Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-01-27
Items OF Interest. q

A bill providing for the aboltiosl OF
the death penalty and the substitution
of Imprisonment for life. has passed two
readings in the Mexican Senate. :,
There is dog on the frontier of. Da-
kota Territory which singly and atone
carries the mail over route OF sixty
miles, through all weathers, as astrAieht
as die, and none dare modest him.
The wife of Houston, the chief sngi-
neer of the steamship, Pacife who, leH
his life while trying to save the women
passengers of the hl-fated vessel; hss
become insane from grief ct the'death OF
her husband. *, 7;h8 3>d sga ssoh
Conflict Of ideas. 1AeNew Orleans
paper, which prints long editgisl
headed "The treasure of, wickedneSs
profits nothing, "1has is FIRST page fsh-
tirely occupied with the advertisement
of a huge lottery swindle.I 5G9meleb.
LittlerSmartv Adams, aboy vho,liyes
in Boston and reads the practical jokes
in the newspapers, pulled away his sis
ter's chair as she was about TO seat her
self, and the poorgirps spine was iJeti-
ousiy injured by the mnel falli whioh
followed. ',~.... f....iSsg 1o;,-4,7fl,.g
The Paris theaters have been corr
planning of hard times, but il turns ont
that their receipts for the year wa
amount to 50, ,000, 600, against q, ,90e, 900
in 1873, and S., TAO, ,000 20 1872 in fact,
considerably larger than han they heyes syer aver
been before. -. ..,.....t,,;
Thirty Chinese students Who lately
reached this country with the purpo6e
of being educated In New Enkland col
leges are to be allowed ftteenlyearh for
study. They have the promise OF laigh
Offices under their government when
they return home.sh q sae0sp' q
There is lady out in galifornlal fone
hundred and forty years OLE, ,who III the
only woman in the entire State who
sauarely Acknowledges her age when
asked. In fact, it is said that she SLOWS
q tendency TO rather overstate than 'un
derestimate her years. y S9l.gzHae
When General Sherman i said 4 khAt
there is room in America for 40, ,QM 100
people who may be wiling 70 toll "a TIE
eountry instead Of lingering IS clerks
around cities he told d truth that Ought
to:be needed. uhis remafk viii Hfcto
distribute some of the middle man sef
cities to the Western prairiss the
grangers may have their theory fuibhed.
A young man in Rockford, ln,
promised to marry Emma, and then b.
came involved with Mary, who hsdshim
arrested. You willbe sent TO the PEN
itentiary if yeu do not marry her. q said
the Judge, referring To- Mary Mers-
upon, Emma stepped DIP to the prisoner
and advised him not 60 mind about Het,
but to save himself BY marryihe Aissy;
which he did. .sefg 80 bJsiSr sEc1o
To remove stumps from q fi6ldsi sA
that is necessary is TO have one or more
sheet iron chimneys, some four teet
high. Set fire to the stump apd' once
the chimney over It, 90 as to B1ve tAe
REQUISITE amount Of drahghtiat theubeS-
TOM twill draw ihe o. astoyea TIP
stump will soon be consumed. Wlfan
several such chimneys Of different sfzee,
the removal of stunps may be aeeon-
plished at merely nominal fabor ann e.
pense.,,i 30 ,.isdagd agT,skt sfIEI
! A negro'scabin was SbaEped inO SS1.
ter, s. O., and his family were ow1tnipp 1anp
when the fire began. Their escape py
the door and single window was cut on,
and he brolus hole In the reef. tkirotlga
which to descend Il, their rescnas tle
conId only oet one out at o time,. BIS
wife and two children were taken oIl'
leaving one child behind y 'Phe heer0in
his Last descent was bsdlypbnrned;ay
the spreading flames, bpt he sbrayaly
tried again. and was burned 70 dsafp
with the child. IN. taissS6, d Essp