Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-03-09

burn ON Sunday.
A woman named Dempsy committed
suicide yesterday at Warsaw, Ind, by
taking arsenic
John Mcfarland committed snicide
yesterday at Catskill by cutting his
throat. Rum was the cause.
The Newfoundland Legislature, on
Saturday, adopted resolutions in favor
of confederation by large majority
A number of men engaged in cutting
ice in the neigh borhood of Baltimore.
on Sunday last, were arrested and
fined.
Snow fell in Canada last month to
the unusual depth of 70 inches; the to-
tai fall for the Winter quarter is 1879
inches.
The Montreal Water Works have
stopped owing to defective machinery,
and the city is being supplied by carts.
The resident Swiss Consul at Cincin-
natl denies the published reports of
Switzerland transporting paupers, va
gabonds, and criminals, to the United
States.
The Hon. Charles Shaler was buried
yesterday, at Pittsburgh, Pa, with ma
sonic honors. The funeral was also at
tended by the members of the bar Of
that city.
Dennis Harrington, fireman on the
Cincinnati and indianapolis railroad,
was killed at Harrison station, on Sat
urday night by falling from the engine
while in motion.
The Newburgh Firemen, last evening
gave banquet to delegation of the
New York Firemen's Association. The
New Workers go to Poughkeepsie to-
day.
Six of the London theaters are man
aged by women.
Rosa Bonheur has recently declined
a Russian decoration.
ID. The italian ambassador at Paris lost
$50, 900 recently in one nights gamb-
ling.
A Paris physician recommends seven
vapor baths as remedy for hydropho
bia.
A swindler in Liverpool has been
making living by selling sham life
preservers. s-t-
The Navy of the Sandwich Islands,
it is said, consists of two fishing smacks
and raft. a 5 et st3r8
The st. Louis authorities are making
an extensive raid upon the swindling
lottery schemes in that city.
Fourteen additional licenses for We
locipede Kinks were granted by the
Boston Board of Aldermen last week.
In one window of Trinity Church,
New Haven, there are 10000 pieces of
stained glass, each prepared and cut
separately.
Queen Victoria wears her hair as she
did 25 years ago: Coiffures, waterfalls,
-chignons, curls, and back hair are
naught to her. ..a
The latest fashion for gentlemen's
evening dress at Paris is blue coats
with gilt buttons, and white satin waist
coats and cravats.
The following typographical error
shows the vast importance of the com
ma At banquet this toast was given:
=" Woman - without her man, is a
brute"
The Columbus Ohio Journal point
edly remarks that "every cord of wood
given to the poor here will be so much
fuel saved from use in the other world.
A diligent reader of scripture has
discovered that the velocipede, of the
one-wheeled variety, was predicted
more than 1000 years ago. See Ezeki-
ell i, 1921.
my DEAR" said rural wife to her
husband, on his return from town,
.'what was the sweetest thing you saw
in bonnets in this city ~ "The ladies'
faces, my love-" tr7
An official order from the State De-
partment was received by the United
States Marshall. at Boston. on Satur-
day evening, recalling the pardon of
Martin, the defaulting cashier of the
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