, 1869-07-19

eighteen years ago. |. uow worth $4,000, and
owns the largest uTer, Stable IN Virginia.
Heien porEnerty, OF Western New Yori, has.
nttez long contest. securcd. -ir- tne ss2rsta~
c. ,1rr the iayentara t!t,eis u 1parn:ne witch cuts
ep:!nts 7s,s, b<.ard 10 bevet Io'11, producing
cpt hoop ready 10 appiy q: ac.ce to q ba-rr,.
TYpea will pisy t1tcAs. wel.known uews2a-
poral plog1arn+r, intending, 20 soy inst The sub
jec. u hs article was hardly able to bear the de-
mise Of hts vie" was made to ely by the mex
o1atie compo*ltor, "wesr the chenille Of hs
Tiie!'' r.
1t ms lately rrported bs Iebe. aad democratic
journals that Il. n. Turner, the colo.rd Posttnas-
ter IT. Macon, ca, had been arrested as eouates-
fcIteF, tnd taken 10 Atlanta IN irons The truth
Is, thst Nj Turner vas sub2Gnaed as witness In
he case Of a colore1 woman who WAS ArIessrd On
charge OF passing counterfeit money, hnl went
to Atlanta On that business but, as tie sequel
showed, knew pothlng sbout 1t.
At ST. JOSEPH La-s few days ago, IN alligator
was Killed which measured twelve and a'kAN feet
In length. four and half feet around the stou1-
hch, and one aud tbree.iour1hs feet across the
baek- uts mouth measured nine inches tuside;
eighteen inches from }awbone to }awbone; swo
feet from tip of mouth to hts eyes; eight inches
between the eyea His feet Ferc TWO feet long !:
he had stxfJ-tout rings 1rotE neck to cnd OF tail,
and weighed four hundred and txenty. nEc pouuda.
There l. Il ran In the brooklyn Nary Yard who,
While working ~ a machlnlst, Tag mastered the
French, German aud 1taltan tongues, made him.
kclg partially acquainted with Hebrew. and ob.
tained q thorough Enoyledge of boiany- and geo]o-
cy. He continues 10 WORK on from day to day at
the navy yard bench, spending al his uighIs and
noona In study. ut4d Aunat1dtng MI his tnrntug8 to
purchase books, OF which be hssno library OF
The T1usslan Association for the Rc1sef Of
: Wounded md Sick Soldiers In Time Of War has
c.ered Prize OF -ss5 for the best essay upon the
81 IVA
TO maritime combatants.- The authors are To basc
thclr conclusions upon tic experience of former
wars, especially thoce Of regent date, No rcstr.c-
ttots are placed on the arrangement or extent or
the essay, md the language employed mar be
German, French or English. The prize viii be
awarded Oh the aoth Of September, 1870 the birth
dag Of the Queen OF Pruss!n-
nearly eleven hundred volumes :
The Eoston Journal says:
'Itw bt rccn BY the Advertisement Of thr Untyer.
ri.y Cear.er ri Inrtuetia at lIaivard College f1r it,
,r sea,sa rig x s sissn 70 s.g
y; !.de. :rc 4dn!, t. &c u.ss es,Tt of IN ca,a
cvsE., tie itent innovation 4 god ono rht les
o1: r d ss H.h ss:
enn NJ Howell, nd others. ar ,st well .dapsd
bo s1iss TT. = ispb,s;' .ns e hs s
clLas r. kls atnlinistrattnn-'
A F.ruchmao mined FreJctnct, who has spent
his life Ii investigating nlI known methods or DIS
posing OF the dead. has come to the conclusion
that the existing T., ,sten of bnr51ug Ia the earth
is Oh the whole the best; ouly, notifications
are suggested. Vaults are tectfed; 60 arc eli
tnote Eysteros and mcans-such as metal cof1ns
and prcseEvntlyc ptocesses-whlcn tend 10 arrest
decay. The aim should be 10 promote decompo-
Elton; 10 facilitate the access Of earth to the
body; aud especially to help the transformation
Of cadayertc matter By the influence Of yegeta-
tou. A tree covered pIap-the sacred grove OF
oIt-!s the best MofsEarF, ntted IN eyey way.
sestheuca1iy aEd sauEt4nly. As TO cremation. It
is totally lnapplleahie: the odoEs that would be
spread over connsr3 BY the burning Of several
thousand coIpses wcee would be unbeaEabe-
Three {oang Catholic priests. residents Of New
Jeuey, while On \ visit to Far HockawAy, last
week, vent down 70 the beach to balhe at Ii
O'Clock 1t night and white there met some latlIcs
who demonstrated with them for bathing IN that
piace. They replied that they thought It time for
ladies 10 te Ut home. Theladles, on returning to
their hotel. Informed Benjamin Mott, the proprie-
tor, and Louis Co1ser the barkeeper that they had
met three nlen on the beach who had tnsultel
them, and the two Eaen hurried down, and. meet
.ng the three priests on their war home, felt upon
them and dubbed them, lea1tng one Ing uucou-
sctous on the beach, from which he WAS taken
by hfs companions 10 the hotel where his
wounds were dressed. a few days altcrEa-u
tho wounds began bleeding afseah. and II WAS
though, expedient to remove the sufferer 10 New
Yo1r. whcrc he died. So-ares,s hare btcn
made
. rrc yntor e,ree, ,,ar,e.hnnso nr,vcr.u,...tno
md m,a<,on.rr ovenen, il .,ont tn te ,rxtreI1 and
. r,+rpl,1 has ,rcn ipsnca ny thr friend. of ,hc
MISSION askDS aid ald encourage Uen1 In the fur
1he5aucc bf their work The mctt1nE1 II 1oh1nY
A,IrnX dnnce-nouse commenced N seotcmber.
1sLs. ann nf,rr ns,en, a month Of sucre.s the ~
1c,7n,1 cyctterc,,t .tted o, lint IN tbr YnJ1oxtno