The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-12
6UNB EMS.

There are in Turkey over 10000 peri
sons In prison for debt due the Government
In England, iron is rolled into sheetsi
as thin ana as flexible paper aud not easily torn.
In 1870 the deaths of infants under onsi
year OF age were equal to 1872 per 900 In London
"A rabid dog, near Hartford, in "A rum
Of ten miles bit thlrtyone dogs an all have been kea
Mrs. Meyer OF Strausstown, Pa, who
s eighty years Of agc, walked seven miles to lead
dance
In an address TO graduating class res
Gently, Bshop Cox boosted that he had never cast a.
ballot.
The kangaroo has been introduced into
several large estates In France, ana lie now beina
hunted.
AT the funeral in Boston OF William
sesver dlsbeever in any religion. BryantS Thans-
topsis" was read.
Don Carlos Is tall handsome, swarthy
Of comp lexon with dark hair, dirk moustscne. q
very small imperial.
News has been received from the Gers
man North Asatic expedition, which has arrived
a. semipaiatinsk, In siberia.
"A Minneapolis woman found q packs,
age containing seventeen diamonds seoretod In desk
that once belonged to her great grandfather.
"A town in Kansas Is called Woman's
Waste" because Indian legend says that Indian
once Killed his wife there for wasting buffalo meat.
In France, out of a population Of
3e,O00,0O0 only two million live tho OF act
cumuated wealth, the balance depending the prod<
uce OF labor.
The members OF three church es close
the beer garden which OGenbach opened in Phadei{
phia, trying through the courts to compel closna
OF II on Sundays.
Tho island Of Barbados Is I'm n bad
condition The population Is too large. there being bu
half acre OF land to each person, aud of
wealth but agriculture.
The Professor OF Medicine at King'a
College, London. recommends total change OF met
without the aid Of medicine encacious method Of
treating nervous diseases.
MIR. Benham of Madison. Ind, noticed
. large coiled around the Dough Of sppla
tree in which pct dove was rearing her Young. Hd
killed the snake aud II the dove aud her brood
found stil alive.
"A treasure of great value has been
washed ashore on the coast Of Brittany boy found
q DIX on the beach. 1t heavy to carry and
he called h parents who broke open aud found that
1t contained 100000 francs
The Mohanmedaus OF Calcutta, Bonn
bay Madras have held funeral ceremonies in com.
memorstion Of heiate sutan's DEATH and an al.
dress through the Turkish Consuls to the new sultan
ackn owedgfng him as their chief
John McElroy, n small Boston boy
went into bakery. demanded bread and when refused
snapped loaded pistol at the proprietor who put hint
of The boy rearranged the cap and nred
at the baker through the window. missing him.
Father Hands, pastor OF CatholiG
church in Charlotte n. c.. eoped with Miss Bradshaw
. Young member OF his congregation. Their intentioa
to had been suspected and Bishop Gibbons had
taken steps toward suspending the offending priest.
The revolutionary chiefs in OaxaoI
and other Mexican States treat foreigness with mued
severity particularly Americans. Gustavus Motel q
nsturaized citzen Of the United States, and three
other foreigners recently butchcred Nunerol
-Tha oil pauion Of v1 ua an has
dropped out OF notice. but that business there
h steadily prosecuted shown by the fact That lfd
wells were bored In June The daily yield Of
these VOLS about fourteen barrels apiece, aad
twenyseven were completely DRY.
"A negro in Ironton. Ohio was taken
sick with the smallpox recently. He put into
buggy. driven to the river. and told 20 across to
Kentucky where they would take care Of him. Ha
crawled wreck OF the boat vhsh made shelter for
HIM. and there he lay At tho last account with
Two Cinnamon, one of them seventy
years old, were drawing water from wen Juan,
Cal. when the old mans pipe fell into the we'll la
Immediately got into the buck et, his companion
lowered him after the pipe; but when the buerct
reached the water It tipped him out. and he was
drowned.
Books In which TO record subscriptions
for the Old South Church sent from Boston.
and the one received by Lawrence clergyman was ro
turned with the following comment 81 have SYM
patty In the effort to save The Old South nha
mere Puritan lsndmark. The tokens Of such a faith
had better he destroyed than perpetunted"
They have erected IA monument to
Mon Pitcher down in Pennsyivanis-to captain
Mon Pitcher. who swore big. masculine oaths ana
fought Ike whole regiment OF Hessans. And vhAa
think you? In enduring letters chiseed into the mar
Bile this gentle. SOFT. umd bushes and shrins
from the gpze OF the nineteenth century as hollel
The walk of SignOriui Spelterini on N
rope Niagara river on saturday last wrs not at
n de Inv any Sha mad 49,.
ing her life for the amount paii BY spectators ana
hotel landlords did not equa he cost OF putting tho
rope in position. she cool seemingly fearless and
accomplished the exploit IN more oasnng style than
did Blondin but for sewers hours afterward he
prostrsted by nervous exhaustion.
Several Catholic priests in Pennsylva-
MIA have been swinded By opcr ations are
illustrated By the following instances he represented
himself 10 be a lumber merchant named George II.
Yeatman. and called upon the Rev. Luke McCabe OF
Cos'esviile sud presented him with check for $3.50
saying that 10 had been given to him by who
formerly been member Of Father Nice abes church.
There were $3.50 chsrges which Yestnsu said he had
paia. Father McCabs gave tho rogue that amount in
money. The check worthless,
The trial of Robert Buchanan's libel
suit against the proprietor Of the Exrasr for pub
fishing Swinburne's attack, began In London on Juno
% witness he testified thus Of himself; have
followed literature as profession for about n;teen
years- | am thirty-fyc. | have written soma
poems and much prose, mostly criticisms, chiefly
IL was anonymous. have never written other tan
what believed TO be honest reviews. have never
puncd myself under assumed names, as imputed TO me
IN the Era niasr. have tasen any Improper way
OF keeping myself befo the public"
-" Many years ago. said Gen. Eli III.
Murray to- Lousyle LetGer reporter "Judg stitos
had circuit court down In southern Kentucky. oaco
little county tavern fi to Overlooking so that
four Ave persons had TO upy the same room riu
Judge and four Ave OF the big lawyers indu ged tn