Sharp County record., 1888-01-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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the principles of Methodism as lald down
| by the last conference.
THE semi annual examination at the
West Point Military Academy will begin
| on January 3 next, and will last about
| two weeks. The fourth class is very large,
numbering 127 cadets. The examination
in this grade is rather severe on the stu
dents who entered the academy in June
last, and the indications are that about
thirty will fail to pass aud be dropped
from the service.
THE subscriptions to the "Natlonal
purse" for Edward Burgess, the designer
of the Puritan, Mayf1owor and Volunteer,
each of which in turn successfully de-
Tended the Americas cup, reached SlO,-
172. .25, and check for that amount was
sent to Mr.. Burgess at Boston for Christ
mas present.
JOHN S. SWIFT, of Hartford, Conn.,, who
was recently found guilty of the murder
of his wife, was sentenced on the 9th by
Judge Sanford to be hanged on April .,
1889.
A DOZEN persons were injured and two
passenger cars were wrecked by COL
lson between two passenger trains on
the Long Island railroad in Brooklyn on
the NOR ming of the 9th.
Mr.. W. w. CORCORAN observed his
eighty ninth birthday very quietly at
Washington on the 9th. The aged philan'
thropist was feeling we'll and very happy
over the pleasant incidents of the day,
which he enjoyed with the same interest
as ever.
WHILE nearly rybody else is enjoy
ing a season of rest, Speaker Carlisle re-
mains hard at work at his quarters in the
Riggs House at Washington, but the
probabil tiles are that he will get through
arranging the standing committees by
| the time the House reassembes.
THE residence of F. L. Guy, Canadian
Pacific conductor, at Winnipeg, Man.,
was burned on the night of the Goth, and
Guy was cremated in his bed. His wife
| was absent from the city and Guy was
| living alone.
| RAND & Co.'s powder mill at Pittsford,
| N. Y, was blown up on the morning Oh
the 9th with terrific noise. The work
men we're at breakfast at the time and no.
body was injured. The loss of property
is considerable.
REV. JAMES POWELL, ID, correspond.
ing secretary of the American Missionary
Association, died suddenly of apoplexy
on the morning of the 9th, the day after
his forty fifth birthday, at his residence
in Brooklyn.
THE strike is reported raised on he
Reading system. There are conflicting
statements as to the exact status of af-
fairs, but trains are moving again.
LORD LANsDowNE, while skating at
Ottawa, Ont, on the 9th, fell on the ice
and received painful injuries to his head.
SARA BERNHARDT is just now mourning
the loss of her tame tiger, which died in
her a-ns the other day in Paris of
/ gastrftIs, after SufIering eight hours of
excruclating pain.
WIN. WEBER, of Dover, N. H., claims to
have established his right to share in
sxty-sx acres OF land in New York City,
below Canal street, valued at $40, 100000.
THE gang of burglars and garroters
| that has settled down in Boston are grow
ing boder every day. Not day passes
that tmglaries sre not reported, and daily
garroting has become common occur
renee.
| A FURIOUS hurricane from the west, ac.
companied by severe snow-storm, pre-
vailed over the whole of Greece on the
night of the 26th. Twenty-Five vessels
we're driven ashore and wrecked in the
Gulf of PatHos.
JAMES WATSON, a mine boss, in the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania Coal Company
at Pittston, Pa, was shot and fatally
wounded on the 27tI by Samuel Nc
Dougall, a weighmaster at the same mine.
Both men are over sixty years of age, and
have been in the employ Of the Pennsyl-
vania company for over forty years.
THE Prussian and German departments
of Justice have commissioned Judge Ash
colt to study and report on the American
penal system with the view OF making II
the basis of a new system in Germany.
IT is reported that Secretary Lamar will
shortly mako public an opinion affirming
the decision OF acting Commits sioner
Stockslager against the claim of the
State of Kansas to large tracts of land in
that State, alleged to have been illegally
certified to the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific Railroad companies.
JACOB T. WAINWRIGHT, o wel''known
metalurgical engineer of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has for years had great faith in the idea
that natural gas could be utilized in fur
mace cupolas for ordinary casting, which
requires great heat in the smelling proc
ess. With the cooperation of David
Carlin, manager of the iron and lead
works of that city. Mr.. Wainwright has
succeeded in demonstrating the success
Of his principle.
GOVERNOR JOHN s. MARMADUKE OF Mis-
souri died at the Executive Mansion at
Jefferson City on the night of the 2SSh, OF
acute pnoamonia, within forty.eight hours
of the time he took his bed. He was fifty.
two years of age.
REPORTS were received on the 2Sth an
nouncing the death of Emperor William
of Germany, but they proved to be with
out foundation.
THE post-office safe in Charleston, w
Va, was blown open early on the morn
ing of the 2Sth by burglars. They OBJ
tanned S400 in money and 81, 100 in stamps
IT is announced that the Duluth ant
Union National banks at Duluth, Mimi.
are to consolidate January l. The new
bank will have pal | up stock ofSl, 10000
THE Moscow G1gette, commenting upon
Lord Randolph ChurchilPs visit to Rrs'
sia, says: "His visit will dispel his preju'
dices. lie will find no traces of aggres
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