The enquirer southerner., 1874-06-19
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

4Ne DuuKdrQS dL Cuelr lalo NdLlOu-
al Convention denounced the use of
the ungodly piano
Richard Cuss was badly put down
when 500 pound weight fell on him
at St Louis recently.
/ Texas women, it is reported, ride
on both sides Of their horses. Other
people only ride on the outside. q.
There is a female club in Newark,
New Jersey, for young women who
have no place to spend their even
ings.'
! The course of Hon. Josiah Turner
since his failure to get the nomi-
nation for Congress cln not be too
highly commended.
g. For young woman to pick lint
off a young mans coat collar" is said
to be the first symptom that the young
man is in peril.
The eonferring upon Prince
Arthur, the title OF the Duke of Con-
naught, is the first instance Of as
sociating royalty with ireland.
At the next meeting of the House
Committee on Foreign AffairsAthe
resolution for the recognition q the
independence of Cuba will be cons:d,
cred
Lydia Thompson is said to have
three oilers of marriage on the
average a week; but she insists that
one husband is really all she can pro.
vide for just now.
The 1umors Of the evacuation oil
Estalla by the Carlist5 are not con.
iirmed. General Concha is preparing
to attack the town Immediately at
three different points.
General Washing on's family Bible
is advertised for sale: 1t is three
large quarto valumes, and the public
gravely informed that it was present
ed to General Washington by its au-
! thor.
Three ofthe parties charged with
/ participating in the Grant Parish
| (La.) riot, in which some forty per.
sons We're killed, have been convicted
Several were acquitted There are
many other indictments remaining.
/ Mr.. Kerr has withdrawn from the
Clinton Reporter and B. F. Grady as
srmes editorial management Of that
paper. Mr.. Grady announces in his
salutatory that there will be nc
change in the political complexion OF
the Reporter.
/ Receipts for the preservation O.
furs abound in all the papers, but the
old plan promulgated by Pne1 long
ago is the best. This is to pull GU
all the hairs with tweezers and warn
ish the skin. In the Spring remove
the varnish and carefully stick alS.ht
hairs in their old places. }
Several strikes among the coa
miners in England have ended, and
the men have returned to work. In
Leicestershire, twelve hundred men
have accepted the proposed reduction
Of ten per cent and in Durham the
differences between the men and the
employers have been amicablv ad.
.iusted.
The old yarn about Conservative
frauds, and all that kind of nom
sense, in Petersburg don't seen. to
take we'll with the majority in Con-
gress, Republicans as we'll as Demo
Gratis, The party that continually
calls Tor troops when it is defeated at
elections, is becoming small by de-
grees, since the Administration has
become so "Ht'spoken in den ying the
beauties {. policy of that character.
Since the laying Of the Atlantic
cable Mr.. Cyrus w. Field and others
have never given up the project of a
line from San francisco to Japan.
and from there to make connections
around the world. The distance from
California to Yokohoma is five thous-
and and seven hundred miles by way
of Honolulu and the Ocean Island.
The deep sea soundings for the cable
are now being taken by the United
States steamer Tuscarora.
One of Durell's clerks has left New
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