New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-04-20
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Chief Justice Chase has resumed his seat
on the bench.
The bridge across the river at st. Louis
dollars. "''''''i
Charles LennoN Remond. colored has been
appointed an Inspector Of the Boston custom
house.
The Government has issued seyen.cent
postage stamps, that rate heiug required to pre-
pay letters to Germany.
There were rs steam boiler explosions
! during 1870. There were 500 persons killed
| by them, and 227 wounded
Henry Ward Beecher. it is said. will soon
JON his wife and daughter, who have gone 70
| Florida TO recruit their health.
| a I. Stewards income for the past year
! as recorded on the books of the Eighth Col
| lection District, was 81 ,531, 5gj.
Mrs. Anna Breed of Norwich Conn left
$4,000 as a fund for the support of the needy
ana deserving widows of that town.
A Swedish colony is now locating in the
fertile valley of the Nishnabotany, Potta-
watamle and Montgomery counties, Iowa.
Fourteen shoe manufactures in Dover. n.
It,, give employment to about , 900 persons.
and do IN annual business of over 81 900, 900.
1t Is said that Andy johnson II penitent,
and asks to he admitted into the Republican
ranks again. While the lamp of life doth
burn &c.
Eleven japanese merchants have arrived
IN San Francisco 10y the bark Gaucho, with
10000 cards of slIkworm eggs, costing in
Japan 100000.
Father llyacinthc is now in Paris. dis.
tributing to the necessities of the suffering.
from the gifts of British and American charity
that have been committed TO him.
dispatches from the British Government
announce the determination of the Cabinet to
make Honduras crown colony to form a part
ot the West Indies Considerations
A number of lIaytien spies have arrived at
Kingston, jamaica to watch refugees and re-
port any movement by them toward the annex
alton of Hayti TO the United States
-Gamhetta's funeral Grafton over Kuss. late
Mayor OF Strasburg wound up: Happy NJ.
kuss to have the privilege of entering your
agon'zcd country only as a dead man"
The French papers are discussing a plan
for directing to this country the immigration
of French families in AlSace and Lorraine who
are dissatisfied with the results of the war.
Captain l.. a Wake. of the British navy.
has purchased w. u. Nuts place, G55 acres of
land, near Guiitord Station ON the Alexandria
Loudoun and Hampshire road Tor so, 500.
a Missouri widower of seventy three and
n girl of twelve have married. The child's
parents compelled her to the step. There
should be law to prevent such unnatural
marriages.
The grand jury of Cincinnati has indicted
all the newspapers of any consequence in that
city for advertising n gift enterprise. The
virtue OF Cincinnati would be bettcr if more
widely extended
"A party of Sonora scalp hunters captured
and killed fifty hostile Apaches near the border
of Sonora and Arizona a few days since The
Mexican Government pays $500 for each scalp,
ana The state OF Sonora the same.
Mr.. Henry V. o'"onnor, late managing
editor of the RcpHbiJca1, of this city, has re-
signed his position TO establish a journal of his
own in New York. Mr.. Arthur Shepherd. of
the Republican, succeeds Mr.. OConnor
The annual examination of the officers of
the artillery school at Fort Monroe is now in
progress. The officers have passed the theo-
retIcai course in a satisfactory manner, and are
now beng examined in the practical course.
Forty years ago Simon Cameron pur-
chased Tor Slo9a spur of the Broad Mountain,
Pennsy iyanla. 1t is now worth 800 900. Coal
has been mined out of it for thirty-ive years,
and ho has realized, in the shape of ROYALTY,
about 800 day
Old NoZzicapO, the Neapolitan executionor
who behcadcd so many persons during the
bloody reign OF King BOmba, died the other
day ut Sorrento, In his 18th year. He had
been the active instrument in putting upward
OF a hundred and fifty persons to death.
As a worthy divine and a brOad-thinkng
doctor were discussing about the Z" Essays and
Reviews some doubt was raised whether Eve
was formed from " bone, when a poeticaI
lady remarked " Well, if Eve was so formed,
IT must have been from the bone of conten-
ton.
There are dates from Peru to March 22.
The recent treshcts there did immense damage
The losses are estimated ut SS0O0,0OO The
Government IS giving assistance to many Of
the sufferers, whose homes and provisions were
swept away. The storm the heaviest ex-
perieneed III thirty years.
There are many fruits which never turn
sweet until the frost has lain upon them
There are many nuts that never fall from the
bow of the tree Of life till the frost has opened
and ripened them, And there are many ele-
ments OF life that never grow sweet aud beau
uul till sorrow touches them.
There will be a full moon IN the first week
OF each OF the first seven months OF the present
year. Ia July there will he two full moons,
VIE on the I'd and 3lst and in the remaining
five months the moon Will be at the full in the
last week of each month It will probably be
many years before it will happen again.
The new Spanish government of King
Amadeus is wisely repairing some of the blum
ders OF that Of Isabella, and doing certain Judi
cous things which the Republic and Regency
neglected. 1t has signed an armistice, which is
practically treaty OF peace, with Chilli Peru
and Bolivia, and thus formally concluded the
war, which really ended in 1866.
On the night of the 9TH instant seven
armed men entered j. +. Farmers stable at
Florence, Alabama, shot the night Waterman,
took the horses and fed. A party soon after
started in pursuit. and overtaking them, a
skrmish cnsued, during which one of the pur-
suers was killed, another wounded, and two
horses killed. Charles W. Hykers0n, Benia-
min Long, and seven horses were captured
The Toledo Blade says: "The colored
people steadily persist in bringing Democratic
assertions and predictions to grief They will
take care Of themselves, Notwithstanding years
of Democratic assertion to the contrary. They
are even going beyond this and becoming
wealthy. At this rate the prejudice against the
colored man will all be gone IN a few years, and
the ChiDaman will have the whole OF 1t trans.
ferred to himself"
The heirs of the late John A. Washington,
of irgnia, have an important suit on trial in
Chicago Mr.. Washington bought a large
amount Of real estate in that city in 1858 bnt