Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


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THE editor of the New York Eeeman's
Journal says: New York city-f'.so called
is one of the largest riltages on the globe. 1t
is rare thing that man knows his next door
neighb0r. We have lived for six years next
door to man, nodded to him, now and then,
and could not, for the life of us, tell what his
name was, or anything about him, except that
he had never annoyed us, nor we him.
THE case of Patrick Kennedy against GER
tain citizens of Wrentham, Mass, he having
been ridden ON Il rail, etc April 10, 1865, be-
cause he had expressed joy ut the news of the
death of President Lincoln, has been for some
time on trial before the Supreme Court in
Norfolk county, and the jury has assessed DAM
ages to the amount of SIS upon seven of the
defendants.
THE Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, speak
ing of one of Tilton's TRADES in the New York
Independent upon the Presidents Message
Trades which are received in some portions of
the North, as very profound and learned es-
says says that it, (the TRADE aforesaid), J,
lean no more be anaiyzed than the scream Of
rheumatic ass"
THE discomfort among the middling and
lower classes ia France, is reported to be on
the increase. Demands for public employment
are becoming loud and peremptory among the
work-peopie. The state of affairs is said to
strikingly resemble that which preceded the
overthrow of Loms Philippe in lsi7.
AN old darkey in Alabama, while watching
the monkeys in menagerie, spoke thus: Dem
children got too much sense to come out oh dat
cage; white man cut dar tails off and set 'em
TO sotin' and maxim constitushins, and den dey
gone up, shuah.' -..e....4 ~
SENATOR FRELINGHUYsON, OF New DER
sey, says: This generation ought never to at
tempt to pay dollar of the principal of the
National debt" He is Radical. Had Dem
ocrat said so, the Radicals would declare the
utterance to be disloyal and infamous.
SOME time ago. boy was ran over by q
rairoad train in Indiana, aud lost both his
legs. He sued the company aud recovered
$4,000 damages An appeal was taken, and
after innumerable delays the poor boy is glad
to compromise for $3.50, and pay his own costs.
Ar Silver Run, Ala, New Years day. Peter
Marlborough. grocery store-keeper, was mur-
dered in bis bed and his store afterwards
burned. 1t IL supposed plunder was the object
of the murderer, and that he burnt the house
tn prevent detection. u~
Il SAY, sClem," cried two disputing darkies.
appealing for decision to sable umpire, "we
want 10 knew which word is right--dizactly or
dexactly9" The sable umpire reflected a ina-
ment and then, with look of wisdom, said, IL
cant tell, perzactly." .......4 .....sr
The other day fellow was arrested and
sent to Jail in Washington county, Ill. for
stealing twenty cents, were he will have to
remain until April, at an expense of $500, be-
fyre he can be tried.
A vIRGISrA paper says that movements are
on foot by which the whole power of the Ger
man press in the Atlantic States will be bro't
to bear in favor of immigration to the South
ern States, and Virginia especially, t#-
THE oldest living Odd Fellow in the United
States is Grand Brother Benjamin Downing, oi
Newport, Rhode Island. He is eighty three
years of age, and joined the order at Harwich,
England, in 1907. ,at2EhH u =
A LINE in one of Moore's sorg reads thus ;
/" Our couch shall be roses bespangled with
dew" To which a sensible maiden replied :
g 'Twould give me the rheumatic, and 80 Il
would you." =. ~rr5.f gar Il gHsHE
AN Alabama letter says. seven white men
and three negroes have decliaed nominations
for county offices rendered them by the Co'ints
Republican Convention. Nominees for the
State Senate are included
/ A BosToN correspondent says: /" There is
every appearance that New Hampshire, natu.
rally Democratic, viii be SO at the next eiec'
tion in March," l3 it3a3o3 VI
THAD. STEVENS colored lady did not buy q
\ lace shawllfrom the widow ofthe Late Lamen.
/ ted the other day. She says she wouldn't wear
the cast-oif clothes of "mean white trash
The yicksbiirg Herald thinks the planters oi
Mississippi canuct afford to pay laborers more
than five dollars . month during the coming
i year t t.aEs9st - ssahlfgf .f9uuo. qant
/ a railroad convention has fixed the fare for
emiprants from New York to Sc. Louis ,at S25
4 and two cents per mile to oil other western
points '' " ''o7 'Nf'tse 49,. 80. .s,- 4. -ee - !,
The Commissioners appointed by the Legis-
iatures of tho States Of Maryland and virginia
\ have faiied to settle the long pending boundary
question aoial9gx9 aebnu alsa Tul DessJIs
i Gen. McKinsie. who recently suppressed the
| iBrownsyille (Texas) Ranchere,, has been re
iievea BY Gen. Hancock, AsAicD. Cock takes
=, wv Mbapry fr Il raunu,ton.. n,ta Mass, Mass died j,
his e10sth year, last month, leaving dcscepdant!
10 the fifth generation. He had sawed woed
for his subsistence within q year. 81 sal
4 A NKaRop woman. near Savannah, a. fss,
days ago, gave birth 10 three lchildrcn--tEt
coal black, and one pure white.I ID sasant Az,
The; Atlanta (Ga.) iIrp contains over ,fouI
i coldmnsof sherif's sales Of city property fol
| ihoncpayment Of. taxes for 1861. '''''''' :