The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-05
SUMNdRK OF WEBS

esin a year. D''oos-
In one small town in Vermont there
are fifty widows. '0Ae
The eight hour bill has been aefoa+oa
in the New Jersy Legislature.
The Government isabout to commence
the rebuilding of Fort Sumpter.
1t is estim,ted, that 1900 elephant.
are yelrly ki!lei to supply Shelf ,ld
alone with ivory '''
The Qualifications on the "Batterv', Of
Charleston are being leveed for prono
enade ground.
The City Hotel, in Tatchez, Missis;,;
was burned to the ground on Tuesdam
night last.
Thirteen Massachusetts sportsmen 10
Gently caught 30,692 pounds of fish in
eight hours '' III
a single transportation COMPANY !,
st. Louis has made engagements fJr3 Ooa
600 pounds of freight to Montana Terri
tory. III
The Georgia Legislature has passed q
law to punish horse stealing and BURG
larry by night with death.
The Egyptian government on the frs.
of january, for the first time, commenc.
ed the use of postrge stamps.
There were in China in 1865, 1877 mis-.
sionaries, including ladies. OF these %
are Americans, Y English anls German.
a scheme has been started in Italy for
paying the national debt of that country
by popular SllbScrintiOn
There is a great deal of sickness pre-
vailing in Lexington, Ky-spotteo, ty.
phoid fever and pneumonia.
Horse and mule stealing is carried on
to large extent in Mississippi by negroes
and white outlaws.
In New Orleans, recently two men
engaged in carrying down corpse, had
each leg broken by the stairs giving
way.
Old Rome is increasing in population.
She had 207 1873, inhabitants at the close
of the last year; having gained 3,449 in
1865.
DR.. Winship, of Boston, now weighs
one hundred and sixty pounds, is thirty
two years of age, and can lift ton and
a quater.
A bill before Congress proposes the
coinage of five cent pieces, composed Of
copper and nickel, to take the place of
five cent currency.
Every paper in New York advocates
the adoption of the new system of fares
graduated according to speed on the
Central Railroad.
The United States steamer Macedonia
has arrived at the Gosport Navy Yard,
to be fitted as a Scholarship for the An
napolis Academy.
The criminal records of England show
that only one actor was ever hanged
there. This was in the seventeenth cen
fury, for highway robbery.
The Rock Island Paper Mill Company
of Columbus, Ga, announces their pur-
pose of rebuilding their paper-works at
an early day.
A SLAYER has just been captured by q
Spanish frigate off the coast of Cnba.
Several hundred slaves were on board,
some estimates making the number as
high as ], 800.
didate for Secretary of State, has accep-
V6U tllC CCCAC StsA yotlAP Va q AOW CARAOo1
company, with capital of fifteen mil
lions.
An excursion sleeping car, named the
"Sleeping palace, "hnd which cost 81 500
has been built by Josiah Woodruff, Esq
of Pittsburgh, for running between that
city and Chicago.
A woman who was rudely kissed by
n man, while walking in the streets o.
Buffalo one evening last week, instantly
: returned home and started her husband
after the offender, who was lodged In
PRISON. and fined S. the next morning
BY the magistrate. Thedefence set up that
the kiss was only a joke, given under
the influence Of a little too much liquor
{ and but for the testimony of genera
good character, the Judge announced
, that the punishment would have beer
, six months imprisonment.
Returning Reason.
, Vha New Nrnk Past once bitter Ra1lc.tl