The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-28
NC. 49,.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

0L1N EMAIL NEWS ITEMS
4 seven-year old boy is in prison ia
the sixth time in Boston, for larceny.
A biblical opera on the history ofSauf
Is announced in Germany.
There is some prospect that JENNY
Llnd will again visit this country.
y. w. Jerome, of New York, has lost
Wltnln short period $1,000,O00 by the
decline CT Pacific Mail stock.
The planters in western Texas are be-
ginning to employ Mexican laborers to
raise corn and cotton.
The Mississippi Legislature has an
propriated So, 900 to be expended in the
defense Of JEFF. Davis.
A $4,000 diamond was found in the
Tippecanoe River, Ind.
Punch says it is dreadful to hear of a
ehlld, only one month old, taking to the
bottle
A German iron master will send to
the Paris Exposition house made en-
t1feiy OF iron, at a cost OF s. 1000. It
can be taken to pieces, and is easily heat
eel, for the walls are hollow, and may be
connected with a furnace or q hot water
chamber
a Methodist eXhorter recently bewail-
ing the GOODNESS of his flock in religious
matters, said very CURLY that the church
members OF late attended too much to
the conversion of seven-thifties.
at the late town meeting in Nantuck-
ct there We're three hundred and seventy
five people over seventy years old, sew
enty-five who were over eighty, and
nine who Were over ninety. Nantucket
must be the place where people live till
they dry ap and are blown away.
According 70 people who have made
researches in Egypt, the ancient Egyp-
tiaHs We're familiar with the use Of iron;
fer it is shown by the nails Ia the inner
door oil the Thehan Tomb; constructed
at least 2oe9 years ago.
4 daily newspaper man, who has Just
gone ont OF the traces, says he is be-
coming quite well acquainted vita his
family. He shortly discovered, t. his
great surprise, that his daughter could
play quite well upon the piano. He
never bad time to discover the act before.
The recent earthquake in the Island hf
Cephaionia was terribly destructive of
lie and property. Many villages are in
ruins. and fifty thousand persons are
said to he without homes or bread. In
the town OF l4iXari more than one hum
dfed bodies have been recovered, and
The search is not yet finished.
A project has been proposed to the
Northeast Railroad Company Of Swift
zeriand to cross the Lake of Constance
by floating the trains OVER According
to the plans submitted to the company,
a train of fourteen to siXteel carriages
is to be placed upon a steam vessel fur
nished for the purpose. An ingenious
contrivanee provides against the changes
OF level in the lake, and assists in the
and debarkation Of the
trains.
One day last week an old man of about
sixty years of age, named Philo Woods,
arrived in Louisville from Henryville,
Indiana, in search of his runaway wife,
Nancy Woods, aged fifty EIGHT, who had
eloped from him about two weeks pre-
vious, taking with her the hired boy,
stephen Wilson, aged nineteen, and all
the furniture and portable property in
his house. "Philo," should add $50
phia" to his name and let such wife
"gang her ain gait"
A wide-awake minister, who found
his congregation going to sleep one Sum
day before he had fairly commenced,
stopped and exclaimed: "Brethren this
isn't fair; it isn't giving man half
chance. Wait till get along, and then
if amt worth listening to, go to sleep;
but don't before get commenced-giv
a man a chance"
SEATS IN CARS.-An important prin-
ri nla Of law yaS satt1ad NV tho Suprnroo