The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-15
SUNBEd MS.


"A girl is on trial in London for pawr.
ina her engagement ring She raised fifteen sbinns,
on II the day after her lover gave It to her. wbcreuro
| he had her arrested.
"A very handsome mulatto how civ
teen years old. has eoped with the matron Of WHIT.
family In Wilmington n. c. in which he was s.ryon,
The woman IL forty years old and has some money
-Hezekiah Leland, who died i'm Augusta
last Tuesday. was the neshcst man in Maine lie wa,
80 years old. and weighed 800 pouuds The conn IA
which he was buried sI feet long twenty inches
| deep, and thirty inches wide.
DR. Hicks, Il Methodist minister Of 1.-Two
Oak, Fla, has been acquitted by committee. after
protracted trial on CHARGES of Improperly. 10 hs oe-
fence the reverend gentleman said that he wouid INN,
down his persecutors with relentless fury.
-Gallicauism, which was so powerful i'm
the Church OF France two hundred yeas ago has com
pictcy died out The immaculate concenton Of the
Virgin aud the absolute supremacy of the Pope are now
accepted by all the French Roman Catholics
Charles Dorr OF Orland, Me, went 10
Bangor last saturday buy wedding suit n, RECALLED
himself on peaches aud alv on ls way homo from tho
effects OF when he died the next day the one -, Tor
his marriage. ami was buried In the clothes be bougut
for his wedding.
-Chaincs Jeanne dare and Joarno
dare belts the latest fancy additions tn tent.
nine toilet They cncirclc the neck waist 1t pleas
flhtnu iUt NlUhErpttft IAN. Swiss wat tNulc
lame or any oter article that lady may need when
shopping OF visiting.
A new vine disease has excited much
uneaslncss In Rheintha Frcktna aud Thurgau in ter
many Vines which are apparently nonrshug IN thu
morning withcr Ia the course Of the day, without how
ever, turning yellow and in shost time aie The ymp-
toms have no resemblance to those Of phy lluxcra.
The Admiral commanding the English
squadron in the Mediterranean recently visited, n com
pany with Of his officers, the house which Nae
poleon I. was born At Aiaccio Corsica The Bonapart
s parry pronted by the occurrence declare that the
English Navy Is unanimously m favor Of Napoeon1v
Chicago is to have its lightning mail
express North. st. Louis ana Cincinnati want one,
tOo-West Washington ought surely TO have one.
South The East needs none, New York city II thu
East In person. These lightning mail facilities are
re more advantageous to the country than the annual
outlay on secOr Robcsons fishing smacks 1T Long
Branch
The Varieties Theatre. in Nashville.
opened recent evening after ong anu elaboT.
ate preparation. The audience large and demon
stratye. At nrs the demonstrations of p
pause, but later the entertainment did please some
Of the patrons aud about that time they a.certaned
that the backs OF the seats cou be pulled on Tho
theatre after very lively Of nj shi, coscd
for necessary repairs.
The fashionable people of Louisville,
KY habiually go to the theatre only on Friday nights
nNed has THIS become mat on TINS
" every week the house Will not mold all Who come,
and others It Is nearly empty That Il not proni-
able custom for the manager, and during The coming
he VIII endeavor TO break 1t up by calling thu
favored occasions popular nj hts for the people, and
| reducing the prices Of admission.
