The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-14


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e., Ns~k ladies dve Their hsir IN .cham-
,.,,,,. 1, ,.,l.s the auburn tint.
There ar, 80, 1900 unclaimei deposits in
tine savings bank Il Nsw lers.
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dollar T. charged fpT IN ~ Of UPfL
nss daily radical RepuHlioan paper. "ith
s5ea. 0egrarital. q talked 81 ~ New YORK
The suabaImeI body ~ 'arfouche. thc e.
mou. rohber. who was eNccIied in ISL J. on
exhibiiua IN Paris
In tl.f recent Congressional election IN Ma
sachussti,. Mr.. Banks opponent IA, iii, I'M
Gle. Mr.. Greenwood.
The revolting la helor- m New York de-
eided ~ their meeting that $3.50 Wa tue low
cat cost Of maintaining vlle.
The whole Of Manhattan Island. on which
stands the city q New York. was once pur-
chased By one Peter NinniI for 81
The hrsi-class hotels in Boston. which r.
duced their price Il board 70 - per day. a few
months ago. have advanced again 10 - 81.
Two little girls. aged respectively six aud
cight YEAR. children II Mr.. Mes. living ~
Marathon City. Marathan county. were lost in
the woods eight day. They were found alive
but almost furnished.
Mary Burke, q Pittsburg the mother Of five
children, remarked that she didn't want % live
any longer. aud threw herself IN the river.
where she was drowned. She had separated
from her husband not long since.
a letter from India to London paper states
that the monkeys Of that country seem 10 De
firmly persuaded that the telegraph lines and
poles there are erected for their special use aud
behoof III performing gymDastic exeFcises.
The following Is a genuine transcript Of an
cpitaph Here lies the remains II Thomas
Woodhen. the most amiahle Of husbands. the
most amiable Of men. y. B.-The name i
WOodeOck, but IL would not come in rhyme"
Mr.. Villa, Of Bucnos Ayres. recently sue
ceeded. after many years q search, in discov-
ering petroleum springs az Jujuy; but worried
out by the trihing officials with his application
for permission 10 work them, he lost his
senses, and is now the inmate Of a lunatic
asylum,
Farmers, and quid nlmcs generally, In the
rural districts, predict an early and strong
winter. They base their theory on the usual
signs-the birds early took their flight south
ward, the husks ON the corn were very thick
and covered the ear to the very ends, and
on.
Lynchburg letters state that the growing to-
bacco crop in Virginia is almost too in.ignii-
cant 10 be worth mentioning. During the war
the cultivation Of the staple was almost entire
ly abandoned, and il is not likely TO be resum-
ed again 10 any extent. There is considerable
activity IN the market at present. Large guam
titles OF tobacco, which have heen held over for
two or shfes yeats, are daily coming in.
In the Alexandria Military Cemetery the
following inscription can be seen on ? soldiers
crave;
"cnkrown' Is all thy epitaph can tel;
IL Jesus know thee, al f. well.
\ sanguine correspondent Of the oil Nel-s
puts down the prospective population of Oil
City In 1870 at $1,000, with an annual business
Of Si0,00O,000.
An engineer at Nashville. Tennessee. sent
a workman under his engine 10 oil the run
ming gear. and then. forgetting his presence.
ran his engine ahead just far enough to cut off
one OF the mans legs. "A bystander shouted to
warn the engineer, who thereupOn backed his
machine IN dismay, and cut OF the other
leg of the unfortunate workman. He survived.
however, and sued the company for $4,000
damages, and obtained $4,000.
4 man in Atlanta had well nearly filed with
rubbish which he wanted cleaned out The
freedmen in that country are not much in
favor OF work, and are difficult TO hire but
the owner Of the well quietly started story
that an iron safe belonging To the express COM
pany, and full of gold, had been thrown into
the well when the city was evacuated. In
less than an hour his yard was filled with
negroes who cleaned out his well almost in no
time But they didn't find the safe.
James McCarty, an idiot, while sitting upon
The track of the Lake Shore Railroad, near
Dunkirk, q day or two since, his head benz
upon his knees and fast asleep, was struck bv
passing train and thrown a distance Of forty
feet, The train was Immediately backed 10 the
scene Of the disaster. when, imagine the sur
prise Or the passengers at discovering the
simpleton standing near the track apparently
unframed the only signs Of injury manifest
cd by him being exhibited in a vigorous fric-
ton of his back.
Charivari has picture Of John Bull, the old
type of the national caricature, fat bloated
fellow, with knee-breeches and CATERS, a fam
ing handkerchief around his neck, and large
bunch Of watch-seals. Young France is con-
Really" he says, "yOu take the thing too
much to heart" "Oh,, replies John Bull.
x it's not my heart. but my stomach. that is
disturbed. / should not so much mind the
Fenians, but this epizOOticis playing the deuce
with our roast beef"
Adah Isaacs Menkin Heenan Newell Daven-
port met with an accident recently in theater
in London, where she Is performing. In the
second act she had TO ride across the stage on
/" dummy" horse through heavy seas, which
are represented rs beating against a rocky
shore; and when she had passed about half
way, the actress and steed fell through an
opening in the boards down descent Of about
was passing at the time. This broke the force
Of the fall, but Alenkin was considerably
bruised, and the scene-shfter received severe
shock.
THE ENGLISH CATTLE PLAGUE.-Reverend
DIR. Cullen, Of the English Established Church,
attributes the cattle plague now prevailing
there 10 two causes; the pride Of physical sci
ence and the excessive attachment of man TO
the beasts Of the fields as shown i'm the agri-
cultural fairs The Evangelical Alliance how
ever, has another theory, and ascribes the
plaque to The prevalence Of materiaistic Pan,
theism: Which Of these grave and reverend
authorities is right it does not behoove mere
mortal man 10 decide, but if the alliance is
right, there Il comfort in its theory, fer our
Pantheists are few and far between, and gen.
orally too poor TO keep cows. How the Eng
lish ecclesiastics intend to proceed in the mat
ter, they do not say.
COAL DI6GIsG MAcHINE.-A coal digging
machine has been exhibited at Pittsburg, Pa.
The machine has on one side double engine.
which may be worked with compressed air or
steam. The cylinders are ten inches in dia-
meter, seven and half inch stroke.> The
power Is used ~ DIVE series Of cog wheels
connected with eleven pairs OF augers, These
augers are three feet and six inches long and
two ana three-quarter inches in diameter each.
At the end Of each is a drill, which tapers
from diameter OF two and half inches to a
double point. The Width of the whole set of
augers l. four feet and seven inches. When in
the mine the machine rests upon small track,
along which it is propelled by its own power.
Above this track is a pair of trans, on which
the machine sljIes backwards or forwards a
the auger penetrates the Ieck, or are with
drawn, all the motions being performed by the
machine itself II j. calculated that fifty per
cent. of the Labor how necessary TO take coal
out of the pit will be performed By this digging
machine. Its bearing-iE power Will be from
1900 TO 5000 bushels OF coal in ten working
hours.
An Indian Love Romance.