The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-03


address were made by commissioners and trustees.
Mr. Miller is said have got OF several old 'Joe's IN
his usual felcitous style
News Items.
Two cbivaous youths aged fifteen and nineteen years,
had a dispute in Memphis which they determined to
fight out BY duel PISTOLS were chosen and the affair
came OF. As the party who load d the weapons had
particle OF secretion he put cotton instead OF eaden
balls The younger Of the principals dsgused be-
neither shot took effect, and proposed 10 renew
the cont st with bowie knives, but that prevented.
The twenty sixth annual fair Of the Oneida County
Agricultural Society will be held in Utica from the 81 to
the It'll Of September.
At an accidentally assembled whist party in Newbury
port, Mass, the other evening, the oldest player was
ninety five and the youngest over eighty.
reunion Of the OF Massachusetts, who served In
the army or navy during the late war s talked Of to
take place at Boston September 10.
Three prisoners escaped from the g. Louis Jail the
night Of the 22d.
The Philadelphia police made raid on the lottery
policy dealers on Wednesday.
Wednesday class day At Yale college George c.
Holt OF Pomfre Conn, delivered the class oraton and
James Brund, OF Saco, Me-, the class poem.
IRE at Newbury, s. c., the 18th inst, destroyed
property TO the amount Of $4,000.
A negro, who had abused woman In Floyd county,
Georgia. caught. At her request his capors on
his arms and skinned him, after which operation he
lived about ten minutes
The safe Of the Commonwealth burned At her
wharf last December In Groion Conn., has been raised
The greenbacks inside found TO be yet se-vceabe
The work Of building the long contemplated Potomac
and Chesapeake tide water canal will soon be begun
man named Priest was murdered at Cornih, Miss,
on the Goth inst
d. N Burke, Of Cincinnati has jus, returned from
VISIT to Ireland, his native country reports that
Fenanism there is regarded ~ wretched farce by all
intelligent irshmen
There . nitro-gycerine explosion At Petroleum
Centre. Pennsylvania. Friday last by which several
persons we're severely injured.
Judge Lynch has put Of the way two men suspected
OF murder In Buchanan county, Missouri
Michigan gentleman re- evcd from the President Of
the Michigan Central Railroad order q shed
from some land Of the company He couldn't read the
note, nor could any one else, and concluding IL
Tree pass, made good use Of 1t for three months.
The cataraueus County m. - Agricultural Society
oe,s premiums on babies this year fifteen dollars for
the best and ten dollars for the second bert.
Chicago quack has made large fortune by his prac-
tice during the last twenty The other day he
nothing Of medicine or surgery For consumption he
ord red compound Of tar, vinegar and assafeda 10
be IT at the head of the bed In jar and constantly
stirred and for sore eyes he ordered ointment made
Of the fat OF q black cat.
The DeForcst prize medal, valued At hundred dol
lars annually competed for BY the students of the senior
class at Yale College, was on Monday last awarded to
Edward Y. Hincks, Of Bridgeport Conn. The prize is
given for the best written and spoken English Grafton
tional Government"
The police OF Lowell Mass arrest all loafer. in en-.
forcement " the vagrant law OF the state
The Mayor Of columbua Miss. has appointed Jen
KIRK, colored carpenter Mayor Of Q village OF freed.
men within ths city precincts.
Miss Alice King the actress accepted an Invitation
to read the Declaration Of Independence At the coming
FOURTH Of Jly celebration In Madison, Wisconsin,
which tccasion the flags Of the State regiments
be presented 70 the State.
At the recent dress reform convention at Syracuse,
Br Mary =. walker predicted that In ten years women
would have the right q suffrage and hold bite Offices
church IN Ipswich, hass win celebrate In dsy
next week he fcrcth ansivesary Of the settlement Of
Rev. Mr. Ftx and the bsndredh anniversary Of the
settlement Of hs immediate predecessor, Rev. VI Dana
Tho Harvard law School prizes Cor the current
have been award as follows:For essays by students
who have attended the school three terms, on THE Ex
tent 70 which the Common Law Is appliex In determin
ing what constitutes crime and the natu and degree
sixty dollars Jeremiah Travis, of 81 John. New Bruins
w ym I p s Ho pr1. nfy dol. e David B, rd
dents who have attended the school terms on she
doctrine Of excluding what is offered evidence on ia
ground Of neompeiency." The nrs prize nfty dollars
second prize forty dollars Henry Marshall Buford ~
Danvile, Kentrcky. Jadge Holmes, Of the Supreme
Court OF Missouri and Judges Me,oslf and Thomas of
Boston, were the committee Of award.
permanent theatre 10 TO be established At Reading
Pa, by New York partes
Rhode Island has only nine hundred Justice. OF the
Peace.
Frederick Buliard, OF Pennington. Ne. committed
sue 40 on 'he As'h instant lie was seyenty-one years
of age
Friday In, IN Sav svcn harbor TIE victor New
York woman,
It's sAq that the New Haven pa,u~~-
II ls now underground den infested ~ 1
rickpocketa
Charles N. Bowmgn Ia 10 deliver the orstlon before
The lie airy societies OF Dickinson College at the coming
uommenc ment
Every coneehouse keeper IN covng,ou XIV. for viola.
lion o quor law OF that State, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury.
II Is sad ,inet there Ia as much as nifty million feet Of
stranded lumber on the st. Crox river
nows room, caasy shop and soda water fountain are
run by tho enterprsng clerks 10 connection with the
Pest Office m ST Adams, W.
Cold storms In the West have killed thousands OF sheep
Just shearcd.
The police are breaking up all the gift enterprise con
terms In Chicago
Iarkin a. Meade, Jr., the Vermont sculptor has
On shed . design for o soldiers monument at Johns
bury. a OF granite seventeen feet hish, with marble
tablets and viii support marble statue OF America
hermit rvallinT tho New York nuisance has been
discovered In Chicago
The late A. r. Street Of New Haven left BY viii \
10000 for tie endowment Of profess orsh rs in the
Theological sclacl and q like amount for tie compe.
on Of toe Art BuSSse Tbis W " make Ihe amount OF |
his giis 10 ths COLLEGE snogi $3.50 900
Wolves shA bears abound in the Adirondack region |
inis season, = @t&.--z
An action for libel has been brought sgs1nst y n
3oodrch, OF Boston, tho ground OF false a. q ms,t
rious charges 10 his pamphlet lately published 70
cate bis scfion az Collector OF the port
Edward Not Robinson a citizen OF Massachusetts
et ~ VIII 70 his da ghter VI 600 600 and tho income a
~ 600 600. the whoe 60 10 her children IN she ever
Las any, end 80 600 In small legaces other parties
Wow his daughter "a about 10 contest the viii In te
courts She contested another will not long ago, Ia
which Der claims we're similarly ignored Her asts for