The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-09-30

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WEDNESDAY EyEgINc. SPINNER &c. 1891.
The extra session o. the Tennessee
Legislature cost tie people Of that State
over S2l,0Oo. This il good deal to
pay for service that proved utterly
fruitless and valueIess.
Governor Fleming has pardoned a
fellow who was serving a term in the
penitentiaiy for murder iii the second
degree. There was the usual plea Of
disease, good conduct, cite.
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Augustus ST. Gandcns, the sculptor,
has made colossal copper statue Of
dams, eiglIteen feet high, which il to
be placpfrnp top of the tower # the
Madisoh Square Garden building,
New YSS&.
When the wild aud woolly west wants
anything it wants il badly. Tacoma
wants the democratic national conven-
tt4en in 1892, and wants i 50 badly
thfAit offers t. pay the railroad fare
and board " the delegates.
Herman Melville, The author q
s'omoo, eTypee, and other seafaring
tales that had wonderful run forty
years agoor more, alApwhich are the
very best Of the class, diedin New York
on Monday, aged seventytwo years.
He leaves q wife and two daughters.
This section of the country Is being
flooded with circulars from green goods
rascals Within the last week We have
been shown half-a-dozen Of thesel letters
received b. as many different persons,
And only the other day one was thrown
in the waste basket in THE WORLD
Office.
Judge Rockefeller has refused to
naturalization papers to Huns and
Poles who know nothing Of the Consti-
tuition Of the country There would be
Il wonderful falling off ii the popular
vote If such test should be required
Of every eleetor who might offer his
ballot at the polls,
The attempt torun lineof steamers
between Baltimore and Brazilian ports
has been-abandoned, after six months
trial. The trouble arises out Of insuiii-
eient terminal facilities III Brazilian
ports, causing delay in loading and un
loading, and thenncertaintG 81 getting
return cargoes owing TO theiuetliciency
Of the Brazilian inland system Of trans
portation.
A remarkable freak of failure is
found among the hills OF Delaware
county, n ". in sunken lake cover
ing about three acres Of surface. which
lies between two parallel ridges not far
from the New York Ontario and Yves
tern Railroad The whole surface Of
the lake Is covered with thick growth
Of moss. the stems u which extend to
an unknown depth.
The American whaleback steamer
Westmore has promptly inspired Euro
pean maritime circles withahvely faith
in the powers ana possibilities Of the
new style Of erafi One Of the first
evidences 81 this fact is conveyed in
thereport that the North German Lloyds
Steamship Company Is negotiating for1
SIX steamships VI the new model for
freight ana pasAenger service.
TAs Milwaukee newspaper IS inclined
to exult hecanse q man in that city
was recently granteda decree ofdivorce
II 10 o'clock in the morning upon a
complaint which he had filed only one
hour previously. The previous best
record was three and 4 half hours, in
New York
We NAV now look for Chicago
judge to reduce the time 10 forty-five
minutes. aud then will follow a spirited