Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-19

Attorney General Williams will hard
" have merry Christmas this year
His piece Of pie is punp ess.
4 friehtful distemper prevails amon9
the cats OF Lawrence, Mass So mucl
the better for the rats and the mice.
Franklin wnship, PENNSYLVANIA, ha.
produced AN car Of corn having no les
than 1916 grains hy an honest, careful
count"
There las family in Norwalk, Connec
ticut, which has lost confidence in part
ridge because the cook, while preparing
"a specimen OF that bird for roae ting
found snake half yard long inside it
In Walkerton. Ind., j Johnston Virtue,
a railroad contractor, shot and killed q
hborer named Walgnist who had
threatened to kill Virtue unlesa he paid
him his wages.
A despatch from Grand Island, Ne.
braslZa, says that coal of a very superior
quality has been found twenty five miles
north OF there, being large vein one
hundred and fourteen feet below the
surface.
The unfinished monitor Puritan, at
League Island, is soon to be placed in
fighting trim. The monitor Terror is
ready for sea, and will be Immediately
placed in commission.
The teachers who want to birch their
pupils ought to take turn ut a Della
ware whipping-post Sixty lashes would
materially reduce their faith in iiogging
rs a moral curative, and they would I'M
prove on Solomon by reading, "Sp Ill
the rod and spare the child.
TrRRE HAUrE. Dec IS, thirds
of fine business portion of Hutsonvillp,
ILL.,, thirty two miles below here, on the
Wabash river, was burned last night
The loss amounts to fifty thousand dol
lars, on which there is little or no insur-
ance.
Minister Sickles has announced to
the Secretary OF State the Cancellation
Of the conflicting interests in the Span
ish Cortes, and the firm establishment
of the CASTELAR, Government.
Caleb Cushing has accepted the in
yitation to deliver an address at the
proposed rational convention of the
survivors of the Mexican War, to he
held on the 10th Of January at Willard
Hall.
The House Committee on Military
Affairs made no progress with the case
of Gen. Howard to day. They are wait
ing to hear the Secretary OF War. who
made the charges of his want of in-
tegrity.
Dunbarton, n H., has a petrifed
hog. Fifteen years ago this grunter
died, and was buried in Il swamp. Now
he has been found in stony state, his
flesh resembling chalk. No trichina
there now
A distributor of prohibitory votes in
Boston, on election day, was assaulted
with vile epithets, drenchod with show
ers of water, his tickets knocked from
his hond, and his person disfgured 10y
rotten eggs,
The Two Wild Men Of Borneo said
to DO one OF the best :" side shows" in
the country, are reported to be worth
fifty thousand dollars, and to be Town
&c" 10y Mr.. Warren Of Weston, Moss.
What becomes, then, of the Fourteenth
Amt ndment.
About six years ago a patriotic person
in Cornish, Me, left ly will one thou
sand dollars to the town, the interest of
was to be forever devoted to the pur-
chase and display, in various parts Of
the village, OF the Star Spanglpd Ban
ter The heirs not being patriotic, at
least in that way, have been ever since
unsnccesslully csntesting the will
Bunting has trinmphed, and long may
it wave
The funeral of Mr.. Dent took plncc
yesterday morning from the Executive
Mansion. The members of the family
and all the heads of the departments
attended. The remains were accom-
panied to st Louis by President Grant.
Col. Grant, Col. Casey, Gen. f. T.
Dent, Marshal Sharpe, and Gen. Bah.
cock.
SALT LAKE CRY, Dec. 18.-Chicf
Justice Mexican has again refused to
admit polygami5tS to citizenship. In n
case yesterday where the applicant had
left a plural wife to go herding for sub
sistence, Judge Mexican very severely
said such men would not make good
citizens, and had no right 10 come here
to practice a crime which in their own
country would send them to the peui-
Tertiary. Brigham Young's organ, the
News, this evening attacks Judge Nc
kean suvagely on this account.
Tho r,i1ita,v corn,oittnn 10 Divided m,