New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-12-07
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

/ AO4'alu Is tNluentiy NOT anxious - par
with some OF her colonies at present tn.
| proposed sale of her possessions in Asia and
Africa 10 Great British. from recent action
ot the Netherlands trading company. is likely
not to take place
A lady was met on the street lately by a
! gentleman friend, who gallandY remarked
Madam your face is full Of roses" thinking
1t was the wind that gave TO it the lovely
earnstion. Yes" iuterpssed an old bachelor
standing by, and some Of them have been
rubbed of the left cheek"
-Advices from Mexico state ANARCHY pre-
walls throughout that unhappy country. Law
lessness IS in full sway. The revoiutionists
are sacking villages IL several districts. and
robberes are committed within sight of the
gates of the capital Mexico seems To ex-
perience nothing but instruction and turmoil
One South Carolina Ku-Klux recently
begged Major Merrill to lee him OF on the
plea that he only stood by on one occasion
when horrible murder was committed and
cried, Don't kill the poor niger" This BEING
so much like the suggestion of the professor
TO the college student about the hailiG. Don
nail his ears to the pump" the Ku kuX was
not excused.
The jackson (lIich.) Patriot publishes AN
interesting account of the singular death of
convict at toe Michigan State prison eighteen
years ago. He was an inmate Of a SOLITARY
cell, which was heated by steam, and the pipr
bursting, his cell was filed with the hot
vapor, and he was literally cooked alive before
the accident was discovered. The engineer
at that time is now dentist of jackson.
~, a scientific correspondent in the Lon.
don Spectator, speaking of our great fires
says: when the truth is known about these
fires in America. it will be touad that they
resulted from the passage Of great mysterious
atmospheric steam, which arose in longitude
o., swept with a cyclone Antigua and the
Virgin Isles on the Dist of August. the
Bahamas on the % aud then moved slowly
to the northwest, striking Chicago and she
forests.
The Boston Post Exports Lolita Is saving
OF Boston audiences They are not so enthus.
lastlc as New York audiences, neither are
they so tickle. New Workers 90 into ecstasies
over you one night and forget all about YOU
the next Boston audiences choose to make
their own decision and exercise their own
Judgment; they don't take up persons easily,
neither do they drop them when they once
have decided In their favor. They are perhaps
less enthusiastic, but they are more dscrm-
mating; aud hear y, genuine applause from
them is something worth having because it
means they really are pleased"
"A party Of wits once stopped at "a tavern.
When the feast was over one Of the number
called in the hostess. "Angelique," he said
Il am going to give you lesson in astronomy.
Have you not heard of the great Patouic year,
when everything must return 90 its FIRST con
dition? Know, then, that in sixteen thousand
years we shall be here again, on the same day
and at the same hour. Will you give us credit
till then?' The hostess, however. had her
reply. Il am perfectly willing, she retorted;
"but it is just sixteen thousand years since
you were here before, and you left without
paying; settle the old score, aud will trust
you on the new"
Thomas Jones, colorcd. in the nineteenth
year of his age died ut the residence of his
widowed mother, in Philadelphia, on Saturday
morning. lie was scholar in the school Of
the late Octavius V. Cato. The deceased had
made considerable progress in learning and
stood among the highest in his class, and would
have graduated at the end of the present term
Upon dlsmlssing the school on the day OF the
election IN October, Professor Cato told the
scholars to go home az son as possible and
not to loiter on the streets. Young Jones pro-
ceeded home, and next morning, upon hearing
of the murder of his preceptor, became So
shocked as to bring sudden sickness, from
which he never recovered. 1t is evident that
he must have had constitutional disease. the
shock accelerating his death His mother is in
very INDECENT circumstances.
Here is a Renaissance Of the Chicago
fire, mentioned in the Post Of that city.
which has something of genuine pathos in il
IN othing more pathetic have We seen sine,
the fire than empty bird cage that hangs
rotting at the foot Of an empty window, or the
orltlce where the window was, at the top Of IL
rafting wall on Clark street. There lived -
garrulOus mocking bird before the fire; h
used to cry to the passer by, Come up Come
up! Wipe your feet on the scraper = LAS
for Tommy His wit did not save him, for
his cage was at once prison and coffin.
lie persisted there, and the boys who have
climbed up and looked down into the cage say
the little body of the chatterer lies there-an
untedged clnder Gone too is the pleasant
face that used to look out and smile above
him-that window IS now but brick or1le's
nest III the sky"
An extraordinary case of hydrophObia has
occurred in West philadelphia. \ little girl,
on returning homo from school, was met by
her pet dog, who IN the course Of its antics
tore her dress. Worried at the injury to the
garment, the little girl, without mentioning
the matter To any OF the family, went TO her
room and getting needle and thread, pro-
ceeded TO sew up the torn place. When it
was finished she bent down her head AMI
taking the end between her teeth BIT it off.
Nine days after the occurrence oil this incident b,
symptoms OF hydrOphobia manifested them
selves in the unfor Lunate little girl. Skilled
medical talent YVES called in, aud every APP
pliance that science could afford Ia relieve the
sufferer was resorted 10, but the subtle poison
had done its work too thoroughly for human
skill to avail, aud the little girl has since
died.
1t will be rem 3mbered that some months
since costly gold IN adal, presented to the Hon
Charles Sumner by the citizens of the republic
of Hayti as mark of gratitude and in COM
memoration of his services in behalf of their
country, Was declined by that gentleman on the
ground that the services referred to were simply
rendered in the performance of his duty as Il
Senator of the United States and that the ac-
ceptancs Of the medal would be contrary to the
spirit of the constitution which he had sworn to
respect. The advertiser says that the medal
has been forwarded by the Hon. Stephen Pres
ton minister resident of Hayti III this country,
to the Hay ten consul in Boston, through whom,
at the request OF the minister, 1t has been pre-
scented to the State of Massachusetts. Cover
nor Claln, in behalf of the State has accepted
the gift, and has had it placed In the State
library.
The first bill on the Senate calendar is
Mr. Summers Supplementary Civil Rights
bill which was introduced on the 9th OF
March last The bill declares that all citizens
of the United States, without distinction of
race, color, &C., are entitled to the equal and
impartial enjoyment of any accommodation,
advantage, priority or privilege furnished by
common carriers, whether on land or water;
by inkeepers; by licensed owners, managers