The Morning herald., 1875-08-23

Is pegginS OUT.
Missouri expects to carry off the Centen-
NAL medal for wheat.
A Society for preventing the Decline of
Matrimony is suggested.
The Buffalo Express calls horse racing
an abominable nuisance.
Charles Crossman, of Maine, has q CEN
tennial bed,ope What next!
The Oneida, N. Y, community proposcs
10 have public Turkish bath
Syracuse, N. Y, has woman who pcr-
sists in appearing in velvet pants.
A leech 3 inches long was taken from a
Boston water-pipe the other day.
The amusement of writing four Thousand
words on postal card is dying out.
Camp-meetings are now in full blast at q
dozen points throughout Pennsylvania.
Most of the New York churches are To-
Gated where the population is thinnest.
A man in Ohio hid for half day under a
hog pen rather than testify in law suit.
The estate of the late ex-President John
son is estimated by his son at between $780,
600 and S175, 600.
Hon. l.. q. &. Lamar is at present on a
trip in Kentucky, and receiving great atten-
tion from the people.
Mr.. James Lick, of California, has not
yet decided where he will locate his noun
tain observatory.
Mrs. F. X. Smith, the mother of General
f. Kirby Smith, of Confederate fame, died
at Palatka on the I'd instant, aged 80 years.
Hon. A. H. Stephens held reception at
the City Hall, in Rome, Georgia, the other
day. His health is somewhat better than
it was.
The Chamber of Commerce of Civitta
Vecchia gave General Garj5aldi public
banquet on the I'd inst. lie gave as toast
international Arbitration"
A reunion of the Army of the Cumber-
land will take place at Utica, New York, in
September next, when President Grant and
Generals Sherman, Sheridan and Belknap
will be present.
Mr.. Carruth is again at Vincland, with
view to a settlement with Mr.. Lands, who
is to give the injured editor $50, 900 to be
non est man when wanted by the New Jersey
authorities, and not be about.
Prof. Tice, of st. Louis, predicts that on
the 25th and 31st of this month there will
be meteorological phenomena of very vio-
lent character, especially at sea. where they
~ns.ill.t take the tarm G. "a trQpica cyclone,
wenty thusand dollars nave been given
70 the Friends School at Baltimore, Mary
land, by Thomas Wilson. A few years ago
the same gentleman gave five thousand dol
lars to the Manual Labor School in the same
city.
Solomon Cohen, aged q years, died on
Monday, at Savannah, Georgia. He was
postmaster under Presidents Pierce and Bu-
chanan, also under the Confederacy, and
was likewise member Of the Southern
Congress.
four days reunion was recently held
at aWiscasset, Maine, by Bishop Niles, Of
New Hampshire Rev. DR.. Williams, of
Boston Rev. Edward Goodrich, Of Connec-
ticut, and Rev Z. A. Brady, of Providence,
Rhode Island.
United States Senator Eaton, of Connec-
ticut, is at Saratoga. This Is the Mecca of
politicions at the present timc and some of
them, like MahOmet's coffin, are suspended
between heaven and earth as to their Presi-
dental hopes and aspirations.
1t will now be discovered SAYS the In
dianapolis Sentinel, that William Welsh, of
Philadelphia, murdered his grandmother
and kicked his mOther-in-law out of doors.
The Sentinel also thinks that there can be
no doubt that he is the man who struck
William Patterson and buckcd the bull off
the bridge-to say nothing of numbering
Nathan-and committing various other mis-
deeds.
Mr.. Littletield and a Mr.. Gardiner, two
wealthy merchants of New York, played
draw poker together, and Mr.. Littleteld
cashed Mr.. Garlncrs check for one hun
dred dollars. When the game was over Mr..
Gardiner was heavy loser, and he imme-
dlately went to the bank and stopped pay
ment Of the check. Mr.. Littlcfeld there
upon sued him, and the case has been taken
ntO court.
The basement of the new building Of the
Tribune, in New York, has been rented out
as saloon. 1t was stated that the mana
ging editor of that paper has offered the
saloon keeper S25,OOO to leave, but the
saloon keeper denies the statement in the
following language "N0, no, it is not
drue 1t is shus liket the den dOusand dollar
~pisness. Dey makes no such offer. When
dey gifts twenty-five dOusand dollars we
dakes him rightaway off quick"
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times, writing to that paper from New York
city says: The streets of the city are de-
serted, but not the city itself, fancy. A
less proportion of New Workers. have left
this season for the country and the seaside
Than for many summers past. Hard times
IS the cause. Rents are coming down,
salaries are tumbling, clerks, factory hands,
shop girls, mechanics and even errand boys
are being discharged to stop financial leak
ages. Men that used to ride in the cars
walk to and from business. Those who
used to take the stages now ride in the
morse n; cars, and bankers, brokers and stylish
clerks who used to 60 down town in cab
are closing % out, t'cs ciear dealers % Complain Of
the hard times, and BARRIERS say that people
are taking to shaving themselves, and those
OF their customers who still hang on do
without bay rum, and when asked If they