v -»y 
Brno UAH Young has twenty-four marriage¬ 
able daughters who are on the market. 
Okn. Sterling Prior, of the late Confederate 
army, left #1,000,000 to his family. 
John A. Putter, who first discovered gold in 
California, bus had a grandson appointed to 
AVeat Point. 
EiinKbt \ r . Harding, editor of the Livingston 
Democrat, died last week very suddenly. He was 
hut 24 years of stgo. 
T’rtop. George S. Morris has been appointed 
to the Chair of Modern Languages in the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan. 
Edward L. Godkin, editor of the New York 
Nut ion. Ims been offered the recently established 
chair of history at Harvard. 
Miss 11 a hti.ett, who so me years ago married 
Suiter Oviedo, the Cubun millionaire, returns to 
New York :t widow, with $1,000,000. 
Henry Beukii Ammeii of Clinton county Is 
one hundred and four years old, and is ralsinga 
crop of corn. He is stout and healthy. 
Peri 11 v Act nth E, who enlisted as a private 
in a volunteer regiment for the defense of Paris, 
has I men promoted lo a sergeantoy. 
Hon. A. H. Stephens is slowly regaining his 
hejilth, and is busily engaged in writing a His¬ 
tory of the United Stales for the use of schools. 
President Grant, as trustee, has invested 
$38,500 for the widow of the late Secretary Raw¬ 
lins, in registered bonds, mid lias paid $51,000 on 
her residence at Danville, Ct. 
Ei.tza AmtowsMtTH, one hundred and four 
years of age, and a resident of Somerset county, 
N. Y., is the oldest pensioner in the United 
States. She draws $000 per annum. 
Robert O. Winthhop, Henry T. Tuckerman, 
and Josbih Pennington have been appointed to 
revise and publish a complete edition of the 
works of the late John 1'. Kennedy. 
Jonathan Tobey, of Now Bedford, Muss., is 
dead. He was notorious for his love of litiga¬ 
tion. During the past, forty years he has not 
missed a term of court without, having a law 
soil. 
Mihh Lizzie Barrio an is the champion swlm- 
mcr oi Charlestown, Mips. She can swim faster 
and further, dive deeper, and come out dryer, 
t han any one else in the place, and, altogether, 
she is a “duck of a woman.*’ 
Omaha, tin; Indian orator, has just started on 
a lecturing lour through the United States, hav¬ 
ing begun at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the <ith 
Inst, lie is said to he qnlto good looking, and 
lias a wonderful command of language. 
Rev. Francis JL Johnson, m venerable preach¬ 
er of Niagara Fulls, died a few days ago at the 
age of‘ eventy-soveii years. He wiisu prominent 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and is Bald to 
have been tile oldest Mason in New York. 
The Crown Princess of Prussia and her t wo 
oldest sons arc almost constantly in the hospital 
of Moat'll, near Moabit, untiring in their efforts 
to relieve the wounded. Tt is said the wounded 
soldiers both German and Preach, look upon 
her ns a soi l ol a saint. 
Mis-. Maggie Lyons of Dos Moines, town., 
while on a recent visit to Western Kaunas, 
formed one of a party who went fora buffalo 
hunt for a week, in which sho laid tile honor of 
killing Hie llrst game—a largo buffalo bull. Khe 
lay in ambush for him, and as he passed her she 
stepped out , drew up her carbine, aimed just in 
front "I bis shoulder, pulled trigger, and he fell 
dead on Hie spot, the ball breaking his neck. 
The Huron Von Moltko has a propensity for 
joking, and the following story is told of the 
lively old soldier by a German paper" Passing 
the frontier, Gen. Von Moltko observed u sign 
board with two arms, one marked a Pnrlx, the 
other <i Berlin. He quietly changed the hands, 
and the French soldiers, obeying the direction 
as they found it. have been hastening to Paris 
in the firm belief that they wereuuvsuoingupon 
Berlin.” 
-- 
NEWS AND NOVELTIES. 
A German in Pontine, III., has raised a largo 
family ol wolves for the Chicago market. 
Tm: first baby born in the town of Now Chi¬ 
cago, Kansas, was presented with a deed of a 
corner lot. 
Two carrier-pigeons recently flew lroiu Pesth, 
Hungary, to Cologne, Germany, a distance of 
about 10(1 miles, in eight hours. 
