, 1875-02-27
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

represented by less than half that
number.
The name Of Fort Cape Disap-
| Pointment on the Columbia has
been changed to Fort Candy.
At Boston railway stations boxes
are placed and daily filled to over
flowing with papers and pamph-
lets contributed by passengers,
which would be otherwise thrown
away, but now arc grecdily well
coined m hospitals and other in
stitutiohs.
The Washington correspondent
oG.Ahe Courier-Journal thinks that
oRCOf the handsomest ladies' at the
E5pital is Nine. de Bousiere, for
lnsfly Miss Polly Holiday of Ore
gon. The correspondent says that
three years ago, Ben Holiday and
familN,pRme to Washington. They
took furnished house, which thev
occupied just six weeks, but in
that time they gave a German and
many other elegant parties. Mrs.
Holiday was a very handsome,
fdigniied lady, The eldest daugh-
ter, the Countess de Pourtelles,
was perfect type Of beauty, and
Miss Polly magnificent.
In London they are thinking Of
paving the streets with asphalt, as
in Paris.
The Belgium Government in
tend to abolish the law of divorce.
The emigration from Germany
to America has materially de-
creased. In 1873, the emigrants
via Bremen numbered 63,243, but
lastFea there were only 3O,636.
The third marriage of a Cath
olic priest in Switzerland has lust
been solemnized. NJ. ST. Ange
was married by a Protestant
clergyman TO the daughter of a
much respected family in that
country.
At No. 204 Wentworth Avenue,
Chicago, on the 18th inst, Mrs.
Peter Hfqber, Of four daughters:
Had Mr., Weber been an English
subject instead Of an American
citizen, he would ere now have
been the happy recipient of a con-
gratulatory message from his Most
Gracious Queen, not to speak Of
ten guineas for each little daueh-
ter. Across the sea the primalfn-
junetion,is still held in reverence
by the Queen and the meansst Of
her subjects ,l -,.so,.
A Quebec dispatch says that
shocking Incidents attended the
burning Of the Beaufort Lunatic
Asylum for females. The Asylum
contained 43l patients, and it is
supposed that the Gre originated
in the cell Of . woman Of vicious
character, While the inmates
were at evening prayers, She is
supposed to have set her Bed. on
FIRE and shut her cell door, thus al
lowing herself TO perish in the
flames which she. had kindled.
Never gas there a more heart
feuding sight. Some Of the poor
rhaniace pushed into corners and
lphstinaiely y ref1sedtobe removed.
Others led down corridors into
| the DARKEST cellars. Others, again,
fan up into the cupola, and on to
the roof In the craze Of fright
the poos ereaturessbecameS almost
rabid, ADD when they we're hud-
died together their frantic talk
and hysteric shrieks were pitiable.
Bot the smell Of smoke acted
upon some Of them as that Of blood
upon airtiger, and they nerved
themselves forifght- They hit
tore and scratched. Some we're
passionately weeping and some re-
joicing IN the work Of destruction;
some shFieking, bowling and bias
pheming. Some calm and collect
ed, as n fully approaching the
danger. Strange 70 say, one Of
the worst cases entirely recovered
her reason in the panic, aud Is now
as sane As can be. Despite the
almost superhuman efforts torres
cue them, At least twenty persisted
in The flames.
a package containing four dead
and two living snakes arrived at
the dead-letter Office in Washing
ton, last week. aeaa
The ladies Of Detroit had a hop
the other night, FOR the benefit Of
the sufferers in Kansas and Ne
braskaN&ho had seen too many
hoppers" for their comfort
A Yornont lumberman recently
had Tie misfortune 10 have a log
roll upon him and break one Of his
legs; YET be loaded his wood and
drove bone. Il was a wooden leg.
Now don't make any more fuss
about having 70 Wait- in the post
Office. Here We American people
use 10000, 600 postal cards quar-
tea and hoa can q postmaster or
clerks 6ld time 10 hand you letters
Vhdn afey have all them TO read.
Laura ID. Fair appeared as =
witness in the San Francisco Police
Court the Other day and testified
that she owned 6666 shares in the
COusohdated Mining Company.
The Chronicle says that she mount
ed the witness stand with the gies-