, 1870-07-02

| be eaua] to :aisinE Is, I00, QUO cubic feet Of
stone one fot high. The steam engines Of
| England, as ]; has been estimated, would be
able to do thI in only eighteen hours. This
| would make the construction Of pyramids
| Eimilar to thsse in Egypt By no means an in
possible work, providing anybody could be
found foolish enough to undertake it.
Personal.
M1s. Vanderbilt ia noted in private circles as
4 singer,
Six religions and charitable societies in
Philadelphia get 49,, 900 By the will of the late
Elizabeth Chester Chauncey, OF that ctr.
by a curious coincidence five names On
one page flour consecutlvely) in tho Norwich,
Conn, city directory for 1870, read Slack
Thomas, Sow George, Sly John, Small Ma
than, and Smart Mary.
-AIr. Edward Thornton, tho Britiah Minis
ter, will srend the summer months in New
buryport, MAse.
The Boston journal gays: "1fr. Gil
more'a next musical enterprise will be grand
International Jubilee, in which all nations will
participate. High official authorities at Wasl-
ington vii cordially cooperate"
Gazette says that II. Emile do Girartain is dis
posing OF the LibeTte, and that II. Lesacps
and the Duke D'A1bufera are to be the pur-
chaeers, and that one OF the conditions Of the
sale is that the present editor is to be Sena-
tor.
Mr.. Isaac Merrill, the venerable Univer-
Ba1ist, died at his reeidence in Amherst, Mass.,
On Monday. aged 01. He walked to Milford
the day before, "a distance Of five miles, to hear
Universa1ist sermon.
-he Nord says that MF: Cumming, aSninst
connection with the charge Of personating
women, went 10 Brussels Immediately after
the arrest Of Park and Dou1ton, and put up at
one Of the best hotels. AH, however, he had
no papers, and could not givo evidence as to
his means Of existence. be Was requested to
leave the country. The Nord adds that when
lie was called upon he had his hair in curl
papers, and that portraits in which he and q
friend were represented in women's clothes
were found in his rooms.
The London Record perpetratesthe follow
win Smith, apropos oi Lis recent loitoF: ~
IA i,l1ta Ea1bsa arrow, In rs random nIght.
vou eu, y9u t%l roam: .'.,n: l. o.,u.,.o
10 III he wur cn1r 1Sof k saSM eho m1 ;.cr,
home '' ~''' 0'4Ss's 't''
A very determined suicide was that Of tho
late Joshua kceue, at Savannah, Ga, He had
been drinking for seve1al weeks, and one day
last week vent to lis boarding house. Upon
his arrival there he went inside the door. and.
without holding conversation with any ner;fn
was observed to IRE q pistol, aimultaneousiy
would not live long aftor fiat. Ha then
walked out On the sidewalk. whera he ~
marked tn a gentleman MT thint ~, al,nd
auother ehot." snitine tbe actinn to the wo1;1 s1
dred and immsiats1F ~ feli to Tho 10 nape'en 1e mu
and expired, the bali having penetrated tho
leart. Unnn ex,mination ~ the hctsv 4 w.s
dscoyc.c3 th,t ha haJ haon aat pouy to :. W. ts
srst ,.i y, rno narasra.oJ H. onuS .no
of TIM breast Thc deceasaS sas ngts nat;rn tn ~
Waldol GRO, Ne. 1,umaTrie1 HcaI n rnars -
MJol'n T;sie Jr H. ISea Ta,;a;u ~ yoa1s nsn,
Mt Te;th Whose nams ia @ con1aeted ~. IonIu ~
last popular scandal in England, Ii natiyo OF
Watertown, N. Y, and ia 50 Years I'D. He
was a .tn5ent ~ W;If,ston Sor;;nsr. o1 a,,ta-o5
Ya,e Co1icrc IN 1a5n an5 oradna9aa Gni9 ;n IasS
and BECAME a nriyata tntnr far hnvs IN ~ ~ , nesr
New YORK c;trs The SnrinreiJs so Ra,,l;eon ~ u Ss,
SAYS uHo was called Sister Fiake; in coi-
lege for the excessive etYeu1;nacr AZ hia hah-
lis aud man1,era main nTatsns;ona 80 N ~ !.
sncca1 iore ~ ter,tn-a ~ a,5 s 'e+ots oas., ~ 20
rarinnally." >>~" "19>e f0e~A1 W.
The Dnchess de Monta],e11o mid orb,no-
to Eugene, and one Of lie bear,.;es of ~ W;ntsr-
haliera painted group, died recently.
Miss Ej;ZabetI Garrett was racan+tv ~
ceiycd az doctor at tf,o Eco,o ,,a Mo;1:;ns
Paris. She had taken IA 1,er thesis tho AMI,
icct of & Hcadacha"~not rarH ;ntaraat;-t,
question-but ahe treated it SO Lri1liantly vi tl,af
tho board at once gave her he diptoma.
The Regents Of tic University OF Califor-
nia hayo chosen Professor Gilman, of Yale
COLLEGE. Presidenf and Juflpe F;aii ~ Tia
United States Supreme Court Professor 1 u in M the
Law Department that is to BE- established. '
The Lockport IN. " Union saws: "On
the day of the reception Of tie news Of Dick
ems death, q conductor On ono OF tie street
railroads III SYRACUSE. sharing in tha univnrzal
grief, said to an inteiligept aDpear;nr r,assen-
ger: Sad thing, lhe deatL of Dicfens. isn't
fti' tree, indeed quoth the passenger. I
sec he died at Rochester, Conductor 1tlumb-
founded - Oh! no, ho was an Epglis6man-
lived iu England iYos. knov th8t. I,nt ha
died at RocLeeter. or uenr there Then. after
moments pause. the passenrer added He