Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

the Canyon City and Dalles stage road, saw thu
? rascals from Currant creek hill He gave the
d alarm, and soon three men, Howard Maupin
o Clark, and passenger named VIM. Raglan
took after them on horseback. They shot an
/ Indian spy, pOunced suddenly ON the eight OF
) a branch of Trout creek, and killed four OF
0 them. The rest got off, All the stolen stock
! except one that had been slaughtered, was re.
covered The Indians have lately stolen good
deal OF stock from the John Day valley.
DR.. JAMES j. WATSON, of the ROYAL Col.
lege of Surgeons England, has been inIestigat-
ing the sanitary condition of the Isthmus of
5 Darien, under instructions, and reports that
4 Colon and Panama are both healthy ports
/ that yellow fever has never been epidemic in
either place; and that if persons from colder
climates will observe ordinary care, in abstain
ing from excesses in eating of tropical fruits,
OF IN drinking water or liquors, they will en-
10y an immunity from disease, from fevers es-
peeially, while ON the Isthmus Exposure to
the night air is also to be guarded against
lhe moderate use of anything eatable or drink
ableis not likely to incur disease.
j In Boston, says the La Crosse Democrat. an
ltinerant minister and peripatetic pedagogue,
gently ichided a little Irish girl in school for
i laughing He chided her with whaIebone
whip, cutting forty-three gashes in her back
andlegs. She died within four days. The
trustees said he was a little too severe. He
was discharged from the school and sent South
to write letters about the cruelty of the peo-
pie there, for the New England Christians to
read.
The Star Spangled Banner" was Kissed
at theatre in Portland, Maine, few nights
since. 1t might have been the bad singing, but
newspaper men are thankful the kissing was
not in a Southern city, as it would in that case
Involve aCOngressional Investigation Commit
+tee, with half dozen columns of majority and
minority reports. IT.
The students of a New York college lately
tried the experiment of putting back the mark
in the chapel Bible, and succeeded in having
the same chapter read every morning for a
week, by the same professor They think
they proved, therefore, that the professor felt
very little interestin the service.
THE town of Seabrook has been excited
over case of fOgging in one of the schools of
that town. A graduate Of Exeter Academy,
employed as teacher, logged q girl upon the
hand Tor upwards of an hour, in order to force
her to acknowledge wrong act.
AN English tourist says the ladies of Boston
0utstrip the ladies of New York, and the South
Sea Island female costume is Just little less
than the New York ball room style of Dress
The Boston ladies must delight in nothing to
wear. I149 5 sic 3%F08 ~
A NUGGET which weighed $404 was found
IN the Whangd0Odle claim, Susanville diggings
Oregon, few days ago. Rich quartz lodges
have been lately discovered in that vicinity,
and preparations are being made to work
them. Is lJ .r eef
THE Radicals in the Legislature of Maine
propose to amend the Liquor Law, SO as to |
punish physicians by fine and imprisonment for |
administering intoxicating liquors to their pa
tlents for medicine.
{ Two girls were arrested id the streets oil
Pittsfeld, Massachusetts, recently, for drunk
enness, When found, they were stuck in a.
snow bank, from which they were taken with
some difficulty.
"tYoU would be very. pretty, indeed . said d /
gentleman patronizingly to young lady, q if
your eyes were only little largera " My eyes
may be very small, sir, but such people as you
don't fill them" M 800 - sF
VICTOR HUGO once said of Louis Napoleon:
.sHelies mute and motionless, looking intheOp-l
posite direction to his object until the hour for
action comes, then he turns his head and leaps
upon hisprey.' e T fTE
A PROFESSOR COMPTON is giving free lee
lures to gentlemen only" in Portland, on.
" The physical causes which lead to divorce,
or separation Of husband and wife" A ques-Ff
tlOnable subject for any gentleman to listen to.
THE Boston Commonwealth says that suche
men as Phillips and Stevens are the cream of
the country. Prentice thinks if they are, the
sooner the country is skinned the better for it. l.
THERE is one single fact which one may OPP
pose to all the wit and argument of intidelity,
VIZ: That no man ever repented of being a
Christian on his death bed.
THE site for the Dalles City wooden factory q
las been located on Mill creek, Trevitts addi- Il
ion. The building is to be Of stone, so by 80 6
eet II
The Dalles paper says that although dull 4
rood deal of business and general improve p
nent is going on there. 4
SEvENTY-FIVE of the handsOmest girls have :
,een selected from the different houses of cor
ectiOn at ToulOn, to send out to Cayenne as :
wives for the convicts of that penal colony. +
A YOUNG married lady in Ohio hanged her 1
elf recently because her husband scolded her
or giving sixteen dollars in charity.
TIE principal mill owners at Lawrence,
MASSACHUSETTS,, have resolved to reduce the ]
wages of their operatives. l q
A WOMAN of Utica, just deceased, was mar P