New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-23

The annual expense of protecting the six
thousand inhabitants Of Arizona from the In
dams is 100000.
About $4,000 orange and walnut trees
nave been set out in Los Angeles county,
CAL, since December.
Tho Denver and Rio Grande marrow
gauge) Railroad is taxed to its utmost to ac-
commodate the freight demand.
B. Graft Brown is cousin of Frank
BLAIR. The extent and ramifications of that
Blair family are perfectly wonderful.
1t was very unkind of contemporary to
say that ii Mr.. Greeley We're nominated he
would be able to tell next fail what he knows
about "a big beet"
An ex-Tii5unc proofreader saws: "If
Horace Greeley had written the inscription
on the wall in Babylon, BclshazZar would
have been a great deal more sacred than he
was"
Not long ago the New York Tribune said:
1t IL possible that we may too soon forget
to honor the deeds of those who fought in the
struggle for the unity of the country" Right,
for once.
Engineer James Wood ran n special train
from Rochester to Syracuse on Friday, a dis
lance of eighty-One miles, in eighty-two min
utes. This, for the distance, is the fastest
on record.
In the Electoral College, of 3j7 votes
this year, the former slaveholdmg States will
have l34 votes, the Western States lO2, the
New England and middle States 100, and the
Pacific States II votes.
The prizes offered in the Boston public
schools for the best essay on the prevention
of cruelty to animals were, without one ex-
ception, taken by the girls, although the boys
are, ON an average, older.
Miss Charlotte Ray has been admitted to
practice in the Supreme Court of the District
OF Columbia. 1t has before now been re-
marked that in that region, law, ike matri-
mony, was of the nature of L0ttie-Ray.
Several people who have answered an
advertisement promising "correct likeness
OF yourself, and your fortune told" for fifty
cents, have received a three-cent mirror, and
informed that they can tell their own fortunes
by counting their money.
There is curious Chinese proverb which
says: In cucumber field do not stoop to
tie your shoe, and under plum tree do not
wait to settle your cap on your head;" which
means, if you do some one may think YOU are
stealing the cucumbers or the pluns.
The supposed assaiant of Prince Bis
marck, Emil Westerfelt, kept in prison for
some weeks and then released for want of
evidence, has directed a petition to Parlia-
ment protesting against the injustice, and
claiming compensation from the Government.
The police searched saloon in Portland
lately, and found an arrangement which had
just been used in which, by pulling cord like
bell pull, four pitchers on shelf would be
tipped over into q tub of brine. Enough
liquor was left in one of the pitchers to make
search and seizure process" however.
"A father and his son in Houston county,
MIMI, were fighting prairie fire few days
ago; and at length became surrounded by
the flames. They only escaped by running
through them, and during this perilous task
the son fell twice from sullOcation but finally
escaped. Both father and son were terribly
burned.
The Danbury Nems tells of lady stran-
ger who accosted a little shabbily-dressed lad
in that town: "Where is your home, my
little son?'' she asked. 81 haint got no
home," he answered. "Got no home ?"
she repeated, the tears standing in her eyes.
. No. marm," said he, equally affected; al
board"
"A lad arrested for theft, when taken be-
fore New York judge and asked what his
occupation was, frankly answered, "Steal,
ing" ?" Your candOr astOnishes me-" said
the judge. :" thought it would" replied
the lad, "seeing how many big 'ums there
are in the same business as is ashamed to
own it!'
Detroit is anxious to discover the boy
who showed them how to initiate rosewood.
Formerly two kinds of paint or coloring mat
ter were used, but one day an ingenious young
ster mixed them, and applied them together.
He fled in terror at the approach of the fore
man but left an admirable imitation of rose
wood behind him.
"A Dubuquer quarreled with his wife the
other morning, and drawing his razor threat
ened to sever his .jugular vein. His daughter
fell upon her knees and implored him to de-
sist, but he wouldn't. "Iet the old fool cut
his throat if he wants to" shouted the wife,
whereupon the man concluded he would de-
fer the operation.
The Russian Government lately nego-
tiated a railroad loan in London to the extent
of seventeen million pounds sterling, and on
the strenth of this loan ORDERS were placed
with the English mills for nearly zoo, 900 tons
ofrails. 1t is this great demand from Russia
which has stimulated the advance in railroad
iron in England of late.
"A commissioner of deeds was somewhat
non-plussed the other day. He asked wo-
man, whose acknowledgment of deed he
was taking: DO you execute this deed with
out any fear or compulsion of your husband"
" Fear of my hushand" exclaimed the irate
lady. He--compel--me! You're fool!'
And she swept Indignantly from the Office.
Reports have been going the rounds of
the press that Kossuth, who Is now in his
SEVENTEEN year, was living in extreme pow
erty. This is denied by nephew and con-
slant correspondent of the Hungarian patriot,
residing in Iowa, who says that, while Kos
suth is not rich, he has an income sufficient
for all his wants and lives in comfortable
style.
An old lady in ToulOn, France, whose
husband was killed by railroad explosion,
while returning from the funeral of their son,
who had been killed in battle, brought an
action against the railroad company for dam
ages. During the trial her counsel drew such
a touching picture of the fate of her husband
and son that she was taken i'll and died be-
fore the suit was finished.
The report of the Secretary of War, lately
transmitted to Congress, contains statement
of the number of colored soldiers enlisted
during the late war. The total number en-
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