The mania in France for wood cary
| ings has lately broken out again. Baron Adophe de-
Kothschd pays no less than $4,000 for the carvings %
the Hotel Bretonvlliors, antique palace of the lla
| Saint Louis. His kinsman, BMon Gustavo even out
does this extravaganza For tie adornmCnt Of biz new
residence. between the Avenue d'Autin and the Ine
Cirque, he buys the wanscotng and cornce- Of tho
Hotel du sacre CGur, Rue de Narennes. at 900 This
| famous mansion was once occupied by the Bronlsu'
II had three grand apartments lined Ni,h oak
and other woods. superbly carved. The lining u ll0
| principal room fetched 1880
1t is altogether probable that Poor
Richard did not the he was getting into when
he gave utterance to his seemingly harmless dciun;
"Tradc the mother Of money" IL looks Ike tooth
less kind of a saw, but when consider tina equally
good authorities tell that The love of money Is ne
root Of all evil" anc further that evil comuiunlcs
lions corrupt good manners" we are forced Logically
| to believe that If II not for trade we woud@
living In Paradise and would know nothing about -oan
dals anu rings and pc.iucs. Ought not poor ldclal
| ~ arise and explain, OF retract or something
1t would seem that in st. Louis clergy
men. instead Of being ess subject TO suspicion oi In
| morality than other men, are watched more criciJ.
The Rev. Father stem Of ST. Geneyieye county, MO,
started for that city with the young daughter oia
| parishioner On her way TO be nut TO school On us
steamer they sat In stateroom with door opea
| toward the main saloon, and one closed iowirdH
deck. Somebody who knew they were there, jokngJ
told the captain that something wrong. anu he
once burst IN the closed door wildly attacked the as
offending priest and gave him brutal whipping before
the situation could be- explained.
"A brother of the murdered Nathan IL
passenger agent of the Green Bay and Minnesota lah
road. He 10 reported saying :" Ny brother would
have been the last In the world 20 get AZ from nc
bed to seek an encounter with any one lie would let
a burglar carry OF the whole room. and pretend to
sleep. My theory that he heard noise ia biz 'front.'
room, aud went out, In curious absent sort ~ van
to see what II about, dreaming for an instant
there was any person there with burHlarons initnL
lie must have softly stepped out, ana probably conc
upon the intruder unaNares-it may be-, stumbled
against him he was short sighted you know-and uh
man found It necessary for his protection TO Al
him to avoid an cutlery or future recognition
A Grand Jury in north Georgia, have
ing discovered that half the county tax Of taHos
county TO defray the expenses OF two sessions"
the superior Court. called the attention OF me Ju's'"
tins fact and requested hun go TO amend the raes An
practice Of HE court 10 facilitate the dsi a'eh u
business. and not to allow attorneys 20 consume -
much dine IN wraneng and In useless and Hiee'''
discussions" The Judge minated that h,j were htu
ordered their recommendation 10 be stricken out o.
the presentmcn before tis publication IN The omf'l
paper u the county In dong this he IL accl'ea u
having exceeded his legitimate power He action "a.
provoked much indignation aud the Legislature "
called upon TO investigate It. '
In 1s7l the army of Turkey was on
paper, o. the following strength. The sctFe Ml't
EOS 700 the nrt reserve, lo5doO; the second reserve
"a 600 the gensdarmerc, $500 the Asalcs 'efS
torial army, 10000 Irregular troops $4,000 te cop
tingents from Egypt and Tunis, 10000 The ioie'
divided into seven corps aarmtc. with hcadqn'tN'N
Con.tantuople, shumlah BoenIa tMopastl' -"f'1"t
Damascus BasAd aud Yemen. The ci'nY 'ons't
/ Of 81 rcglmrnt- the artillery Of 20 batteries VI ~
Guns. The condition of tnc troops depends very m1't
indeed upon che cap. lty ~ the commanding oAeuN
Lieut. t. OIL Borclu, OF the Italian army, considers u'N
10 Doe tn bad condition. he says that the imn1iea'
uso Of tobacco a scnsuaihc. the lcthargic oxrcneo
the women have produced singularly soft sc1'r'oa
which, with the appearance Of strength AMI inpo'Wi
stature has neither the Ell stciy nor the forced heo'
TURKS Recent English visitors have given hgld
idea OF the physique OF the Turkish army.
M. Am6d6e In Faure publisho- M lh'
F}ance an analysis Of the military strength of ihr ''P
Gus European nations in 1870. Germany hm 800 NJ
COMPRISING i6D battalions OF infantry, 800 -0"d"A',
cavalry, 800 campaign batteries 80 bAt'I'-s A." ~