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the dollar-mark (S) back to Tyre.
A Buffalo merchant bought and
sold million pounds of dried apples
last year What basis for initiation. (
Miss Charlotte Cushman has been
induced to reconsider her dertermina-
ton to withdraw from the stage. She /
will appear at Booths next fall.
The Detroit Free Press tells us that 1
Wisconsin won't let the clergymen /
kiss the bride any more, and the fees .
have jumped from fifty cents to S..
Ohio Will doubtless enter two Presi- /
Dental candidates, Pendleton and
Thurman, with a possibility for a
third in Bill Allen, present Governor.
A Wisconsin woman who recently
buried her eighth husband has re-
ceived an offer of $500 to move into
some other State. She stands out
for 81, 600.
Last week a detachment of British
troops, numbering over 800, passed
over the Michigan Road on their
wav to Manitoba. Fifteen car loads
of horses passed with them.
Newspapers are cautioned against
forged circular in the name Of Rowell
q Co., ordering the publication of a
microscope and miscellaneous list of
advertisements. 1t is characterized as
a swindle.
The bill which passed the House of
Representatives the other day by a
large majority, providing for the adj
mission of Colorado, is not expected
to be passed at this session Of Congress,
but it will come up next winter.
According to the new directory of
Chicago, shortly to beissued, the popu-
lation of that city has increased 10000
in the last year. Taking the ratio of
81 persons to each name in the dlrec-
tory, the total population Is claimed
to be nearly 532, 000.
A Boston man and a Titusville (Pa)
maid had a little quiet dance all to
themselves the other day. He did
the dancing while she applied the
cowhide, and he doesn't dance attend
ance upon her any more. Neither
does he insult Titusville ladies as
much as he did.
The Meridian Miss Gazette says:
Thirteen years ago John Kendall,
of Ala, called Arthur Spooner liar.
Spooner reflected, got mad, and the
other day decided to shoot Kendall
for the insult, and did shoot him; and
now his honor shines like new tin
pan on a gate-post.
Mr.. Afford Martin, of Cambridge,
Maine, might succeed as lecturer on
aerial navigation. He was in his barn
few days ago when the wind took it
up one hundred feet, and carried it a
half Il mile to a swamp. Notwlth-
standing the inclemency of the wealth
er, Mr.. Martin was not injured.
The American lady to whom the
young Duke Nicholas Of Russia gave
his mothers stolen diamonds is now
in Paris, with the jewels, worth 50O,-
0G0 francs, in her possession. She Is
described as intelligence and beauti-
full. The Dnke is said to be madly
in love with her, and wishes to marry
her.
A man, claiming to he the Messiah,
has recently'ap peared in Arabia,
where his fame has snrea;1i far and
vide. lie came forth from the des-
ert, where he spent many years NOR
tifying the flesh, and he pretends to
work miracles in proof of his divine
mission. He has a melodious voice,
remarkably brilliant eyes, and a
facinating appearance, and is winning
followers.
Thus far the organization of the
Patrons of Husbandry has proved to
be a success. Whether the goodname
it has acquired will be perpetuated
depends upon the ability Of its mem
bers to show by their works that they
possess sufficient administrative, exc.
cutive and business capacity to carry
forward, to successful completion, the
: grand reforms the order has under.
taken to accomplish.
The London Times, in an article on
the American Pilgrimage to Rome, eX'
presses surprise that a race prldlng
itself on the shrcwdncss and precision
of thought should indulge in such an
tiquated superstition. Possibly after
contrasting the desolation and
Indebtedness of the late Papa
States with the cultivation and
fertility Of America, they, as eminently
practical people, accustomed to judge
Of institutions by their results, viii
find their minds disabused.
During the recent visit Of the friend
ly Warm Spring Indians, who were
our allies in the Modoc war, to SAL
Francisco, they were taken to the
Palace Amphitheater. At one part o
the performance Monsieur Dockrlll aP
peared in his Indian act on horseback
and towards the last he suddenly
leaped down and "'sculped" Joe kene
bel, the clown, Of the remarkable wiz
he wears. At this the Warn
Spring allies became wildly excited
and it was with the greatest difficulty
that they could be restrained from
leaping into the arena and taking ;
hand in the proceedings. An i'm
mense uproar cnsucd, but the rec
men were finally quoted down an'
resumed their seats. They, however
persisted giving Mr.. Dockrill tw'
hearty recalls. As he made his. boy
for the second time the Warm Spring
greeted him with a genuine Indian
yell.
The Marriage of n Gran;idaugirter o
BRIGHAM Young.