The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-30
SUNBEd MS,

"A piluge E,lVO rect long is being built
| across Bear river, In northern Utah.
"A deep-sea shark, which is seldom soo,,
along the coast ten feet long and weighing 7o poun
was captured on Block Island last week.
| Mount Holyoke Seminary is priucino,J
ly devoted to the furnishing Of wives for foreign MT
sionares II has already furnished 1ib Of the.c .,s'
Brook Farm, near Boston, has bean
bought by Mr. @. +. Burckhardt and Is to be used a,
home Tor orphans. under the charge or the cerna,
| theran Church of Boston.
Nine. lie Vert is in San Francisco. She
received very enthusiastic reception In salt Ists
city, and gave reception aud reading Which was ven
| attended by both Saints and IDENTITIES.
-" Brethrn," said good Baptist in In.
diana, while giving his experience I've ben irwin,
this nigh onto forty year to the Lord and 60,
rich, both at aud tell yer ALL md its mi.btv
hard shedding"
"A Strasburg paper states that tho
sword given up by Napoleon Ill to King william WA
handed by Prince Bismarck In March ic7i to Gen
Casticnau who went to D.rn for that purpose under
| an assumed name
Compliant was made in the session OF
the Grand Lodge Of odi Fellows against the style Of
Uniform adopted for the cncampmcnt branch. bccaus.
It was copy u the dress by the Legion of Honor
| cOored organization A. the South.
| The Palmetto Guard of south Carolina
nave ssued an address Inviting cooperation In cen.
tennia celebration OF the battle Fort Moultrc, June
/
message OF brotherhood and uuion"
| Bishop Dupanloup who, after the cleo
tion OF NJ. Ltre the French Academy, declared lhn
he would no longer remain member Of IT, has resumed
his attendance at ITS sitngs. AID Will take part tue
| election Of a successor to N. Guzot.
| The City Council of Baltimore will be
petioned to pass an ordinance providing that pubic
| school teachers who. after continuous service Of
thirty years, become unable to discharge their duty
| may be retired upon a small pension for life.
The Mississippi and Orinoco Company
of ST. Louis has been incorporated for the purpose Of
| establishing direct trade between St. LOUIS New
Orleans the Island Of Trinidad, West Indies and the
ports on the orinoco and its tributaries IN South
| America
-Lttre the French Academician. saws
1t IL difficult, u not impossible. to establish per-
feet republic anywhere and hence the now set up
In France on the basis Of various compromises note
be sneezed at especially Its competitor the apo
| leonic empire.
james Lick has just proposed TO build
his 100000 astronomical observatory the eummis
1 Of Mount Hamilton. II the SUPERVISORS of Santa Cara
county will constructs railroad thither from jose
Mount Hamilton Is sixtyhve mi es from San Francisco,
it, summit a4lo feet high II is thought by many
| that Mount DaOO would be better site.
"A splendid monument to the celebrated
Oakes Ames be erected the rear Of the Unity
Church In North Easton Mass. It will stand n a CEN,
etery OF about acres which Oliver Ames hi- broth
er, has presented to the town. and which now being
laid OUT by some Boston artists All the deceased mem
bers Of the Aines family to be inferred IN tins GEM
| etery.
The annual sale of Leicester rams. in
connection with the Borcer Union Agricultural Society,
| was held at Keso. Scotland on sept TO- AZ usual
sme very high prices obtned especially for The
| rams which belonged TO Lord P0worh. The total sun
realized by this lot thirty IN number wac NO. max.
| ing an average OF 81 per head. The hghestpriced
| ram IN tbs lot brought GlJ0.
