, 1876-06-16
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

ing in Florida.
Counterfeit dimes of the coinage
of 1876 are in circulation.
This is an era of revolution and
bad men are rapidly going under.
The festive potato bug has al
ready appeared in various localities.
At the expiration of his Presiden-
tial term Mr.. Grant will make tour
Of the world.
The prospect now is that the
Fourth of July will be much larger
this year than it usually is.
Since the war Pennsylvania has
spent $S,OO0,0O0 in educating the
orphans of soldiers.
The Black Hills miners are facing
for home. They are not very much
loaded down with gold.
Mrs. Ira Mead, of Greenwich, Ct,
will be 106 years old should she live
until the 9th Of next August.
Tom Thumb has purchased tract
of land in Florida, which be intends
to cultivate as an orange grove.
w. A. Price, the only negro law
yer in Texas, has been elected Coun-
ty Attorney of Fort Bend county.
There is one candidate less for
the Presidency. George Francis
Train has finally withdrawn from the
field.
The steamers sailing from the
Atlantic States for Europe are tax
ing out large quantities Of agricul-
tural implements.
The new slang term crooked" is
defined as "the act Of q man who
bends his energies in the wrong di-
rection."
Railroad men confess to much dis
appointment IN the volume Of Gen.
tennial travel. Remedy-put down
the rates.
Texas boasts Of an extraordinary
crop of peaches, and they are de-
scribed as red and velvety, ali, as q
maiden's cheek, ahl
It is q fact Of much significance
that Japan has adopted the Egst day
Of the week. the Christian Sunday, Is
day of rest,
The cadets at West Point will take
passage on a steamer for the Cen
tennial on the 9th inst, remainine
there until July 7th.
Among the graduates Of the Co
lumbia College Law School in New
York recently, was Ulysses Sampson
Grant, son Of the President.
Mrs. Belknap has not received call
or card froa any one Of the official
ladies Of Washington since the great
downfall. Bnt Why should sbeY
The Women Sufagites point
with PRIDE to the fact that the only
person who tainted on the Centen-
NAL Exhibition grounds on the open
ing day was man.
The dominions Of Dom Pedro con-
tain upward of 100000 inhabi-
tants. Gradual emancipation Of
slavery is going on. and the bond
men now number about ], 100000
A poor shoemaker at Mort, in
France, is the father Of forty-hve
children, all OF whom are living.
Each Of his three wives presented
him with fifteen children.
A stone ak Of granite weighing
thirteen pounds, very perfect and
symmetrical in form, was recently
plowed up on q farm in Marshall
county, Illinois, near an old Indian
trail.
Mississippi physicians are becom-
ing alarmed at the prevalence Of
snuf-ehewing among women 10 that
locality. 1t is destroying not only
their health but their offspring.
An Irishman has just sued fell
low countryman at Kilkenny for sell
ing him bullock with q false tail,
though the defendant testified that it
was put on only to switch of flies.
Leavenworth is the home Of wo-
man who has been divorced once
married three times, and now-poor
thingl-has to care for mixed fam
ily of thirteen children, none Of
which are her own.
Burglaries are becoming very fire.
qusnt In all parts of the country,and
this season bids fair to be unusually
prolific of crimes of this class in the
East, owing to the large number of
men out Of employment who must
live "by hook or by crook"