The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-12-04

A MARYLAND man, who has arrived at
the ripe old age Of one hundred and two
years, was married the other day to his
second wife, and the couple arc nav on
bridal tour.
A KENTUCKIAN Sixty-hve years old pro
posed to girl Of seventeen. who refused
him, whereupon he blew his brailS out with
double>barrel shotgun.
PITTsBURG, as enlarged by the recent sa,
nexations of territory extends about six
miles and half on the Allegheny sod
Monongahela rivers, and about four miles
from river to river along the eastern fine.
The compositors Of Prussia are devoting
themselves to the stsdy Of short hand
writing that they may compose at once
from the stenographer's notes, and thus
save tie cost of transcribng. ea58
THE residence of Major Geaeral anthony
Wayne is now occupied by bis great grssltf-
son. It is ct Paol on the Pennsylvania
Railroad and is kept in mitch the same
condition as when owned by the Revofatoa-
ary hero.
Conn is rising. Bread is deasar. Even
the better classes appear to be falling into
dreadful destitution. for it is not unsunmon
sight now to meet their wives and dsugh>
ters wearing nothing but sacks.
A boy fell between an entering ferry boat
and the bridge in BROOKLYN the other day
and young man plunged after and rescued
him at the immeneut risk of being ground
up gne between the boat and the dock.
ONE young lady being anxious to kiss
General Sheridan, failed to reach his lips
whereat he remarked: 1T was q miss,
a good line shot" Those lines fall in pleas
ant places, too.
CHARLES LEVER, the novelist, who has
been doing consular duty ut one of the
Mediterranean ports, has been appointed
British Consul at Vieana. He is the Cor
nelius O Dowd,' of Btachpood.
A women at Westvie, near New Haven,
Connecticut, has recently lost both cheek.
bones, which were diseased from inhalation
Of PHOSPHORUS, while working in match
factory.
A Boy who had stolen team, in driving
it through Boston, on Saturday, ran over
woman, and to avoid arrest, jumped out
and ran away, leaving the stolen wagon in
the hands of the police.
A BETRAYED Irish girl In Lafayette In.
diana, began killing her false lover. He
offered to marry her if she wouldn't finish
the job, and the bargain was closed at the
priests house immediately.
The old college practice of "hazirg," or
shaving the hair from the top Of the head,
was revived the other day at Yale, an un-
sophisticated freshman being the victim of
! the heartless joke.
A PHYSICIAN prescribed six grains OF
| qunine for Miss Mary Jones at Fon du Lac,
Wisconsin, the druggist put up morphne
| instead, and Miss Jones is another to the
long list Of victims to druggists, mis-
| takes
| AN offender was taken before Tombs
justice the other day for the sixty third
time. The justice naively remarked that
the States had better come to some cem>
promise with the prisoner
THERE'S our grandmother, says o eotem-
porary, striking instance why women
should vote. She's paid taxes on dog for
the last ten years, and now declares she
won't stand it any longer--she' II either vote
or kill the dog.
| THE author of Wido,o Bedot sketchesl left
a portfolio of unpublished manuscripts,
which will be Issued by G.. w. Careten IL
! Co., under the title of Widow Spriggins. :
| The same house has in press new South
ern novel, entitled -Four Oafs.
IT is announced that almost all the spec.
ulating brokers Of Wall Street, during the
last fifteen years, have been ruined in the
business or have retired on fortunes ne lar.
ger than they had at first. Some of them
have been ruined a great many times.
A pApAR gives the following reasons for
not publishing poetic etEasion:
''The rythm sounds like pumpkins rolling
over barn floor, while some lines appear
to have been measured with yard d-stlek,
and others with ten foot pole. "
| The Island Of Tortola is said to have
been converted by Newune and bapslsed Ia
hill and dale, with ten or twelve thousand
inhabitants, arc not often subAerged in sRs
manner.