Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Onc Cnurcn ana COlleg6 aG rama City, rama
county, Iowa.
! "A MOVE is on foot to establish an immigra-
ton bureau in New Orleans to attract euro
pean labor and capital to the South.
+ SAID AN irish Justice to an obstreperous
prisoner on trial: We want nothing from
you but silence. and mighty little Of that"
| !, A YOUNG lady in Hardin county, Iowa, bit
young mans thumb off, lately, for attempting
familiarities.
FoRNEY says he "feels like telling the TRUTH
But F0rney wouldn't on such an occasion give
way to his feelings for the world - Prentice.
The Hebrew Messenger states that there are
in New York city 10000 Hebrews, or more
than one-ifteenth of the entire population.
ABOUT one white man to every one hundred
and fifty negroes voted at the recent election
in Alabama on the ratification of the new Con-
stitutiOn.
The Georgians are organizing for the Con-
stitutional election, and will vote it down. The
fate OF Alabama, sacrificed by the treachery of
Congress, has nerved them to their work.
Gov. OGLEsBY, of Illinois, authorizes the
declaration that he will not be candidate for
Congress or any other Office while holding tho
Office of Governor
/
Bluffs and ST. Joe Railroad, and will be COM
pleted to st. Joseph by June first, giving rail
connection with st. Louis.
A CONNECTICUT paper publishes the follow
ing among it's notices of births: In Cornwall.
February 5, a son, to j. Treichemenn, Esq.--a
Democratic gain.
A PERSON who applied to the dispenser of
charities for load of wood at Hannibal, Mo-,
few days ago, was found to have money at
| interest.
| PRESIDENT JOHNSON, with his two daugh-
tiers, were among those in Washington who
lately attended the funeral of William Slade,
the faithful colored steward OF the White House.
| BARNUM gives notice that he has retired for
ever from the museum business, SO that all the
reports about his negotiations for this and that
other establishment i'll order to start business
afresh, are incorrect. -s
| ELIHU b. WAsHBURNE, Representative in
Congress from the Seventh Congressional Dis
! tract of Illinois, has addressed a card to his
constituents, announcing that he will not be
candidate for reelection.
| OK the 2lst of May the great quadrennial
conference of the Methodist denomination of
the United States will be held-wherein will
be represented 10, AGO churches, embracing no
less than two millions communicates.
AN act providing for the erection of a new
State House for the State OF Iowa, ut Des
MONIES, has passed both branches of the Legis-
lature The cost is fixed at million and
halt of dollars.
The Selma (Ala.) Times states that it is in
formed on good authority that large landhold-
ers in Greene county are offering to give the
use of their plantations next year to any one
who will agree to pay the taxes on them.
! An auctioneer in Nashville, Tennessee, was
selling mare at public auction. He allowed
on" of the bidders to get on the mare to try
her speed. He must have been pleased, for he
| has never returned.
| PARKING p. LANE, who now resides with
his family Mt Belvidere, ILL.,. is one hundred aud
one years of age, and is active and lively. His
wife is eighty seven years old. This couple
have had twenty three children, all of whom
are living, and in the enjoyment of good health.
CONNECTICUT is said to be in proportion to
its population the richest State in the Union;
the average of every inhabtant is over 5000,
which is about one hundred dollars higher than
the average in the State next highest, Rhode
Island
AN auctioneer, at late sale OF antiquities,
put up helmet with the following candid OBJ
servation i" This ladies and gentlemen, is
helmet of Romulus the Roman founders but
whether he was brass or iron founder can
/ not tell"
/ THE valuable sword, presented to Commo-
dore BiddIe by the Peruvian Government,
stolen from the Patent Office few weeks
since, has been recovered by the detectives.
The diamonds, five or six in number, had been
/ removed by the thief. Two Of them have been
recovered. ~3#|
De WOLF g. Co, of Liverpool, have given
free passage to about $50 Irish persons OF both
sexes. to Rio Janeiro, where they will get land
nj n shilling per acre and have FIVE years to
paw for It, Brazil has over fifty foreign colo
MES, with about 10000 colonists, chiefly Ger
mans. Aa
i A CERTAIN missionary among the freedmen
in Tennessee. after relating to some little coli
ored children the story of Annanas and Sap
phira, asked them why God does not strike
everybody dead who tells n lie, when one of
the least ia the room quickly answered, /" Be-
cause there wouldn't be anybody left"
j THE Hartford Post recently said that VIM
M. Converse, member from Connecticut of the
Democratic National Committee, had announc-
i ed his purpose to vote for Grant for President.
Mr.. Converse over his own signature says
I" The man who penned this statement and the
journal that published it are infamous liars"
j CONCERNING "hollering" in meeting Ann
Judy. an old wench, said to one of her sisters.
.. T.;nf do rnIe grace honey: faint de sure