The Lincoln County herald., 1870-10-13

cents any.
Reverdy. .iJohnson is threatened with
blindness.
The Catholics aro erecting q new
church in st. Charles, to cost S25, 900.
Over one hundred ministers attended
the recent German conference at st.
Charles.
The President has issued another neu.
trslity proclamation in regard to the
European war.
A child of j. McCsusland, living
near Fayette, fell into . we'll . few days
ago and was killed.
The Christian denomination of Kansas
City are about to establish paper, to be
called the Christian.
The st. Joseph Herald says that the
McClurgites are making q very spiritless
canvass in that section Of the State.
Thomas Connolly, who was to have
been hung at Columbia last Friday, has
been respited by Governor McClurg un.
til November 9th.
A stranger attended the municipal
court Of Milwaukee during the State
fair, and thought he was at Republican
convention.
The Prussians will commence to bonn
bard Paris in few days. The bonn
bardment will be preceded by demand to
surrender. George Sands writes that
Paris can stand Il six months siege.
Ex-Governor William F. Packer, of
Pennsy ylvania, died ut Williamsport, in
that State on the 4th inst, aged 64 years.
He was Governor OF Pennsy lvania from
1857 to 1861.
Some eight hundred colored people
from North Carolina have applied for
passage to Liberia, in expectation to be
sent out by the American Colonization
society on the 1st of November next.
Ex.Justice Robert q. Grier, of the Su-
premc Court of the United States, died in
Philadelphia on the Sd inst, aged II
years. Judge Grier retired from the
bench last year on account Of advancing
years.
A high protective tariff is something
which intends to support a trade which
is not profitable enough to support it
self. Free trade goes upon the presump-
tion that business which is not se.fsus
tanning deserves to perish.
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans
of Saline are calling down blessings upon
the head of Supervisor Ritter, who has
removed the old proscript,ve board Of reg
istration and appointed fair, impartial
men in their place.
While recently holding court a. Hart.
vile, Judge Fayn received the announce
ment Of the death is his father in Franz
lin county, Pennsylvania. He started on
his way thither, but on reaching Lebanon Il
J found his youngest child in the pangs Of
death.
Alex. j Johnson Of Westmoreland county
PeDnsy lvania, father Of ex Governor Wm
F. johnson, is now in his ninety eighth
year. This venerable man is the oldess
Free Mason in the United States, hayipg
entered the order in Ireland in 1895. ua
is yet quite hale aud moves about
bIiskly.
n North Missouri is destined to riva
Illinois in the number and extent OF he,
railroads. here are are now north Of the
Missouri river, railroads, either completed
n or in course of construction, whose ag
gregate length is fifteen hundred miles
Within the next two years there will b.,
four railroads connecting the Mississippi
II aud Missouri rivers in North Missouri
4 and an equal number running north and
g south from the Iowa line.
Last week We mentioned the singular
It circumstance Of two horses belonging TO
e Mr.. W. II. Campbell, having been s,ung
!. to death by bees. From an eye witpcss
e we learn the following particulars: The
g horses ran against some bee gums aud
d knocked them over The bees being dis
e turbed became enraged and swarmed out
8 and settlcl upon the horses and com
t mcnced stinging them. The horses stood
n perfectly still, the pain being such that
they seemed paralyzed. BY the use of
:, salt aud water and blankets, the bees
t were eventually driven from the horses,
e but the work Of death had been accom-
, plished. The agony of the horses saa
e almost unendurable. and within three
P hours from the time of the accident one
D of them died the other died within fiz
5 hours time:-the one living the longest
!. being q thorough bread, proving the
t greater endurance of thorough bred
over the common stock, as both suffered
3 the same torture.
4; The treatment in srch cases is to bleed
severely, and drench with hot salt aud
water and whiskey, and rub we'll with the
same. This treatment is said to be the
moat certain cure, but in this case Il
failed.-Louisiana Journal.
A SHIP FOUND IN A CALIFORNIA DEs-
ERT.-By many 1t has been held "a a
theory that the Yuma desert was once an
ocean bed. At intervals pools of salt water
have stood for awhile in the surround
ing waste Of sand, disappearing only TO