, 1870-04-05


u | , them in quarter Of IN hour. So foro-
'i0uB arc these giant beetles, that mothers arc /
.fraid 10 let their children 60 out OF the houee
by grown person. In their fte-
luent bloody contests the wounded arc de-
;purcd On the instant
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho funded debt Of England Is now -E727,- I
.a9, ,95s.
-0stibaldi uses "alas!" 500 tines in 100
,&gee Of his novel
Thu beat In Natal, Africa, wss 60 great in |
Tanna3 that oxen dropped dad It tha!r work. !
-Ihe Rtitiah Government discoptsges to-
Thirty thousand natives arc said 10 hlvs
'erishcd from cholera, in Zanzibar, during sir !
weeks, list year. I
"A discussion on woman suffrage Is project |
ID between Anna Dickinson pro, and Lillian-
Edgerton con, at New York.
joraty Of the dry and fancy goods deslers IN
hat city haro entered into an agreement 10
rurrhase no goods Of runners for year.
- The King of Prussia has abolished long
standing Hanove1iAn law, which forbade thu
opening Of theatres On tho eve Of Sundays md
fete days. =.
"A negro woman in Virgins naade hoEsclt
a widow by Killing her husband with flas-iruu
as ho IL peacefully sleeping on Monday OF
In Africa, il any one co1nss before King
without full -dreas oostune-that ia, 4 STRAW
the wAate basket before lie can wink twice.
-Eims Reeves Ia about to leave Eug1snd TOT
Italy. His thpet is in such delicate condition
that ho hss been obliged 10 give up Ill his pro
fessional engagements.
1t is s.id that tbs great Chinese philoso-
Of married life, "that be might have mora
tine for atudy and tho Performance of his
public duties"
Tho British Government has purchased
tor aIstfihqacn, psying ths snshoE 9soo: = =
Hindostanee, and ca1 ;al1ted to promote tho
cau1a Of fe1uaie education in India
"A genuoman residing IN New York city il
having made in Europe set Of lace curtains
for his Murray Hill mansion, upon which .ro
himself and family.
Lately, the B2roness Aiphonse de- Rotha-
child, While afahng, in Paris, fell On the iee,
unhurt; but three gentlemen who tnahed TO
the reHcue came IN colliAion, IN their hot haste,
and respectively received = bruised knse,, =
broken arm, and two displaced teeth.
n. r., eI noted aheep % ae.1s1 a.; md f.r%s1, nd
ono Of the heaviest landowners In New Eng.
land, is dead His age Wac 76 yeafs. He bad
smAssed large property, owning aboot *, 900
hctes Of land in Me1rimack and Grafton Conn
ties, estimated to 10 worth sa50, 600. Il Is
but held on to Al he got
=" The physical state Of The Empress Char
fotte," ssya the Tempe, g has altered 50 much
: for the Norse that ahe can no longer pay her
rsslts Is usual TO the Chateau of Laeken. She
has to be closely watched 1t the Palace Of Ter
rue1en, where tho Queen ct tho Dalgians goes
ton Is now accompanied BY Fever, which con-
fines her to her bed in stase Of complete
prostitution"
"A Ringainr fancy has come upon the Kadrp
nesr Cspe Town. When tho Great Eastern dr.
rived At Table Bay, thousands Of than left
their employers without notiee, in some eases
abandoning large atIeafs Of wa&es. They iuls
agined that the q big ship :" had come out to
carry them away 10 fotce1l labor in England,
and could not be dissuaded OF this in3atua-
ton.
The experimental brig Novelty, constructed
bulk, arrived in Boston from MAtAnzas on
Ions, BY means Of pumps and hose, direct into
the reservoir OIL rahnazy, was ref,le1 with
Cochituhts water, ehfpped new crew, got
ready for sea, and actually departed within
tws9ty-se7an hours from the time of her ar
--At 3 recent woman suffrage meeting IN
New York, Mrs. Leggett satd she hsd no doubt
lut that wlen women voted proper places
would be found for them to vote in. A man
would not allow his xife 70 go into an i'm
lady was walking home 1t night with her hus-
band, and felt, rs she [AI1s. Leggctt) often
felt, that she would like glass Of lager, the
great difficulty WAS where to find 3 place re-
spectacle enough to suit Mr., Leggett's ideas.
he would not take her into zny place unlesa II
ticnlar AZ TO where their wives get their lager,
they Nuuld nf course be Al particular aa Ia
where they took them to vote.
In New York, On the 1Bt, Wills 1natics J..
