The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-04
ALTERNATE.
The Mobile Register has just celebrated
its seventy-eighth birthday.

The Mobile Register has just celebrated
its seventy-eghth birthday.
II is reported at Pittsburg that II. c.
Prick of the Carnegie Steel Company has
purchased in Paris the painting Christ
at Emaus." by Dagnan-Bouveret, for
$4,000 or 100000 AS the painting, which
Is p feet long and 16 feet high, Is too
large for Mr.. Tricks private gallery, 1t
is believed he will present IL TO the Carne-
gle Gallery at Pittsburg
Representative Banks has introduced In
the South Carolina Legislature a Joint
resolution TO make all terms Of State
officers four years. and the meeting OF
the General Assembly biennial
Miss ollie MADDOX the school mistress
at the village Of Avilla. in Jasper coun-
~ Mo. has resigned because OF an em-
barrassing incident. on last Friday she
mad occasion to chastise an unruly boy
of twelve years. but he resisted so Vlsor-
ously that the teacher failed TO conquer
MIN.
On Monday Miss Maddox again attempt
ed to chastise the Obstreperous boy, when
mis- fourteen-year-old brother went to his
assistance. The two then gave their
teacher a spanking The affair created
a sensation az Avilla and the young wo-
man concluded TO resign.
The discovery has been made that Big
amy and even polygamy are not prohibit
ed under the Iowa laws. There is no
sanction for a violation Of the laws that
obtain in other States with regard TO ma
trlmony. but as matters now stand there
IS no provision here for the prosecution OF
a bigamisl. The situation isdue 20 a curl
Gus omission in the revised Iowa Code,
which prescribed no penalty for bigamy
and does not prohibit a plurality or wives.
The defect will be remedled by the Leg
Stature.
Governor Bushnell's friends and neigh
bors in Springfield o, were greatly
alarmed Wednesday over a report that
ONO chief Executive and the party that
accompanied him had been lost at sea In
the gales which have prevailed along the
coast in the last two or three days, and
numerous kilograms were received in New
YORK anxiousy inquiring as to their
safety. The Governor however, arrived
IN NEW 1NIk On lNtHuhN ul-hAf ShNie
the worst for his shaking up. He made
the trip on the Yorktown from Old Point
Frederick Alberts, a Hoboken barber,
has just gone home to Germany TO claim
a fortune of 1900 marks. He says that
while sitting IN the barber shop one day
cutting a newspaper into small: pieces TO
wipe lather on. he noticed the advertise
ment OF a New York law firm stating that
relatives IN Germany requested informa-
tion concerning his whereabouts. Alberts
said he communicated with the law firm.
and had decided TO return 20 Germany
TO claim his fortune.
Judge Spencer Atkinson is now posi-
bic candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Governor Of Georgia. He is a
strong man.
a few days ago, while j. S. Martin was
digging well in his tobacco patch at
Ocala, Fla. he struck something very
narG. and upon investigation he found
what he thought TO be sparkling piece
of glass. He took II TO the house at noon.
cleaned IL thoroughly. when he came TO
the conclusion that IL was a diamond. lie
tried il on a piece of glass and found that
II would cut II readily. If IL proves to be
a real diamond 1t will be worth at least
"a Ol0