The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-06-25


When General sherman was in Cincinnati recently
suggested TO HIM that he had better call on the
Southern railroad delegation then IN the CITY, to whom
he repl ed "Thank you-no did call on the gentle
men once, and think II is their turn TO call on mo
now"
Hartford Conn, will soon have fine public library.
thousand dollars interest of which TO DO expended
In books About twelve thousand have been purchased,
and the library will soon be opened.
Most of the counties in New Jersey moving in the
matter Of erecting monuments to the memory Of slam
soldiers
woman named Dillon was shot by a customer in her
husbands saloon at Elizabeth, n. j. On Friday after
noon. She is not likely to recover.
A Miss Adams, of Palmer Mass, has obtained a YER
dict Of twelve hundred dollars against O. b. Smith for
breach OF promise.
colored man has written letter to the Augusta Ca
c. naitu,ionala commencing its course in advocating
education for the freedmen and stating that the only
tho blacks prefer Yankees to S0utheDers is be-
cause the Yankees are willing TO have them educated
The tenor OF Judge Underwoods charge to the Grand
Jury which indicted Jefferson Davis has led to the COIN
OF two words for its proper
prudence and jurismpudence.
Two brothers named Donegan died from snrocaton in
Boston on the 23d. They had fallen into vault from
which they we're removing night SOIL
At Hudson, Michigan girl thirteen years old, having
been prevented from elopement by her fathers inter-
position poisoned his tea but gave him so large dose
that his life was saved. ar
Providence papers announce that Company OF the
Third artillery has reached Newport its return from
the Fenian war without losing a man.
In Boston there were only fifty seven deaths last
week, and of these twenty three were children under
five years OF age.
It is stated that the people OF the South are con-
trbutng fortune for JEFF Davis at the rate OF thou
sand dollars per day and likewise that the Governor OF
Alabama 10 out West soliciting money and food for the
poor OF that State How much better TO have been
cause than a victim Of the rebellion
It's proposed to open the National Cemetery at Ane-
tam September H. that day being the anniversary OF the
battle.
North Carolina hunting party killed three thousand
two hundred and sixty-six squirrels
The population of New Jersey according 10 the
of 1865, just published, rs 77s, 7Oo-an increase OF
l0l, 666 In FIVE years
Pennsylvania lately drove pair Of horses hun
bred miles In nine and half hours and then refused
ten thousand dollars for them.
couple of freedmen have recovered wages in suit
before city magistrate against the Nashville and De
catur Railroad, which had previously been decided
against them BY the rreedmcn's Bureau Court
The state Fair OF the Illinois Agricultural Society will
be held at Chicago September "a to 70 inclusive
Al the Joint OF the Vermont State Agricultural So
cietv and the New England Agricultural Society
september at Brattlcboro premiums will be awarded 10
the amount of nearly six thousand dollars, and the
greatest gathering in the State liz predicted.
man in GAINESVILLE H. lost thousand dollars which
his wife had placed stove for safe keeping by
thoughtlessly kn1ling nrc therein.
DR. A. w. Webb and his son were murdered In bed at
Little Rock Ark, the l4h inst, for the sake Of the
plumber in the house.
Murdoch, the tragedian, is to be the reader Of the
Declaration OF Independence the Fourth OF July cec
bration in Madison, Wisconsin.
Locusts nfest the vicinity Of Pittsburg, Pa
bear escaped from his chain in Webster Park, wor-
cestcr Mass other day and wandered looking
in al back doors and front Yards great
ton of tmid folks, until he was finally driven INTO
brook and rccaptured.