, 1876-06-23
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

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Sunday saloon business.
Save your calico dresses. The cot
ton crop is likely to be failure.
The rush from the Black Hills is
gradually ceasing. The Indians are
the cause of it.
1t is thought FIVE years will close
up Mormonism and its haremism in
the United States.
The testimonial fund for Captain
Webb, who swan across the English
Channel has reached $4,000.
An English Judge says that half
the divorces of the world are caused
by flirtations of married people.
More thieving has taken place in
Georgia during the past six months
than anywhere else in the Union.
The weather is so warm in Cali
fornia that only about half the usual
number of Cinnamon are killed. 1t
takes heap of stoning to wear out
these baDana-skinned fellows.
In Iowa man who elopes with
another mans wife can be tried for
the ofense of receiving stolen pro-
perty.
The carpet on which the Sultan
praysis kept in order by several per-.
sons, whose joint salary is $4,000 a
year.
Recent African discoveries have
developed the fact that vast mineral
wealth underlies the surface Of that
great continent.
The first bonded Indebtedness OF
Kansas, amounting to 100000, and
contracted in 1861, falls due on the
1st of July next.
The frontier telegraph line in Tex
as, from Dennison to Brownsville.
distance of 1,030 miles, is now
completed.
The Khedhive of Egypt provides
a daily feast for the cats of Cairo, at
the Mosque, and great is the tumult
at the hour of prayer, when they all,
rush to the distributing priest for
their allowance.
Another monster petition has Just
been presented to the English Par
lament praying that no more grants
of money to or for the royal family,
or any member of it be given under
any circumstances whatever.
An old man fell asleep in Coun-
Gil Bluffs 1owa) church on recent
Sunday afternoon, and his nose got
wedged into book rack so that he
couldn't get it out. After he had
thrashed about and snorted a good
deal, the sexton released him by
splitting open the rack.
A centennial chronicler says he
was much affected the other morn
ing by the spectacle Of an United
States Senator, on the fifth floor Of
Philadelphia hotel, trying to sponge
the beer stains out Of his shirt front
A novel suspended railway car for
sick and wounded has been success
fully tried by the Great Eastern
Railway of France. This win prove
boon, as hardly any movement is
felt by the patient, even when the
trains are stopped with extreme sud-
denness.
A cunning book agent has been
divulging the secret Of his success.
He says when he went to a house
and a middle-aged lady appeared,
he always said, 9 beg your pardon,
miss; wished to see your mother"
The lady would smile, and say she
was mistress of the house, and rarely
failed to subscribe for book.
A fellow, billing himself in the
western towns and registering him
self as John B. Cough, has been de-
livering temperance lecturesin Iowa.
At first it was suspected that he was
an impostor, but when he told the
Niagara story and jumped upin the
air. cracking his heels together, and
split his coat up the back from the
tails to the collar, the audience stood
right up and said; This is, Of
verify, the great apostle OF temper
ance."
A Paris woman has perfected a
new method of picking pockets. She
enters an omnibus with very pret-
ty and beautifully dressed baby,seats
herself close to the likeliest passen-
gers, and works under cover of the
BBaby's ample drapery. After sue
ceeding, she pinches the baby so that
it cries fearfully, and she leaves the
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