Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-31
BRIEF NEWS AND aOTEs.
Some Of the Curious Happenings in the
World of Progress.

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World Of Progress.
Jerry Moron. of Hancock county, West
Virginia. Is over twenty years OF age and
scarcely three feet high.
The lima bean crop OF Ventura county,
CAL, this year. will amount to 5000 tons,
worth 100000.
a justice ef the peace in Doddridge coun-
ty, West Virginia, has been fined for selling
whisky u~nlawfully.
A Middleton, Del, duck mingles with
chickens and endeavors to conceal it's iden.
tity by making attempts at Growing.
A charter has been granted Tor arailroad
in Liberia. 1t will be the fret in that coun.
try. Its length will be 556 miles.
A pair Of screens wrought in the finest oil
gold lacquer by Japanese wOrkmen have
been sold to q merchant Of Shanghai for
$4,000.
California fruit growers, who used to
| throw away their peach pits, are now get.
ting Sc a ton for them. They are worth
this for fuel. They make q hot and arc
matte fire.
Mrs. Mary E. K~ingnorth, OF Marion, N.
Y. q widow ffty.seven years of age, ad.
vertised for a husband. A wealthy Chicago
man replied, and after corresponding for q
time they met and were married.
Captain Haskell, OF San Francisco, re-
Gently witnessed q terrific battle between q
swordfsh and q whale in the harbor al
San Francisco. The swordfish was finally
victorious. killing the whale.
W. Nj. Branch, OF Paw Paw, Mich, il
honest anyhow. He published q card il
the local papers setting forth that he lie
specimen OF what whisky can dofor a man
and pledging himself to stick to water 10
the future.
Mrs. Jacob Pearce OF HawkinsvilIe, Ga.
bought a hen from q chicken trader. Iht
hen was killed for dinner Sunday, and il
| the gizzard OF the fowl were found twenty
seven brass pistol cartridge hulls, six but
tons and q piece OF lead.
Rev. Frank Peterson, the Representative,
of the American.Swedish Baptist church
at the late International Sunday schoo
convention in London, reports that Their
are 33. DOT, 600 teachers and scholars il
the Sunday schools OF the world.
Charles Foster, an Albany lad. fell into
| the river while fishing and sank to the bot
tom. He was dragged out with grapplinl
irons after he had been under water eight
or ten minutes. The doctor revived hin
by artificial respiration, and has hopes o
i LIB TOCONOEys 4uO CdpO 10 COubluCECu NUS
remarkable.
Vincinnes, Ind, has just produced an or
iginal judge. A saloon-keeper was to b.
tried before him for selling liquor without
| q license, and the case had excited SO much
| interest that q crowd was expected to bt
present. Accordingly the judge hired q hal
and charged all spectators ten cents ad
mission.
Il TL- r-s-~ TI-~~4- J-us 3 D---1Iuu
is haunted. The sound Of blows on the
| rails, as il some one were hitting them with
a hammer, is frequently heard at night
when nobody is at work on the road. The
mysterious noise seems to come from a
place where a workman was killed some
time ago.
il Hutchinson, a freight conductor on
the Mobile & Ohio road, was engaged to
Tenn, and went there to consummate their
vows. A friend advised him not to marry
| the girl, but he insisted. The pair stood
up to be married, when the friend spoke to
Hutchinson again, and the bridegroom alb
ruptly left the house.
New Haven police recently detected a
saloon keeper who q selling liquor on
Sunday in a curious way. An officer as.
Ceuucu GdnU pOCks udNIuS uTbU ScCuTcU d
good spy-glass. He took a position where
he could see the saloon and watch it. Pres.
emily he saw some men enter and he there.
upon gave q signal by waving a handler.
chief to a squad Of officers stationed in a
house near the saloon. They also had a
glass. and when the signal was given de.
scended upon the saloon. The proprietor
was arrested and fined $50 and costs the
next day.
A Kingston, N. Y, man by will left q life
interest to his widow in a little estate
valued at $4,000, the property after her
death to be divided among twelve heirs.
There being a small mortgage on this
property, foreclosure followed, and the
costs OF court, lawyers fees, ETC., made the
judgment foot up 81, 999. During her life
the widow will be entitled to the interest OF
the remaining dollar, and at her death two
OF the heirs will receive 20 cents each, five
OF them will be given 4 cents each, four OF
them will be entitled to 5 cents each, and
one will receive the annual interest on 20
cents during life.