, 1870-05-09

Il LILY
yeats Of age, and leaves mother. brothers,
and many friends to mourn his losa."
IOWA.
The editor Of the Dewitt Observer dinedlast
Tuesday On tish caught In tho Court House
yard, at Clinton
"A family Of seyen parsons dinod On wild
and, within an hour. the1ea{tar, tho father,
Henry LongGer, WAS dead Tbs mother And
FIVE children wore In critical condition at last
ascount1.
"A young lady at Burlington won't to church
dow OF her bedroom and, when sho returned,
she found little blueb1d aisting in it on two
eggs.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. II. stevcns celebrated their
golden wedding Ut Wilton on the evening Of
the aoth ult. Both arc 70 ycarn old. They
hAro been members Of tho Baptist Church
forty-threo yca1s; hsvo had eight children,
thitty-two grandchildren, and four great-graud-
children.
A boy named Seward, Il yeasn old, aoc,-
years Of age, in Hancock Township, Bartholo-
NOW County, few days s1nce.
Week before last q man in Sullivan County
said that, II he could not sell his young mare
before the following Saturday for $50, he
would shoot her. Ho could fnd no man who
would give him more than S100, so On Satur-
day he took her to the3woods and shot her,
Tho Muncie Times says: The man who
charges his children for their board when they
come hundreds Of milas TO Wait him and the
old lady, is no" valued and enterprlsing and
prosperous citizen Of Muncie. When he dies
our City Council intends to p1ant him head
downwards on one Of our leading thorough
fa+cs, thus making handsome monument and
donble-geazed hitching.post ut one lick"
Lake Forest University, in Indiana, is to
take Prof. McChesneys collection OF 100. GOO
specimens Of minerals at $40, 900, he deduct-
iuT S10, GOO az his gift to the institution.
ACH1aAy.
A young nnn In ColdwateT suddenly lost
hiB voice on Christmas, aud has been unable
to speak since, except in his sleep, when he
speaks as faueany ~ ever.
Captain E. d. Ward, Of Detroit, will i'm
mtdiate1y commence the erection Of fifty or
sixty tenant buildings ut 14udington, Mason
County, designed especially for the use Of his
employees At that place.
Ono Of tho straugeBt Newspaper schemes
ever devised is thu. just announced by the
p1pprietora Of the Saginaw Daily and 1veekiy
Courier. They offer to their subscribers
81, 900 worth OF property in premiums, the
first Of which Is the church and lot recently
owned BY the First Presbyterian Society Of
Saginaw, valued ut $2D, 900.
G. Baldwin, Of Orange, n. j., tho recently de-
ceased brother Of Governor Baldwin, OF this
city. bad. prior to his death, given away
e5oo 600 to various Institutions, and BY bis Will
beaueathed E400, 900 more. Among his be-
quests were one q goo to Governor Bald
Walton, Of thia city. Governor baldwin ia ap-
pointed one OF the executors OF the will. TIE
bequests to educational and charitable inBtitu-
sions were reported BY telegraph. Mr. Bald
win waB man Of large and systematic be-
nerolence, and during tho later sears Of his
occasion donating a25, QUO to O1;vet College,
in this State"
Al Kalamazoo. On the 9Th inst, 4 young
man named Frederick Warner insisted on rid
ing in the wagon Of Adclbc1t Smith, \ butcher.
Smith obiected, and finally took him out Of
tho wagon and shook him. Warner swearing
violently and threatening him, Smith took him
l'y the color and led him to his fathers gate,
which vas only across the alley from Smiths
meat market. Warner went into the house,
swearing ..s he would shoot Smith, and returned
With his gun, when his mother, from the VIM
dow above, entreated him to forbcar. Smith
WAS looking up to MrB. Warner and talking
with her, when the youth came Fers near him,
and, placing the mu2zle close to his, discharged
it. Smith fell to the ground, and Wasner threw
for knife with which to kill himself. Warner
was arrested Immediately. Smith died in less
than an hour after the shooting,
Tho steamer Pacific arrived at Detroit
! from Lake Superior on the 9Th the first boat
| down She was at the Sau3t On the 4th. No
| Canadian boat had put in an appearance when
the Pacific left the canal, and there WAS no e1-
| citement on the subject. No ordcrs from gov.
| eEpmcnt had been received at tho Superin-
tcrdcut's Office OF 1T the Custom House. The
cornmandant Of tho fort, however, received
sealed orders, and the general belief was, tEat
they embodied percmpsory refusal to Lot an5
| waslike expedition. or part aud parcel thereof,
| palg the canal. The force nt the fort conhists
| Of two companies
MINNESOTA.
A terrific storm Of wind and rain, from tho
| nrrthH cat. ragged at Duluth on the 5th instant.
The floating ice from the north side Of the
! 1ako WINS blown in and piled up to = great
| height. The full forco OF the gale fell On the
breakwnter which il in process OF construc
ton, aud which withstood its violence remark
ably Ta1,. The breakwater iB being built b,
y,t1ate parties, including tho railroad compan
ies, and extends into the lake two or thres
hundred feet.
MISSOURI.
"a drunken man In IA St. Louis statiou-hous,
attempted to choke himself TO death By swal
lowing his suBpendern-
"A mnn IN Weston is 30 successful as
fisherman that ho can tie hook and line t,
each foot, dive in the river, and bring up tis]
1 0H1c.
An Ohio girl has laid by the sum OF sGOl
MI gained hy making rnrei,'.s,- a------4- =
IL cents each.
"A man at AvondAle, who employed
colorcd artist to paint his house cheerful
color and the doors shade darker, found, Of
LIS return at night, the house bright pinl
and tho entrance Jet black.
-Mr. S. n. rke, in letter to gentleman
in Cincinnati, ezrlaina his recent ptopoaitio,
to build hotel and opera house ii that city
provided tho citizens wonld eubscrib
=, ,5oo,o COO Several severe articles in the Gin
cinnati papers called ont the explanation. H
rays he proposed simply to giye his persons
supervision to tho work, and. aftcr the com
pletion ot tho buildings, TO deliver them to th
Subscribers. He never dreamed Of doing e
foolish thing al building an opera house o
! hotel in Circ.nnati with his own means, an
never had any idea that such project woul
succeed. ut ended, he says, "as ozpeetot
and the press are foolish in making the
aings At me. Unjust congratulate myself tn,
. my proposition VAS not accepted, for it woul
have proved an elephant OF greater feediI
capacity than the opera house built in Ne
York, which fortunately found custom
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