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Gleanings from the Press.
Delano's past motto:

Delanos past motto:
Lord, bless me and nv wife,
Ny son John and his wife,
Us foar. and no more, amen.
Fx-United States Senator John D bright
is seriously ILL.,
The testimony in the Beecher Trial was
closed on the 18th.
Carl Schurzaud family barely escaped sailing
on the Schiller.
Cornelius Vauderbilt's health is breaking
down fast.
Senator Spencer will probably have to step
down and cut
GO Instead Of l6 lives were lost by the Cadiz
wreck, near Bsest, France.
Buell. of the Detroit Free Press is indicted
for saying Zach Chandler was drunk.
Secretary Bristow crates at the Louisville
decoration on the goth.
The legislature refuses to let Governor Til
den remove the offending canal officials.
Ripley s Opera Block, Rutland, Vt, is burn
ed Loss $50 600. Insurance 100000.
The ST. Louis Globe, and Democrat are to be
consolidated by the formers proprietor.
| State legislator Best Of Massachusetts IS ar
rested for stealing 81 500 from merchant.
J. D. Morris, Congressman from Ohio in
/ 1851, died at COnnersville, Ind, last Sunday
Kansas grasshoppers speak very highly Of
the early spring cabbages.
Henry ". Mygatt Of Washington suicided
in Springfield, H., last week.
Western winter wheat is reported as now
l l. al 10th -Ctra
tiers of a full crop.
Inc New York Assembly has expressed
/ sympathy for the Cubans and asked Congress
10 accord them belligerent rights.
Express messenger Price who killed q rob-
| Der in his car on the Pittsburg aud Fort Wayne
rad, has been voted 81 900, gold, by Adams
/ Express Company.
Freed from carpet-bag rule, Arkansas is
showing signs Of industry and improvement in
her trade aud agricultural interests.
IN s-acre island has suddenly risen to the
the surface in Pas l'outre at the mouth Of the
Mississippi. reaching an height of s feet.
The Jury in the Gerdemaun case, which
was closed last Friday is hung ten being
for acquittal and two for conviction.
James Lick Of California who revoked his
trust deed recently has executed another in
which the donations are all cut down to one
half the amount.
A Daytoa, O., negro flock have pardoned
their minister Cor betting away 800 of church
[ funds on 3-card monte, because We is all
human an de game is VERY exciting !"
Several law suits are pending for infringe
ments on the copy rights Of Augustin DAILY 3
two plays, The Two Orphans, and The Big
Bonanza.
The other New York papers are poking fun
at the Tribune's new building, and call il the
ugliest in Gotham, but its editor, Whitelaw
Reid sits in his sanctum way up IN tie tower,
and smiles blandly at these sour grape COM
meu,S.
Sheridan's intended bride, Miss Rucker, is
described as "a very pretty, jolly looking girl
: Of nineteen or thereabouts." She is the Sc
cond daughter Of General Rucker, and the
marriage will take place the first part OF June.
The official bond of Col. Parker, postmaster
at New Orleans, is a family affair. Gen. b.
F. Butler bis brother-in-law, assumes $780,
600, his nephew by marriage, Gov. Adelber,
Ames, of Mississippi, 500 0O0 and the father
iu.hw of Col Parker's daughter 100000,
making the required total of 100000.