The Morning herald., 1876-08-01
CUanEHr NEWS.

u
Libby Prison Is now grinding
mill.
The number of "Switzerlands of Ameri-
ca" has run up to twenty-six this season.
A burglar just discharged from the Mas
| sachusetts penitentiary has passed twenty
five of the forty six years of his life in
prison.
| Four companies of United States troops,
numbering 800 men, left Jersey City yes
terday morning for the hostile Indian
country.
The whole number of admissions to the
Centennial on Friday was S,9S1; of these
Is ,9M paid and 10,067 were exhibitors, at
tendants, &c.
There are now In the State Prison at Au-
burn, N. Y, fourteen hundred and FORTY
eight c0nvicts. a larger number than have
ever before been in the prison.
Don Manuel de Laverde Custanza, who
recently died in Paris at the age of thirty
two, left fortune of $50, ,06O, 600, derived
principal from Mexican mines.
A woman and man in grocery at San
Antonio, Texas, began by throwing nuts at
each other, then they used weights, and
ended with pistols. Both were wounded.
A conductor on the Old Colony (Mass.)
Railroad, who has Travelled 14O miles per
day for the past 2S years, figures the whole
number of miles traversed by him at
,176,0 900.
Senator Logan Is said in the Blueford
Wilson testimony to have been made sick
from fright at the expected Chicago whis-
kew convictions. but the President g circular
letter saved him.
California is building half dozen rail-
roads. The most important one Is the
Southern Pacific, which will probably be in
rDs~'ax order beSkeen San Francisco and
LES Al gelos in September.
Atlantic City completed this spring q
nice, new City Hall, with six cells for pris-
oners, and now her local paper laments that
no occupants for these latter havens Of rest
have presented themselves.
.Winslow is reported as looking about
London in search of situation In vain. II
he had only come back to Boston he could
have had one right away, and permanent
one too.-"Boston Transcript"
On Tuesday, July IS, when the thermom-
ter was 94 degrees in the shade at the foot
vi lkC . Can, OOls3 tuClC OSCulL Cu OA CAV
top of that high mountain furious snow
storm. completely covering the peak and
sides with a coat of white.
A Pittsburg paper pertinently asks why
Americans, with such elevations as the AL
leghenies and the Rocky Mountains as their
own country afford, seek foreign climb
when desirous of exercising their propensi-
ties for mountain scrambles.
Babcock wanted the solicitor of the treas
ury to tell him what was going to be done
about the St. Louis whisky ring, but Will
son refusing said he would tell Grant, of
course, if the President asked him. Bah.
said that would do just as well.
New York, unable to compete with Vir-
ginia in the matter Of being the mother Of
Presidents, now assumes the role of the
mother of Vice Presidents, and claims as
her sons Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Daniel
D. Tompkins and Millard Fillmore.
A correspondent of the "Philadelphia
Day" suggests that the old Independence
bell be repaired SO that it may be rung again.
He says it can be done by putting in a
lighter tongue and saving out the crack.
and leaving an opening similar to that OF
turning fork.
Since the revival of interest IN the Old
South Church at Boston, it has come out
that Johh Norton, whose widow gave the
land the historic cdifce stands on, was a
classmate and friend Of Oliver Cromwell,
whilst the donor herself was connected by
marriage with Lord Bacon, and was cousin
to Miles Corbit, one of the Regicide Judges
who sentenced Charles the First to death.
The last words of Charlotte Cushman are
more authentic, but less heroic than last
words usually are. Her nephew had raised
her, and offered stimulating drink with
the words, "Come, auntie, here is your milk
punch" She smiled, and quoted the first
[ line of the celebrated street car jingle,
"Puneh, brothers, punch with care" Then
she fell into deep sleep, from which she
never awoke.