The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-21
Varieties.

an exodus ci negroes 10 inuiana'
Florida is being rapidly deserted
by its Northern winter birds OF pas
sage.
Many Georgia planters will try
the effect OF convict labor on their
farms this year.
Shad are SO plentiful along the st.
Johns river, in Florida, that the
farmers are using them fer manure.
The body of Rossel, the Communist,
was lately transferred from provis-
ional tomb to the sepulchre, prepared
for it by his family at Nismes.
In the kentucky penitentiary there
are 67b convicts, half of whom are
colored. The colored population OF
the State is equal to one-fourth OF the
white.
"Pinch" has taken up his perma
nent abode in New Orleans. At least
he proposes to stay there until recalled
to Washington to take the Senatorial
oath.
1t is thought the annual production
of wheat in Southern Russia will, by
the end OF the present decade, sequal
eighty millions of bushels. Tho pro-
duction at present is about iorty
seven millions.
NJ. Ka,koff, editor of the Moscow
(Russia) Gazette, is likely to be made
a Prince, SO that he will be put on
the social plane of his wife, who is,
by blrthrlght, the Princess Schalikow
The Cologne Gazette, makes this
statement.
Senator Summers pictures at his
house in Washington have been cat-
alogued. There are ninety oil paint
ings, valued at $25, 900, and more
than three thousand engra7ings
etchlngs, etc., worth about as much
more.
History has once more repeated it
self. John Smiths life was saved by
the poker-hunters in Nevada, the
other day, for when big bear jump.
ed upon him, his two companions ran
for couple of those necessary ad,
Ijuncts OF the kitchen CRATE, and sc
belabored the brute that he beat &
hasty retreat.
The trial ofMrs. Hess, the cele'
brated Wayland, New York, mur-
deress, is TO commence at Cornin
Steube county, on the 18th inst
The action is Tor civil damages il
killing the two men who were her
victims, and is expected to be tria
OF great interest, presenting new and
complicated questions OF law ant
fact.
Danbury says boys tootbacht
generally begins about eight a. m.
reaches the highest attitude at {
quarter before nine, when the pair
is intense; commences to subside al
nine, and after that disappears with {
celerlty very comforting to the suf-
ferer. Il at night that boy hasn't
got four quarts of walnuts spread ou,
to dry up stairs, 1t is because there il
no place up stairs to 10 it.
An eccentric genius has sent in
petition to the French National As
sembly asking for :he passage of {
law providing that every newborn
child shall have Its name and tn,
date ofits birth tattooed on its arm
The object is to facilitate identified
ton. The school teachers are t.
perform the operation, and parent.
neglecting to have their children thus
tattooed are to be punished by .
heavy fine.
We are very glad to notice thu
disposition on the part of the Demo-
Gratis of the United States to remove
the corpse iof Democracy from thu
highway, so that the Republican pro
cession need not be halted on its way
to the burial ground For years tn,
aforesaid corpse has been a by.word
but the IN 1ications are now that il
will not be stumbling block in thu
way of that great moral and reform
party, some time since stricken will
disintegration, and now on the roat
to the land of fire and birthstone.