Smyrna times., 1895-07-10
News Items.


New York was again very dry city
Sunday the Sunday laws being enforced
rigidly.
Arrangements have been made in
Philadelphia to send the old Liberty
Bell TO the Atlanta Exposition.
Records of the steamboat inspectors
show that only one life is lost out OF
every 100000 travelling on the water
Reports received in Kansas CITY
from the storms of three days in Kan
sas, Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian
Territory indicate that forty-three
lives have been lost.
Every holiday is attended by fatal.
ties. The celebration of the fourth of
July this year, was attended by hun
dreds OF accidents and fatalities all
over our country.
! Ex-Congressman William d. Bynum
made strong speech on the currency
| question at Spencer, Ind, arguing that
free coinage would produce a violent
contraction and great financial panic.
The injury to winter wheat is re.
ported large in few States, in one
reaching nearly half the expected crop
but in most States it is comparatively
small, while the yield Of spring wheat
promises to be extremely large.
Early in the yearthr Spanish authori-
ties said that the Cuban revolution
would he ended in two months. Now
the Spanish prime minister SAYS that il
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lhe end OF tue var will depend upon
the Cubans themselves aud not upon
the Spanish wishes.
In the war the peach growers of
Georgia are waging against the high
railroad rates for carry fruit they will
nave the sympathy of the consuming
public The charge now for transport.
ing a car of fruit from Atlanta to New
ork Is $40. to which must be added
$9O, the cost for ice. But the total
cost to Chicago is only $2l7 a differ
ence of $50 in favor of the latter place.
although the distance is nearly the
same The growers claim that the
rates to the East are exorbitamt.
One point which appears to be shown
by statistical studies Oflightning stroke
IS the decreased liability TO accident in
thickly-settled communities. 1t NAV
be said in general, that the risk in the
country Is five times greater than in
the city. For ordinary dwelling
houses, not unduly exposed in CITY
blocks, lightning rods are hardly
necessary, very considerable protect
ion being afforded by the tin roofing.
numerous cOrnices, cutters, etc.
Two years ago every day broupbt
dispatches about breaking banks and
reduced wages. Now every dav adds
to the number Of establishments which
nave voluntarily advanced wages, al
though. as 'Ihe Daily Dry Coodo |
RECORD" plthlly observers, the hands !
in textile mills would have to be earn.
ing an average of So 900 each per year
In order to gain as much in wages as
some newspapers report they have
gained
New York policemen frequently
mistake men who are seriously in or
injured for mere 'druuks." A Brook
lyu doctor and a hospita! surgeon on
Thursday pronounced woman dead
from heart disease when she had really |
been killed with "A rifle bullent. Their |
diagnosis was, however, more accurate
than they knew. The bullet had |
pierced her heart.
WHAT Fools WE MoRTALs BE-.
Z: Batford, resident of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, has been swindling the guilt |
Bile people all over the United States
by aid of the United States mails nv |
advertising in the different papers that
'''if sick person would send him a
lock Of their hair and one dollar he
would diagnosis their illness, clairvov-
antly, aud prescribe for and cure them"
lie has grown quite wealthy from the
scheme and lives in afIluence as the
result of the money sent him Ly sick
persons who really believed that Bat
ford could cure them.