Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-29

The indianapolis Exposition was q
financial failure. Loss $500
Marshal Bazaine was taken alarm
ingly i'll on "Wednesday last while In
court.
In Connecticut from $1,000 to 10000
operatives and factory hands have
been thrown out of employment.
Government has resolved to pay out
silver coin in lieu of greenbacks, and
thus begin the work Of resumption.
The flavor Of the popular chestnut
worm this season is said by an epicure
to be a cross between custard pie and
crotOn bug.
Several thousand creditors of Jay
Cooke Il Co. apply to the United States
District Court to have the firm adju-
dicated as bankrupt.
Ex--President Johnson, recently
made a speech in Washington, in res
ponse to serenade. 1t Is able, and
very bitter upon his ancient enemy,
Grant.
Professor Goldwin Smith, of Cornell,
agrees with President Eliot, of Har-
ward, that the effort to introduce fe-
male students into our colleges has
practically failed.
Henry Guy Carleton of San Fran
cisco, son of the late General Carleton,
has been appointed from civil life to
the position of Second Lieutenant in
the United States Army, and assigned
to duty in Troop H, Eighth Cavalry,
now stationed at Fort McRea, New
Mexico. Lieutenant Carleton passed
q severe examination with great
credit.
"A few days since, five geese, owned
by man living at Mormon Island,
CAL, died from an unknown disease;
and, OH examining the gizzard of one
grain gold sufficient to make a five
dollar piece was found. The remain
ing four panned out each almost the
same amount of the precious stuff.
The gold was probably picked up by
the fowls near some claims where the
miners had been sluicing, and it is pre-
sumed that the quicksilver attached
to it caused their death.
The man who answered al adver-
tisement to the following effect, says
his curiosity is satisfied: 'If you
would learn how to make home happy
send a postage stamp and twenty-five
cents to p. O. box, No.-Cincinnati."
He did send the necessary cash, and
soon received the answer: s1f you are
as big fool as We think you must
be for giving us your money, you can
make home happy by leaving it and
going west yourself. Hearth and
Home.
The new railroad drawbridge, con-
Meeting Alameda and Oakland, was
run into October 23d, says the Chron-
icle, by the Central Pacific tug-boat
Vallejo and badly injured. The VAL
lejO had towed over q steamer and left
it safely in the creek, and was behind
time in returning, so the drawbridge
was closed, it being train time. The
tug was signaled, but did not stop
until it reached the dolphins; it was
too late, and the tug struck the south
end of the draw, throwing it into the
water. The wheels of the drawbridge
are thrown off the foundation, the
rim broken and the iron supports bent
out Of shape.
Jay Cooke has a genial manner, and
does most of the talking when he has
guests. He has never swerved from
his strictly temperance principles,
never tasting wine himself, nor offer
it to others. He is a widower, with
three children-two daughters and one
son. The eldest daughter is the wife
of Mr.. Butler, the President Of the
National Life Insurance Company.
Jay Cooke, Jr., is in the banking
house in Philadelphia. Mr.. Cooke is
revered by his neighbors. He has
Bible classes for them, and while stu
dying holy things with them, he Is not
unmindful of their temporal wants.
Washington Correspondence.
An Ohio paper relates that about
seventeen years ago young boy, re-
siding in Wood county, took a black
cat skin from which the original tail of
the cat had been removed and q
minks tail nicely sewed on instead,
and sold it to certain buyer of furs,
not many miles from Grand Rapids,
for 81 25. 1t was done for practical
joke, but the boy kept the money,
grew to be a prosperous business man,
and Joined church,; but his con-
science upbraided him 80 much that u
few days ago the ex-fur dealer received
note enclosing So 10, principal and
interest. The joke is now on the fur
dealer, as he put the cat skin among a
lot of mink skins and sold it for So.
AS he can not now find the purchaser
he proposes to contribute the money
to some benevolent purpose.
Perhaps the funniest typographical
error of modern times occurred in q
recent number of the Denver NeWs.
What are we to think Of an evangeli-
cal alliance such as is here described?
IA band of 800 clergymen are on the
frontier, and after successful raid
they will retreat to their reservation,
carrying their scalps and plunder with
them-to enjoy under the protection Of
a government post, feast and war
dance, for which the pioneer citizens
of Colorado furnish both the scalps and
food. Comment on such state of
affairs is useless" Zone would think
So "NO words can do the subject
justice" Scarcely. But it is fair to
presume that if the word "Cheyennes"
had been substituted for the word
'clergymen" in the first line of the
above, the purposes of the author
would have been better realized.