The Lincoln County herald., 1870-12-22

Dangerous Associates: Those who are
dressed to kill"
Some careful man has ascertained tha,
the average head contains 13O, 900 hairs
Horace Greedy has bought brand new
orercodt, and laid aside old Whitley. So
says the New York Sun.
Castor, Democrat, has just been
elected Mayor of Boston by 5000 ma.
jority. What is the country coming to
Justice Samuel Nelson, of the United
States Supreme Court, has been upon the
bench for over forty nine years, and his
friends are arranging to celebrate his ff.
tieth anniversary Is . Judge.
A telegram from way out West says
Judge kingman discharged . jury q,
Rawlins, and fined the jurors ten dollars
each, for indulgiug in a friendly game Of
'seven up" in the jury room, while do
ciding on case.
The son Of . farmer in Dutchess coun.
try. N. Y, bid himself 10 his fathers
hay NOW, to learn to smoke. As soon
as the smoke clears away and the stones
in the foundation co 81 Of, the farmer will
build q new barn.
An embankment on the Syracuse and
Chenango Valley railroad, near E.riville
N. Y, caved Monday, buryine fifteen or
twenty men. Up to dark nine had been
rocovered-three dead and two fatally in.
jured.
Otto Goldschmidt, Jenny Liud's hus.
band, having sqlandered his wife's for.
tune, sho is now 20 reduced as to be com.
pellcd to teach music for . living. The
ill-matched pair have separated by mu-
tual consent, and the spendthrift must
now shift for himself.
A complete consus Of California shows
an increase 10 ten years Of one hundred
and seventy.six thousand six hundred
and nineteen. The increase 10 San
Francisco is ninety thousand four hun.
dred and seventy. nearly 200 per cent.
A French ph hysioian, Dr.. Maydieu, has
revived On old practice Of administering
shot ss . remedy for bilious collie. His
method 10 to take No. s shot, after care.
fully washing them with sweet oil, and
give . dessert- spoonful every half hour
He claims that 10 Eve or six hours the
vomiting ceases.
A Western Senator, who has lately
seen the President, says the latter was
very bitter on Senstor Schurz, and 40.
euses him Of having lost Missour, to tho
Republican party irretrievably for the
next two years; "in fact" said the West.
ern Senator, 10 language becoming the
lsud Of the settiug sun, "Grant damned
him up hill and down"
A couple we're married at . Lowell
church, Sunday, who began . war of
words, in which oaths we're plentiful, i'm.
mediately after leaving the church. The
bride. finally passed down one street aud
the groom another, followed BY q crowd
This 10 . shorter honey moon than By.
ron's.
Lse'Fouk. Wing, Eco, manager Of the
Chinese laborers on The plantation oi
Oskes Ames 4 Co., hes presented q long
petition to the New Orleans City Council
wherein he "bowsth obssq uiously to the
dust 10 token Of loysl homags and hu.
uility, and sfter deploriog the waste ol
wholesome fool iu the destruction oi
vagraut dogs, offers to buy all such
from the city at fifteen ooa.s per head
silver.
Grim death has many instruments, and
among them nitro. glyoeriug 10 not th.
least when opportunity preseuts itself
Within dve years-the time during whict
II has been iu use-it hss caused tn,
death Of 100 persons and injured man
more, besides destroying . vast amoun
OF property. Now, We should like SOM
close ststistieiau to compute the amour
Of bens6t It has conferred upos the hu
man family. It may be . 1blsssiug il
disguise," but il 10 hsrd to assume that i
!: sissr contemplating the sbovs uslau
sholy statistics. t,ti