The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-20
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unobjectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, Nor Sale, etc.
 Counterfeit $1,000 notes are in circu- lation, and the Bridgeport Standard solemnly warns the people of Bridge port against them.
 General Bradley T. Johnson of Rich mond ought to know what he is talking about when he says that the men of Richmond would welcome the Grand
 "Pure olive oil" A San Francisco chemist examined fifty-seven samples of olive oil purchased In the regular market and found only thirty-eight to be genuine, the others being cotton seed oil suitably doctored, which sells for 56 cents a gallon, while olive oil costs s145 to s2.25 a. gallon.
 The foIlowingis said to be the inscrip- tion on monument in a French churchyard: "Here lies Jean Pinto, the Spanish vocalist. When he reached heaven he united his voice with the voices of the archangels. As soon as he heard him the Deity cried: Keep quiet. all you fellows, and let us hear alone the illustrious singer, Jean Pinto!'"
 What is said to be the biggest farm In this country Is in the southwestern part of Louisiana. It extends hun dred miles east and west, and has one and a half million acres. There are sixteen thousand head of cattle on the farm, railroad runs thirty-three miles through it, and the owning company has three steamboats operating on the various waters of the estate, of which three hundred miles are navigable.
 Two years ago the Rock Island rail- road company loaned to the Oklahoma farmers 5O,0o0 bushels of seed wheat. which they were to pay for at thirty cents bushel and per cent. interest. AS IuG SGdSOil ClGp Wuo PooA I1lC NCbt was carried over to this year. Now the road has notified the farmers that they must pay up, for they have an enor- nous crop, and at present rates it will take but 25,000 bushels to repay the loan of 5O,0OO.
 Make way for woman. Mrs. Adelaide D. Sherry (widowl of West Point, In- diana, owns and runs farm of thou sand acres. "She hires and directs her large corps of assistants, indoors and out" says a western paper, "entertains generously, drives over the estate daily. buys pigs and calves, ships Percheron horses to Germany, cattle and hogs to Chicago, cribs annually an average of 10000 bushels of corn, travels extensive ly and writes for publications"
 Kansas isn't bleeding much this year. According to the semi-annual report of the Bank Commissioner of Kansas, de- posits in the banks of the State have increased since January by $15000,0 900. MT. Breidentha1, the commissioner, an- nounces also that there has been a marked decrease in the amount of out standing loans, with the prospect of 8 still greater decrease before the end of December. As MT. Breidenthal is Populist machine leader, and was one of the originators of the Bryan-Sewall fusion a year ago, he cannot be sus- pected of prejudice in making his cheer Ing report.
 Bishop Joseph s. Key of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, South in an in- terview, expressed himself as unequi- vocalIy opposed to the proposed union of Northern and Southern Methodists He said: '"There are many objections to union. In the first place, the Gen. eral Conference, our only legislative body, would become an unwieldy mob Legislation would be impossible, and Ile ldlIy WOulu lOl COIlSGllL u TGuuCG the number Besides there are many sentimental objections. There are many in both sections who will not ap- prove of union. I believe that when people fall out. or. to change the figure, obtain a divorce. they should not re- unite. They have no reason or en- couragement to believe they can get along any better now, and as they live apart in kindness and good will there is no necessity for it.
 There have been some queer convfc- tions, but the queerest one that has happened lately was a conviction of horse-swappers, which was held the other day in Georgia One who was present says: There were fully one thousand delegates in attendance. and it looked to outsiders as if a big political convention was in progress. Politics, however, was strictly tabooed
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