, 1872-12-30

up ten-pound stone and deposited it in one OF
the porkers, and then loudly berssed the farmer
looked at the stone at the crowd felt the thrust.
and growled to himself ' Hang me-, but +
thought put it in the small hog ="
a forgetful young woman out West, the ether
her bridal rip had led, on account Of finding
man - her room. The triAing circumstance OF
her me:e'e - that morning had quite escaped her
memory, snd it WAS not until summary justice
was about 10 be visited On the offender, that 6he
happened to recollect it.
The New York Home Journal, in notice OF
q recent wedding, describes the groom as " IN
9uestionably fashionable gentleman" and
thereafter: for the information of hunsering
world, details the characteristics that entitle
him to that honor, as follows: He has for
years been conspicuous in New York society, is
reported very wealthy, has 3 villa at Newport, q
town residence in Washington square, 8 box at
the opera, stable Of thorouGhbrcds, q yacht.
and IN influential member Of the Union and
New York yacht clubs"
"A Weyauwega CWis.) correspondent gives
doleful picture Of affairs there. The weather
has been 20 cold that wells, cellars and cisterns
froze solid, thousands of bushels Of potatoes
and other vegetables have been destroyed, and
other serious damages done. The drouth has
been so severe that all but two or three wells in
the village have giyon out What the people
will do for water has NOW become serious ques-
ton.
The organ case destroyed in the burning Of
Grace Church, in New York, Monday, was tho
Oldest in the city, having originally been brought
from Holland lo2g before organ cases or even
organs we're manufactured in the United States
It had served for many years in the Old Country,
when it was brought to this city and placed in
the old Dutch Church, which used to stand OF
the site of the Post Office. It Was carefully
preserved, on account Of its age, as relic, and
Was removed to Grace Chapel when the building
was first built.
About tho worst case on record Of ''5ump-
Of the supposed Pierre Bester," whose extra
dition WAS sought by the French Government on
tbs ground that he had murdered boy cnd at
tempted 10 murder and ravihh young woman.
near Rouen, France. When the Rhi2 in which
he took passage arrived at New York. officers
went aboarl to arrest Boster, in accordance with
| instructions By cable, and, becoming suspicious
| Of this fellow by the confusion he betrayed,
| arrested him On being questioned he admitted
| that his maine was Bester, but next day, finding
! ed that he WAS Edouard Dutal, French default
or. Inquiries By cablo having proved tho truth
Of this statement, he has been discharged.
Bester is supposed to be still in France.
| The amount of the national debts, not IL
c1uding the deb. Of Great Britain. Of twenty
soyen Governments, Is compiled from Official
sources, is $16, ,79o 900 ,000 showing an increase
OF indebtedness, in ten years. of 50, AIS 500 600.
| The vast but undeyeloped Empire Of Brnzl il
mortgaged to the amount Of STE, 600 IS tho
price of the conquest OF Paraguay; and the
petty Government Of Egypt has signalizcd its
debt Of s205, 600, 600 in ten years. rio increase
of Ruasia's indebtedness in tho last ten years
amounts to 800, 900, COO. This money has been
chiefly expended in builtling railroads and il
extending Russian " "ciyilization " III the East.
japan signalzes her claims to modern progress
by modest debt OF $4,000, 600.
AT Circlevillo, Ohio, tho other day, child
8 or years old WAS brutally murdered by it's
father, who struck il in ths head with q hatchet
while it was sitting at tho dinner table. The
excuse given for tho brutal deed was that the
child 81 eat too id much grub" The man-Fow'
ler-was, about soven or eight years ago, sen
fenced to FIVE years in the Pcnitentiary for pol
soning stock.
Mules at work in the coal shaft Of the
Leavenworth mine, seven hundred feet under
ground, aud never seeing the light Of day, have
fallen victims to the epizootic.
"A. Herr Smith, Consressnan-elect for th<
Lancaster (Pa.) District, adopted his last name
to plenso n relative, who gave him some none,
with it. His original name was L. Hem. Eli
long since had an eye on Congress, and camt
within one vote of the nomination after Thal
Stoyens death.