1t is Il popular belief that lightning will
not strike beech In a recent thunder shower Al
Goshen, Mas. beech and maple standing near 10.
geher with branches nterocsIng each other received
the electric bolt which shattered the maDe and passed
into the earth through PROSTATE hcmlock tree iYag
near. which stripped Of is bark nearly the whole
| length No trace Of the lightning was left upon the
beech.
| The colored parson Of n Georgia church
| gave out hymn which did accord with any
known to the congregation. An old darkey in the cor
ner up saidi Parson. I'm pretty sartin kin
reech TO both eends o. them varses" Bru1der Jones
| viii raise de time = and the Old gave a series
| Of shrieks to outrval chiope with a drunken
gnecr "Hold up. brudder" frantic preacher
"de singing will be adjourned to the next meeting"
A few days ago w. c. Hodgknson,
horse sauyhterer sindhills. In Eugind. purchased .
horse which had died suddenly On cult up the ami.
maj he found In the colon ABOUT 1000 nails of various
sizes, number Of buttons and several other
small thing not less difficult TO digest. No one seems
10 be able account for the extraordinary appearance
Of ire large number Of nails aud screws, they had
evidently been swallowed By the animal some tine ago.
for they h.d oeen worn smooth aud thin by friction.
| An American traveller, who recently
was preseut In cour, in Liverpool where Mr. Hershel
| NJ. r.. appeared SIDE. and Judah p. Benjamin
on the other. writes: We remembered the dlgnined
air OF conscious superiority with which he bore himself
In the United states sixteen years ago. aud
rasicd painfully with hrs attitude here, eudcayorng
opu Tie best face on an Insignificant but desperate
case; had feeling OF compassion or him wheu
| we remembered what these intervening years had
| brought ~lth them"
A balloon ascent was intended at the
recent fis at Jarry.sur.Marne France the atronaui
proposing TO take ms own child to accompany him 10
bis aerial nght. The little lad eight years Of age,
placed fret the ear while some 1ual preparations
were being carried out by the father. The balloon vet
renamed attached TO the earth 10y single cord Wien
the boy, M oseryed managed the rope, and ia
the CONSERVATION Of Its parent and the terror Of the
spectators was swiftly carried into the air ny the
liberated machine. ignorant Of the working man
agcm'nt Of the balloon there Is reason TO fear that the
infant a,ronaut has been either sufocaed In the
Ned currents Of air been precipitated from an i'm
mense height. No news however. OF the balloon " lie
hapless occupant has been since received.
A presumed attempt at murder, par
taking OF all the sanguinarY mystery Of old romance
was opportuncly prevented few days since. gen'
darme ana two other persons traverng the forest no
tween Porrcntruy aud Neudncourt (Berno heard crca
OF supucauon, responded 10 In menacing tones, pro-
ceeding from dense glade their route Cautiously
approaching the spot from whence thc cries procesL
they came upon woman IN kneeling posture, enrrft
ing man who was bidding her to prepare for draih'
The gcudarme immediately broke up the taheas %
arrc.tlng te husband Tor such the man PROV iote
and con.uct'd him 70 Porcntruy prison. NotSHh'
standing tue protcs'atons Of the wife, the nea' dhi
that they Wcrr merely rehearslue moce Ts.eii tii
joke, the Jiyc of pair hDid the prisoner for trial
Great excitement has been caused NJ
Amsterdam by the discovery Of the murdercrs Of A.
ola LADY, ilmcd kOuwcu and hoe maid ~ December
1879 II ppcars that public house waiter named Ju
was bctrolhcu to the adys former servant tut hayaf
no money 10 set up housekeeping. they agreed to fot
| aud murder Mrs. kouwcn They nrst murdered lei
servant and tcn the lady hcrse I. Escaping all suspf
cion, they remained al the Ireue ull the iuli.wi.g
| March then married. and went to America thcrtsoll
the lays American securities ana aterWard wtrt "a
England, where they disposed of her Aus tolq'
| The agent employed I'm this last transaction hovrvtf
was suspicious OF something wronR, and lut had tn rar
chase his 81 ence ny large sum u money Jut ufat
oicned tavern at Rotterdam, but hi- nycstueIt ~
large sum m putch sccurluc, attracted notc ih-