Sharp County record., 1888-01-05

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SHARP coU/REcoRD
&c. HENDERSON, Proprietor
EVENING SHADE. ARKANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
The remains of the late Daniel Mann ing
were consigned to the tomb at Albany. NJ
Y. on the 9th, with impressive cere'
monies.
THE Treasury Department building at
Washington is very heavily draped in
black, out Of respect to the memory Oh the
late Secretary Manning.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank OF san
Luis Obispo, Cal. to commence business
with a capital of $lG,pO).
Mr.. SPRAIGHT, a magistrate, and his
wife were fired at while driving at Kiila-
loe. County Limerick, Ireland, on the 18th.
The horse was killed. No arrests have
been made.
AN enormous cave, rivaling the cele-
brated Mammoth Cave, containing NUM-
mifed bodies and relics of bronze and
pottery, is reported having been discov'
cred at Bloomfield, Ky.
THE Prince of Wales has presented John
/, Sullivan with most astounding walk
ing stick of malacca, with huge twisted
snake for head, in massive silver, ana
with its scales carefully carved.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, the members OF
the Cabinet and Private Secretary La
mont went to Albany on the 26th, to
attend the funeral Of the late ex-Secre'
tary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning
DANIEL, MANNING, ex.Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, died on the
oath at his residence in Albany, N. Y,
where for week he had been lying in a
condition which it was known could only
end in death.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH gave Christ
mas present to Count Andrassy, accom-
panied by such peculiar remarks as to sug'
gest an Endorsement of Andrassy's ener
getic policy on the pending international
complications.
JOHN M. BARCLAY, for many years
journal clerk of the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, died on the night oI
the oath, aged seventy one. He was ap
pointed journal clerk of the House through
the influence of President Lincoln.
The trial of Rev. DR.. Hildreth, promi-
nent Methodist minister of Cleveland, O..
for immoral conduct, that had been II
progress before a committee of clergy
men for nearly three weeks, terminate
on the 23d in verdict of acquittal.
LIEUTENANT PIP. MAY received an in
fernal machine in New York, on the 23d
containing gun cotton, muriatic acid ant
- tity of loose pins. It was so ar
las to axs,lndel hy thel opening O
liding cover. Fortunately its nature
was discovered in time to avoid the dan
ger.
THE steamer Roman, which arrived al
Boston on the 22d, brought stowaway, q
Scotch boy of eighteen, and permitted
him to land and escape. The Commits
sioner of Emigration has fined the COM
pany $1,000 and the vessel is detained IN
port until the boy is returned or The fine
paid.
II is stated on reliable authority tina
the Pope has instructed Archbishop Walsl
and the other visiting Irish prelates t'
adopt conciliatory attitude toward the
government in Ireland. The Pope on tn
26th received Queen Victoria's Jubilee
gift which was presented by the Duke o
Norfolk.
ANDREW SIMLER disappeared wee
ago from his home near Canton, o. VI
the 9th he was found in hay NOW wit
both legs frozen up to the knees. Simle
declares that he crawed into the the ha,
NOW with the intention Of lying there un
til he froze to death. The chances ar
he will die
,ADvICEs from Sydney, New SoutI
Wales, state that the French comman
dant Of the New Hebrides had been or
dered by his government to evacuate th
islands in January. A French company
is buying land from the natives of tn
New Hebrides for the purpose of estab
fishing trading stations.
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THE Pope, in receiving sixty delegate
from the former poutifical array, headed
by Generals Kansler and Charette, ex
pressed sorrow at being deprived Of hi
army, but this affection. he said, wa
softened by the hope that the day wa
near when he would again be enabled t
have his devoted soldiers around him.
N-.
THE best part of Wakefield, Wis, is il
ashes. Among the buildings destroy Q,
are the Wakefield Bank, Haywood, Vast
colt & Murray's large general store, post
office, R. A. Morris jewelry store, Miller
thal's clothing store, Coliseum Theater,
dozen saloons and a large number o
dwelling-houses, about forty buildings i
all.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has receive
the official report concerning the recen
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