The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention OF Matters OF Gen raj
Interest.-Notes Cat cred from
Home and Abroad

Bernbardt gave ten performances
at Cairo, Egypt, recently.
Last year 1856 penpie died OF de
lirium tremens in England.
The Paris p lice will search the
houses of all known anarchists.
The Sultan is one OF the most en-
thusiastic chess players IN Europe.
In Russia last year $4,000 dram.
shsps were done away With by law.
Lord Coleridge has collected $35 ,OO0
for the widow and daughters ot Mat
thew Arnold.
The British government states that
a successor To Sacksllle West will
shortly be appointed.
Final preparations have been rlad,
for the ohseial trial of the 15-nch
pneumatic dynamite gun.
Another valuable coal deposit has
just been discovered in Dakota, three
miles north OF Centerville
The Italian railway system is un-
dergoing radical reform TO facilitate
the mobilization of troops.
The largest organ in the world is
now being built in London for Sgd
ney. IL will cost about $T5 200.
France appears to be somewhat dis.
pleased over the debate in the U. S.
Senate on the Panama cal project.
Eugene Wetherill, husband of EN-
ma Abbott, the noted prima donnr,
died suddenly at Denver last week.
Mrs Sheria IN has accepted the de-
Sign oi Samuel II. Kittson, of New
York, FOR the monument TO General
Sheridan.
President Carnot of France received
nearly thousand Christmas presents
from his admiring fellow-citizens OF
the Republic.
Mrs. Parnell has decided 10 her son,
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Ironsides
homestead and other property at
Bordentown, n. ].
Though nearly a million Lebel
rifles have been turRed out in France,
the government workshops are still
turning out 5000 a day more.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has in
stfucted the bishops OF his little realm
10 have prayers offered constantly tor
the safety OF Stanley and Emin Pasha.
A celebrated team of bull-fghters
rom Seville, Spain, performed before
10000 excited people at the City of
VI. xico recently. Four bulls were
killed.
Articles have been signed by Sulli-
van and kilrain for ii sht near New
Orleans for purse of $4,000 and the
diamond championship belt now heli
by the latter.
The most prominent brigand in
China, Ho Ia LAo-hu, has been cap
tured and killed. He was giant,
being Z feet 2 inches in height anu
broad in proportion.
Five negro murderers were drowned
in Broad river, 5. c., a few days ago,
while struggling far the possession of
money they had just taken from the
body of one whom they had murdered.
Empress Frederick is understood tn
have made friends with her eldest son.
| the Emperor, but she faile1 To receive
the customary Christmas present
from him. II is given out that she
requested him not TO send il.
James L. Wright, r. n. Keen, r. c.
McAl1ey and joseph S. Kennedy, the
/ four original members OF the knights
of L ,bor, have issued circulars to the
knights which are expected to over
throw the Powderly administration in
( the order.
The Czar is said to have become
r. ,nciled tu Prince Alexander OF Bat
| tenberg, owing to the kindly eff ,ts OF
mo herly Grand Duchess who t,kes
interest in the Princess Victoria oi
Prussia, and wants to see the young
couple happy and married.
Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Dallas,
Texas, twice rescued burglar from
tine hands of mob last week, and
each time the culprlt was hanging
from tree. The second time the res
cue was made the deputy fired upon
the lynchers and injured several.
The city council of Cheyenne. wy,
T., has closed the deal with the Union
Pacific and workshops will be imme-
di4tely established. The citizens oi
Cheyenne are oveijoyed, boom has
set in, and land in the neighborhood
has increased in value wonderfully
within the last few weeks.
NJ. Lucien Gaulard, who had SC
/ large share in the introduction oi
the transformer system of electric
lighting, died recently in lunatiC
asylum in France. His friends at
tribute his mental failure to the legal
troubles he had experienced in con
nection with his various patents.
When viii Bright, son of John
Bright, wanted to reprove his fnhel
for the latter's severity for comment
ing on his sons adherence to home
rule principles, the young men wrote
Ny dear father. these are not the
kind of letters that should be ad
dressed by one statesman to another.
It is expected that not more thar
one million pounds of tobacco will b.
raised in Egypt this year, although
three million pounds have been pro
duced in former seasons. The de
crease is owing to the recent action o
the Khedive in putting a tax o
$l57 so on each acre of ground de
voted to this crop.
Eggs are scarce this season, com
nared with the corresDondinp neriOC