The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-28

have a chance hereafter to force the pur-
chase Of immigrant tickets across the
country from New York.
Drs. A. z. Mcdonald and Allan Mac
Lane Hamilton. Of New York, and DR..
John p. Chaplin, Of Philadelphia. were
appointed q commission to test the sanity
OF Schneider, the Washington. d. c.. Wife
murderer
wild Bill johnson, OF Texas. Is riding
down the San Juan Valley for his life,
pursued by avengers who seek to lynch
him because he shot at the heels of two
tenderfeet TO make them dance.
Mexican counterfeiters have been foiled
In their plot TO have the American Bank
Note Company Of New York print bank
ILLS for them bearing the imprint
of the London Bank of Mexico and South
America.
Virginia's Governor complains that the
National Government has taken no pains
for ten years to expend the $4,000. appro-
priated In part for monument to George
Washington, upon the site of the hrst
Presidents birth
The palace of the Empress OF Austria
at Corfu, Is said to have cost two ana a
half million dollars and yet she spehos
little of her time in IL. seeming to nave
magnificent steam yacht, the Miramare'
Queen Victoria. since the beginning OF
her reign, has only signed one death war
rant, which was for an execution In the
Isle of Man, the act passed for relieving
her Majesty Of signing death warrants
having, by an oversight, not Included
that part of her Majesty's dominions.
A faithful dog saved the life of William
Rutter a farmer, living near Newton
Pa. A tree that he had chopped fell upon
Rutter Wednesday, breaking hoth legs
BY chance he had scrap OF paper ana
woodlands pencil. He wrote: Am hurt'
Come for me-" He tied the paper to the
dogs neck and sent him home. me mes
sage was.read. and when help came TO the
farmer he was lying unconscious III u'e
snow, badly frozen. lie will live
A curious stone was found recently II
is said I'm the bed of creek IN NhoN
county, Ills. II Is reported 10 De elsh1
inches long and five vide, ana lts res"ih-
| blance to a human head pronounced ,e-
inarkable. II has, IT is stated clearly ue,
fined eyes. checks. muscles and traces OF
vertebrae nj the back Of the neck. a cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune says
| however. that Professor Starr, of the
| Chicago University, while admitting the
remarkable resemblance, decided thdt it
was not a mans head, but was simply the
result of natures operations on SOFT stone
| Other scientific men, however, II Is SAID
differ from this conclusion, and believe
II to be a human petriiieation.
Rutherford p. Hayes was the only man
who ever held the position Of President 10
| die OF heart disease Washington eA-
| pired Of pneumonia, John Adams OF 1at-
urol decline. Thomas Jefferson of chronic
| Na.ffoop aud LANES
Monroe Of natural decline, John Quincy
| Adams OF paralysis, Andrew Jackson OF
| cOrstlnption, Martin Van Buren, Of asth-
matte catarrh. William II. Harrison OF
| pleurfsy. John Tyler Of kidney disease
| James K. Polk of chronic diarrhoea, Zach
airy Taylor OF bilious fever Willard Eli
| more of natural decline, Franklin Pierce
OF Inflammation Of the stomach, James
Buchanan OF rheumatic govt, Abrah ~
| Lincoln assassinated, Andrew Johnson
| paralysis, u. S. Grant cancer, James A
| Garfield, assassinated. Chester a. Arthur
| Bright's disease
Olympia. Washington, has a remarkable
| natural curiosity in the shape Of COM
| mon. ordinary everyday well. The water
in this we'll is only 10 feet deep, and has
been that same depth for years. Now
however, the we'll is gradually but surely
| rising to the surface Of the earth. toI
| some time the brick wall has been pro
truding through the ground, until now J.
sticks up in the air like a funnel, an'
is fully 15 feet high. The bricks ina
form the wall are still intact ard. VIVA
is more remarkable, IL has been foun'
that the bottom OF the well Is also com
ing up with the wall.
Paderewski did the proper thing on hi
arrival in Springfield Mass, the othe
day. He vas hardly on the DEPOT plat
form before a policeman asked him f
buy a ticket to the policemens ball. HI
bought it on the spot, and. though trlil
SURPRISED at the custom Of the country
seemed interested in il as we'll as a iitt
amused
A mel hew of Walt Whitman, the poet
Of the same surname, lives IN New fOik
He is a big, handsome fellow, and al
actor az more than ordinary talent. ii
married Miss Virginia Nelson, a yer,
clever young actress from New Orleans
! Mr. Whitman acts under a stage name
and is well known in Western circuits
where he always appears as leading mar
President Diaz, Of Mexico is one o
the hardest-worked men in the republic
He is sixty-two years Old but his life ha
been so temperate that he looks niue
| Younger. His daily routine IS one or do
mocratic simplicity, and he frequentl.
rides in the street-cars. When he doe
make use of a carriage 1t is one OF tn
plainest i'm the capital. and the driver
not in livery.
Dreaming as a profession is not con
mon, but William F. Smith, a colore
man of West Chester Pa. is turnin
his night thoughts to profitable accoun
He locates treasures in his dreams. II
told his cousin in Lancaster county I
dig I'm a certain place and he would fin
money. Thursday, Smith AYERS, pc
OF gold was uneathed. but he has nc
been informed as 10 the amount Of III
find. Smith has notified Edward Hope
that several thousand dollars are burie
under his porch.