The Lincoln County herald., 1869-01-07

A hairless squirrel has been killed near
Natohes.
The last crop Of lava from Vosuvius
amounted to twenty million cubic feet.
Boston hs. "schooI for 1diotio and
Feeble Minded Youth"
8. D. Cook, of Detroit, wants to play
checkers With any body for $1,000 side.
Thirteen murderers adorn the society
Of the New York tombs.
Small pox has succeeded earthquakes
10 Lima.
Michigan 10 to have o chess tourna.
ment neys month.
A Christian at Oswcgo authorized the
annnymous distribution Of 5000 loaves
Of bread to tho poor.
A magnificent display Of the Aurora
Borealis was witnessed at Annapolis .
few night ago.
Colonel Carey W. Styles assumed the
sole control and editorial direction Of the
Albany (Ga) News, on the 1st inst.
There is . Mississippi negro Ill years
old, who docs not claim TO have been
Washingtou's body servant.
A correspondent says that nearly every
one who receives q salary from the Gov.
ernment is anxious for the Government
to Immediately resume specie pay ments.
A COW rung the front.door bell Of
house in Washington the other day, and
when the ring was answered the unfash.
ionablc beast walked into the hull.
A lawyer in Ohio sued convict under
life sentence for g., 600 for services, and
the jury gave him o verdict, but he
hardly knows how to go to work to make
the recovery practicable.
A single firm in Boston, engaged in
the manufacture Of clothing, employs 30
cutters and $500 sewers, and they ore
sending out every week 300 huge cases
Of cut garments, to be made up in Maine,
New Hampshire aud tho interior Of Mas.
suchusetts.
A negro named Monroe, convicted of
murder by the Circuit Court of Amite
county, Miss, and sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th inst, escaped from the Lib
erty Jail on the 18th ultimo. He was
assisted by friends on the outside.
A joint resolution has passed the
South Carolina Legislature authorizing
the Governor to employ an armed force
for the preservation Of peace. Another
| instance Of the failure Of Radical recon.
struction.
At recent ball, in Wellington, New
Zealand, only the elite were present,
among whom was Mcte Kingi, . Maori,
who could not speak English. Ho
"moved" about scarcely speaking but;
at last, seeing lady with very fnc arms,
which werc bare little above the elbow,
he went up to her and pointing to her arm,
said "Kaipai, kaipai, fat" good, good,
fat), at the same time smacking his lips.
The Boston Post makes the following
frank confession 1.-THE murder Of Mrs.
Hill, in Philadelphia; of Warren George,
in Maine; the Kingston, Worcester and
Charleston tragedies, in Massachusetts, /;
the death Of Kilton, at Canaan, New
Hampshire, and some dozen other similar
crimes, perpetrated within few weeks
at the North, outstrip offences 10 other
portions Of the country which have ex.
cited SO much attention lately"
For more than $50 years Prussia and
Mechlenburg have been disputing the
right Of governing the little town Of
Woldo in Pomerania during all Of which
time that municipality has enjoyed per.
feet independence. The two govern.
ments have, however, at length brought
their negotiations to close, and the citi'
Gems of Wolde are liable hereafter to
serve in the Mechlengerg contingent.