The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-11
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

county. Ga, made $4,000 last year.
The patriotic women OF mississippi VIII
| lila - for, ~ cotton bales at the Worlds
Fair.
The contract for Worlds Fair beer goes
60 western firm. who expect to sell
100000 worth.
Mgr O'Connell. Of the American Col
80 az Rome. will be coadjutor in st.
Louis archdiocese.
John w. Briedenthal, Populist State
| chairman Of Nebraska, has been named
| for bank commissioner
Nineteen of the pensioners OF the war
| of 1872 are over 100 years old; and six OF
| them live I'm Vermont
| mob OF Wheeling. w Va, street
| railway strikers bombarded a car with
stones. injuring motorman and passen-
| gers.
The lower branch OF the Massachusetts
| Legislature Thursday defeated the Dill
| abolishing fast day. and another making
April 10Th legal holiday.
The grand jury in Geneseo, N. Y, has
indicted Rev. Charles F'laherty. OF st.
| Patrick's church. Mount Morris. for fe-
lonious assault upon Mary Sweeny, under
| sixteen years old
There Is n pond In the vicinity Of Ches-
| tertown. Md, that has never been known,
| II IS said to have even skim OF Ice on
| it's surface, and during the late cold spell
| It is said that 1t was not frozen par
| ticle.
Angelina Eppoliti, OF New York city,
| who is bit sixteen years OF age, was
granted OF Tuesday. by Judge Freeman.
| almony and counsel fee In the action for
absolute divorce brought against ner by
| her husband.
Wood pulp board manufacturers from
| all parts Of the United States considered
| n schedule OF prices at Niagara Falls
Thursday with representatives of the
American Strawboard Company. No agree
| ment was reached.
A fatal fire occurred Thursday at Chapel
| Cove fishing station. about fifteen miles
| from St Johns \. +. While Patrick Sui
| Ivan was endeavoring TO rescue his eleven
children from the burning dwelling he
persisted I'm the flames, together with four
| Of his children.
Charles Durand a lawyer Of Tor onto.
has addressed an open letter to the Ca
madam minister Of militia, In which he
| charges the United States with many
"wanton and wicked" acts against Can
ada and urges that the militia be armed
/ and drilled ready for an emergency.
The Santa Clara Mex) newspapers
report the recent death of Sonora Dolores
| MachadO. of Mieuoz, who resided at
| Quemado. Hilario. She had attained her
one hundred and eighteenth year. and
she left II children. 81 grandchildren, 100
| great grandchidren and 4S great-great-
| grandchildren. Her oldest daughter is
one hundred and one years old.
The Jubilee Hymn for the celebration
of the golden Episcopal jubilee Of Pope
Leo KILL, on February 18TH written by
Miss Eleanor c. Donnelly. with German
| words by =. b. Hammer. O. s. F.. has
been set to music by b. HANNA. arranged
as a quartette, and for orchestra. Both
the words and the music well reflect the
devotional and jubilant qualities of the
| authors.
For a prisoner to attempt TO force an
| entrance into jail is quite a rare occur
renee. but this, it is stated, happened
| lately at a Jail near Berlin. where at
| night a person scaled the prison wall and
| safely landed in the Jail yard. He was
arrested, and it was found upon his being
examined that he was a former prisoner
come 10 visit a friend he had made during
his involuntary visit.
For the first time in more than a cen
| fury the mission-bearing tribute that
| every ten years has journeyed from Bur-
nah to China, in token that the nperor
Of China had some sort of shadowy claims
| upon The country, will not be sent this
year Great Britain has succeeded TO
| Thebaw's interests in Upper Burrah, and
| the claims of China have vanished along
with the decennial tribute.
Sadler's annual directory Of the Catho-
! lie clergy of the United States gives some
interesting statistics At the head of the
list. Of course, is Mgr. Satolli, the apos-
tolic delegate. Then comes Cardinal Glib
bons, of Baltimore the single cardinal
The archbishops number IA bishops. 70;
priests. 1888; seminarians, ISIS; churches
S. 43l; chapels and stations, 1920; semina-
ries 50 colleges, H. academies, 6if;
parochial schools, 1885, pupils in paroch-
ial schools, 73l ,3Sj; charitable institutions
6i7. The total Catholic population is re-
ported to be 1852 521. The Catholic Church
i'm this country now has almost double
the membership of the strongest Protest
ant denomination, the Methodist.
Performances Of the new American
cruisers and merchant steamers have
opened the eyes OF European experts, who
had implicitly accepted the assurances of
our ree-trading politicians that ships Of
steel and iron could not be built in the
United States. AS a mark OF admiration
Of American achievements the Institute
Of Naval Architects or London has elected
as honorary members Commodore Theo-
dore ID. Wilson, chief constructor Of the
United States Navy, and Commodore Geo.
W. Melville, chief OF the bureau OF steam
engineering. and their names were pre-
scented by Mr. j. II. Biles, designer Of tie
famous city Of New YORK and City Of
Paris, who a year or so ago, after a tour
OF the shipyards OF this country, nettled
the British Admiralty by telling .hem III
substance that there were some things
which they could learn from America.
An old sailor TO the Arctic regions has
been telling the Boston Transcript how he
really missed cold weather: "Tain't the
kind of air I'm used ter" he said II
don't believe I'll ever get what l want
this side of Labrador. You don't have TO
fish for cod down to Labr idor. You just
gifts pick and shovel and mines 'em-just
mine 'em out of the icebergs. They're
frozen in fast. Some of EN- have been in
there for a million years, more or less.
They got catched up some time, and just
frozen in. A whaling mant knows his
business can tell off-hand where he'd
strike a paying lead. He lands a crew
on a large berg, and they cut level
place TO stand on, and they Just open
galleries into the ice. You find the cod
in seams like coal. / never worked In
coal pit, but I've had the thing explained
to me- and it's about the same. The cod
were swimming around. and a layer of
them got frozen. Then would come a
LAYER of plain ice underneath, without