Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — News of Minor Notes [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Notes

Driver Hughes of the fire department of New York City saved tan lives at a recent tenement house fire. In 1900 Iceland will celebrate the 900th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity into the island. There arc forty-live colleges and seventeen State Christian associations among the colored people of North Carolina. Besides the rinderpest. South Africa’s worst plague consists of the myriads of grasshoppers, which arc sometimes so dense that they stop railway trains.