The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-07
Items Of Interest.

An Illinois grange is negotiating for
the lease of 800 acres of land in Monroe
county, Mississippi, and fifty Illinois
families are ready to move in and occupy
rs soon as the negotiations are COM
pleted.
A poor, ill-clad wife in Montreal said
to her husband just before she died
81 accumulated such a store of love for
you during our courtship that six years
of neglect and coldness on your part have
failed to exhaust it."
Plenty of people in Boston and vicini-
ty are anxious that Jesse Pomeroy, the
boy murderer, shall be hanged. Peti-
tions to the Governor and Council that
they will not commute his sentence nre
receiving numerous signatures at South
Boston.
On recent trial in Wales, to test the
validity of will, it was proved that i'll
1868 the testator became impaired in in
tellect to such an extent that he went to
the post office with postage stamp on
his forehead and requested to be sent
to place he mentioned.
Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick Indignantly
repels On attack made upon him by
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquir-
er, and the editor says: eff it will be
any qualification to the general, he may,
with our leave, take satisfaction out of
any Enquirer correspondent he may
find"
When a man is leaning over the back
fence telling q neighhor how he would
shed his last drop of blood for suffering
Louisiana, it disturbs him to have his
wife yell from the kitchen "Look Mt
here are you coming with that bucket
of water, or shall come out and see to
youi"
George Henstock, whose daughter
few days ago picked up in the street Mt
Hanley, in England, purse containing
e66, and who acted on the schoolboy's
maxim, findings keeping" was
charged before the magistrates with
stealing the money, and was sentenced
to six months imprisonment.
If the heat which human being gives
off in twenty-four hours could, consis-
tently with life, be retained in the body,
its temperature would have at the end
of that time have reached one hundred
and eighty-fve degrees Fah., a tempera-
ture above the point of coagulation of
albumen, and high enough to cook the
tissues.
The British frigate Thetis has captured
two slavers, one containing one hundred
and ninety-two and the other one hnn-
dred and ten slaves. The Portuguese
attacked a slave barracoon south of
Mozambique, containing one thousand
slaves, but were repulsed with loss. The
Thetis subsequently proceeded to attack
the barracoon.
Frank said an affectionatc lady the
other day to promising young Ameri-
can, IF you don't stop smoking and
reading SO much, you will get SO after
while that you won't care anything ut all
about work." Mother" replied the
hopeful, leisurely removing very long
cigar, and turning another leaf of
Scri6ncr's, "I've got 30 now"
A Penrith correspondent of the Lon
don Court Journal says that about three
weeks ago an easterly wind blew down
large fir tree on land belonging to a
lady in the neighborhood of Appleby.
The gale from the west, last week, how
ever, blew it up again, and it is "now
standing quite stately and majestic, as
if nothing had ever happened to it."
1t is now possible by the aid of hy-
daulic machinery to bend iron shafts of
twelve inches diameter to any required
shape. Incredible as this statement
may seem to an expert, crank shafts are
now 30 made, instead of the slow, labor
ious, and expensive method of forging.
The bent shafts are also much better
than forged ones from the fact that the
fiber of the metal runs in one direction
continually, whereas in forged ones it is
often across the line of strain.