, 1870-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tennessee owes nearly e41 ,000, ,0G0.
Atlanta is to have $3a5, 200 hotel.
Fifty one Mormous have rccanted, and
arc going back to England.
-Fabers speaking macline, in Germany,
rot only talks, but laughs aud sines.
"A Georgian editor has hnd his pistol sto-
len- He afavertises to give the n.ief the con-
tts,ts. and no questions asked. il he will re-
turn it.
The casualties in Troy on The Fourth in
slnded cne COW frightened to death by fire.
crackers
AN American lady is reported as having
j:st TX ught t a duck OF bonnet in Paris, for
;.E0
Mount Holyoke Seminary Is expecting
S10, 900 worth Of bopkH. the gift Of Mrs H. F.
Du,ant. OF B, ston. They afe on their way
from Europe.
There is IN old lady in Lynchbure, Va,
Who SAYS she made a pasr Of stockings last flf.
teen years by merely knitting feet to thon
every winter, and legs every other winter.
There is q clergyman at Newport, r. l.,
who sleeps in one house, takes lis meals in
another, has study in third, and breaches
in the fourth, all On the same street. Il is
scarcely necessary to fay that he is bachelor.
"A woman who tells peanuts on Nassau
street, New York, has an original method Of
keeping her infant quiet. She has the four
legs which support her stand boarded in,
and in thus space -nnrsing bottle in hand-the
u3ny Sleeps nearly all Q&y%
"A communication from st. Jean de Mau-
nenne, June 29, states that only 1856 metres
G&ree feet three and one-third inch eacAl re-
main to be pierced IN the Mont Cenis tunnel
to place France and Italy in direct communica-
ton. The Inauguration Of the total line from
Pans to Florence will probably take place in
about fourteen months.
The Dugliah Commissioners appointed by
Parliament to inquire into the treatment of the
treasoE-felony conv;cts are about to meet, the
Earl Of Devon in the char. O'Donovan Rossa
will be among the first Witnesses examined.
Fsci1ities win be given for the prisoners to
make oral statements without the presence OF
any officer Of the prison, and friends will be
allowed TO assist them in preparing their state
nents-
a clerk who was discharged from tho Brit
ish Admiralty, fer m!st o3duc4, in 1861, and Of
COURSE without pension, lately wrote to the
department, as if still in office, offering to ae-
no inquiry was made by the officials to whom
the application was addressed. They seem to
have Assumed implicitly that the penaion was
really due. and to hav6 proceeded in the ordi-
narJ course with the calculation for committing
it. The result was that on the 14th OF June,
LEGO. the clerk received C.. 600 from the Admi-
ralty for consenting to retire from service
from which he had been dismissed in disgrace
nine years before, aud to accept commuta-
tlon Of pension to which lie had no title
whatever. The clerk Mt once started on = visit
10 the United States.
"A horrible occurrence is reported from a
email village in the vicinity Of the city OF Drieg
Prussia. The hostess OF tavern in that VII
l2go ordered her servants to take man who
was lying drunk in front Of her house to hay
loft. so that he might recover his sober eenaes
during the night. Is the hostler went up tho
hayloft next morning horrible sight met his
eyes. Rats had attacked the man, who was
lying in q state of beaEtlE iutoxieation. and had
eaten off his face almost entirely. His ears,
nose, the lower eyelids, the checks, the lips,
and the chin had been gnawed OF entirely;
the evebells were injured, but not destroyed,
and the einews Of the jaws were severed, The
man, who presented frightfuI spectacle, was
taken to the hospital Of BEeig, where the e1-
traordinary case causes great deal OF aston
iehment. After suffering terribly for some
days, the unfort tunate man died.
The torn OF Dauphin, eight miles above
Harrisburgh, on the Susquehanna, is situated
at the base OF a mountain, 500 feet high, and
Reems 10 be walled in with mountains. Tho
atmospheric phenomena in this gorge arc very
remarkable, and recently three distinct thun-
DER Storms broke over the town during the
nlg5t. The electricity darted along the rail-
Ioaa traek, and the telegraph wires gsTe out
mul1tnno M OF SPARKS like those from forge.
1he lightning continually etruck the noun
sa1ns, and large rocks we're displaced and,
WIN loua noise, rolled down into the river.
oasn 1as sfEock ave times, but wAs pcotect-,