The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-15
SUN n "a MS.

1
De heard FIRST at the Imperial Opera House, at Berlin
| The Young Norwegian dramatist, Thos.
krag Thoresen, died at Christania, after a prolonged
illness, on April O..
The King of the Belgians will on the
9oth OF June personally the brussels erhioiuon
OF means and appliances for saving lie.
"A flash OF lightning at Cheshire. Noss
tore holes in the ground all about farmer and the
COW he was mi king, and then Knocked both down
"A number OF CARRIER geons have been
pacei on the lighthouse OFF Hirwic England. IN order
TO train them for regular communication with the port
Lieut.. Cameron is to be invited to a
special meeting OF the French Geographical Society ot
Paris called for the purpose of making his merits ap-
precisted In France.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Baptist Union at the bloomsbury Chapel, London. n
reported that $1,000 900 been raised last year
on the part OF this orsanizan In England
Surrogate Calvin put stopper into
the ruth Of fluent lawyer yesterday, by announcing
the following cpl gram, doe'nt strengthen argu-
ment to repeat 1T; It general V welkensit."
| -Arlnori Mort formerly japanese Min
lister at Washington, Is now nving Tokio M second
Minister OF State for Foreign Affairs aud Judge Bing.
ham regards him as the shrewdes Of japanese sates
men.
-Texarkana, n town Of 200 inhabitants.
is claimed by both Tex and Arkansas, the sta,e Inc
dividing the town in the centre Taxpayers are happy
because they don't recognize assessment Of ether
State.
The French revenue returns. just pub
lished disclose state OF great financial prosp N.Y. tho
estimated receipts having exceeded In nrst
three months Of the present year than 900
francs.
An extraordinary shoal OF whales WIS.,
tied Kirkwall Bay, In Scotland, day, aud fun
mediiely great many boats were manned with view
TO capturing them. Altogether sky whales were
| driven ashore.
I Ia in ~ a.
organize expedition to discover the grave OF Gen.
Moultre, the OF Fort sullivan. who died In 1885,
Although buried In the family graveyard the remains
| cannot be found.
Capt. Adam s. Smaley of West Dux-
bury Mass has Just received the British Govern
ment Elegant gold chronometer, suitably inscribed
In recognition OF his humanity an kindness in rescuing
the crew Of the sparkenhoe Of DuDn, wrecked in No
| vemDer last
MIR. James Armstrong, Republican, wa
elected Mayor Of ogiensburg last by the largest
majority ever given to any Mayor In that city, Will
liam his eldest SON vcePresident OF Judson's Bank,
was lately cashier with A. T. Stew art Co., and IL
Of Mr.. Stewards leg ,tees.
The English New Testament Revision
Committee have struck out as spurious seven
OF the last chapter OF ST. Mark. They nave also
struck out as being false uterpo aton verse m ona
of the Eptes which l. fr quen,ly quoted as proof Of
the doctrine Of the Trinity.
| "A CURIOUS ulNtONtIN nus hitlJ Dtcu
IN the Louvre OF authentic portrait of the cello
brated Flemish alatonls vesanu', painted by jim
Caca who designed many OF the anat )mic figures In
the Of vcsahus 1t represents the learned pros
fessor at about the age Of twenty-sI.
"A Jewish community ut Ierkhan, in Pers
sia has sun red persecution OF at. Of the MEM
bers having even been forced to abJure their egon.
At the request Of SIR Moses Montenore, the London
banker the Earl OF DrDy has interfered and secured
from the saahs Minister the promise that the Jews Of
Persia shall be protected from outrage
Nurses should be careful not to dispirt
or frgiten their patients. BY mlltaSe married lady
in LONDON gave her husband Who was suffering from
heart disease, dose from wrong bottle, labelled
POISON" The mistake was Immediately detected, but
there poison IN the bottle hc patient however.
was frightened that he died the afternoon.
The Hon. Benjamin A. Willis. repre-
sentative OF the Eleventh District In this city, has writ
ten to Messrs. william c Bryant, I. d. woolsey, Carl
schurz and others declining to take part In the con-
ference Of this day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. lie
sympathiZes IN the purpose Of the conference but
prevented from attending by his duties in Congress.
"A fearful tragedy has been enacted at
Angouene, France, o. young gunner of the Twenty
nrst r. imen or srtlley. lie was found drunk at tar
get practice and requested by his b sader to deliver
his two packages Of 10 BAH cartridges each one was
missing. aud being tod so by his officer. he sud-
denly raised his cirDins and shot him, excalnln
"Here IL the last one"
-Pariss 1,Sj1,0O0 inhabitants ate, last
year eSs7oOo lanps 1857 900 chickens hares
and rabbits, 15si0pO pigeons $4,000 partrdges "a
tons of goose liver IL toas OF COCKS COMBS 10 tons Of
ducNs nyers with quas. phelsans wood ,ocks, prairie
hens, deer Wild boar, ptarng ans bison AMI all other
game In large quaniies-n ali over $1,000 tons, or
ahou IS pounds TO citizen.
"A few days since there died at Berlin
Dr. Frazier, whose In measure rcprcse nts the
fortunes OF his Prussia lie the first jew
who ever professionally At the Unyersl,y u
~ En-, Fam. t,,an
lecturer the university he refused the professor
SHIP account Of being jew, uat 1872 the religious
disqu ALLEGATION having been tardiy removed by the
present Minister OF lucat N.
; "A writer in the Edinburgh RepielO has
made curious calculations, tending to show that
English railways sun pecunary loss by the transpor
taton OF minerals present rates. Dividing i55, $50,
oOO the numoer Of passengers conveyed IN 1873 oy u.s.
being usual TO that Is persons weigh ton, he
nnds that the roac nave rried 81 900 tons OF
sengers IN thar year Tor net sum OF 99i OOO0OO whe
by carnage of llsols69s OF mlaer4ls, thej only
earned G12605i61 or twp snings ald threepeDce per
, ton, agsnt thirteen shngs pr ton for PASSENGERS
, The minerals, moreover hal been carried much
: greater distances t1an the passengers.
7 An invention has just been successfully
+ applied IN Liverpool To the printing machine by meant
!, Of which newspaper, may he printed upon unoroker
roll of paper without the necessity Of previously
n tipping the pages ami moulding them to the shape OF
. the cylinders 70 winch they afiKe "a. The details OF
, the process not been communicated further
tina the type cl t. Fixed on m" cJndors referred 10
but with the exception tina n has been yet found i'm
\ practicable TO appy the automatic folding process to thu
II machine the plan l. fully successful. The advantage
OF the invention ], thai, Whe giving the highest RAJ
- OF speed, II will the cost Of stertoypng, which
except In the OF very large impressions, l. other
wise unneces airy.
The citizens of Petersburg and tn,
British settlers In that part of Virginia to cee
oraie the birthday Of o. en Victoria on Wednesday o.