The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-12-30

Pall-beAring ia . profession ln Ealence'
France, aud the pail bearers have struck Tor
higher wages.
There are fully 1.OOo,OU acres Of arabic
land m the Territory of Montana, one fourth
nfthe whole number.
At an anti-vaecinationist meeting recently
held In Manchester, the resolution THAT
vaccination does not prevent smallpox, Dut
aoubles disease and death" was unanl-
nOnsly adopted.
A speculative traveller, telling how his own
beard, silky In London, became curry III
africa. declares that such being the case
temporarily with his hair he believes the q
mosphere alone responsible for the curly
locks Of Ethiopia
Miss Taylor, q beautiful and wealthy girl
10 years old, belonging TO one Of the best
families In PiaInneId, y. j., and moving In
the best society, eloped ON Wednesday, with
married man If thai town.
Sothern Is tickling Boston with his - Dun
,Ireary" The Herald Of that city, elAinD 10
have overheard young lady make this eriti-
cism Of the performance II think il was
iust splendid pIay-al except that old flop
feller.''
The Wilmington (Delaware) R.Paltca" say
that Hon Mr. Springer, a member OF the
Canadian Parliament, is a claimant for the
grounds on which that city stands. His an
vesters left Wilmington at the time Of the
Revolution.
Connecticut ladies are not fastidious. A
handsome Young woman from Salisbury Sc
cured divorce from her husband on the
ground OF brutal treatment. In less than u
week the husband had married another wo-
man from the same neighborhOod.
An intempente COW ate up half barrel ot
brandy peaches at Nashville, Tenn, the other
day, and after reellng around the streets in
state Of heastly intoxication for some time,
she was taken TO the police station, where she
soon died. Evidently her trSt debauch-
A few days ago a deer, fleeing from pack
IT hounds, came into the yard Of Mr. Benz.
+. Jackson, Of POeahontas, Va, when his
daughter, u young lady Of about ID years
Of agr, with the assistance II little brother,
caught il and killed il with case knife.
correspondent Of Liverpool paper sug
gests that the illness Of Prince Albert Ed
ward, and Of other parties, may have been
due to the eating Of tainted game, since, he
says, III is well known thai game live at this
season on berries and seeds which render
their Hesh poisonous.
The Rev. DIR. Patton said, in public dis
course = heard Elder Alfred Bennett say,
sAlHding 10 eXelnded church members,
When a sheep is excluded from the fold il
Al. "a I. -.
when hog Is put out Of rs pen il will root
around and try to upset it,"
The home OF the Carys, Alice and Phoebe,
In New York, il TO he sold before long, with
the books and other miscellaneous articles be
longing to the two sisters. The project of
placing memorial window in the Church Of
Strangers has been abandoned, and a monu-
meut will be erected to their memory
A New jersey paper records as fact that
recently fireman ON the West Jersey Rail
road, By the name of Doodle, was sorting
waste, when-strange 20 relate-a mouse es-
caPed from its warm winter quarters and ran
into the aFeman's open mouth, who swal-
lowed it in his establishment at the intrusion.
A farmer who lost his wife q few weeks
since, al Gcary City. Kansas. sent for min
ister to come and preach her funeral sermon,
and also marry him TO . young woman who
had been cheering him during his loneliness.
The minister hadn't the necessary swivel ma
ture TO Cop from the grave to the gay so sud
denly, and declined
The Monvians alwaye hold watch night
meeting on New Years eve. The minister be-
gins discourse half an hour before midnight
aud continues speaking Hntil, precisely at IL
O'Clock, the organ accompanied by a band Of
tamborinists and the songs of the entire con
gregntiOn. proclaim in its loudest notes the
advent Of the new year
A son Ut Mrs. Finney, Of Jordan, N. u.
who was employed on the Central road, re-
Gently fell from his train at Rochester and
broke his leg in two places. A few nights
after, his mother went to the station to get
Intelligence u her sOn, and while standing on
the track waiting for train, an engine came
up unexpectedly and killed her.
On witness In the Ku-Klux trials Il Co.
lumbiA, s. C., remsrking that he had been
taxed in khan in Georgia TO contribute TO the
order, Mr.. Reverdy johnson asked what was
the purpose of the assessment The witness
replied that he understood it was to pay the
gentleman and his colleagues; whereupon
Mr. johnson, nothing Abashed, told him he
was glad he contributed TO SO worthy an OBJ
jeCt.
A FUN meeting Of the representatives Of the
railroads centering In Indianapolis was held
IN "Wednesday to take action on the free-pass
system. the aggregate Of which is nearly IS
per cent on the gross passenger traffic. The
resolutions adopted prohibit the issuing Of
al pasaes. With the exception of reciprocal
iOnsAio the different railroads and to MEM
ben u the press. ....
A new kind Of type for the blind has been
invented by Reuben vose, New YORK bro.
kss. by the use Of which 1t win cost only two
dollar 10 print Bible, instead Of fifty, rs al
present, and tO-coMple4e the system a print
ing press has been constructed by which the
blind can print for themselves, ensbling them
To carry on correspondence with their friends
as well ss'those with eyes: iii'i-t Nv. * 7"
The Buffalo Commercial takes up the cud-
gel for cundnfAngo. 1t asserts, on the AN.
thOrty Of . distinguished physician of thst
city, that member Of Ms family, affficted
with cancer Tor many years.. has been cured