Fort Wayne, Ind., has a sowing school in 
which misses from seven to twelve years of age 
are initiated into the mysteries of the needle. 
Pennsylvania has a seventeen years old boy 
who is six feet eight inches tall, and a fourteen 
years old girl who weighs four hundred pounds. 
A codfish caught off Portsmouth, N. H., har¬ 
bor, on lining dressed, was found to contain a 
pint ohampagne bottle, in an entire state, but 
empty. 
There are five women now confined in the lu¬ 
natic asylum at Longview, T'onn., against whom 
petitions for divorce have been tiled by unkind 
husbands. 
The Alta California tells a story of seven 
“ Desort Indians” who ate a large horse in nine¬ 
teen hours, leaving absolutely nothing but the 
bones, hoofs and hair. 
On m tombstone at Florence is this inscription. 
“Here lies Balvfno Arm a to d'Armati, of Flor¬ 
ence, the inventor of spectacles. May God par¬ 
don his sins. The year 1318.” 
T he population of London exceeds that of 
Scotland, is four times that of New York, and 
is larger than thocombined populationsot Paris, 
Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg. 
Tnr, Boston Journal of Chemistry cautions 
the public against the use of galvanized iron 
pipes, and says instances of severe poisoning 
have occurred in COnsequoHCO Of using them. 
The Metropolitan Police force in London lan e 
established an orphanage at Brighton for the 
orphan children of policemen. The police com¬ 
prise a force of 10,000 men, some of whom die 
every week. 
Fon the benefit of all concerned, we publish 
the following lawThat any person caught 
mutilating, destroying, tearing dow n or remov¬ 
ing any show bills, placard, programme, poster, 
or any advertisement, posted upon any wall, 
loLce, bill-board or other structure, shall be fined 
not less than $25 nor more than $100 for the first 
penalty offense, and for the second offense any 
shall be imprisonment in any county jail in the 
State of New York not less than three nor more 
than six months. 
There arc over fifty miles of ditches for irri¬ 
gating purposes, within a space of five miles 
square, around Los Angelos, Cal. 
A man arrived at Sioux City, a few days since, 
with 42,000 muskrat skins, 500 mink skins, 500 
wolf skins, and 300 other skins. The pelt ry was 
obtained at Skunk Lake. The entire Jot sold for 
$5,000. 
A Southern widow, with unlimited green¬ 
backs, is buying up horses and mules in Indiana 
for the Southern market. She is reported as a 
good judge of slock, a keen buyer, and is able to 
take care of herself. 
It is said that large numbers of fish in the 
Poestenklll Creek are dying since the Globe 
Mills were destroyed, near Troy. It is .supposed 
that the debris from the burned grain poisons 
the water or the fish. 
The report of the yearly meeting of tho So¬ 
ciety of Friends shows 4,500 members in New 
England, among whom there have been flut ing 
the year thirty-four births, seventy-five deaths 
aiul thirty-five admissions. 
Some people don't believe in advert wing be¬ 
cause, they say, “ nobody reads the papers.” But 
let them get into a scrape, and you will find them 
flying around the newspaper offices wit h tho re¬ 
quest, “ Please don't mention that little affair,— 
it’s all a mistake; I don’t want my name pub¬ 
lished all over tho country.” 
A one-armed uowspiiper carrier in Everett, 
Mass., has, at odd times, built himself a two- 
story French-roofed house, twenty-six feet by 
forty-two. All the work was done by him ex¬ 
cept raising Hie frame, setting the door and 
window frames and the plastering. Who says 
one-armed men must grind itand organs for a 
Jiving? 
AN Alleghany county, l’u., pastor announced 
ail evening lecture entitled, “Hunting an Ap¬ 
petite.” A large audience were deeply interest¬ 
ed, and at tin* conclusion of the address the pas¬ 
tor announced that as lie hud received no salary 
for six months past, “tho sexton would now 
collect something for him to hunt an appetite 
with.” 
The report that a young man at Alleghany, 
Pennsylvania, lost his speech bv the explosion 
of a fire cracker on the Fourth ol July, has 
bothered the eminent doctors. They all went to 
writing about the different organs of speech t hat, 
must have been affected by the explosion, and 
now it turns out that It was u written speech 
that. lie lost, whtoh was in his pocket, and look 
fire from the cracker. 
