New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-01-04
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

The National Labor Union Of Californis
have inaugurated movement. in favor of
George w. Julian. Of Indiana, for President
by unanimous resolution declaring him their
first choice.
"A Michigan woman named Losing who
has been in the habit Of stuTng red pepper in
her niece's eyes because she did not eat fast
enough, has been sentenced to pay fine of
800 and confinement in the Detroit House of
Correction for ninety days.
Senator Sumner has in his Washington
home a painting by Mr.. Duncans0n, "A colored
artist of Cincinnati. The subject is a scene
from Loeb Katrine, Scotland. made famous i'm
SCOTS Lady of the Lake. and the picture is
said to possess decided merit.
In Muhlerburg county. Kentucky, is a
sandstone rock with flat surface, thirty or
forty feet square. on which are Indian hero
glyphics as strange and rs difficult 10 decipher
probably, as any in the United States. Among
the figures is the full sized form of an Indian,
surrounded hy numerous forms of different
animals. The sun, moon, the stars, and other
symbolic signs are distinctly carved.
In the FIRST place. that Castanon whose
grave was violated was the miserable brag
who edited Cuban lsabellan paper, and came
to Key West TO challenge and kill an American
editor who dared tO critcse the fellows
billngsgate. The authorities prevented the
duel, and before he left the place Castanon was
shot by a Cuban. In the second place. hi.
grave was not disturbed ut all An this is
why the poor boys were shot.
According to the Baltimore Sun Repub.
lican who emigrates To the South is carpet
Dagger or in its more polite language, "a
thief, whilst if a Democrat he is Fan honest
man The native Southerner who happens TO
he Republican is "scallawag" aud those
ku- klux natives whom Reverdy johnson calls
''brutes, who outrage the laws Of God and hu-
manity, are, in its estimation those who ought
to be the governing classes.
The year 1872 contains ffty-two Sundays.
September and December each begins on a
Sunday; January, April and July on Monday.
October is the only month beginning on Tues
day. February begins and ends on Thursday
consequently we have five Thursdays, which
will not occur again until the year 1900. In
the year $3.50 February will have five Sundays,
whieh will not occur again until the year 1920
The year lS1l began on Sunday and ended ON
Sunday. This will occnr again in 1882, and
every eleventh year thereafter.
! New YoRE, Dec. 3l-A Havana letter saws
| that Nalmaseda has Just decreed the practical
enslavement of the whole Chinese population
of Cuba, numbering 81. 600 souls The decree
| orders the lO,U0O to 10000 free Chinese i'm
medlately TO enrol themselves upder the tute-
lage of government tutors and to work in the
! government workshops, receiving for their
labor four dollars per month, out of which to
! provide themselves against n rainy day, and
ordering that all Chinese who are now work
ing under contracts shall be rcindentured on
the expiration Of their terms. or be sent to
Jail.
1t appears that the Jews nowhere suffer
more rigorous persecution, and are nowhere in
more wretchcd circumstances, than in Jerusa
lem. There, "a at Rome. they are shut mp in
a separate quarter, and tina. the darkest, filth
est section OF the city. This quarter is a mere
mud cave, lined with mud novels. The Jews
have no consul to interfere when they are un-
justly treated if injsred they have to bear it
in silence; if plundered by Arabs, they have
no hope of recovery. Coming To the land of
promise TO die. many Ofthem are robbed on the
way and all are robbed when they come. Help
is continually sent them from abroad but
| none too much.