The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-18
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Compiled from the 4" Times 4"
Exchanges.

corporal Tanner is now on the dis
honorably discharge list. VIII he now ap-
ply for pensions
Death has claimed five members Of
the fifsy-frst Congress: Cox. Of New York
Burns. Of Missouri: Gay. OF Louisiana
fownthend. OF Illinois; and Laird. OF Ne
braska.
Archbishop Kenrick, OF st. Louis, is
the Oldest Roman Catholic preiate in the
United staies. lie was consecrated In 1871.
ana at the age Of eighty presldcs over his
diocese.
1t is reported that hydrophobia is
epidemic In Jackson county, West Virginia.
where fully half the dogs are afflicted The
people areSerrorIzed. one woman was Bit
ten and died in spasms.
David \. Blakely. a graduate of Dart
mouth College In the class OF 50 has receiv-
ed the appointment OF instructor In English
Of the Americen college OF Ainfah, Turkey.
He viii also be financial manager OF the In
stitution.
The French newspapers announce that
Amele Riyes and Catulle Mendes. Partisan
writer OF fiction, are To collsborate novel
together. The possibilities involved In the
fusion Of hrs. Chanler and the French are
startling to say the least.
Edwin Riggs, farmer OF Peasants
county. West Virginia, being greatly an
noyed by rats IN his barn, filled a hogshead
with water put chaff over the top. scattered
meal on 10. and I'm the morning nshed out
over two hundred dead rats.
The strength of the case against the
Cronin suspects. remarks an exchange. is in
creased by the fact that all new evidence
being discovered points. without deviation
toward the five men IN the dock, and seems
20 connect them infallibly with the mystery
OF the removal"
An exchange estimates that it will
cost $1,000 TO purchase the horses necessary
60 Iun n sixtcen-fOOt chr 100 miles "a day
Whereas, the cost Of a storage battery for a
similar amount OF work is $1,000. And the
latter can be maintained for about one-haf
the cost Of keeping the horses.
The new New York World building
Will be thirteen stories high. Above the
main structure'of stone. brick and terra Gotta
will be raised a dome i've stories high, sur
mounted with lantern. which VIII be 800
feet above the sidewalk. The editors and r.
porters VIII have quarters In the dome.
The Hunton family, of Grayson
county. Kentucky. ere notable people.
Every member Of the family has feet OF such
enormous sizo that no ready made shoes
can be had that Will Mt. Not one uses a shoe
smaller than that made on a nfteen last. and
the largest foot in the family measure eigh-
teen inches In length.
The following is a Washington so
ciety Item Mr. Chang Yen Hoon. minister
Of the Chinese legation, attended 10y Mr..
Shu Cheon Pom, first secretary. MT. Ito Shen
Chez and Or. Yon returned TO the city from
the Cntskill mountains where they spent the
summer The party stopped in New YORK
city Tor a few days IN route"
What is the penalty for murder in the
state Of New YOKE Han ding except for a
crime committed before the first day Of jan
uary last, IS Illegal, and electroeution IS Inn
possible. From the number Of murderers
already on hand there IS promise OF very Sc
rlOus Inconvenience between this and any
new style Of execution devised by future leg
islatois.
James Payne, the popular English
novelist. had tweHty-si1 articles rejected in
orc year by various periodicals.. still, lie
persevered feeling that he had something 20
tell If he only knew how TO tell II and could
get an editor TO read II. lie did finally write
something worth telling and made q success
ful hit. and has since written thirty-si1
novels. all more OF less popular.
According to the Baltimore american,
two young men came TO Baltimore to see the
Exposition. Instead OF behaving themselves
and enjoying the sights In sensible lsgiii-
mate way. they went into unrestrained de-
hatchery. ON the steamer on which they ex-
pected 10 return their dead bodies were ship
ped TO their homes. 1t is n terrible story,
but an old one. The wages Of sin 10 death.
The outrage mill can grind as well in
the North az in the South, for II was in In
diana. and not ina the South, that a band of
masked Kuklux whipped an old negro and
ordered him 10 leave the country, and on
his refusal TO do so. shot his head of. cut the
throat Of mis- daughter from ear to ear and
riddled his house with bullets. Indiana is
the State that President Harrison halls from.
English shopkeepers are complaining
/ that American shoppers are exceedingly
troublesome. They LAY that the Americans
turn over everything I'm the store" taking
care 10 remind you every now and again that
they really don't mean to buy now" one
shopkeeper. whose business is not far fro l.
Bond street. refuses 10 take American orders.
This Is unfortunate-for the shopkeeper.
The Louisville Courier Journal evil
IDENTIFY thinks that great deal OF paper,
time and wit was unnecessarily consumed
i'm the HarI isOn-Tanner correspondence. IL
suggests that It might well have been con-
densed as follows:
'Dear Ben: / see that 1 must git.
Tanner"
Dear james: You must indeed sit.
Harrison"
The steamship City of Lincoln, from
Hamburg. which arrived from Boston few
days ago, brought for a rrm In that city
3.237 packages and the duties amount 10
over $40 900. The Invoices number 226. and
aggregate ] : feet In length. IL took the en-
try clerk six days. working from TO IL, 10
make out the invoice BILL IL was the largest
importation ever received at the Boston
custom-house on one vessel for ono firm.
Ii will be a great comfort to many an
old veteran TO know that Corporal Tanner Is
defended by no less person than General
4. +. Butler, the deviser OF the great powder
boat which was % blow Fort Fisher into
dice. but which made only q big noise and Il
iot OF smoke. since the war General Butler
has been celebrated chiefly because he holds
a monopoly on bunting. on which there Is
duty OF ll3 per cent. for the encouragement
81 home Industry.