The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-17

! The new Catholic cathedral at Newsrk
New Jersey, will cost u million dollars
The good little Sunday schbol childre'
of Peoria have sent the starving Persian
ffty-se dollars.
A FLORIDA nurseryman has sent Mr.,
Horace Greeley crate OF peaches weigh
ing FROM nine to fourteen ounces each
The peach crop in Southern lllinoi
this yoar is 80 heavy that it Is likely L
ruin all the trees by splitting them opeI
to the roots.
1.-The Democratic dose is down. cay
the Ciuciunati Times. Yes, and 1t vii
cause a terrible heaving at the Gran
| stomach.
Alexander Thompson of Correction
vile, Iowa, endeavorsd TO choke Tho
Gresisyism out OF ". II. Rose. one OF
his lie ghtors, but failed in the attempt,
aud there is one Grant vote the less.
Howard county claims the champ pion
heavy weight OF the State, Mr.. +. k.
b. Tsymau-who measures fifty eight
lUCHCs dCOuUu tUo Nttsh, duu NSisus Oui J
tsu pounds short uf four hundred.
There is a man in Randolph comfy,
Mo, who ha. a foot so large that HI.
shoes are 1T inchss long, anu Il
inches around the instsp. An ordinary
par Of summer shoes for him weigh five
pounds.
4 remarkable insect, fourd in whisky Y
barrel, and with tusks like an elephant
and eyes like a devil-fsh, graces tho
shelves Of the Louisville Public library
1t is supposed TO be an original m jam
John Garner, a veteran horse thief Of
seventy two years experience, has just
been sentenced to the Tennessee peniten.
tiary for twenty one years. Owners Of
fancy stock will be on their guard iu the
summer Of 1898
Lake ChOggoggageoscmanchoggagg
oggagg, Michigan, is a good place to 20
.sr the summer. This pace is par,jcu
larry recommended for people afflicted
with stsH mnrihg by the time they can
tell where they are they're wholly cured
a wealthy Philalelphian has imported
from Italy a funeral urn designed to
order for his own ashes and threatens to
commit spontaueous combustion unless
his family Promise to inciuerate i'm.
Somebody remarkiu, tha, bushel of
ripe tmatoes brou.h' into a family will
drive out a box of pills, a iexas editor
knows Of box Of certain pills that will
drive a bushel Of ton a.oes out Of the
same family.
Death with fe,hiess fingers havin.
snatchsd all the cenrenarjaus of Wash
ingtons domestic family, is now com
meDcing on tina, Of the late President
Madison, and one Old coiorel lady Of l07
summers has just gone.
a correspondent in Syracuse, Otos
county, Nebraska, writes that that pre-.
clnc', which has ways given large
Republican ma jority, will east more thar
two thirds of It's votes for Greeley and
Brown. The change is Observable
throughout the state, and it will give a,
least five thousand m,j ority to the Gin
cnna,i nominees.
y letter from Col. B. G.. Boone, written
at Clinton, 'enry county, informs US tha
CoIman stock III that SECTION is above par
and still rising. The indicstous are nov
that, if the people turn out and are truel
represented in convention, Col C,imal
will be nominated on the frs, ballot. =
CIarksvils Sentinel.
KILLED BY LlGHTSISG. james Mich
oIs, aged l3 years, son of William n,
oIs, formerly Of Jonesburg, we lear
was killed By lightning, a few days ssc
heal Msr,insburg, Audrain count,
Young Nichols had stopped under a TIE
during norm, when the accident oc
CURED. The mule upon which he "a
was also killsd.-MontSomery Coun,
Leader.
Among the prominent men at tn
Baltimore Convention, We notice tn
name, of Geul. ruzhugh Lee, nephew ,
Gen. r +. Lee; Judge Robi. Ou'
Confederate exchange commissioner
ThOs. Randolph, grandson of Thoma
Jefferson and John B. Baldwin, th
leading originator Of the conservate NOV,
ment that emaucipa.ed Virg MIA in 1865
The aggregate popular vote for Pre-.
ident 10 1868 was about 5,7SS,OOO. A
the present time the population of vote,
Of alien natioRalities, including the co
cred voters, i. as fellows Colorcd, 500
900, Of whom 50 900 are in the North
ern and SO in the border states. Th
, Irish have 303 ,45G, being strongest
New York and Pennsylvania. The Gs
mans have abou, 2S0,00O; the Wei.
7l,OOO; the Scandinavian, 34,42G th
Swiss, l3 900
A negro woman aged III years died
the residence Of Mrs Muir, in Boonvill
on the 18th Of last month She h,
; lived in that vicinity from the early 50
,lemsnt of the country up to the day
her death. She was fifteen years old
the time Of the declaratian of ;,5an.