The Lincoln County herald., 1870-01-06

AAio i"tWiy tCCVtV 70 iVots auu no 10 Wuv'
died abost his children.
J "Nothing but necklaces are worn BY the
elite of Richmond" is the startling on
nouncemens in Southern paper.
New York has the names Of some
streets on it's gas lamps painted up side
down for convenience Of midnight revel.
lers.
Nearley full returns of the Mississippi
election have been received at General
Ames' headquarters, and they shsw that
General Alcorn's majority fer Governor
is about $4,000. Bayensts appear to be
good "repeatcrs."
A man in Philadelphia pays o premium
Of seven thousand dollars % life insur.
snce policy Of one hundred thousand
dollars. Ifhe should happen to live IF.
teen or twenty years be will have earned
hls money. -
| Parties having a surplus capital which
they desire to invest in a newspaper,
may be interested III knowing that M.
| Villemessant wants to sell half Of the
Figaro. Three hundred thousand dollars
il the price.
The grandson of an American General
who fell at Brandywine, and the son of
Colonel under jackson at the battle Of
New Orleans, is blind man in Nashville,
who makes living BY playing the accor.
deon on the sidewalks.
The President has decided to remove
most Of the Territorial officers Of Wash
ington Territory, including the Governor,
Chief Justice, Collector Of Customs, and
Marshal. They are charged with apos-
tacy from the Republican faith.
A Massachusetts, paper says: "The good
old style Of things is coming round again
in Berkshire. Apfarner takes load Of
wood to market and it pays for . barrel
-four, which has not been the case before
in nearly ten years."
One of the exhorters at . Washington
prayer meeting, recently, was man who
had left home in the morning with the
intention of committing suicide. By the
advice of friend he took the prayer
meeting as an alternative, and sold the
pistol.
The last notable typographical error
occurred in report Of George William
Curtis lecture in favor of the Civil Ser
vice Reform, published by the Providence
Journal. 1t occurred in q sentence de.
nouncing "greedy and dishonest officials
which was published Greeley and dis
honest oficials."
Sunken Lake in the Cascade Mountains
is one of the greatest curiositics in Ore
gon. 1t is ten BY twelve miles, and
seems like gigantic we'll scooped out in
the heart Of the mountains. The walls
are nearly perpendicular, average 2,00C
feet in height, and run sheer into the
wafer, leaving no beach at all. The lake
is never ruffed by the wind, and its depth
in unknown, as thus far, no person has
been upon its surface.
There is . movement on foot, to b
3.valnnad aa ANN "a Tayaa "a admitted
into the Union, to create two new States
There are two bills now before the Hous,
Reconstruct ton Committee for that pur
pose. One Of these proposes to detach
that portion Of Texas lying west ant
south Of the Colorado river, and to cal
it the State of Lincoln and another pro
vides for the States OF Houston. Lincoln
and Texas, to be carved out of the bound
aries of the present State.
A reporter has been interviewing Cor
nelius Wendell in relation to his connec
tion with the johnson impeachme trial
Mr.. Wendell, says between $50, 900 AM
100000 were raised by The friends o
Mr.. johnson to secure his acquittaf, AM
that part Of the sum was used to pur
chase votes. He intmates that fou
Senators were influenced to vote for 40
/ quittal by q pecunlary consideration, bu
, fully exonerates Trnmbull, Fesseudeu
Grimes and johnson from any complicit
in the transaction.
The inuumerable school boys who o.
defamation days have so often and 8
Q 6etcely inquired, "Our pilgrim Fathers
, Where are they?" are hereby informe
that they are mo where" At least sue
. would look to be the way Of it, judged b
the success Of Mr.. Warren, President {
the Pilgrim Society, who vainly eudeav
3 ored to raise $1,000 to repair the mont
9 ment over Plymouth Rock, and has give
!. up in disgust, returning the two hun
dred dollers be had collected to the con
tributoss, In Plymouth itself, he coul
It not raise dollar.
An Atlanta (Ga. } telegram Of the %
ult. says "Governor Bullock has issued
Q proclamation, summoning all peIseu
!. elected to the General Assembly Of Il
I State of Georgia, by proclamation Of Gel
!. Meade, June 25th, 1868, who are quail
fed, to appear iu Atlanta on the 10th ds
70 Of January, where persons equally quail
" fed 10 hold Office in accordance with Il
>. act of Congress in such cases made su
10, provided. will be organised into Sena
s and House Of Representatives as tho Pr
10 yisionsl Legislature of Georgia e