Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-11-02
MIsCELLANEoUs ITEMs..

1AAASOGAAAAANGLOO 11EMSo.
A GERMAN newspaper says: Two years ago
Mr. Christian Segemeyer became father of his
hfty-eighth child. His first wife gave birth to
tWenty-three, of which six were twins and
eleven single-born children, Of these fifty
eight children twenty y-eight are living, all being
daughters; and the man has never been sick,
and enjoys good health, as do his children.
AT THE recent annual meeting of the French
Free MasOns the question was raised whether
or not the use of the formula q to the glory Of
the great Architect of the Uuiyerse,n was to-
be held obligatory in all cases. The debate
was warm, and resulted in the retention of the,
formula, by vote Of 100 against g.
THE Augusta (Ga Republican complains,
that the Federal soldiers in that town beat and
rob the negroes, and that no redress can be.
obtained at headquarters If Southern men
were to SO transgress, Congress, or the Mill
tary Satrap In that Department, would make
1t mighty serious offence for them
RECENTLY, while the captains of one of the
schooners which ply between San Francisco,
and Stockton was sound asleep In his bunk
with his clothes on, q daring thief entered tho
Captains sleeping apartment and stole the
pantaloOns from his person.
IT is PROPOSED that the LOYAL Leaguers
throughout the country contribute two hund-
red and fifty thousand dollars to Mrs. Lincoln.
not as gift, but as a slight acknowledgment
OF debt which the loyal people owe to the mem
ory of her husband.
1T is SAID that in many parts cf the South
the wells have become so strongly impregnated
with the Freedmen's Burea, that the water is
no longer fit to drink. In one we'll at Jack
son, Miss. nine negro babies were recently
fshed up. @
THE New York Herald only states the sim
pie truth, when it says that "there is not SIN
| gle great soldier of the country, there never
was corps commander in the Army of the
Potomac, who was not Democrat before the
war;"
A MAN lately made application for insurance
on building situated in village where was
no fire engine, He was asked, "What are the
facilities in your village for extinguishing
fre?" well, it rains, sometimes, I" he replied.
A NEGRO woman recently found sum of
S., 900 in gold in an old stable in ST. Joseph,
Mo-, and was swindled out of $4,000 of it by a
Radical lawyer of that place. The st. JOselh
Union promises to give his name.
A MAN in Alton, Illinois, has escaped from
punishment for adultery because the highly ed
ucated Prosecuting Attorney had charged him
with "idolatry," which is not known as crime
in that country.
AN OLD woman died in Milwaukee the other
day, whose disease completely baffled the skill
of the physicians. Upon opening her stomach
q number of large crabs, alive and actfvey
were found.
SHERIDAN promises that ''no act of his shall
ever make rebellion honorable.p It is not on
the record that any of his acts ever made any.
thing honorable.
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THE Hartford Times says of the "poem .
read at the Antietam celebration that it was
longer than the drone of Scotch bagpipe and
about MS musical and martial
ONE of the South Carolina registrars says
that when the negroes come to 4EreceiYe the
election franchise" they generally bring along
bags or baskets to put it in.
THE old elephant, Tippo Saib, bel0ngiag. tep
Van Amburgh, recently refused to cross a
bridge near Burlington, Iowa, which he had
fallen through ten years ago.
THERE are two directly opposite Eeasons
why man sometimes cannot get credit. One
is, because he is not known, and the other, be-a
cause he is
THE Canton (Ohio) Republican mentions
the rumor that Mrs Lincoln is to marry res.
ident of that place Y
BEEcHER is going to have his PRAYERS bound
in book FORM. Why DON'T be have them.dram-
atized s. a9a1
THAD. STEVENS platform is Reconstruction,
Negro Superiority, Revenue and Revenge
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STRANGE CoNJUNCTIoNs.--A Missouri pas.
per says: At the funeral of General Sterling
Price, at St. Louis, was also buried the wife
of his son, d daughter of General Thomas L.. a
Price, of Jefferson City. A driver of one of
fho foil doo1 bo,
seat to take part Of the procession. The
hearse used was the same which bore. the re-
mains of Mr.. Lincoln to Oak Ridge, in Spring.
field, illinois, Gen. Prices life was insured
for $4,000. He leaves a widow, four sons,
Edwin, CELSIUS, Quintus and Abner, and a.
daughter, Stella. i9aE
So They Goa dispatch from. Augusta.
Georgia, Sept 18th saws An inOffensiYe white.