New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-04-18
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

me farmers OF the Saguenay region be-
low Quebec, Canada, are in great distress.
ana rehel by loan of $40, 900 from the Gov.
eminent is suggested, otherwise they will be
compelled to leave their farms and come 10
" the States"
"A young lady in Evanston, Illinois.
dled suddenly short time ago, and at the
post hortem examination it was discovered
that her death had been caused by a needla
penetrating the heart. The needle had been
showed into her breast many years previously
by a fall.
i The Green Bay Adrocate saws that IL
seems as IL the disastrous fires which swept
i over that region last October had become 40
deeply seated that they never can be extin.
Sulshed. Smoke may still be seen issuing
from the ground where the snow is melted
off in many places.
The cable brings the intelligence that
the ancient city of Antioch, in Syria, has been
partially destroyed by an earthquake FIf-
teen hundred persons were killed, and, as the
| entire population was not over ten thousand
this great loss of life is sufficient to show the
fearful extent of the calamity.
Down in the Pennsylvania coal regions
a rash school teacher attempted to enforce an
| edict that the scholars should be cleaned
daily. The superintendent was appealed to.
the teacher suspended, and an investigation
ordered. When it was found that this was
likely to confirm the innovation, the great UNI
washed rallied and burned down the school
| house.
| The longest bridge in the world is the
| Tensas and Mobile bridge, at the city of
Mobile. 1t is fifteen miles long, crosses both
! rivers, where there are draws. 1t is sup
ported on iron cylinders driven into the bed
| OF the morass, and is probably the longest
structure in the world. The next longest
structure is one of A. II. Stephens para
graphs. p
"A number of strikers at the Rhode Island
| Granite Works at Westerly, Rhode Island,
| have been arrested, and nine of them commit
| ted to Jail in default of the necessary bonds.
They are charged by their late employer with
conspiring and injming him in his business by
preventing men from entering his employ,
| and in sundry other ways. The damages are
laid at $4,000.
The committee appointed by the recent
Agricultural Convention in Washington have
adopted resolutions petitioning Congress to
establish Signal Service Stations at each of
the Agricultural Colleges throughout the
country which have been organized under
the act Of Congress. 1t is believed that BY
this means the system of weather reports may
be made much more useful to farmers than It
is at present.
Justin Mccarthy says: "Charles Reade
is big, heavy, ragged, gray mana sort of
portlier Walt Whitman, let us say, but with
closer cut hair and beard--a Walt Whitman,
let us say, put into training for the part of
stout British vestryman. He impresses you
at once as a man of character, energy, and
originality, although he is by no means the
sort of person you would pick out as typi-
cal romancist."
The Cincinnati Commercial, in noticing
the selection of oilice-holders as delegates to
the Republican National Convention, says:
u" In view of the proposed nomination of
President Grant, the improperly of any one
holding an office at his hands attending the
Convention, which it is anticipated will make
him its choice, is so gross that no office-holder
of delicacy of feeling or ordinary sensitiveness
would be seen there"
John Bright, in reply to the hope of his
friends that he would be the first President
of the Republic of Great Britain, should tho
fortunes of that country decree that it shall
pass from Monarchical rule, has told his
friends that he hopes long time will elapse
before the English people are called upon to
decide between a republic and monarchy,
and expressed doubts as to whether Repubh-
cans were his real friends.
On the 9Th of May next the Democratic
National Committee will assemble in New
York and probably arrange for the time for
the holding of the National Convention. The
reticence of Mr.. Belmont in not earlier call
ing the committee together has met the ap-
prevail of the Democratic leaders, they being
DESTROYS of becoming fully acquainted. with
the motives and aims of the Cincinnati Con-
vention before calling their Convention
together.
"A rumor is afloat in foreign circles of FASH
ion that German prince, allied by marriage
to the royal family of England, has eloped
with London actress. The report appears
to have more substantial foundation than that
furnished by the morbid anxiety of gossip
mOngers to account for the non-appearance
in the public of the prince and princess dur
ing the illness of the Prince of Wales, and
from that time to this. 1t is extraordinary if
true, for the prince and princess are of the
most popular, beloved, and respected MEM
bers Of the royal family of England. $3.50
1t is a somewhat remarkable fact that
the Australians, who represent about the
lowest type of humanity, have for ages enter
tanned ideas relative to the development of
man very similar to the better expounded
theory Of Charles Darwin. They believe that
man sprang from the lowest creatures in ex-
istence, and that he has through vast ages
assembled step by step to his present high
estate, living the lives of many different ami
mails, one after another, before becoming
human being. They entertain great rever-
ence for the dog, which they believe to be an
embryo human, which, in its next stage OF
development, will become an Australian.
Walter Mclean, of New York, who was
recently appointed by the President to the
United States Naval Academy, graduated
from Hartford Academy, Maryland, lately,
and, having a passionate desire to become
naval cadet, determined to obtain an appoint
ment without the knowledge of his friends.
BY personal applications he received recon-
mendations from Commodore Vanderbilt,
Judge Ketcham, and other gentlemen of in
fuence in New York, and went to the city
of Washington and proceeded to the White
House, where he finally obtained an inter-
view with the President, who was favorably
with him and gave him the desired
Illinois is congratulating itself ON having
a good Legislature during this last winter.
The Chicago Journal says: For the first
time within the memory of the oldest inhabi-
tant, General Assembly retires with the
nlaudit well done GOOD and faithful SER