New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04
WHY'S ITEMS


Wendell Phillips was born AZ Ros,o, E,
1911, and William Loyd Garrison at Newburv.
port Massachusetts. December 10, 1906.
Those who marry old people merely in ex.
pectation 10 bury them, hang themselves in
hopes that some one will come and cut the
halter.
A physician in Omaha has been danger
| ousy poisoned by needle which penetrated
us niger while he was making post 'nOrtepl
examination.
Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, is said to be
tue most industrious of all the American artists
( IN Italy. She seldom leaves Rome or her stu
/ do, even In summer.
/ The piece de resistance among Mexican
politicians both principal parties is the asser.
t'oh that the desire exists to bring Mexico
under the American flag.
A mountsinnecr, with 50 500. comhatted
the hosts OF faro in Kansas city till he had
only 80 lett. He lit cigar with that and
walked back to Denver
The colored population of Gainesville.
Florida, have formed an association for the
purpose Of establishing a " Union Store" Sub
scripuon $40 each member
Brigham Young has ordered daily PRAYERS
against the grasshoppers this summer. The
false account OF his death was probably got up
oy some one who wishes to marry Mrs. Young.
There Is a buoy that has been having quite a
pleasant though lonely journey oil by itself I:
was missed from its station on the Hudson
river some time since, aud now turus up on the
English coast.
The Legislature of Illinois IS restrained by
constitutional prohibition from voting away
the money of the people for sectarian enter
pri'eS. weeds New York Legislature knows
no restraint of any kind.
The National Emigration Bureau was in.
augurated on the ll'h in New York It's object
ls the distribution of labor through the States
ana Territories by system Of colonial settle.
ment Horace Greeley is president.
A Washington dispatch says The ex-
pense of assessing and collecting the revenue
Tor the first three months OF this year, rs COM
pared with the corresponding months of last
year, shows reduction Of 100000.
The manufacturers of ice in Houston.
Texas, have made sufficient during the winter
TO supply the city during the entire summer
The quality is declared to be unusually good,
aad the price IS said to be reasonable.
Strawberries are selling in Charleston
y. O. at thirty and forty cents a quart. aud
fresh sha1 at twenty five aud thirty cents piece
Green peas retail at the low figure of ten cent.
per quart Other vegetables are plenty and
almost equally cheap.
A man in Greenfield, Mass, with an over.
burdened conscience, contributed the other day
the sum OF 5000 through the United State,
Treasurer Office, toward the payment of the
public debt. He said ia his letter that he
couldn't sleep we'll with that $500 staring hun
III the face.
"A young lady in a button factory at Wa
terbury, Connecticut, while stopping to pick
up some buttons, the other day, had her hair
caught In the machinery, and the scalp COM
pietely torn from her head. The scalp has
been replaced, aud, it is hoped, may grow on
the head again.
If anybody wonders why we do not get
more testimony from the South about the Eu.
hIuX, he may fad an explanation in the fact
that every man wbo becomes a witness has to
emlgIate He cannot testify and remain in
the South, or if he goes To Washington 10
testify he cannot go back again.
"A London company has made arrangements
tor the purchase OF 10000 acres of iron lands
N W est Virginia on the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio roai, with the intention of employ
ing Sl,00OOJO within the frst year in devel-
opng the mines and working them by English
hands and appliances.
The Democrats are Already beginning 10
agItate the question where they shall hold their
next Presidential convention. From 1886 To
IS33 inclusive the delegates met at Baltimore.
IN 1906 at Cincinnati; in 1860 at Charleston.
and subsequently, at Baltimore: in 1864 az
Chicago, and in 1868 at New York Now
Louisville puts III a claim.
The heather Chinee is naturally initiative.
and quickly learns the manners and customs of
the people among whom he becomes estab-
ilshed. Recently number Of Coole aborers
employed on plantations in Louisiana struck
Of, SILL
made with them, and up to last week had per.
sistentiy refused 70 again 20 10 work.
The creyasss in the leyse at Bonnet Cara
IS now twelve hundred feet wide, and the water
is running over the New Orleans aud Jackson
railroad near the thirteen. mile post. A large
volunteer force Is now at work throwing up
entertainments TO stop the water from the river
part OF New Orleans is IN danger Of iuunda-
ton unless the river falls rapidly.
An astrologer, who calls herself Arabella
Makapos, and pretends 10 have been born ia
one OF the Greek islands 900 years ago. il
creating sensation in Smyrna, revealing the
future III a manner declared to be wisely super.
natural. She is reputed TO be extremely hand
some, and not 10 look more than twenty-five.
Her history IS altogether mysterious.
Another novelty is about to offer itself in
the shape of cheap European trip on a grand
oSale' He steamer 6redL Eastern Will arrive
in this country in May, it is said, prepared to
take passengers on a trip TO London for the
ridiculous low charge Of twenty-five dollars a
head. The steamer will be occupied during
the summer aud fall in making these economic
pleasure trips.
There Is curous dilemma in one of the
courts Of Georgia. The son of a murderer il
the Solicitor General of the district in which
the murder was committed, and he insists upon
conducting the prosecution. He and the Al.
torney General of the State were discus sing the
question a few days ago, when he became en-
ragged aud hostile, and was at length arrested
aud imprisoned.
If the cable companies do not make money,
it will not be the fault Of their tariff of charges,
nor the unwllliuxness of the State De Iarttnent
to put custom in their way. The old quarrel
over the diplomatic dispatch bills has got into
the courts. aud one OF the items is a charge of
$4,000 gold for dispatch sent TO Minister
BIgeIow IN Paris; another concerning tha
Alaska business. was sent 10 ST. Petersburgh
at charge OF S9,566-tOtal for two kilograms,
S29, 3S6 in gold
1t is impossible to End anything meansr
in modern parliamentary history, than Frank
Blair's late indgnity to Mr.. Revels, of Missis-
Slppl, styling him "vagrant negro" this,
too, IN the absence of the ex-senator. Mr..
Ames repealed the insult to his State on the
spot, and in q manner which Blair--if not for
the time obvious to sublunary affairs-must
have appreciated. Blair is one of those ex-
quisite Democrats who imagine themselves
made of mach finer dust than the rest OF man