Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-31

HALF of lnc .vuih Carolina rice
crop has been destroyed by frcshets.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says that
all telegraph lines in opposition to the
Western Union are to be consolidated.
HERR HARMoNIsr. one of the leading
players Mt the Frankfort chess con.
gress, was formerly ballet dancer in
Berlin.
1.-THE amount of whisky shipped to
Africa last year from America, Germa-
ny and England aggregated $685. 76
gallons.
BosToN has 1,40) lawyers. but SO far
as income is concerned General Butler
leads the list His practice nets him
considerably over 800. 900 q year.
HARDWOOD, the owner and rider OF
the steeple-chaser Whcatlcy. is the only
gentleman jockey" at Saratoga He
rides his own horse and often lands him |
| a victor.
SAM Woo, q Detroit celestial, who is
being rapidly Amercanized, has sued
the Free Press of that city for libel,
laying the damages to his reconstruct |
ed character at $4,000.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH of Washing
ton has championcd the case Of DR..
McGlynn by sending the pope petition
signed by 5000 women asking for the
reverend gentleman's restoration.
DIR. WILLIAM FORBES ADAMS, the
new protestant EpscopaD bishop Of
Easton, looks enough like Edwin Booth
to be his brother, is very fond of his
pipe, and prefers fine cut to long-cut.
VICTOR EMMANUEL, crown prince Of
Italy. will attain his majority in
November, and will set up a splendid
establishment in the palace of Caserto,
the home of the old Bourbon kings at
Naples.
JAKE SHARP is getting a stay (away
from Sing Sing) without a judicial de-
cree, says The NeW York World. What
an opinion Of the law and of justice
this must give to poor devils without
money!
MAJ. HoRATIo GLENTwoRrn. an
American, who is an officer in the
Austrian imperial army. has just re-
turned to his native land after an alb.
sence of twenty-five years. He is visit
ing his morher in Oyster Bay. L. I.
CINCINNATI is to have monument
to the memory of President Harrison.
Artists are now at work on the designs
and q selection will soon be made. The
statue will be unveiled in the fall OF
1888, on tho centennial anniversary of
the city OF Cincinnati.
Mr.. JOSEPH FRANCIS, tho famous
inventor of life-saving apparatus, who
has long been a resident of New Jer-
sey. has gone to San Diego, Cal. to
live permanently. Mr.. Frncis Is now
80 years old He is accompanied by
his son. who Is past SO years old.
AN ambitious youth Of Lake county,
Ohio. has concocted scheme whereby
he intends to unite all the farm labor
ers of the country in a common fedora
ton for mutual advancement and bene-
fit In other words q gigantic labor
organization embracing only the farm
help in the country.
THE Judge of the Westminster (Lon-
DOM county court severely reprimanded
defendant who had the courage to
appear in court recently without coat
and with his shirt sleeves rolled up.
The offender observed that he had
never heard of any act of parliament
which compelled a man to wear coat
in court
SINCE ex-Minister S. S. Cox left Con.
stantinople he has been in receipt OF
newspapers printed in various eastern
languages Persian. Arabic, Turkish
and Greek journals, and others in more
obscure tongues, roach him frequently.
and he bids fair to become ono of the
most accomplished linguists in the
country.
In q letter read by Gen. Darlington
at the colored veterans reunion at Bos-
ton, John G. Whittier said: II am al
most the last of the old anti-slavery
company. OF the sixty-three dgners
of the original declaration of the Amer
lean Anti-slavcry society in 1888. Rob-
ert Purvis, Of Philadelphia, and myself
alone are left"
The French historical painter, M. A.
Colas, is dead. He was born at Lille
(where he died in 1918. and exhibited
an important picture of the Erection
Of the Cross" in the Salon of 1S49; no
decorated the cupola of the church Of
Notre Dame at Rubaix with paintings
in grissaille, and otherwise enriched
churches at Esquelbec and Warcoing.
A PROUD incident in the history Of
American naval conflicts is recalled by
the proposed sale Of tho old corvette
Cyane. now lying at Marc island navy
yard San Francisco. She was at one
time one of tho finest ships in the En-
glish navy. On February "a. 1915. she.
with sister ship, the Levant became
the prize of the American frigate Con-
stitution, off the coast Of Portugal. The
Constitution was in command of Cap
tain Charles Stewart of Philadelphia,