The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-05
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GATHERCOLE is the name Of one OF
Pennsylvania coal barons.
LABOR prophets predict that next |
summer will be one of strikes all over
Europe.
GENERAL LoNGsTREET is keeping a
hotel in the little town of Gainesville,
Georgia.
COMMISSIONER RAUM thinks that $780,
600, 900 will pay our pension bill for the
next year.
A WIEN jeweler exhibits large model
Of locomotive and cars made entirely
Of solid gold.
THE Prince of Wales is large man
and has firm understanding. He wears
No. 10 boot.
Snow at Rowland Flat, Sierra County,
Cal, was seventy-fve feet deep at the
last measuring.
NEW custom-house building is to be
erected in New York City at an estimat-
ed cost of 81, 500 000
NINE hundred and fifty newspapers
were started in France last year, all of
which are now dead.
In the public schools of Chicago 1859
school ma'am's are employed, who are
paid $l99, 624.62 month.
IT makes Queen Victoria angry to in
innate that she should step down and
out in favor of Albert Edward.
HENRY GLADSTONE, the youngest son
of the great English leader, is splendid
athlete, and the giant of the family.
A MASSIVE tombstone representing a
lion and weighing five tons is to be
placed over the grave of the late Dr. j.
c. Aver.
THE grip took in the whole country,
and the deaths from it are computed at
10000 of which Baltimore had the largest
proportion.
SENATOR INGALLS, receives an average
of 1000 letters day. The services of
two typewriters are necessary to dispose
OF his mail.
SIX hundred and seventeen less books
of all classes were published in the
United States during 1889 than during
the previous year.
A cELLULoID cuff carelessly thrown
into stove by woman in Fresno, CAL,
caused an explosion that did damage to
the extent of $50.
In Paris there is skating rink form
ed of real ice on a circular basin OF
water artificially cooled by pipes con-
tanning ammonia gas.
JOHN P. GRAY, of South Carolina,
raised twenty-eight bales of cotton on
twelve acres of land, said to be the
largest yield on record. The result was
STA.
IT is announced that the largest cargo
OF grain ever shipped from Baltimore
was taken out the other day by British
steamship which loaded 1883 bushels
of corn for Cork.
The famous How-Qua Forbes Sang de
Beuf vase, of which so much has been
written and said, and which belonged to
the late S. L. M. Barlow, of New York,
has been sold for $4,000.
LOCOMOTIVES cost in the United States
from $1,000 to $4,000. The English loco
motive costs about $4,000 1t is doubt
full, however, if there is $4,000 more SER
vice in the English engine.
PRINCESS VICTORIA, of Prussia, has
obtained the permission of her brother
Emperor William, to reside permanent
ly in England, and he has granted her
an allowance of $4,000 year.
A ST.. Louis physician thinks it just
as important that the ears of railroad
employees, and particularly the ears of To-
connective engineers, should be scientif-
ically tested as we'll as their eyes.
IT is estimated that the total loss BY
the Toronto, Can, University fire will
be 81, 600, 900. This includes the library,
valued at 800, 900, and all equipment
which was generally of the most modern
style.
JUDGE THOMAS I. BoUIDIN of Char
lotte County, Va, owns the plantation
on which his father and great-grand-
father are buried. 1t has been in the
family for one hundred and forty-six
years.
THERE is no taxation upon either real
or personal property at Para, but when
a piece of real estate is sold the pur-
chaser is required to pay fee to the
government of five per cent. on the sell
ing price.
LEO XIII is said to be actively en-
gagged designing his own tombstone.
The statue of the Pope is to be placed
over sepulchral urn, and on either side
OF it two colossal statues representing
Religion and Justice.
Mrs. NANCY RAINEs, Of Knoxville,
Tenn, widow OF John Raines. is tho
Oldest widow now drawing pension in
consequence of the service of her hus-
band in the revolutionary war. She is
ninety-eight years of age.
THERE are nine counties in Northern
Arkansas, lying in body, that have not
one mile of railway. The population
is estimated at 10000. Papers in that
region are beginning to agitate the sub
ject of railway construction.
r. b. SEDGwIcK, who has been an
pointed supervisor of the census for the
First New York district, comprising the
counties of Kings, Queens, Suffolk and
Richmond, will have the appointment
of 1000 enumerators at So day.
Tie Kansas immigration Bureau is
gathering names of Eastern people by
scores of thousands, and sending them
circulars filled with glowing accounts
of Kansas as a good State to come to.
GEO. E. HEArH of Ashland. Va. un.
dertook to take a setting hen off her
nest when she few savagely into his