The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-19
PERSONS AND THINGS.
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Exchanges

'N'iNe miles OF railway have been con-
s'fuc'ed in the United states this year. and
OF these i.SN are in the south
CHICAGO husband and wife both filed
petitions for divorce ON the same day. each
without the knowledge of the other. This
was case where two minds thought as
one aitor two hearts had ceased beating a,
one.
THREE DAYS contributions for the family
OF feeks, who was roasted 10 death on the
electric wires in New York a day or two
ago, amounted 10 si.527.oS. The money was
dropped into box fixed on the fatal pole he
climbed.
-. Louis is considering plans for a great
union depot and belt line railroad These
plans involve am outlay Of nearly s20Ooo-
oo1. and the preliminary funds are to be-
contributed bA the nine railroads which
centre IN the city.
IuE land in the Florida Everglades
which is being reclaimed by drainage is
said % have q rich soil from eight 10 twelve
feet IN depth. peculiarly adapted to the
growth 81 sugar-canc. The crop can Doe
cultivated year after year without replani-
ing.
FOURTEEN young women are enrolled in
a law school recently opened in New York.
Since is>o the bar Of New York has been
opened 90 women. but the schools have shut |
them ont The head Of the new institution
l~ % graduate Of the law school Of the uni |
NersiiN Of Zurich, switzerland.
JAMES g.. BLAINE. JR.. has confessed |
iud-mcut in the New York Supreme Court /
for >i29oo. in favor Of DR.. Foster {. Fuller.
The action was brought 20 secure payment
/ for professional scr ices rendered young
| Bianc'~ wife and child.
Tur farmers of staten Island are prose-
cutting sporting club which imported a
ioN from Virginia for the purpose of chasing
him. because the fox occupied his leisure
time with rining AN the hen roO,ts im the
vicinity. This seems 90 render fox hunting
in the vicinity of New York trilc
ridiculous.
Miss MARION EDDIsON, the siNtccn-ycar-
oId daughter of the inventor. is slight
slender. graceful girl. with bright brown
eyes and sepia brown hair. Her manners
Ir beautiful. and she has the air and case
NJ 20 mature woman. She speaks four Ian
-ua-c~. Is "a very fair musician. and USES a
pcurll Tie "A draught,man.
"PERnAPs when the Pan-American de-.
gate, return % their homes" SAYS The
Louisville C0uricr-Journai, "they will tell
their follow-citizens about our cheap de
serted New England farms. Then there
Will Doe a rush Of south American farmCrs.
AN eager 90 come and Doc enriched in cur
home market.
HoN. JAMES L. CAMrBFIL the Demo :
cratic nominee for Governor of Ohio. is a
hustler ON the stump. For the past month 4,
Doe has been making two and three speeches /
daily. bat he reached the coal miningre-
zion Wednesday morning and broke the It.
cord hy addressing four large meetings in
uue day and travelling about fifty miles "
MIR. campbell say, hc j. in better health .
and voice than when he opened his canvass.
>rEAKFR WOODS. Of the West Virginia
lower house. il critically ill., Twice he has Il
been reported dead. Mr. Woods health il. y
400 important element in West Virginia pol ID
iiic~ at present. The Democrats have only p
one majority on Joint ballot i'm the West Nir- 4
-inia legislature. and aS Mr.. W Gods comes q
from Wheeling, a district very likely 10 20 p
Republican 40 "a crisis. his death would Dee u
% serious matter for the Democracy. should
Mr.. Woods die and bee succeeded by a
Republican. the Legislature ON joint ballot II
would he Republican. the Democratic re- II
port would Doe rejected. and con would be- f.
declared Governor. a
4 PLEASING incident is told in ohio about q
MR.. President Harrison. when. as Carrie :"
scott. she was a school Girl in Miami semi r.
nary. oxford. Ohio. of which her father was is
president. one day she found poor class h
mate in tears. and upon inquiring the rea- ID
SOD. found that the .lrl could not afford a q
Dew dress tor some special entertainment. 60
Miss Scott generously offered to loan
dress. hlf the Oh r was declined. The presi- q
dents daughter was "a great fasorite in the
GLASS. and. calling her mate, together "a w
fNW days latter. she proposed that they all al
dress alike on the coming t~tal day. The q
girls readily acccded. and She then chose nl
tne material which WAS blue calico COW be
cred with little white spriss. M
fHf Charleston o.. CD cotton mills now W
Give employment 90 about 600 operatives. of a'
whom fort, are colorcd the latter being en-
gagged a- ~cuhbers and swecpcr- Fifty p'
per cent. of the people employed are IT, "A.
males. The operatives are paid good wages of
and are doing well. There - "a night school. \
over sixty pupils composed oi ~.
fur children Of the operative, and the OpcI- a.,
afilt~ themselves. This Institution j. in L..
fIA ~Ii'ff-~lNi NiHlNINfli. anu - Nilli- |
much tu improve the condition Of the people ~,
vino attend it. Another Institution which -,
promises 90 he of great benefit is one that =.
.H~ just been formed. and which went into H..
.peratiln this week. This i-a society 90 care a.
'ur lt- members when -ick. and DO the event II.
Yi death tu insure them "a respectful funeral.
Tine weekly assessment plan IL adopted. and
lc business 0f the society H. managed by .,
hc min officers for tine operatives. The ~
officers also contribute 90 il for the benefit "
% their employees. h
THAI was remarkable -hipload of scien- rl
isl, and scientific instruments which re- an
GENTLY lcn New York on their long iaunt TO IN
Africa. This j., the first time the govern 49,
urut has conducted such an undertaking. a.,
ln-ri--- 40 its last session having made Ia.
nominal appropriation 10 enable Professor la
ludd. Of Amherst. 90 sail across the Equa- ~.
or in the old war-ship Pensacola. and look I'm
90 the suns eclipse from the land of the
r0c0diles. 10 seems like long journey for
400 observation which will last for scarcely NJ,
more than four minutes The chances are too.
hat clouds viii obscure the sun during the '"'
interesting period. but these risks have 90 ci'
ic taken ON occasions Of this Kind. The th
ler~onuel of the expedition il 80 cOmprc- 10
.cueiVe that the trip even i'm that case VIII -
luf Dee iu vain. for other specialists look for cd
ycru with quite as much enthusiasm 10 the cl'
.u0Wlcd-e which they expect TO CLEAN IN he
fher departments of human observation. pli
'Or instance. the dredging Operati0n-which II
sim hc conducted along the W csi African sal
cast while the astronomers are IN the III ne
orOr setting zap their instruments. Will, IL no
s ], thought, reveal much which i, new To POI
he scientific world. dee
an
Tnr Arizona Kickcr evidently has some col
Intention Of applying for Grceles'- place a. =
cad Of the old Probability Bureau, and it r.,
ALTERS itself that IL can succeed in that pO- hat
ition equally a. we'll rs the present incum -,
emit II writes: ,,i
"Our subscribers have been both surprised III
ud pleased at the way We have hit the III IT.
.cathcr for the last TWO weeks. We didn't .'
Npcct 90 do 40 well Ina the start of, - the -
nj, instrument we had wa, an old horse we
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