Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1892-01-20
News Items,

War talk prevails in all navy yards.
Raisins that want stoning-the Val
paraisans.
Chile's standing army in 1891 was
1917 officers anu 5719 men.
Forty one persons died of hydropho.
bia in New Jersey last year.
Thousands of cattle have been fro
zen by the zero weather in Texas,
While people in Roone, Iowa, slept
Sunday night, the mercury slid down
to 80 below zero,
Not for years has it been 90 cold in
Tennessee, louisiana aud Mississippi
as 1t was yesterday and Monday.
Shad fishermen from Salem county
New Jersey, are operating i'll southern
waters, and having good luck accord.
ing to letters sent nome.
1t is stated in a dispatch from Wash
lngtOn that, IN view Of war with Chile,
Secretary Elkips is providing a large
supply OF duck coats and trousers for
the army.
Congressman Newberry, of Illinois,
has introduced q bill to appropriate
100000 tor the establishment of a
spelling-schOOl at the Worlds Fair,
and $4,000 for permanent schools
of the same kind throughout the
country,
Randolph Rogers, the American
sculptor, who designed and modelled
the bronze doors representing scenes III
the life Of Columbus for the eastern
entrance to the Capitol at Washington,
and who furnished the designs for the
Washington monument at Richmond,
Va, died in Rome, Italy.
MI. Richard Yates, of Illinois, re-
marked in recent speech that "si1
mllliQn men 80 years of age and under
will participate in the election of 1892
Two millions will then and there cas-
their first Presidential vote for the Re
publican ticket"
To-day the body of Prince Alber
Victor will be laid to rest in the crypt
of st, Georges Chapel, at Windsor
Castle. The London amusement world
has already telt the depressing effects
of his death. A royal death is almos
as costly as royal marriage.
Twenty five Republican members O
Congress, most Of them from the West
put themselves On record in favor o
the Holman resolution declaring sub
sides and bounties in favor of privat
enterprises and industries to be unius
/ nd unnnlifin nnA IN !,
fllct with the spirit Of our institu
tiOns.
The Eifty-secOnd Congress has bee
named the Five cent Congress, Til,
refusal the other day of the lowe
House under Mr.. Holman's LEADERSHIP
to appropriate sufficient money to hir
a ship to carry to Russia the grain an
-four contributed by the Northwestern
millers toward the relief of the starV
ing peasants of that country afford
ground for this title.
After being out but twenty minute
the jury in the libel suit of Senate
, Quay at Pittsburg, against the Beave
Star returned verdict of guilty unde
> the indictment. There is belief cuI
rent here that Senator Quay will inteI
cede in behalf of the defepdeuts an
I endeavor to have their sentence init
gated.
! The Democrats are rushing things {
Albany without regard to the obje,
tiOns and feelings of the Republica
minority. Thus the Senate passe
the Enumeration bill, which had abs,
! lntely not been considered in commit
!, tee aud WIS not even epgTOssed.
. appropriates $8l0, 900 for the expense
: at the census, aud raises the remuneri
ton Of the enumeratOrs.
"Jack, the Slasher," the mysterior
. individual who, since December :
last, has amused himself by cuttin
the threats Of drunken men in Ne,
: York with razor, was captured In th
act Of cutting his seventh victim. II
= is believed to be the murderer
John Carson, the Baltimore lawye
i and Is o fugitive from q lunatic asy
) lum.
A large number of malcontents, a
armed and of tho worst classes, al
fiOcking together in the vicinity
Carrisalillo, evidently with the inter
! ton Of joining CARA, Captain Hardi
! wires from Pena that revolutionists al
gathering small squads north of Ii
Angeles, Tex. He deems it best to |,
them get we'll together before maxim
: q DESCENT upon them.
, The greatest political event Of Il
! week will DO the meeting Of the Dem,
( cratic National CoInmittee In Waahin,
ton Thursday, at which time aud plaS
I for holding the DeInocratic Conventio
will be selected. Additional interel
attaches 20 this gathering because Ii
! city selected for thsl Convention viii
; 10 q great measure, indicate Oh
f. strength Of the Senatorial Syndicate /
. the party a large, aud especially Il