, 1876-12-15
NEWs FRoN An PAETS.


Ex-Empress Eugenis is growing
old and don't want her picture taken.
A son Of the rebel General Lee has
been elected to the Virginia Senate.
Sending a postal card with mean
words upon il has cost . New York
man $500.
Tweed has determined tO dismiss
all his counsel and let the law take
its course.
An Indian never thinks he is hand
some until he gets to looking per-
fectly hideous.
J. w. Young, the successor Of old
Brigham, in Mormondom, already
possesses three wives.
Some yellow fever in Savannah yet,
some twenty to thirty people dying
of the disease each week.
By the death of Frank Hammett,
of Newport, R. l., the Home of the
Friendless there gets 100000.
A deposit of gold has been found
under the main street of Deadwood
City, land it is feared it will be ruined.
A baked-beans company is doing
thriving business in New York,
supplying nearly all the hotels and
restaurants.
A negro named Crutcher at Gin
cinnati, attempted to rape a white
woman and was Immediately taken
by a mob and hung.
English travellers now sue railroad
companies for damages incurred by
loss OF time when train don't Start
on advertised time.
Col. Fred Grant was fined $40
and costs in a police court in Chiea-
go the other day for assaulting re-
porter of the Evening Journal.
An awful calm has settled over
Philadelphia, and the citizens feel as
though the world had stopped revolv-
ing since the Exposition closed.
The main building of the interna-
tional exhibition was purchased on
the 1st inst by the International Ex-
hibition Co. for the sum of $250,000.
A man in Tennessee has captured
white deer. Is this the " White
Fawn" that theatre-goers crowded to
see few years ago? 1t seems to
have been lost sight of lately.
The Scotch people are Mortified to
find that the whisky sold in the little
villages of that country is adulterated
with vitriolic acid, and committees
of investigation are everywhere busy
The telegraph line which has been
in, process of erection all summer,
reached Deadwood on the 1st inst,
and was the occasion of universal re-
joicing in that city among the Black
Hills.
New York con sumes the most oys-
ters of all the cities of the country,
and Washington comes next, while
Baltimore, which packs and ships
most of any, falls far behind in con;
sumption.
An auction sale of "a buildings
belonging to the board of finance,
and 20 belonging to individuals,
brought on exposition grounds
$296,000. The cost was two millions
and half.
The Associated California Pio-
neers in New York have inaugurated
series of monthly reception of old
ties, swapping pioneer experience,
eliciting and recording personal and
historical facts connected with pio-
neer days. The opening reception
at the Sturtevant House was a de-
cided success.
A London paper states that the
captain of the whaler, Jem Mayon,
of Peterhead, recently encountered
an Esquimaux, who informed him
that a tribe of Esquimaux living
northward of Cumberland Gulf many
years ago massacred Captain Crozier,
second IN command OF the FRANKLIN
expedition, and FIVE other whites be-
cause they refused to surrender their
arms and ammunition.
During a ire on the morning Of
the 1st inst, in New Orleans, a man
who was detected setting FIRE to one
of the houses during the conAagra-
tion was shot and killed instantly.
Another negro, found in the act Of
committing the same crime, was
missed and escaped. Most of the
buildings burned were small cottages