New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-04
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Since the year 1867 the population Of
Prussia has increase $50 per cent. IL is now
over 24,G00, 900.
Miss Lewis, the colored American sculn.
trcss in Rome, has an order from an English
noblcman said to be worth 100000
Josh Billings sail he never knew of 4
dog oil eny breed whatsumever to take hyder-
with buckshot
a live fish has been discovered in one of
the boiling springs i'll California, and died "a
soon as transferred to cold water. Under
what conditions might that fish be cooked?
Seth Green has just stocked Lake Cham
pam with fifty thousand shad, who are ex-
pected to find an outlet To the ocean ria the
81. Lawrence and come back AGAIN to White
hall.
There are now in the State of Connac-
tlcut nlnety-iour fire insurance companies and
forty lie insurance companies, the former
having $4,000, 900 in assets, and the latter
$3.50, 000, 900.
condensed milk is becoming a large and
new trade. Factories for its production have
been established in Great Britain, the Ar
gentine Republic, and even in Australia,
Not less than SOC, 900 head of beef cattle
We're driven from the mesquit grass ranges of
western Texas besides, more than SO 1000
O0o,ouo worth of hides were exported from
one port alone-Indanola- during the last
twelve months.
Bonds worth .s2l 800, but worthless to
the thief, were stolen in Pittsburg the other
day. The thief not aware that q reward f
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made off with his booty, and has been arrest
ed in Philadelphia.
The Chicago Tones says: Hundreds of
thousands of Democrats will either vote
against Greeley or stay at home. He has no
Republican strength; the Republicans would
never tolerate the idea of his holding any i'm
portant office even when he was in full COM
mmion with them"
Among the humors of the campaign are
the daily bulletins announcing that the Gin
crnnatl nominee does not slnlw himself at the
headquarters, as he is anxious to avoid
crowd. The very place to avoid being iostled
would be ut the headquarters, for a more
lonesome spot cannot be found in New York.
"A clerk employed at the Chatham Docks.
England has just been suspended from duty
tor twenty-One days, without pay, for the
"ofense" OF communicating some valuable
suggestions on improvements in iron ship
building direct to the Admiralty, instead of
forwarding them through the head of his de-
partment.
The Hartford (Ct) Cora1t, referring to
the efforts making in certain quarters to be-
| little the military achievements of General
Grant, says: I'VE shall consider ourselves
| fortunate if we get through the campaign
without witnessing the production Of afli-
mand OF our troops ut ALL"
Fanny Fern writes, with reference to the
expensive toys now in vogue "The doll of
my blb-days was crooked-necked squash
with a towel for a dress and a numerous
progeny of little cucumbers for babies and
| was just as happy as, and great deal bet
ter contented than, the little girl of to-day
with a hundred dollar doll"
"A story is told of father in a church
who, when the marriage service came to the
point where the clergyman asks, "Who
glveth this woman to be married to this
man? ' replied: "Well, sir, / am called to
do it, although it do 90 agin the grain L
wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who is
worth twice the money o. that ere man,
The Indians have learned the "emo-
tlOnal" insanit dodge. One James Lane.
living near Trinity Centre, California, was
shot recently by a treacherous savage who
had gained his confidence, and upon demand
ing OF the Indian the cause for this act, the
latter bounded off with the rifle, CRYING out,
Me heap crazy! Me too much crazy! Me
too much crazy?"
The Democrats do not take to Uncle Hor-
ace quite so much as they do to something else.
The Savannah News predicts that if the Balti-
more Convention dominates Greeley Georgia
fA. mi
Ae,cs is a Democratic paper, and commends
the Democrats who say they will remain away
from the polls rather than stulify themselves
by voting for Greeley.
The iowa Falls Sentinel has been ana
lying the names of Grant and Greeley
"Our opinion is that the names, Grant and
Greeley, should be analysed thus Both have
the same handle, CIR. One has the suffix ant,
which means industrious, prudent, full of
work, foresight, and energy, and the other
has the suifiX eei-y, which means wrigolng
slippery, and not twice in the same place.
The hall in which the Geneva Court of
Arbitration holds its sessions is an ordinary
drawing-room, the windows looking out on a
neat little garden in the very centre of the
city. The ante-rOo through which the
Commissioners and Secretaries enter the hall
of Congress is called the marriage chamber,
ana Is regarded by sentnnentalists as signiti-
cant OF the approach of a happy union be-
tween the two great nations.
"A lady named Bcardsheer, living on a
farm near Dayton, Ohio, while carrying an
annful of wood from the woodshed to the
kitchen was bitten on the leg by what was
first believed to have been rattlesnake, and
after drinking large quantity of pure alco-
hcl, i'll the absence of whisky, to counteract
the poison, her husband, working in the field
near by, heard her screams and came to her
assistance, and, in searching for the supposed
snake just where she dropped the armful of
wood, was agreeably surprised to find piece
of barrel hoop, which Mrs. Il. had stepped on,
and, as it flew up, struck her in such man
ner as to draw the blood.
Col. HIGGINsON's visit to London is thus
pleasantly gossipped about by Moncure ID.
Conway in letter to the Cincinnati Comn,er-