Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-03-18

nlmSel1 al Jaualca HILLS, uedE DoS-
ton, yesterday.
A man named John Thomas was
murdered near Hampton, Va. yester-
day, by negroes.
Several negroes have been arrested
at Helena, Ark, for the murder of
Gen. Hindman.
The Lighthouse Board will place a
light-vessel at Windmill Point, Chesa-
peake Bay, some time during week.
The depot of the Winona and st.
Peter Railroad Company at Wasica,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire yesterday
causing loss of about $4,000
The puglist O'Baldwin, was arrested
in Boston on Tuesday, and is under
bonds for trial, charged with breaking
windows and the peace generally.
A dispute arose in an auction room
in Chicago, yesterday, which resulted
in the shooting of a young man named
Robertson, who was MORALLY wounded.
No arrests. fr5
Two marble busts have Just been dis
covered at Pompeii, one of Pompey
and the other of Brutus. They are
both of fine execution.
Women in France who kill newly
born children are called angel-makers,
or Faiseuses DANCES ; five of them were
recently on trial at Montauban.
Alexander Dumas has had to leave
Paris to escape his creditors, we are
told by correspondent At last ac-
counts he was at Havre, and had is
sued the following manifesto on the
the dead walls "Men of Hayre! the
author of Monte Cristo is among you.
Come and see him He sells his auto
graph to raise funds.
The mess table OF the huge Prussian
iron clad, King William, is surmounted
with large silver punch bowl, the gift
of the Duke of Oldenburg.
A new monthly line of steamers, un-
der Government patronage, is to be es.
tablished between England and Mel
bourne, Australia. to facilitate emigra-
ton. N -
In the Swiss canton of Uri, printers
and editors are whipped on the bare
back for publishing articles which the
authorities do not like. In Bohemia,
editors who assail the Government are
sentenced to Imprisonment. In Meek
lenburg the opposition papers are not
allowed to publish leading articles.
Nearly two,thirds of the persons that
are now a-days presented to Plus TX.
are Americans. Russians who visit
Rome carefully avoid coming into con-
tact with the Pope or any of his digni-
taries. Next to the Americans, French
men are the most numerous Of those
who wish to get acquainted with the
Pope. ,+~.s.r r,.. I.-
A sword-fsh on the coast recently
ran his weapon, several feet long,
through the skull hole'' at the stern
of fishing boat. One of the fishers
seized the sword, and getting astride
of it, held it firmly. Meantime the
fish, by the action of its tail used as
propeller, urged the boat forward at
good rate Of speed until she reached
the vessel to which she belonged.
The Woman's Cooperative Union of
San Francisco has been in existence six
months. and has already cleared 81, 900
with about $4,000 in stock on hand.
The labor of women is directed to sew
ing and fine needle-work, and they
have received three diplomas for their
work from agricultural and mechanical
State fairs.
An interesting archaeological discov-
cry has just been made near Durfort,
France. A miner, searching for a
grotto, the mouth of which had been
locked up by stones 1t contained a
quantity of petrifed human remains
imbedded in concretion from the rock.
A flint knife and Ratchet were also
found. u4 W. an
The Lenox Mass Plate Glass Works
are experimenting with a new article
resembling porcelain, for table-tops
and mantels It is made from cyrole.