Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-27
IDAHO CITY, BOISE COUNTY SATURDAY JULY a.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

l. HE gIgdnIlC pFUI0cG VI tsJuHn6k IOr q SUP
marine FalrOad- under the Atlantic. ocean, be-
tween Europe and America, has been brOach-
ed. The tunnel can be lighted by electric
lights, it is said The estimated cost is
ES2, ,5O0,000 ,000s It would require the labor of
100000 men for thirty years, to complete the
work, and when finished, trains would travel.
ordinarily, in six days from continent to con-
tinent, or in half that time for express trains.
THE Montana Post Of July 18th, says Z The
death of Patsey Marley, pugilist, reported some
time since, is confirmed. He died in "Death
Valley" en- route to California With the party
who buried him, he sent q message of kind re-
membrance to j. G. Orem, and his last words
were, @sTell Con. died like a brave man."
He died of thirst. His party found water a
few minutes after he expired.
The Rev. DR.. Cox, Methodist preacher
and stump speaker in California, said in one
of his speeches in behalf of the Radical ticket
II care not for creeds, only respect loyalty"
This means, then, that Dr. Cox, in hell, would
respect the Devil. Most people will believe
him when he says he does not believein creeds.
He would disgrace any of them.
AN exceedingly modest young lady, desiring
leg of chicken, at table, said" III take the
portion which ought to be dressed in drawers !"
A young gentleman opposite Immediately said
-" III take the part which ought to wear the
bustep' Smelling salts were Immediately re-
quired for the young lady.
THE Springfield, Mass Republican tells of
widow of very rich man Ill that city, who
made her own sister pay dollar and halt
for turkey her husband had sent to that sis
ter twelve years ago. model Puritan lady
that
IT was reported q few months ago that John
Morrissy, retired pugilist and present member
of Congress. was bankrupt by heavy stock
losses He has lately paid Snowman Barnum
sos 600 for splendid residence at Bridgeport,
| Connecticut.
AN island, directly in the track of the steam
ers between San Francisco and Japan and
China, has been lately discovered. 1t is be-
lieved shat several missing vessels have been
lost upon it. A company is organized to sur
vey and take possession of it.
THE Democrats of Oregon will soon place q
monument over the grave of Delazon Smith,
an ex-senator of that State, at Albany. 1t is
to be ten feet high, built of Oregon sand stone
and marble, of handsome design, and will cost
about $780,
THE New York Herald proposes to make
Gen Grant Supreme Dictator. That would
be displacing Thad Stevens. Nice Republic,
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becoming no better.
The Salem Record says Mclaughlin & Co.
passed through that place few days ago with
418 head of choice, fine, fat cattle, purchased
| in Yamhill county, which they were driving to
Boise Valley, for stock purposes
A METHODIST exhOrter recently bewailed
the coldness Of his flock in religious matters,
saying very curtly that the church members of
1 iI,ko lo1 1,oh Ao fha Of
seven-thirties
AN Indian in Natchez, Mississippi, thus apt
! ly describes the social revolution in the land ::
g Fore the war, fust cum white man, den IN
Jun, den dog, den niger; but now fust cum
nigger, den dog, den injun, and white man last. /"
Gov. OGELsBY of Illinois, q fierce Radical,
some time ago joined the water tanks" or
Good Templars A late dispatch says he is
confined to his room from the effects of very
. recent big drunk.
A MOB of 900 negroes lately attempted the
rescue of a negro, convicted of a felony, who
was being taken to the Virginia Penitentiary
in Richmond. Congress will vote medal to
each rascal of the mob, quite likely.
A MEMPHIS paper says: The man who sold
the last slave ever pit up at auction In Ten
nessee, and took his pay therefor in COnfeder-
~AA~~S
State for Congress.
THE Democratic Convention of Minnesota
have nominated Charles S. Flandreau for Gov
ernor, and an excellent State ticket through
out.
NEVER lay.a stumbling block in the way Of
a man who is trying to advance himself in the
world honestly and uprightly, fcF he is likely
to walk over it, and laugh at you afterward.
Norm ADANs, Mass, is excited over the
elopement of Rev. S. A. Merrill, q popular
Methodist preacher, with girl Of sixteen
years leaving wife and nine children.
IN Canada there are seventy-three gold
mines, employing 7O8 miners. The yield OF
gold for the last three months is valued at
$500, ,955.
DURING the past year over 10000 bushels
Of oysters were sent from Shoalwater Bay to
San Francisco.
New YORK papers say that one-third OF the
4 currency in circulation in that city is counter.
felt. It goes all the same, however.
OF II, ,534 persons registered as voters IN
New Orleans, under Mana Sahib Sheridan,
: orders, only 3,742 are whites
The income returns in Indiana for looo'
show falling of. of70 per cent from the year