, 1870-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

ciatiou, :" founded TO abolish pow renting.
"A baltimore theatre manager offers as =
p1ize paid-up Iife insurance policy OF $1,000
to Bome lucky member OF his audience every
night for week.
THE Emperor Of Austria is forming i new
cabinet-nf coins aud medals.
The Massachusetts Senate. after five
months consideration OF the hubject, has rot-
State. ....
when tho monthly Divorce Court opened
in London at tho end OF May, there we're 1853
caaes on the calendar.
Nearly fifty guests at the principal hotol
in Los Angeles. CAL, we're poisoned recently,
rested on suspicion. The guests we're all very
sick, but fortunately Eo deaths occurred.
The Mayor Of Montgomery, Ala, in the
case Of negro charged with petty larceny,
sustained the point that pinchhdtk breast
pin, won in gift enterprise Was not the
lawful properly OF the rcputed owner, and
ttat it was not theft.
"A Delaware paper, looking upon tho do
sue for Office az one OF the greatest evils of
the present day, calls for general reduction
Of tie salaries, that they may be no 1nduce-
ment to any one TO accept them
n. H., in which General John A. Dir WAS bonn,
was taRon down tho other day It measures
Il by 19 feot, and contains $4,000 brick.
"A letter from Newport says the summer
population is arriving in large iustallmeuts
daily, and Newport is gatt' 'ng quito gay Two
quite rush is expected on the 18th, which
seems to be the day set nron by the rest tor
the. entering upon tho occupancy Of their
houses. The amount Of baggage landed hero
daily is almuet incredible, and l should not
dare guess at the number Of trunks I have
seen accompany one family. BY the way, a
family Of four persons from Boston brought
with them twenty-Ei1 servants aud nine horses,
and tie lackman says, ten trunks to .
body"
Water Is an excellent disinfectant; il is a
better abfotbent OF odors than any other
absorb $40 times it, own volume OF am.
moniacal gas, and ~ iilaee its volume Of
sulplit1e Of hydrogen, bath Of which aTs al
wa9s present where the decay Of anin1al mat
ter is in progress. 1t has long been known
that an open vessel Of water kept in sick
room, and changed often, purides the air, even
il most offensive without it.
1t is said that snnall quantities OF nitro
glyceriue are used in the manufacture Of Ell
Artificial wines; but one would think it should
be confined to the class known AZ sparkling, "
Of Which the mueh-imitated champagne il the
head and body Nitro glycerene Is undoubt.
edly good thing to produce the "pop"
which is often written OF az IN Indispensable
feature Of the festal board, but it would not
require much, it to pop man from time into
eternity. The arti6cisl vitality given to this
! kind Of vine would surely be akin 70 aea.l.: !,
a scientific writer Rays: To dctcct
! wines ioctoEed with logwood, it is only neccs-
sAEy to place stripa Of good t1lterins pspef
Swedish being preferred, into an aqueous
! ao1u,ion Of neutral nauctatc Of copper, and At
vine suspected to he ailnltcrateJ With !egwood
color, by dipping tho paper into the vino ;
md. on removing it from that fluid, caro-
should be taken to cause the adhering drops
OF wine to dow backward and forward over
| the paper, which is next rapidly but carefully
he, the color exhibited after drying vii. be
gray or 1oac-rcd graJish hut If loswood is
present. tho tinge will be distinctly sky-blue.' y
"A railway collision of. f.mo1e{than ordinarily
destructive character occurred few days
since on tho Baden Railway. A ml1oa passeu-
| At Afute at O'Clock in the afternoon. An en-.
CINE and tender from Wnldshut, proceeding to
| Bale. followed at some distance. When the
passenger train had entered the Murg stat,on
tho usual danger siEnals were set but the
| driver OF the engine which followed, who had,
/ it is said, been drinking, did not notice them,
I and tan into tho station. whero the locomotive
dashed into the resr OF the stationary train,
| and ,a fearful scene Of suffering and death
was at once produced. Three carriages filled
with passengers we're completely crs1shed. tue
last one being forced into that ono before it.
|
cpIiAion had cleared off it Was found thai
nearly sixty passengers wcro more or less
buried under the wreck Of the carriages One
young girl was taken out dead, and twelve
others were dangerously injured One ,nar
had both thighs broken, and died after under
going ahputation few hours later. One gen.
tleman, Dr.. HufT, Of Walashnt, Was MORALLY
hurt, and has since died. The wounded
nearly thirty In number, Were taken to hotels
| where they were attended BY surgeons sun'
montd by telegraph from the nearest towns
The townspeople wero SO furious at the mis-
conduct Of the engiue-driycr t1,at it WAS will
difficulty they were restrained from enforcing
lynch law, but ultimately ho was conveyed t1
prison to await his trial.
The London Times sayB that the capture O
the alleged Fenians Dayitt and Wilson, ani
theu examination at the Anrylebone Polio,
SPREAD organization for the collection and dis
tf.hution ot offensive weapons throughout tht
United Kingdom. For come time past fire
ar1na and ammunition have been sent to Gias
gow,. Newcastle-upon-Tyno, Manchester, ant
Leeds, and hare been forwarded from thos
and , cartridges have been packed i
what appeared to be -four barrels
herring tubs, and spirit casks, ant
directed At one time TO spirit dealer, and =
others to general merchants. to u geutlema'
from London staying at in hotel, Or to ladie
/
facts having come to the knowledge Of tn
police, detectives wero set to work throughou
the Kingdom in order to trace these mysteriou
parcels To the original conaignors: and abou
lie end Of March some boxes and barrels, con
tanning fraa1ns and ammunition, were tracct
to the prisoner Wilson, who is d gun and pis,o
maker in Birmingham. From this tow
the cases were watched to yariou
manufacturing towns, where their con
tents were fepacked in small barrels aus
despatched to Ireland, whcre tho polio
inR1ly took possession Of them. From the az
tent Of lllu operations which have been know
10 tho police, it is clear that funds Of . con
siderable amount are in the hands OF tho COZ
spi1ato1s' agents. snLscsibea," as MI, Po
land said, ''by the wrctched dupes Of the Fenia
movement" A critical examination Of the r.
! volsers found in tho casks which have bee
seized, shows that the supporters Of this move
ment may. with gzeat propriety, DO termo
dupeF, for tis probable that the weapons the
have purchased could not 10 fired OF man
times without danger OF bursting.