New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-11
NEWS ITEMS

goou-natnred San Francisco sheriff
taxes the jury to the theater at night when II
: members are not permitted to go home.
The street railways Of Philadelph;a la.
year carried 80, 400, 926 passengers. Dur;ne
the year the accidents on the road were ons
killed and FIVE injured
Naples large enough TO make three ten
feet rails each, with 4, 600 trees to the acre
have been raised from the seed in seven year:
IN Monroe county, Iowa.
A dispatch from the great break in the
/ Erie canal says navigation will be resumed
I within ten days should the weather favor aud
no further trouble with the laborers occur.
"A fellow got permission to leave bag of
/ potatoes IN a New York grocery over night.
ana when the grocer went home burglar got
out OF that bag and helped himself to the
/ pennies and scrip.
At an election in Quincy. m the other
| day, the prisoners in the county Jail were taken
TO the polls 0y the sheriff. and. upon his de-
tnand' permitted TO vote The affair has crea.
| ted intense excitement
A Knoxville paper last week actually pub.
hshed an advertisement announcing that An
umbrella had been "fouud" "a fine Scotch
g'ngham umbrella at that-which 1.-THE owner
could have by identifying it,"
Ladies' are carrying parasols with long,
heaVy handles and long points, using them as
walking sticks, and, as lady has about "a
much idea of using cane as a man has Of a
ian. 1T Is extremely ludicrous to observe the
operation.
"A boy of eight years old a couple of weeks
since was sent to prison for a month bv three
magistrates at Tamworth, England The moor
little mite had thrown a stone at a bird and
missing the bird had broken glass IN shop
keepers window
Even Texan man cannot shoot down his
fellow man with impunity, for didn't a Judge
down there tell murderer the other day: SYou
have been tried aud convicted of killing your
wife with an axe, and you ought to have been
ashamed OF yourself"
-Urls always love those boys best who are
the kindest, best natured, most eonsiderate and
"manllke' in their behavior and who are not
coarse, profane, and loafersh in their talk.
The boys who are by their school and play
mates loved the most make the best men.
The British High Commissioners have re-
ceived pressing invitations from some of the
leading men of Chicago to visit that city before
returning to England, but they have returned
an answer that the brief time Of their stay in
the United States will prevent an acceptance.
The Treasury programme for the purchase
of bonds and the sale of gold for May will be
us follows Two millions of bonds. to be pur-
chased each Wednesday, making ten millions
for the month two millions of gold to be sold
each Thursday, making eight millions for the
month
A Leavenworth paper says that at meet
ing OF the Democratic club night or two ago,
frothy young orator, waxing warm on the
nmalVamatlOD fba pc
publcans choose to marry blacks they can do
so; but, as for myself when ! marry | shall
marry one of my own sex.
"A Paris letter says that one of the 6rst
things "A citizen asks his neighbor now adays.
on meeting him out Of doors, is: 'Can you tell
me, Monsieur, the name Of our street this morn
Ing p And the reply is: " | could have done
so hall an hour ago, but since then the name
has been changed three times"
A large number of newspaper csryespon.
dents, for the first time in the last FIVE months.
spent day last week in relaxation from their
lahors. They partook of the splendid hospi-
talitieS OF Taylor Suit, at his country seat in
Maryland, FIVE miles from Washington, by
special invitation of that gentleman.
X os5uth, whose Impoverished condition since
his return from the United States twenty years
ago, has constantly depressed his spirits and
prevented him from developing those potential
energies and latent powers for which he was
so remarkable when Governor of Hungary, has,
10 MS old age, just fallen heir to a fortune
The first arrest under the new enforcement
law was made in North Carolina on Friday
last. The charge is that of assaulting and
maItreating negroes, the guilty persons being
three young men known as disreputable char.
acters.F They were not disguised while COM
hitting the ofense-a singular violation of Ku-
kluX customs.
Elizabeth NJ. Powell: late of Vassar Col.
lege, has accepted an invitation from the Free
Congregationse Society of Florence, Massa-
chusetts, to become an associate resident pastor
of the society. She will speak once month.
and take charge Of the Sabbath school. She
will inauguraie her work there by Discourse
upon The Work Of the True Church."
A feature of peculiar interest in the
Coiored Representatives, paper published2t
Lexington, Ky, a. an organ of the colored
people, is the advertising by former slaves for
their wives, their children, or their friends from
whom they were separated at the behests of the
slave system before The r emancipation. Many
of TIE appealsffor information Of this kind are
very touching, and serve to illustrate the
peculiar wickedness Ofean institution now
happily extinct
A notorious desperate, Diego Lucero sent
to prison for numbering Manuel Garcia, @ con-
stable of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and ac-
cused of having killed number of men, women.
and children at different times, was recently
taken from confinement by band of armed and
disguised regulators, sad hanged from beam
of the porch in front of the jail. Lucero was
considered one of the most desperate and saw
age ruhans in the whole Territory, which
abounds III villains and sssassns of every kind
Next to the comfort of being elected to
Congress, is the glorious privilege of being
defeated candidate, and contesting the seat of
ones opponent. Congress pays the happily
elected a salary of $4,000 for two years ser
vice. and $4,000 to the rival but unsuccess-
full claimant. In other words, it goes halves"
on the result-but unfortunately pays the
= ball" TO the man who was not elected out of
| the public treasury. Perhaps an idea Of
minority representation Underlies this
practice.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says there is good authority for
The report that the President viii very soon
take active measures for the enforcement of the
Ku-klux law passed during the last session of
Congress, the only circumstance which will be
likely to cause delay being the absence of the
Secretary of War. The President remarked,
since his return from the West, that he shonld
not 20 to California until he bad initiated meas
ures, in accordance with the provisions of that
law, for the protection of loyal people Of the
South.
L. H. in