The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.

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in New Orleans.
DEAD.-"0ld Peg-legn Smith, an old trap
per and widely known in California lately died in the
San Francisco Hospital.
AGAINST Ir.-Gov. Orr of South Carolina
has officially declared his opposition to the proposed
Amendment to the Constitution.
IT is proposed to place an iron tubular
bridge under the Mississippi at ST. Louis to complete the
railway connection between Illinois and Missouri.
LAST year the people of England paid to
re gous institutions $2800000 and the tax spirits
paid to the Government amounted to S70000,000.
Horse stealing has become very common
among the negroes in Virginia. Another of the benefits
derived from the highly moral teachings and examples
of New England men,"
ANEGREss in New York fell from place
twelve feet high, plump on hard rock head forward.
1t hurt badly that she went negro ball that night
and danced till morning.
The Legislature of Oregon, at its late ses-
son passed "Act to prohibit gamation and the
intermarriage of racesn The Radical Congress may
kick Oregon out of their Union for this.
Slow LINE.-The Pacific Mail Steamship
Company are toput line of propeers between
New York and San Francisco, via Panama. to carry
freight and passengers in slower time at lower rates.
GEN. WIsTAR of Pennsylvania is among
the number Of brave officers who aided in the Demo
cratic in that State in the late election Is he
traitor, Messrs. Radicals?
SUIcIDE.-Frederick Weed, a nephew of
ThurIow Weed and officer in the I'd Cavalry Cal Vols
committed suicide by taking laudanum at the military
post in Salt Lake City, few days ago.
The Radicals propose to place portrait
of Joshua R. Giddngs in the Capitol at Washington
They ought to put either side the portraits Of Beast
Butler and old John Brown.
THE Boston Fraternity, an association of
Radicals have discarded Henry Ward Beecher from the
list of lecturers because he sustained the Presidents
policy. Petty spite this for calling themselves
scholars.
HoRRIBLE.-A spiritual Doctor in San Fran
cisco lately had little girl of ten years taken from him
because he was starving it to make it medium" The
mother of the child had died from starvation only few
days before, from the horrible nfatuation. The
The BAD MAN.-It now appears that the
for the application of Mrs. Senator Sprague for
divorce is the drunkenness alone of her rich hus-
band but chiefly his beastly and revolving acts of inf
deity She has gone to Europe and late reports say
has followed her, to try and arrange the matter.
SPIRITUAL.-In one of the most fashionable
churches Of San Francisco lately discovered that
between singing at the opening and close of the service
the choir accustomed to partakng of lunches in
which liquors and wines were enjoyed. The popping OF
stubborn champagne cork Sunday, during the
vice. discovered the thing
GEN. HOWARD, Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau has ordered that the property of Joseph
E. Davis brother of jeff Davis be restored to him. after
the expiration of the lease by which it is held The
rents which have accrued since the date of his pardon
by the President, amounting to about $20000 also
to be paid to Mr.. Davis.
A YANKEE KoTIoN.-It is now the habit in
the schools for young ladies in Massachusetts, for
one teacher to play the piano while another is oggng
pupil very pretty notion, don't you see-for the
piano partly browns the cries of the victm and be-
sdes the oggng indicates how pleasant the exercise
is to the tender spinsters who have such gushing SYM
pathies for Sambo.
NEGRO applied to the Probate Court of
Talahatchie county, Mississippi for permission sell
himself into slavery He says he is % years DID, good
field hand, and believes he is worth 81 O00 He says
there too many responsibilities attached to the life
OF Tree man Tor INN to bear. The Court having no
jurisdiction of the matter forwarded the petition to
Thad. Stevens.
AssAssINs.-It is ascertained that the riot
at Indianapolis the occasion of President Johscns
visit there gotten up by the sGrand Army of the
Republic'-the armed Radical organization, comprised
mainly of Federal soldersor the purpose of assassi
mating the President. Gen. Grant the first shot
fired and he declares the weapon aimed at the Pres
ident.
A CAUTIoN.-Ith has been said that kerosene
lamps will not explode This is a mstake-they Will
explode as too many terrible accidents from their
plCSpn have proven, The lamps are always liable to
expoe when the tube that holds the wick is prop
erly put in There should be air hole small OPEN
ing in that part of the tube which forms the partition
between top and bottom The lamp wants no more air
than that which passes by the wick into it.
MISUNDERSTANDING must be heredi-
tary aing in the Sprague family The father of Senator
SpTague shot dead fer educing the wife of of
his own workmen. Mrs. Kate Chase SDragua married
into happy family. Suppose her husband was DEM
ocrat-how the Radical, godly people of pous New Eng
land would hold him up to public reprobation But ne
is one of themselves and they are mum.
CoMIcAL.-A Boston Presbyterian preacher
lately ignted some matches in his pantaloons pocket
while he exhorting from the pulpit His antics for
little while rather astonished his congregation A
timely drench from a pitcher of water by of the
members put out the fire. He preaching about hell
fire at the time his congregation thought he had struck
it rich.
DIseRIMINATrNG.- Judge Wilson of Oregon,
at term of Court in Canyon City, fined saloon
keepers-white men-about $50 each for violating the
Puritan Sunday law of that State. He fined negro
woman only So fordrawing loaded pistol and threat
ening to shoot white woman Judge Wilson a
chief guest at negro wedding in Salem few years
and kissed the dusky bride He has been soft the
coor ever since. But he is very white folks
REPUTATION The question of repudiation
is being discussed in the Virginia papers. The State
debt of old Virginia is about $42 00000 the assets in
the hands of the State Treasurer consisting principally
OF railroad stocks amount to about $15000000. As the
Federal Congress has obliged them to repudate their
Confederate debts due among themselves and in Europe
the Virginans may well go the whole hog and rep-
dae the debts their State owes to Northern capitalists
GETTING READY.-All the nations of Europe
making vigorous preparations ora gigantic Eng
land increasing and reorganZing her army Napoleon
is Introducing great reforms in the French ary Russia
Prussia Austria and Italy following suit Spain is
busy in the same lines little Switzerland is adding to its
army; and the standing army of Sweden, which has
hitherto consisted of about 900 men, is to be entirely