
WalpOle, ~ H., where the fight took place.
Il was in this famous encounter that two
men. two women and two boys defended
themselves for six hours against 400 blood
thirsty savages
The expression dark horse" now in such
general political use first occurred in LORD
Beaconslield's ~ Dung Duke Here Is the
paragraph The first favorite was never
heard of. the second fayorite was never seen
after the distance post, all the ten-to-ones
were in the rear, and dark horse which had
never been thought of rushed past the grand
stand in sweeping triumph"
When the United States Fish commission
| steamer Albatross was in the Straits OF Ma
| gellan, where she spent month making col
| lections, she ran out Of ice. So she steamed
| into Eyre sound, where icebergs are often
| found floating. made fast 10 a nice berg cut
| off big blocks of ice, which were clear ana
| solid, and took on board six tons when
| lasted until she reached Panama.
The African explorer, Lieut.. kund, the
| leader of an expedition hich started from
| Battanga into the interior last November,
| aud reached lat 4 dogs. north and long ~
degs. 30 min east last February, was recently
| attacked by hostile tribes while crossing the
| Tsannaga river on his way 70 CAMERON.
| Both he and his companion, Lieut.. Happen
| beck, were wounded by rifle shots, but then
| injuries are not serious