The new counties of Mississippi are; Alcorn 
—Corinth the county seat; Benton -Ashland the 
county seat; Grenada -Grenada the county 
seat; Lincoln—Brook haven tho county seat; 
Prentiss—Boonville tho county scat; Union- 
Now Albany tho county seat. County seats 
changed : — Of Tishomingo, from Jacinto to 
Iuka ; of Issaquena, from Tallula to Gibson ; of 
Lauderdale, from Marion to Meridian; of Clark, i 
from Quit.mau to Enterprise. 
A young fellow in Nashua, N. 1L, recently 
gul angry with his sweetheart, and for revenge 
took her to ride and left her on tho steps of a 
country hotel, several miles from home, to find 
her way back as best sho could. The girl one 
evening afterward induced him to drive her to 
visit u sister, t wenty miles distant, and while he 
was out of tho buggy endeavoring to decipher 
the name on a door-plate, she drove off and left 
him to go home when he got ready- Thu t un 
cost him #20. 
A singular accident happened to a horse at 
Simon ton’s Corners, Vt. The animal was bitch¬ 
ed with a common halter in the stall and by 
Borne means got his hind hoof in his month be¬ 
yond his power to get it out. He had thrown 
himself in his attempt to extricate himself from 
hts unpleasant dilemma. Passing a wagon stake 
through i ho open unoccupied part of t he horse's 
taoulii uud resting it upon the. horny part of the 
hoof, the mouth was ufter several attempts pried 
open AUfliOfeUUy t o let tho hoof out. 
A story Is told of the Rev. Dr. Alexander II. 
Vinton of Trinity Church. New York, which in¬ 
culcates a moral of general application. The 
doctor was a tobacco chewer, and, with a quid 
in his mouth, was giving a young lady of twelve 
some good advice about observing Lent. 
“ Pshaw ! don't preach self-denial to me, when 
you have your mouth full of nasty tobacco!" 
The reverend gentleman turned aside bis head, 
removed the odious weed from his mouth, and 
has never since used it. 
This was the description given of Boston no 
farther back than RiSti: 
“Boston is two miles Northeast from Uuxhnru; 
His situation is very pleasant, beinga /V/iimm/o, 
hemmed »ii ihe South side with the Bay of 
Rnxhury, on the Not ill side with Charles Hirer , 
the marshes on tile back side being not hallo a 
quarter of a mile over; so tluii a little fencing 
will secure their cattle from the wolves. Their 
greatest wants be wood and meadow ground, 
which never were in that place; being con¬ 
strained to fetch their building timber and fire 
Wood from the islands in boates. Il being a 
neck, t-hey are t roubled with I love, great an¬ 
noyances of wolves, rattlesnakes, and iiiasko- 
toes, etc.” 
Members of the Illinois Legislature have to 
do ibis severe piece of hard swearing:- “ 1 have 
not, knowingly or Intentionally, paid or con¬ 
tributed anything, or made any promises in 
the nature of a. bribe, to direc’ly or indirectly 
influence any vote at. the election at which I 
was chosen to fill said office, and have not ac¬ 
cepted, nor will 1 aooept or receive, directly or 
indirectly, money or other valuable thing, from 
any corporation, company or person, for any 
influence or vote 1 may give or withhold on any 
bill, resolution or appropriation, or for any 
other official act,” 
Indianapolis is infested with highway rob¬ 
bers, but a bravo girl there recently outwitted 
one of them. She was returning home about: 
dusk, alone, in a buggy. She drove along leis¬ 
urely, lior horse drooping his head in n content¬ 
ed way. All at once a man jumped out from a 
cornfield near by, and took tier horse by the 
head. Khe looked at him in surprise. “ I would 
like to lido with you, miss,” lie said to her. 
“Most anybody would," she replied, surveying 
him steadily. Taking the presence of mind for 
consent, ho dropped the bridle rein and took a 
Step toward the carriage. That instant t he brave 
girl touched her 1, -e with the whip, giving tho 
man a sharp cut aero* the face, and before he 
could recover himself, he was thrown down by 
the wheels of the buggy, which, with hie intend¬ 
ed victim, soon disappeared. 
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