Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-07-17

descendant Of St. Louis pisS an~S
he : ending his evcntful iifc ;T Nc
noine. His is noted amonoI a. n1de
equipped and most product;,y 'he Pc
s soufi farms Mrs. Bruginor Is verv mn, ~,
younger than he, and, whatever hi hi k anu :
Lplorosatives among the Sioux NAV ~,
,;e' sns Is certainly now the rulc,
f Ahe most frontiersmen, Br,g;rsr ~
ssanously extravagant. Three ~ f,,,
fortunes had slipped out of his hand ~ !,
misty way when Mrs Brug;nar go =
rne relns, and to her economic skin ' az,
a management is due his financial regen a..
r a.aon. ihcy are rich again. and Is l. 81
a nios. pathetic to hear this old man fol-
apou. going to Paris and around ' Avn
m na some day. In spite of his vo sme
a. nardships, the spirit of advcntny, o"; !;
c. ,s'rong In him as ever. He i VII VII IS
t 1uny preserved in health and stron auvl-
His , sU,re Is stu as sonorous as grizzIv's
ne mas hanillnching gray eyes, deep set ~t he :.
,,n @tn soaggy, frowning brows are H. H.
.aa:uI mirrors of what was 80 we =,
r. esisaless' unyielding will. "ze s;nm To :
se Ssc,almed at the outset of n r..eD :
sufficSSstion, II am re king AL
tion. he9ot quite satisfied that dis :
! EN- n'r-r-or phasized his supreme fels-
was asked by ~ by gar, am re
probability Of soothe leave-taking he
the city. He glaS& if there was any
Mrs. Brugincr. ~ Dug him again in
there any more" said sfsentially at
supplemented, apologecticaiA him e.
JOHN PETER GRANT, of DeTo," :
promoter of industrial enterprise, ssl
to New York newspaper man tie other
day: English investments in kouthern
cities have been very great within two
years. You hear little about them II
New York, because the transactions take
! place in London. But can give you Q
few examples that are eye-openers. ois
hundred thousand pounds of English
capital has gone into the mining town
Of Middlcsborough, Tenn, place you
may never have heard Of An English
company bought large tract of land at
Cumberland Gap, plated it and sold of
lots to the amount of e250, 600 in block
before anybody knew much about it.
Then shares were $40 each, but are now
selling at SAG 5s. They declared divi'
dend last year of AGO per cent. on pre-
ferred stock, which, you can imagine,
has made Juror in England, where cap
ital went a-begging long time at pei
cent. and less. Five hundred thousand
pounds of English money has gone into
| Cardiff, Tenn, another mining town.
The Alabama Improvement Company
has just raised e400, 900 in London. AT
least, $4,000, 900 is invested in Birming-
ham properties. Two hundred thousand
pounds has been invested in the Jellico
coal fields in the Elk Valley A deal is
just about completed to put e400. 00C
into the mining town of Pikeville, Tenn.
THE latest comparison between the
armies of France and Germany places the
former ahead numerically, while the lat
ter is preparing to close the gap with the
aid of a recent law. France on peace
footing has $50, 54S men, and the law of
five years service recently enacted per
mits her to add 600, 900 men to her terri
torial army. Other reforms increase the
annual contingent by 60, 900 men, and
this brings it up to 100000. By count
ing the twenty-five contingents under the
law with their total losses, which are esti-
mated at quarter, the effective force for
mobilization amounts to 4, 1876, 600. In Ger
many the annual contingent is 1874, 900
recruits, 5000 yearly volunteers, and
1880 reserves, giving a total for this
contingent of 100, $50. For the twenty
four contingents, and taking into account
the losses, we arrive at grand total on q
war footing of 1850, 900 men. Conse-
quently, France could mobilize at the
present time 775, 900 trained soldiers more
than Germany.
AN important scientific gathering will
take place in New York city in Septem-
Der, when two of the largest scientific
associations of Europe will come over.
They are the Iron and Steel Institute of
England and the German Engineers AS
ISOLATION. The Engineers Club and the
Engineering Association of the United
States have undertaken the arrangements
OF the visit, and the strangers are To be
given royal welcome. There will be a
reception and banquet, various meetings
extending over five days, at which i'm
portant papers will be read, and then an
excursion over the country to leading
cities and important fields of enterprise
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HERE are $500 men and 600 women
employed as street sweepers in Paris.
besides $500 more workmen engaged in
draining, paving, planting and similar
service. The foremen of the sweepers
get III day, their deputies so cents and
the rank and file about rs cents for ten
hours work. The women work shorter
hours and get about As cents per dav
They all have to find their own tools II
IS now proposed to increase the wages Of
the sweepcrs and to retire them on 8 men.
sion OF 800 per year when they reacb
sixty-fve years of age.
NAPOLEON and Washington were book
agents when they were Young men Tho
canvassers outfit of the great emperor
may still be seen in Paris with the list Of
names secured by him for the G History
OF the French Revolution" Washington
canvassed for Rydclrs book. ufTbe
American Savage" He sold over two
hundred copies in and around Alexandria
Jay Gould, Mark Twain, Lonpfellow
bret Harte, Grant, Hayes, Blaine and RiA
mArck were hook asyortc l., 49,; 80. !, III N,