Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-22
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I THE Montgomery (Ala.) AduerAscr says:
Laborers are at the Central Bank Corner hir-
ing themselves for $50, and even al low as $25,
for the year. These are al ablebodied field
hands. Boys who got IS per month last year,
hire themselves for food and clothing. We
hear from the country that the best field hands
are hiring in some sections for $50 per annum.
a great many decline to hire until after the
eiccsl0n. -. 1850
AGENTLEMXN living near Sedalia, Mo-, has
three sons, aged respectively IL, Is and 1S
years. The second son was born, on the same
day Of the month and year precisely three
years after the birth Of the first; and the third
son on the same day of the month and year
precisely three years after the birth ofthe sec
0nd son.
A NEGRO went to prominent lawyer in
Tennessee, some days ago, and rendered him
fee of twenty dollars, remarking ut the time
that he had understood that he was a great
friend of the negroes, and that he wanted him
to asue somebody and get him horse-that
he had no horse, and wanted one. is
REV. M. NEWELL of West Brattleboro, VT,
formerly Universalist clergyman, hung him.
self in his barn few days ago. He was about
60 years old. man of considerable property,
but imagined himself poor, which hallucination
was the probable cause OF the deed.
A VERMONT paper says: Water in Burling.
ton is selling ut half dollar barrel. Wells,
springs and cisterns are generally dry, and wa
ter has TO be drawn from the lake. The cart
men are reaping good harvest by drawing
water for family USE
A YOUNG MAN in Clayton, Iowa, recently
s{ola a a Of nstfla m uat xuanav IN ratnava
to Missouri with his family. He was arrested,
and, when the facts were made known to his
young wife, it broke her heart and she died in
q few minutes. ...s ~.ss.-. ..s "a
A TALENTED young lawyer from New Ha-
ven, Z. X. Foster, Jr., has had the pleasure OF
being beaten for the Florida Convention by
New Hampshire darkey. Foster wasn't Rad.
zeal enough, and his hair didn't have sufficient
kink. e.. Hlt trs
Dir. BELLOWS says marriages are becoming
quite common between Jews and Christians
Jewish women like Christian husbands, and
Christian husbands like Jewish dowries. and
Jewish beauty and brightness.
THEY have very contemplate rogues in Bur-
lingt0n. Vermont. Some Of them have been
stealing wood and chickens from the home for
destitute children. which 10 meaner than pick
ing the pennies from the eyes of the dead.
DUMAS, the negro who was defeated in the
Louisiana Radical Convention for Governor,
but nominated for Lieutenant Governor and
declined, will. it ia said, run as an Independent
for Governor.
THERE is a splendid plantation near Eufau-
la, Ala, containing 1900 acres Of fine cotton
land, with at least $1,000 worth Of stock and
implements upon 1t. being offered in the mar
ket for $1,000.
Ir 10 stated that the Black Crook was played
i75 times in New York, bringing ia $760. 900.
The internal revenue Office received $4,000
from it.
T. B. O'CoSNoR, school teacher in Rich
field, Minnesota. was put of the cars for fail.
ng 10 pay the extra ten cents exacted for not
procuring a ticket. and was frozen TO death.
THE Lexington (Ky.) Observer estimates the
,amber VI negroes in that city at ten thousand,
,f whom many live BY means that are an, thing |
but respectable
AT recent execution sale, near Fayette-
sille, Tenn, l6 bales Of good cotton sold at |
cents per pound, and 60 barrels Of corn sold at
30 cents per barrel. or Is cents per bushel.
REV. JAMES GIBBONS, OF the Baltimore /
Cathedral. has been confirmed by the Pope, |
md will soon be consecrated Catholic Bishop |
IF North Carolina.
MANY negroes in Arkansas subsist entirely
BY hunting and fishing, and seem to be relaps-
ng into the barbarous condition Of their Atri.
AN ancestors.
A NEGRO in Florida went to q political meet.
ng armed with pistol, which he ingeniously
Inserted la his boot leg, muzzle up. and cooked
lie killed only himself
THERE were in New Haven. in 1867, a total
II l4J6 births, Of which TT were males. 10
plurality, and 81 illegitimate. The total mum.
Der Of marriages was 4s2. and deaths 7S9.
A FRENcHMAN recently hung himself be-.
,ause his grocer dunned him for bill Of twenty
dollars. Thereupon his son shot the grocer
The account 10 still unpaid.
A MANIFESTO, signed by Edward Beecher,
md other magnates Of Congregationalism, and
demanding change 10 the editorshp Of the N.
|. Independent, has been published.
In New England the Catholics have 2o4
churches out OF q total Of 5.293. In the whole
country, 2,462 Catholic and 81 900 Protestant
.hurches es
THERE Is something very sad In those men,
'rable words of Aaron Burr: g If had read
Voltaire less the world would would have been
vide enough for me and Hamilton"
TnE Columbia (Miss.) fadex says IL ID ru.
n0red that 500 freedmen in Lowndes county
IavC signed their naunea To A COLLABORATION