The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-15
GENERAL NEWS.

America this year will produce
100000 tons of iron.
New York will erect monu-
ment to the late S. S. Cox.
A 100000 cotton factory is to
be erected at Montgomery, Ala.
The constitutional convention of
Mississippi assembled at Jackson
Monday.
An English company has pur-
chased $4,000 acres of tin lands in
California,
Nearly all the celluloid compa-
MES Of this country are about to
form a trust with 100000 capital.
A number of Armenian peasants
at Alailes, who failed to pay their
taxes, were burned alive by Turk
ish zaptiehs.
John Boyle O'Reilly the noted
Irish poetand journalist, of Boston,
died last Saturday from an over
dose of choral.
First Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Clarkson has rendered to the
President his resignation, to take
effect September l, next.
At Glasgow, KY, brave ferry
man saved a family Of five persons
from drowning after their wagon
had overturned in the river.
A Charlotte, N. G. clergyman
wears undoubtedly largestshoes
in this country. The size is 80,
and each shoe is 2OxS inches.
A bill to authorize the Tennes-
see and Coosa Railway Company
to bridge the Tennessee River at
Guntersvillle haspassedthe Senate
Two boys, aged sixteen and sew
enteen, respectively, discovered q
gold mine in Wyoming, the ore Of
which assayed $4,000 and $4,000
per ton.
Ben Thaxton, a white man was
found in Cumberland River Fri,
day, hear Highland, with his hands
and feet tied and his pockets full
of rocks.
The cornerstone of the Utal
University of the Methodist Epis
copal Church .yas laid at Ogde1
last week. The buildings will COS
over 100000.
The convicts in the shoe shop o.
the State prison at Charlestown
Mass, made a desperate and unite(
effort to escape, but were repulseC
by the guards.
1t is a matter of tradition in ia
pan that fruit grows upon the BAN
boo when there is to be a famin,
in that country. This year BAN
boo trees are bearing fruit.
Poor old General Spinner, tn,
man whose name became famou
on the greenbacks during the wal
is at Pablo Beach, Fla, blind anc
suffering, and praying for the end
The Iron City Quaries, at Irol
City, Tenn, closed a contract las
week to supply the pier stone fo
the main store-house at the Gov
eminent arsenal at Columbia, Tenn
10. Guild Williams, a young ma
living near Cairo, Tenn, while as
sisting in removing a brick house
was horribly crushed by a falling
wall. He is in a critical condition
The Republicans of Lamar Coun
ty, Tex, in mass convention at Pari
Saturday, passed a series of resc
lutions, one Of which denounced i
unmeasured terms the Federal cleo
ton bill.
Another strike has been inaugu
rated on the Mackey railway sys
tenn, owing to the refusal of tn
demand of the switchmen for an il
crease of wages based on the CHI
cago scale.
! The Ways.and Means Committe
at a meeting Saturday laid asid
the sub-treasury bill and did nc
agree to report it. Recent Wash
ington dispatches state that tn
I committee is hostile to the bill.
An insane pilot on the City {
Florence, Tennessee River pacl
ct, ran his boat against a bridg
pier near Danville, Tenn, doing
/ great deal of damage to the boa
The pilot was a morphine fend.
An Arizona miner, forty year
, Of age, is attending school in Kan