The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-12-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

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TIM vIue Of Queen victorla's plate 4.
said 20 b about q, 900, 900.
THE polle Of Southern California want
10 have titlr State divided.
TnEY hyo arrested man Ia Philadel-
phia for soallng curbstones.
w. II TscorT is In greater demand than
anv o.herTiminal Ina tho world.
TnE eonumptlon OF ralsins In the United
states "A bout o., ,0OO, 900 pounds.
TnK lah Ephraim Levin, OF London, DO.
oueathsdsi 100 TO jewish charities.
An Egihi sea captain reports seeing
recently asre Sixty-i five feet high.
BufTkuo liLL has been raised 10 tho
dignhy General OF Nebraska militia.
AnASin France has imported car
load oilrghum cano seed from Sterling,
Kaa
TnE oposed combination OF railroads
into eat railroad trdst has been aban.
donod
i'm MCCARTHY, author Of "Tho Bon.
mic Bl, Flag" Is sick and In need in Cal.
ifcrnli
arsoH JoHs SHERMAN, an insurance
paper ports, carries S5o0,OO0 In policies
ON hibA
I'm York tho bob-tail street car has
boen red notice by the board Of alder
mea tni.
PffsuRdH will pay 10 a westlnghopse
coucs.i2o0OO annually to light the city
with rtriclty.
on 30 gold-beaters OF Now York no
one iiwoman, while OF tho 300 gold.t ut
ters njne Is a man.
A R;IE statue OF heroic sire Ia 20 bo
placeser tho grave OF stonewall Jack.
son arlington. Va.
II lated that the work OF eviction viii
be bs again on large scale on the
claurds estate In ireland.
TneTltory OF Dakota is nearly as
largeall the New England states, In
dians,uth Carolina, New Jersey aud
Delay
Wa an infant iifty-four years ago,
Berni Meyer. OF Omaha, swallowed n
needlhd Il has just escaped from un
der h,ft shoulder.
Tmmperor William has had the i'm
perlnpAn Of Germany 30 altered as to
mako an exRct counterpart Of the one
wofn ChaTlemagne.
- mDfulnsherr want tho Inter- State
commerce law 10 modified that railroads
can make "dlrect concessions" 10 'recog-
niEed merchant travellers"
Tux committee appointed by the Army
Of tho Cumberland 70 erect n statue 10 the
late General Sheridan will commence ac-
tive operations very shortly.
In various districts Of Ireland the dis
tress among the agricultural lhborers is
enormous Many are asking TO be assisted
20 emigrate to Buenos Ayrcs
THKRn bolng throe thousand women in
charge Of post.otiices In this country, the
serious question arises whether to call them
postmasiers or postmistrcsses.
A CmoAoo papcr, In trying 10 refer 20
ithe late lRmcnted," gets IT, Tho late
lieutenant, y and what makes II worse Is
the fact that Il was woman.
TnE window glass manufacturers BEN
eflcial association IL 20 be reorganlEed |
shortly, with view not only TO control
prices, but 20 limit production when neces- |
sary.
THERE are only a.Ss sEanlards In tho
.R.apublc OF Mexico, according 70 a census
prepared BY rae Spaas.t legation at the
City Of Mexico, Of which number 1890 arc
women.
THE present Georgia Legislature con-
tains more farmers than any OF its re-
cent predecessors. There arc sixty. .nine
farmers in tho house, against forty-six
lawyers.
CHEZ" tho big elephant OF John Rob-
inson's circus, has become 80 vicious and |
unruly thnt 1t has been decided 20 kill him
by electricity. Chief has already killed
two men.
CHANDLER JoSKs. burglar, was iden
tlhed at Hazlehurst Ca, by tooth marks
left In an apple whore he had committed
robbery. Ono OF the prints was OF an in
growing tooth.
1t IS understood the Postal Telegraph
Company contemplate an extension OF
their system through tho Southern States
and that construction will be commenced
south from Washington within short
time.
THE New York Herald says that II is
gross blunder to accuse tho police gcner-
ally OF never catching anything, and
backs up It's statement by saying that four
policemen in Jacksonville caught the yell
low fever.
DIR. NATHAN r. GoRTER, who accompa-
MED Robert Garrett around the world as
bis ply siclan, has presented his bill for
soo,"V ana, on paymen, oelng refused
suip was cn.eIeu agains. tnc trustee Oh MR..
'aIre.ts estate
.oavItt and Stone vas flnisbed In Rostor
Ibe other night Leayitt covered ilfty
miles and eleven laps. breaking ali nroyi.
ous records. and Stone made thirty .sir
,nIles and one Ian.
WHEN she becomes oue.n Of Holland tho
little Princess Of the Netherlands will be
the richest sovereign in Europe.
The civil list Of Holland, which is secured
on tho revenues Of Borneo, is very large
co 100000 per annum.
THE postal card factory-the only one In
90 .-....4.,, A.. F.. ,,o.. - tho ,.,.o.. ,.4.t,