, 1875-05-08

The trial and execution of Vas,
quez cost the State Of California
f2,722.
= Whom any calamity has been
suffered the first thingt 70 be re,
membored Is how much has been
escaped
Garibaldi has accepted from the
municipality Of Rome a villa and a
gold medal struck in his honor.
The towns along the line Of the
Central Pacific Railroad are foil Of
thieves whose sole business it is
TO "beat" the emigrants who pass
through.
The Pope has forwarded t200 as
a contribution toward rebuilding
st. Patrick's Church, Hartford,
Conn, which was burned a few
months ago. aic %
LAST Sunday ten Cinnamon
were baptized and taken into the
fellowship of the Baptist Church,
corner Of Fourth and Alder streets,
Portland. ....-.- a. ,,,5.ssaT
A wise, richman is like the back
or stock of the chimney, and his.
wealth the fre; he receives il, but
not for bis own need, but to re-
feet the heat to otheri' good. -.
A Swede died at San Rafael,
Cal, last week who had lived there
eleven years and no one knew his
name. He had lost his powsrsofI
speech from a stroke of paralysis,
and if able to write it was not
known.
A proclamation was issued in
Ottawa, Canada, on the 26th inst,
granting pardon TO all persons en- 9
gagged in the Northwest rebellion,
except Riel, Paine and O'DoDahue.,
The two former are banished for a,
period Of Eve years.
The President Of the French
Geographical Society has banded
Minister Washburn . gold medal,
to be presented BY him 70 the FAM
lily Of the late Capt. Hall, in COM
memoration Of his exploration Of
the Arctic region.
Mr.. Bristow wrote to Gen.
Spinner that Grant was Of the
opinion that as soon as man
comes to look upon himself nsii
necessary to the Government,
he ought to 60 out Of Office or be-
put out.
They had spelling match down.
in Gospel Swamp, There were
contestants and
Iwenty-six went down on the frst
word, cat,p and the last man
would have gone down too, only
he stuttered and couldn't get in
the second ct" quick enough.
Poor Irish woman with six chill &
dren to railroad ticket agent;
z Please, sir, give a poor wildly
woman with SIX orphan children q
ticket to Milwankee?7 Ticket
lgent: "What have I to do with
your orphan children2 I amt their
lather, am I?n Woman; That
you amt, sir, their father was a
iacsnt mar"
Rutland, Vermont's latest SEN
sation is the arrest for bigamy Of
Ah Sing, a clever young China
nan, who has been doing a thriv-
ng business as doctor at Lansing, %
n. p, whence he eloped the other
lay, with an American girl whom
he married, notwithstanding the
act that he has another wife still
living at Utica, N. Y. where he 81
formerly praeticsd. sa lg
The wife Of President Mona
hon has Just exhibited kind of
sympathy that will make her inn
popular in Paris. Owing
% dull times q very large number
If workingmen were obliged to
pawn their implements Of labor
o supply their families with food.
When Madame heard Of this she
instituted festival, and with tho
proceeds paid off the loans and
,astored the tools TO the laborers. .'i
szsl .
When steam navigation began,
he widest speeulations were ins
iulged in as to speed; but all of
hem were doomed to be falsi6ed
,y the results. With the hosts Of
yearly adopted, the
original speed Of eight miles per
,our has scarcely been doubled.
On the average, it has not; the
iastest ocean-going steamers only .
fifteen miles. In
Imooth rivers and in narrow chan
lels much higher rates of speed
nave been obtained; but the av,
srage Of all kinds Of steamers, riv-
n and ocean, is from twelve to
iixteen miles per hour, and the
problem that still vexes engineers
S how toincrcsso The rate ofspced.