Walker Fowler was presiding At the Jefferson
= certain case hsd been published in the
Herald, when the following conversation en-
s1ss: Fowler 10 = group Of reportcrsl-
"%ho wrote and Pnhlished sh.t a1tisls" A7;
aid nepotter-1 did; FowleEI'Well, u
broke: Herald Repo1ter-aPe Perhaps you had
better do It" Fowler" You 6it ont from bs-
Lind this tleaf:7 Which coramhnd the zspoztel
At once nbeycd.. j.
"A Constantinople letter in tho Noriheaste7,
! Gss @ resehed .he Porte that reeoluaons,y
conspiracy has been formed in Greece for ths
| purpose Of sAaAssi1lAting the Sultan, and, it
tho confusion which would follow such n
ercut, Eaising N insntrection among the Chris
! revolution il f1ed Yor tho 9Th Of April. the an
niverpa1y OF the revolution OF 1871. P1epars
tionp a1a 10 be made for burning the Ottoman
| heet by some -sailo1s At Constautnople wht
belong to the conspiracy, and 1000 BelGa1
!iaes have bsen purchased for tae use Of III
insurgents. At the came timo diversion Ia u
be made by soms foreign power {russis q
Gseeee y with tho object Of drawing the Otto
| man troops from the c<pital-
"A lady writer tn the Boston Post Is severs
| upon female clerks, and remarks: "The rude
ncss md iu-breeding Of matosity Of Eirls bs
1 hir3 fha es1urfAY haroI1ipr h4rncaf fttYhAHr
| able, and am not etu uprised when bear 1alie1
| ray they prefer some storo where they employ
mAle clcrk1. ue employers whom they tell mi
they prefer male clerks to female, because the,
| please their rcustomers better. Girls themHe1vci
arc shutting avenues Of labor to their nex b,
their manners toward those whom they serve
and I'll the work Of feformeY8 viii do no Goot
until The girls learn to work with them, ant
descrya what they demand-"
| They arc sharp set in Elmira- A busi
ment, sent 81 600 to New York, directing thei
broker Herewith to purchase English gold
| which IVES selling at . cent and a half less pre-
MUM than American gold. This English solt
WIS then sent to CAnada, where American ril
yer w1s selling 1t twenty cents discount on th
| notions, including freight on the Hpc:ie to Ell
| mira, the firm found that they had nado Jus
SS in specie on each SlDo OF gTeenbacks in
vested. and they received for their Il 900 i;
greepbscla 81, ,0s0 III american silver.
On the morning Of March II, one and one
hnlf miles west Of Altoona, a. the Pacific c1
prese, going weat. on the Pennsylvania Rail
| road, WAS rounding cu1vo On the mountain
side, ut rapid rate, deep prccipice on on
ride. and high, impending rocks on the Other
tossing biz little AIMS aloft. The train wa
| stopped Fithin = few feet Of mass OF roc
and dirt upon the track, sufficient to hav
thrown passengers, engineers and carr ovcrt
prccipice. The lad. Willie cahko, not t0yeas
old, h1l seen the fall and hasteued to Ggn,
the approaching train.
The reports OF tho Canadian prisona fe
1853 sre juss puhlished. Tho following inc
dent is given In the report Of the Einssto
1 TenitentiAyv "a Fenian convict, name
Quinn. WAS reported by the guard, and, whe
called before the Warden 70 answcr. hc use
Tery *busiFc language, and struck tho guaz
ii ia the prceenco Of the oonvicts assembled
breakfast Another Fenixn convict, nAnne
A Hayden, left his seat. and game 10 Quinn'a re
4 cue. to rce, u he said fair play.' They wei
Il Quinn Was brought forth to be aosscd.
i great coumotion ensucd several left the
: Ieats md declared that Quinn should not
Fl whipped eune were 11n1Hned, whiis: othG
had knives. The guards were ordered to +
move them. TO Confinement Quinn then u
siay eome Of the others we1c punished, Al
quiet was restored"
On The Sd OF March, 1865, Abraham Ii
coin signed the eha1te. Of the National Free
mans aarinss and Tr.aht COMPANY Of Was
i lngton. designed to afford freedmen the mes:
!. them in habits Of prudauee- Sinee that d.
, 10 Lees than twenty -eesen branches Of the
ssitution hive been opened It as many dihe
. 4 ent plAccs a the South, and tha1sis consta
: demand for their extension to other places,
!. that tha work ia tealls but Just begun. Z
An ~ tb1n ~ hnnY, eyrAI
and proves that the negro can Be economic
/. il md ss.iug h wall - tho vhite 1nAn. At t
: end Of the fnt yer, on March !, 1856, tho {
: roeits held By The company and its hxanch