Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-31

The president Is expected to send a
special message to congress next week.
transmitting all the official correspond
enre in the Virginius case.
In WeSttield. Mass, last week, man
presented by the grateful father OF the
rescued with five cent ciglr. Whether
this appropriate testimonial was accept,
ed, We are not Informed.
The classic fable has been repeat 4
in y lnrlHn1holy way III Florida, whore
young black i'll the act OF eating sugar
was sting in the mouth by a bee, and
died from the effects of the sting.
4 young man employed in a cotton
factory at Hyde Park. Mass, is so pop
ular with the sex that when h WAS cou-
virted OF being drunk, the girls in the
mill took up collection and paid his
fine.
A petition has gone TO Washington
signed by the wholesale merchants in
every branch of trade at Portland, Me-,
protesting against the repeal Il the
bankrupt law and urging its amend.
mcnt
Five French riiied cannons, present
from the Emperor OF Germany to St.
Matthew's Lutheran Congregation of
Baltimore, have been re eived there
The guns will be cast Into bell for the
church.
William B Stevens, correspondent
OF the New York Herald, and II pasSen-
ger from Key West on the steamship
San Antonio, jumped into the sea, on
Monday, and was drowned nrfora any
aii could be rendered to him.
Yesterday the Union pond and the
Capitoline park, Brooklyn. were throDg
ed with skaters, it being the first skat-
ing Of the season.
The secretary OF the interior will he
compelled to ask for an appropriation OF
one million dollars to supply deficiency
in the Indian service.
Many Ann Bricard, an old colored
woman. was burned TO death in Provi-
dence, r l., last evening, in Consequence
Of her clothes taking fire.
They have funeral games like the old
Greeks in Palmer Mass. At "A burying
there, the other day, those in attend
aEce couldn't agree upon route from
the honso to the grave. 4 lively fight
followed, and the stronger party had
literally its own way,
An Alabam editor thirsting for sub
srribers has adopted singular eXpfdi
nnt. Instead of offering rs premiums
,hromos and that sort Of rubbish, he
promises to name his new baby after the
patron who pays his subscription for
.he longest time in adya2co.
He'll, who on Monday night accident
ally shot and killed his wife in Wash
ngton in attempting to efeud her from
he assaults of three roushs, has been
discharged from custody The rnffans
yho assault Mrs He'll were commit
ed to await the action of the grand jury. !
The coroner's jury on the recent East-
,rn railroad collision near Kennchunk,
Ne, has rendered verdict charging
hat the accident was owing to the in
and negligence of Mr.
Wing. the 1espatcher the gross error
n Judgment of the kcunphunk opera I
or, and the cnlpable recklpssnpss OF the /
conductor and engineer of the down
rain.
The tvcnty,se1enth annual conven |
ION OF the Delta Psi Fraternity, col /
eGe society having a chapter in nearly |
very prominent university of the coun- |
~, has been holding its sessio' in |
Philadelphia for the past two days The
attendance has been large. and for the
irst time since the war the southern
colleges have been fully represented.
A marriage of rather singular de
'cription took place in Greenhrier Il !
;hort time since A young man about |
Eighteen years of age, by the name OF
Ioph, married his Grandmother, n lady |
yearly forty. BY this comp de main he
becomes his fathers pa and his own
and thereby occupies n
independent and enviable
position Richmond Wing.
A young woman, music teacher of
Elmira, New York, was recently suffer
ing from typhoid fever, and became to
Ill appearance dead The attending
physician pronounced life extinct, and
the remains ere taken to Horuellsville
Tor burial. At the grave, VIII the cof-
lin lid was removed, to allow the friends
to take last look Mt the remains, the
uody WIS found in state of perspira-
ton and still warm. Measures were ut
once taken to restore consciousness, but
avail, althouah signs OF life were
visible for several hours afte'wrd
a fire in Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
on Sunday night, start d by the explo.
sion OF Kerosene lamp in McGee's So
loon, burned all the wooden buildings
on Main street, from the public square
on the northwest corner of Main and
Second streets to McCulloch's new stone
block at Main and Third streets, and on
Second street north to the Mansion
House. The loss il forty thousand dol
lars.
Pel,in, Iii is described by Il cores
pondcnt Rs rather remarkable place.
1t has two packing houses, three large
distilleries, thirty liquor saloons. four
and there is to be great
" property distribution" next month.
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