The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-08
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

With a dirk n Cherokee boomer near
Topeka, Kan. fatally cut John Powers
and his son. who caught him stealing hay.
The British Isles comprise no fewer
than 1000 separate islands and islets,
without counting mere jutting rocks or
isolated pinnacles.
Resentence to death by electricity has
been pronounced on James j. Hamilton,
the colored ex-minister and wife-killer,
OF Winfield. n. Y.
President Harrison has pardoned ex-
President Edgar Swan, OF the City Ma
tional Bank, OF Lynn. Mass, In prison
for violating the banking laws.
Two 1o-cent Confederate stamps re-
| Gently carried small package from
| Cranky, Mass. TO Boston. The package
| had gone through the postoffices at Gran
| by. Hadley and Boston unnoticed.
Packs OF wolves have appeared at Bel
grade and other towns In Servla. AZ
| Pozarewatz a girl was devoured by the
| famished brutes, and stories OF similar
| tragedies have come from various parts
Of Europe.
There is an aged negro in middle Ten
nessee who rejoices in the name of Mig
ger Falls. though he was really christened
after the great cataract Glory Halle
lujah Jones is the imposing name OF
Mississippi darby.
Marshly n. Lyles is the name OF col
ored woman of Sylvania, Ga, VINO thinks
she has neglected her education long
enough. Marshly, who Is over seventy
years Of age, started in as pupil In
local school a few days ago.
Mrs. James Polly, OF Green county,
KY, is one hundred and seven years DID,
and is the mother of fourteen children,
| of whom thirteen are living the youngest
being ffty-nine years old. 1t is given as
| a fact that every one of the Polly famlly
use tobacco.
| The weather on the top Of Pixies Peak
during December last was the coolest Tor
the month that has been experienced
there in fifteen years past, and, with one
execution. the coolest ever recorded there
| for December The mean temperature for
| the thirty-one days was one degree above
! zero.
The Governor Of Georgia has vetoed
hill providing that instruction in physiol-
| oe,y and the State and Federal constitu-
lions should be afforded in the public
schools OF that State. The constitution
of the State limits public school education
10 the elementary branches OF the Engllsn
language.
Among the historical Washington papers
| &c contract entered into between the
Father Of His Country and the fore
man OF his farm. There is clause In
It which provides that the foreman may
| get drunk a certain number OF times each
year before suffering the displeasure or
his employer.
| A curious and apparently ancient sword
was plowed up near Savannah, Mo,
few days ago. The local paper describes
| ~. Id n1 hNr a
Romans" and the local antiquarians
think II belonged to some member Of
De Sotos expedition" which was around
Southern Missouri in 15il.
The Age of Steel says that If a pound
Of coal is subjected 10 dry distillation'
| and the product and residue treated chem
| icallv by the processes for obtaining the
| well-known coal-tar colOTs. the one pound
thus treated will yield enough OF magenta
TO color zoo yards OF flannel, vermllion
for 900 yards, aurine for l2O yards and
| aliZarine sufficient for l5J yards OF red
cloth.
A famous hunting dog, the hero Of
hundred bear fights and OF numerous
fights with panthers and wildcats which
didn't count" died at Ashland. ore, a
few days ago. His owner, hunter IN
the Siskiyous. kept a record Of the dogs
it caught los bears, including those freed,
brought TO bay, and run into caves,
| where they were shot.
An Egyptian scythe, dug up on the
banks OF the Nile in $780, and said 10 be
| as old as Moses, is exhibited among the
| antiquities in the private museum OF
| Flinders Petrie. London The shaft OF
the instrument is of wood, set with a
row Of fine flint saws. which are Sc
curely cemented in a groove. This dis
covery answers the oft-asked question:
| How did the stone-age man harvest his
crops?'
| General Clarke, secretary OF the Fort
Worth chamber OF commerce, proposes
10 land passengers I'm Europe in three
hours by means OF pneumatic pressure
through a l2-foot rubber tube. He says
that the rubber would be so treated with
| certain secret materials that II would
become hard under the action OF sea wa
ter Jules Verne, in his widest flights Of
| fancy. never conceived Of any Invention
like this one.
Two Mexican women, the Senoras
Louisa Legerly and Fortunate Ronslat,
control the recently discovered rich gold
placer mining district at Magdalena' near
| Hermosillo, Sonora TO which something
| of n rush was lately started. The women
and were the original discoveries OF the
rich placers. They have secured the title
to thirty-nve Of the richest claims In the
| district. and are putting in steam ma
| chinery for washing the gold.
The latest fake" story comes from
! Wilkesbarre, Pa, via the Clncihhall
Times Star. Joseph Johns, miner at
Wyoming colliery, found frog embedded
in a lump Of coal. The creature was at
once nut in an air-tight jar. At first 1t
showed no sign of life, although IL was
| soft, but after being In the jar about
six hours IT began to move. and when IT
was exposed to the light ten hours 1t
was quite as lively as any modern
specimen which can be found around the
ponds in summer
There died lately In the English BED
| lam an inmate who has been known LOT
over half a century only as NO. from
his monomania-he was lucid on every
| thing else and wrote books that attracted
intelligent attention-that he would some
| day wed Queen Victoria, whose horse ne
stopped while she was riding In Hyue
| Park and RESPECTFULLY proposed 10 her.
She had been then Queen only year
He was arrested and committed as an In
| sane person, and remained In Bediain
! until his recent death there.
THE best gold fields in America to-
! day are in North Carolina" Is the opinion
| of Dr. Herman, an old miner OF Atlanta,
| and the statement is backed up in
| local paper by others gold miners OF that
| region This should be interesting news
| for the crowd of disgusted miners now
trying to get away from the San Juan