Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-12

The tally Of murders for Janu-
airy, in the United States, was hf.
y. four.
A young Illinois boy laid a train
Of powder through the kitchen,
and touched il Off Ito scare ma
He hasn't got over the spanking
yet.
A man in Paris has been sen.
fenced to two months imprison.
ment for dead heading his way in
to a theatre by claiming to be a
reporter.
The cost of Geographic dis.
patches in Australia has been re-
duced to one shilling for twelve
words, and one penny for every
additional word.
On January |, 1870, there we're
only 4,9l4 feet Of the Mount Ce
mis- tunnel remaining to be exca-
waited. When completed the tun.
mel will be 4O,377 feet in length.
A negro in South Carolina will
occupy the wool sack, of the ii
preme bench, whereby we shall
have the phenomenon of a negro
with wool at both ends Of him
Chicago Times.
Officers of the revenue bureau
have been to see Gen. Sherman
about military aid for enforcing
the collection of Brigham Young's
income tax, and he says they shall
have all they need. The tax to be
collected is upwards of $1,000.
900.
A pole.cat got out Of his cage
in New York the other evening,
and scampcred up Broadway. A
policeman installing the animal
for a squirrel, gave chase and cap
tured him. The NJ. 2. went home
and buried a new uniform worth
$50 in the yard.
There are "vaguc rumoIs'' in
in the San Francisco atmosphere
that an organization IS prepared
TO slaughter all the Cinnamon on
the Pacific slope, on or after st.
Patrick's Day. The number of
. Chinese on the Pacific slope are
estimated as high as 50, 500.
Numbers Of persons have late.
Is mysteriOusly disappeared in
| Brussels, and 1t is feared that
some diabolical gang of murder.
ers exists in that city who have u
silent method of destruction
Hitherto the efforts Of the police
a to trace the supposed crime have
h been f%ruItlcss.
A Polish chemist named rheo
i philus Ludovicsskenlschik Zchin.
cskonsky has found the philoso
piers stone, We hope thai
Theophilus Ludovicsskentschil
Zchincskonsky now feels better
a"d that 40 s~s sh~it any thS,
y Theophilus LudOVicsskentschil
Zchincskousky had better spend
his time in hoelng corn.
" A lottery suit in New York ha.
brought to light some strange an,
extraordinary facts, revealing til,
cause of much of the poverty anC
crime in the city. No less thar
six million dollars per annum il
y received by the sale of LOTTERY
u tickets, and most Of this in small
. sums, and most of this amount il
l. received from the poor, wretcheC
I" people.
I A poor child, taught in one o
the English church schools, give
the following account of til
~ prophet Daniel Daniel was pu
into the lions den and the lion
eat him up and then his fathC
lg told him to go and mind hi
u sheep and he went to mind ther
~ on the field and while he vas tend
ing the sheep q lion and a bea
IN came out to kill the sheep and ID
II. sheep ran away and he turne
be back and saw the lion and til
In bear and ran off a running an
st catch them both, and then h
came back to the sheep and pra!
n. ed to God to forgive his sins
III Organ grinders are thus poe
ically discussed by q contribute
No to the London Musical World
me THEN AND NOW.
. ~ ENtEHAl hlNNtt " III HhA pu NtNNN HAAt't
the Big with vast conque.t and ambition, Ia
Sent fltJh her Ie gi0ns, thick u, Z gyt'' Ills,
Ie Togrtni opposing nations 10 tae dust
"a And Ro NC It'll stand, immortal AMI "
A"N lime.
Nor yet a &! 3 where sc may rot tint
HE Her legions now. ~ m the ancient I me.
They sill % forts, their mission 'tl,l
'Os- grind
rm Cotton is arriving at the Sout
'Lii ern ports from the interior at t
10 rate Of 1900 bales a day. Nc
" Orleans gets the largest share, Al
tho Mobile the next largest. I
' ~ South is beginning to receive
great deal Of money now.
eet, The majority of our WON
It a claim that they do not want t
the elective franchise, and would Il
exercise It II It were accorded
ter them. They now talk of getti
,rk) up q counter movement against,
We that of the minority in favor