The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-04-09

Affairs ID Italy ars npidly approaching q
crisis. The Republican party is daiv assum-
Ing mort menaoins attitude. Nardni be d.
vided Italy into four governments, to each Of
which chiefhas been appointed. Genoa, Bo-
logna, Florence, and Naples are the centres Of
action. Everything betokens an approach
struggle. and 50 fully Is tho King aware Of this
that he has made large investments In foreign
securities, in order to provide for tho worst.
Garibaldi is very Ill, and general break up Of
his constitution Is feared.
Mr.. Burlingame and the Emperor Of France
are said to be great cronies. At q recent ball ut
the Tuillcrics the Empress begged Mrs. B. to
accept q splendid brooch set with pearls and
diamonds, and the Emperor went with Mr.. d.
for half an hour into the smoking room, whore
he handed him one Of his own cigarettes. and
laughed and jested with him. When the two
len the smoking room, Napoleon II. pattcd the
American Ambassador Of the Chinese Emperor
very cordially on the back. ,.'.t.r
Only millionaircs inhabit White Pine, but
their wealth Is 80 far from being available that
they are apt to beg Of each new conner tho
whecwithal to purchase Loaf y,
Two lads who were on hunting expedition In
Grundy County, No., quarreled, when one Of
them, fourteen years old, shot his companion
dead and threw his body into stream. The
youthful murderer has been arrested.
The tendencies Of prices for beef continue to
BE- downward. Tho best gradcs Of beef srs
more than two dollars per hundred pounds low
er than on the corresponding week Of last year.
Mutton Is about the same now rs then, and
prices are 6rm. Store swine are lower than
last week. --..eIf.,., -
/. In Dover, N. H., there Is q committee Of nfty
women, who intend 70 visit every liquor dealer
In town. and formally request him to stop his
sales.
Il IL estimated that 100 900 900 feet Of logs
will be put into Pine river, Michigan. this sea-
son. ..f.r. ..E..
Portraits Of Secretary Pish's children are
said to be ssrdines-llttle fishes done In oil.
The wife Of Marshal Valiant, who recently
died. shaved regularly every day for many
years. She had q thicker beard than most men.
During her last illness her beard became 20
bushy that when the physician who visits all
the dead, to see that they died 8 natural death.
examined her. he asked, "whst was this gen.
tleman's posiiionr'
In the vicinity Of Three Rivers, Canada, .
travellers horse became entauglcd in the tele-
graph wires at q point where they cross the
highway, and received injuries from which Il
died the next day. The citizens informed the
owner that the wires were twenty feet from the
ground before the snow fell.
Forty convicts in the New Jersey State Pris-
on rcvolted, Friday, and defantly refused to
work under their keepers. The 6rmness Of the
head keeper, who armed his deputies to the
teeth, and the consigning Of fifteen Of the most
desperate to dungeons, secured quiet and work
from the remainder.
( An exchange says there are cotton mills
enough now in the south, to work up forty mil
lion pounds Of cotton annually.
One square inch Of lilac leaf has 10000
mouths, whose Office is to give out the moisture
in which the food absorbed BY the roots has
been dissolved.
An Indiana man, sixty years old. has mar
ried girl Of eighteen, and insured bis life for
$4,000. ''-