The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-04
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Complied Prom the crimes"
IxrhanCes.


News Notes Complied From the "Times"
Exchanges.
HsNRy AbAMa Is the hamo OF a typical
mountaineer who has been in the Fulton
county (Ga.) jail for two months for making
moonshinc whisky in Lumpkin county. lie
was sentenced 20 serve one month In iail
and % pay a fine Of 500. As he was un.
able 10 pay the fine he had 70 serve an ad,
ditlonal month IN Jail That month has ex-
pited, and, according 20 law, the prisoner
could only be released amer taking the
poor conylcts oath TO the effect that he was
unable 20 pay the inc. He was brought 10
the United States Attorneys Office for thin
purpose, but on being asked 10 take the
oath he refused most emphatically. saving
that the Bible commanded him 10 swear
not. neither by the heavens nor the earth.
Assistant Attorney Angler asked him 10
affirm. lie refused 90 do that. and as there
was 40 other way for him to be released be
was sent back 20 isil. MIR. Angler will pre-
sent the case 90 Judge Newman, and ask
that the prisoner be set at liberty.
DIVORCES, according 10 the report Of the
Commissioner Of Labor, have been granted
in this country for the following causes:
cone woman was granted divorce because
her husband persisted in coming home at
10 O'Clock at night. and keeping her awake
talking This she called mental cruelty.
and the court agreed with her. Another
woman secured n divorce because her hus-
-band cut of her bangs by force, aud still
another because her spouse refused % cut
his toe nails. one wiie's feelings were lace
rated 90 lho point VI legal separation be-
cause her husband would not wash him
self thus causing her mental anguish. The
sensibiities of another wife were outraged
past cure because her husband said her ss-
ter was a thief. One man got divorce be-
cause his wife didn't sew on her husbands
buttons"
ANOTHER instance o. the fact that Chi
cag0 has become the literary centre Of the
country has come 20 light In the great
reading rooms Of the British museum there
was an average OF $40 readers during 1888
In the small room of the Chicago Public
Library there was an average Of 1869 each
day the same year. Taking the great diff
ference in the population Of the two cities
into consideration. ID viii be seen that Chi
cagO citizens are on the average far more
literary in their tastes than those even Of
London. not 90 speak Of such cities as Bos~
ton and New York.
Ar Oldtown. Ne, a few days ago n wo-
man was called TO the door 10y her milliner.
who wished 10 collect a bin Of Slj. The
good woman was sorry TO disappoint her,
but only "a few days previous she had in
vested her ready cash r an Organette, and
politely ushered hc caller into the parlor 90
examine the instrument. The music roll
was adjusted, and as the crank reyolYed
the room was filled with mcl0diOus strains
of that oX-pOpular song. II have fifteen dol
lars i'm my inaide pocket" The incident
was so comical that both sought relief in
laughter.
SOME women have queer ideas Of
economy. A lady went TO "A drug store
with parcel for which she desired postage
stamps. The postage was seven cents, and
the proprietor had nothing but two-cent
stamps i'm his shop. The lady refused 20
give the extra cent 10 Uncle sam, but
boarded a street car, rode down town, PAID
seven cents for seven One-cent stamps, re-
turned to the car. and went home. having
expended ten cents in cold cash, and hay-
ing lost "a half hours time % avoid paying
more than the exact postage rate.
"WomEN will soon 90 into business just
the same as men," exclsims a woman's
journal. Yes. and then we shall probably
see such signs as these: "smith d
Daughter Dealers in Fine Groceries,
Brown. Jones. RObnsOn's Daughters,
General Dealers I'm Hides and Pelis.' And
why not. if the sons Of Smith and Robinson
can capitalize their relationship % their
sires. and constitute themselves business
entity?
A yERITABLE battle is going on over John
Gardner and his family i'm New York. Gard
ner is an able and energetic carpenter, with
a wife and six children, whom the Emiga-
ton Commissioners have kept virtually a
prisoner ON Wards Island for three months
because Of some notion thg he was likely 90
become pauper. The collector of the port
insists that he shall be liberated, and the
commissioners refuse togiye him up.
JUSTICE BRADLEY, according TO the VIII
mngton (Dcl.) News, has decided that the
word "celluloid" is trade mark, and there
fore private word, which even thc diction-
arv makers have noIight 20 use except by
erccial permission Of the Ccauioid Manu-
featuring Company. This is one OF the
most unique decisions on record.
THE counsel Of Kemmler, the condemned
murderer, who was the first man sentenced
to die DIV electricity under the new law in
New York. saws he will make a final appeal.
buf there is mo longer any doubt possible
about the cOnstiutionaliiy Of the law. sew
eral electric executions will probably take
place soon.