New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-04-27


Senators Wilson and Stewart are going to
Europe this summer
Five thousand acres of trees have been cut
down IN France.
MIR. Pullman is going to introduce his
drawing room palace cars upon English rail
ways.
Horace Greeley will deliver the opening
address at the State fair at Houston Texas.
May -.
The Beecher Stowe family are breaking
up their family home at Hartford. and prob
ably will never resume 1T again.
Vermont has the largest marae sugar crop
Tor twenty years. The sugar sells M the low
pf'ee al eight OF ten cents per pound
The Legislature of Wisconsin has nassed
an act for the abolition of the grand iury
system The new law takes effect on the LIST
of July.
pr. W. I. Taliaierro, who died in Cincin-
nat few days since, was the last surviving
officer OF our forces engaged in the naval bat,
ties on Lake Erie.
Needles were first made in England by a
Spanish negro in the reign of Mary. On his
death the art was lost until lj66. when Films
Grorosc, German rcdiScovercd the same
Another vcrdaut Maine man was swinIlcd
out OF SD IN Boston, the other dav. bv two
confidence men, 10 whom, in his simplicity. he
contidingly loaned that sum
The II, 600 heather Chmee in San Francisco
don't make much noise in the world. but they
own Sil,0OO in real estate and II ,ISS, 900 in
personal property, Notwithstanding
Prince Charles, of Roumania, is declared
to be III such perpetual dread of assassination
that he never lies down TO sleep without sta.
uonlng bali dozen guards in his bed chamber.
Boston supplied four hundred families of
ITS poor with free soup from February 10th to
March 2Ith, at cost of 81 800. The article
supplied was fish or clam chowder, and of ex-
celent quality
When juror goes into court and swears
he has no . bias or partiality," and this Juror
is IN the habit OF GUESSING " niggcrs " and white
Republicans. is that juror pcrjured wretch or
u" good citizen "
They have sylvan curiosity out in Geor-
gla. Two pine trees, five feet apart at the base,
come together thirteen feet above, forming a
solid body, then separate, uniting again twenty
ieet above, forming n single top.
The Omaha Republican says " We have
not yet been able to adopt the free trade theory,
because we find it combated by every comm
nity-West "a we'll az East-in seeking the
advancement of its own interests
Without reference to the disorders in the
South, The Nation, Of New York, adopts the
theory that the remedy must come from the
Southern people themselves, through their own
experience of suffering and disorder.
Mr.. Budd, ofLoldon. having willed CI0O.-
600 to his sons, on condition that they shall
never wear m"ustachcS, these young gentlemen
are contentn@ themselves with side whskers
and parting their HAIR in the middle
The census Of the new IIonse at Washing
ton shows that it contains I31 LAWYERS -
merchants, ~ farmers and planters. IL Jour
naiIsts, manufacturers, , general business l.
bankers, physicians > clergymen, teacher.
! lumbcrmen, and . railroad managers.
"A lingnist ut WarsaW. in Poland. named
lreseensky, has jusa completed poIyglOt die
uonary IN twenty three languages, upon which
he has been at work for over seventeen wears
1t Is believed that the Imperial Academy of
1t. Petersburg will publish the work at its ex-
pensc.
1t don't take mach to induce a person to
commit suicide over in Indiana In LAGRANGE
county, rcceLty,a young woman drowned her
self because she wanted To get married and
her parents were obduratc and a married man
shot himself because his wife wouldn't Get up
early enough to suit him.
1t Is said that the Emperor William has
abandoned formal coronation with imposing
ceremonies, at the persuasive entreatics Of the
Crown Prince, who thought il might have an
Ill influence upon the numerous Republican
minds of Germany. This is a significant con
cesslon to public opinion.
From San Francisco comes the news that
the steamship Annie Dale was wrecked near
1ravaki. Passengers aud mail saved She
ran ashore IN II tog, owing to a deviation in
the compass The steamer Banshcc was also
wrecked on the coast of Otogo All hands lost
with the exception of the captain.
As some colorcd school children we're play.
ing ball in Raymond, Miss, on the , LIST instant.
the ball accldcntly struck a small white boy.
who happened to be passing mt the time. News
OF the outrage was spread, and quickly IA
party of cnraged white men collected and com
menced their work by diSchargng their pistols
" at random, resulting in the killing Of one OF
the cOlOred children. The whites complained
very much of being oppressed in Mississippi.
Col. Snively and three companions were
murdered and their bodies shockingly mutt
lated by Apache Indians between Phoenix aud
Bradshaw, Arizona. IIOwrass freight train
was attacked March Is, between Phoenix and
Nyckenburg, by 100 Apaches. Major Honra
and another man were murdered, the train
burned and twenty two mules run Off Gen.
Stoneman, commander of the department, still
remains quietly attending TO bis rancho at Los
Angeles, California.
"A Southern Methodist Minister writes to
the Atlanta (Ga) AdCocdfe: by the help of
the Lord hope to be able to report 30 or 200
members next Conference, and first-class
circuit for this country. | have a bullet in my
left hip, and crippled arm received from tho
ku-klux the 18th of January, 1870. in Pulas-
XII Tennessee. | can identify of the men,
but cannot get justice but while | suffer with
these wounds | bless God that | am counted
worthy to suffer for His names sake
1T will be remembered that some time ago
description was given of an unique gold pen
perfect imitation of a goose quill, and in
erusted with diamonds which were made ex-
pressly for Prince Bismarck at Phorzhelm, and
presented to him by Herr Bisslnger, OF that
place, who requested that the treaty OF peace
should be signed with it. IL was actually used
for that purpose and the Chancellor related
with manifest qualification the history OF this
precious plume to some French gentlemen who
happened to be present.
The following story of Tennessee plant
er's family is told in a Nashville paper The
head of the family losing almost his all in the
recent war, emigrated to Brazil, taking with
him his wife, his son and dau ter Misfortune
still followed him in his new venture. and he
became involved in debt. The laws of Brazil
provide that, when the debtor is iAsolyent, his
children shall be sold into slavery, and this was
the fate of the gentleman in question. The son
and daughter, both having reached years Of
maturity, are now performing mental labor for