The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-07
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

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| of the First National Bank OF Little
Rock, Ark. and will prosecute Wreckers
| Allis and Denny.
An overdose of morphine. perhaps
taken purposely. made William Dack.
| Lincoln, Neb., ,Populist candidate for
Congress. critically ILL.,
AS McIlroy. the New York builder who
killed himself, did business az William
and William III. McIlroy. his many cred
itors are in a dilemma.
Consul Hollis. at Cape Town. is censured
| for Indifference to the murder OF Captain
| Buckley. of the bark William Hales. and
| his wife by the Chinese cook.
| A counterfeit silver dollar has been
discovered in Salt Lake City that dehes
detection, and the makers are thirty-five
| cents ahead on each one they sell.
The Ashland CKy.) News publishes the
| following card: 1--WE announce Miss NJ.
Annie Poage as applicant for the office OF
postmistress at this place, subject TO the
action of her friends and the determine
ton Of the incoming Democratic admins
tratlon."
In Vienna gypsy prophecy, TO the eff
fact that the Archduchess Isabella, OF
Austria, will have twelve daughters be-
fore the son and heir is born. is periodi-
cally revived. and has recently been re-
called by the birth Of a seventh daughter
to the Archduchess.
During the year 1891 Great Britain and
Ireland received from other countries
1874 10000 bushels in wheat and flour.
which is about seventy per cent. OF the
total consumption or these imports the
United States contributed forty-fve per
! cent. and Russia less than eighteen per
| cent.
The Galveston News remarks that the
average eighteen-year-o boy now has
! n much greater variety of Information
than men aged three-score and ten had
! 100 years ago. and men with salaries OF
! 81 200 year can secure more advantages
and luxuries than kings could 1000 years
ago by the expenditure Of millions.
Perth Amboy. New Jersey, is said TO be
the repository of some very fine furnit Ire
Of the colonial style. The town, which
is one of the Oldest ports Of entry in the
| United States, still retains several Of
| its early dwellings. some Of which are oc-
cupied by the descendants of those who
built the houses many generations ago.
A presidential Inauguration costs less
than an ordinary congressional funeral
The total cost of President Harrison's
Inauguration was s2.52O.5O. The cost Of
funeral varies from 5000 to anything
you please. according to the distance
over which the congressional mourn RS
meander and the greed of local under
takers and livery stable keepers.
John Huntington, Of Cleveland, has
added his name to the already long list
Of liberal benefactors Of educational IN
stitutiOns. More than one-half Of his
fortune Of 100000 has been bequeathed
to charities and schools; the chief bene-
faction being the gift Of 100000 to build
an art and polytechnic school In Cleve-
land, and $4,000 for an endowment fund.
Captain Branch II. Cox, Of the Saliva
ton Army, who belongs to a fashionable
West End family in London. but became
conspicuous in slum work, Is spending
this week i'm Chicago. She is about thirty.
with a bright, strong, Intellectual face,
and looks the opposite Of what might be
expected from the successful leader OF
'the Cellar, Cutter and Garrett Brigade"
The Pail Mall Gazette says A remark
able phenomenon was witnessed on the
Thames during the evening Of Friday last.
A number Of pedestrians on Nauxhall
bridge were startled by noticing that one
of the large masses OF fee which were
noatin with the tide was emitting flashes
of light at intervals of about six seconds.
Not only was this curious and unusual
sight seen from Vauxhall bridge, but one
gentleman who had noticed ii at Chelsea
bridge. followed it along the Thames En-
bankment for some distance.
In reply to Governor Pennoyer's recent
fling at Mr.. Cleveland, the Democratic
State committee has adopted resolutions
which say: The people for the second
time and by an overwhelming majority
have shown confidence in Grover Cleve-
land, and it i'll becomes Governor Penno-
yer. who has epe3tedy been honored by
4 10 gffN n q N
slurs on its greatest leader We hereby
renew our allegiance to the chosen chief
executive Of the country, and We consider
Governor Pennoyers utterancas against
him as unwarranted and sensational.
a workman in a village near Dresden
recently had trouble with n registrar,
who refused TO record Rob espierre Dan
ton as the name Of the workingmans
baby boy. The workingman eventually
declared that II he might not christen his
boy Robespierre Danton he would not
chrsten him at all. lie was fined 70
marks for neglectng to christen the boy
and appealed 10 a higher court in Dresden.
where the case was dismissed, the judge
holding that lin a country both Christian
and mOnarchical, no man has The right TO
name his child after avowedly atheistic
and Republican scoundrels."
one of the most prominent railroad
men in Canada says that the railroad that
started for Hudson Bay number Of years
ago and got about a hundred miles into
an unsettled wilderness, will never be
built. The idea Of running such a rail
road in connection with line OF steamers |
TO start from Fort York or thereabout, |
go through Hudson strait to sea, and !
thence 10 Liverpool, he declares to be |
cEimerical. The bay is open but a few !
months in a year, there are many shoals, |
there is always drifting zee about the |
straits, and the journey is roundabout; |
so this railroad 10 nowhere is rusting. |
Speaking Of remarkable feats az marine |
engineers, the Marine Journal recalls the |
achievements of Richard Peck. who at |
one time had charge of the single engine /
Of the old City OF Vera Cruz, coming up |
from Havana. South OF Hatteras the |
piston went to smash, breaking into three |
pieces But Peck, after twenty-fOur !
hours OF continuous labor actually |
mended that piston, SO that it was strong |
and true enough 10 do its part with the |
rest OF the machinery. and he brought the
ship into New York harbor steaming six |
knots. This was a deed which quite
eclipses even the recent notable per-
Torrance of Engineer Tominson, OF the
Umbria.
The strictest censorship Of the Italian
stage after the fall Of Rome is graphi-
cally described by Salvini. The words
God" "redeemer." madonna" "angel,"