The Morning herald., 1876-12-20
Here and There.

The Edinburgh baby is christened Vic
toria.
These Returning Boards plague the
inventor.
Senator Chafee has pretty daughter.
The widow of President Lincoln is So
journing in Spain,
Bears and deer are numerous in northern
| Wisconsin.
The smallpox has taken fresh grip on
San Francisco.
Miss Emma Abbott has arrived in New
York from Europe.
One of Colorados Senators is banker
and the other is Teller,
A Wisconsin man has become hia own
| uncle by marrying his niece.
Northern tramp, commit half the mur-
ders and burglaries in the south.
One of the streets of Sandersville, Ca,
has been christened Silk Stockings.
Jefferson Davis left his wife and daugh-
ter in Europe.
The potato crop Of Oregon is badly. a.
tected BY the rot, and it is feared none can
be wintered.
The Servians don't care much for Tur-
key, but they say "the Sultan is not the
Boss-for-us."
Seventy Philadelphia families intend to
colonize Texas.
A church organ at Connersville, Ind,
is made to praise the Lord by hydraulic
power.
Christmas shopping has begun in earnest,
and the early birds are getting the choicest
pickings,
A Kentucky editor betrays his ignor-
ance of orthography by calling brother
editor damphule.
Count Arvid de Verneir has skipped out
of Chicago without paying his wash bills.
Give us an honest Count.
And speaking of curious names, boy
named George Dandeline was run over in
Baltimore the other day.
There has been great decline in the
price of slaves iii Cuba, and you want one
now is the time to buy.
Soldene and Anna Dickinson are the
rival attractions in Baltimore this week.
Which are you betting on?
Hon. Caleb Cushing, it is understood,
will return from Spain in the spring.
Freeman calls Gladstone the greatest
Englishman now living.
That item announcing that Palestine is
to have railroad has got started again
The cars haven't however.
Scalps pass for currency in Deadwood.
There is premium Of 10 per cent. on
those with the right ear attached.
Hon.. w. H. Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
has been announced Protestant candidate
for Judge in Luzerne county. What will
come next?
Jim Keene, who has made his millions
by speculating in Nevada and California
mining stocks, has taken to gambling in
wheat.
Expect a grand Smithsonian spree in
Washington. All the wines and liquors Of
the Centennial agricultural exhibit have
been sent to the Smithsonian Institute.
i The propensity Of some children to roll
| in the dirt is, perhaps, the earliest symp'
tom they ever manifest for a prediction
for political life.
p A heartless man, hearing that farme
out West had chopped his own son in wo
remarked, that he had simply parted hi
hair in the middle.
The religious editor of the New Yorl
D "Herald'' mentions minister who ofere'
a chrome to every one who should be con
!, verted under his preaching.
An Indiana girl raised $50 pounds {
y tobacco on quarter Of an acre.-"N. Y
. Herald" That's nothing. A Virgni
: colored woman raised a ton of tobacco on
= cart -"Norristown Herald"
The Republican membership of tn
!. Louisiana Senate consists of four whit.
e and fifteen negroes. The Republica
e membership of the State House Of Repr
d sentatives; oftwenty- whites and fort
st four negroes.
Sc At a performance of the "Two Orphans
is in the theatre in the town of Ingolstad
le Germany, on the 22d of November, Il
" stage manager, Henry, while superintent
ing the snow fall, fell to the stage and W
instantly killed.
A minister in Lexington, KY, lately sa
e, in the pulpit that he had seen a pack
OF cards and backgammon board in the pa
~ lor of member of his church, and af,
Sit services several members scolded tn,
g. wifes for carelessness.
ad a Three year old happended to have
ba Ia want to be attended to just as his moth
re ne was busy with the baby. go away, ca
-. ns be bothered with you now." "What c
u u you have SO many children for, if you ca
~ bother. with 'em ~ he Unexpectedly
'n ~, quired.
N, In Rockingham, Va, young Edwa