, 1876-09-22
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

A white school-teacher named
Harris was assassinated last week at
Anderson station, Tennessee, by
unknown parties.
The good old Methodist days are
passing away. A Baltimore woman
yelled " "Amen" so loud in church
that she was arrested.
John T. Alexander, the "Illinois
cattle king" who died recently, had
his life insured for $4,000. He
was 65 years of age.
Bishop Coxe's daughter, who was
married last week in Buffalo,. re-
ceived ss a wedding present from
her husband s1,O00,000. She is a
good financier.
In July, 1875, 4,SOO Cinnamon
landed in San Francisco. In July,
1876, S34 arrived, and 449 went
home.
An Indian is living on a reserve
in Michigan, aged 130 years. The
trouble is that all Indians live too
long.
The Spanish government has or
dered all native and foreign Protes.
tant chapels; Bible societies and
schools to Immediately remove all
external signs, placards and inscrip-
tions indicating their faith. The
foreign Secretaries have protested
to their respective embassies.
Twenty.nine thousand dollars has
been received from a Virginia City,
New, gambling saloon in one year
in the way of license. The money
is collected monthly, and gambling
is not restricted at all.
A well-known pickpocket in New
York is " Kate German, )" who makes
a speciality of attending church fairs
and. festivals, as we'll as funerals.
She is a woman of respectable ap-
pearancc, has a sanity look, dresses
well and wears pair of gold eye
glasses. She also plies her voca-
ton in the passenger elevators of
large dry-goods stores, and is one of
the most successful pickpockets in
the profession. She is the wife of
Jack Leary, notorious burglar.
The South Boston fats are being
rapidly reclaimed, and will probably
be finished by next spring. The
sea wall is nearly finished, and the
contractors are also building the
walls for four docks. The area to be
inclosed by the State is about twelve
million feet, which will give a great
extent of available wharf front, and
a new avenue, called Northern av.
enue, is to be built. The Boston
Wharf Company is filing up the
eastern portion of the fats, aud in
less than year 100 acres of solid
ground viii be ready for occupancy.
"This lot of land for sale at 10
per cent less than the Assessors val
uation," says board stuck up over
a piece Of Boston real estate.
Look out for counterfeit half dol
lars-silver. A lot of them have
been run out in Baltimore: They
are dated 1853, 1875 and 1876, and
are of light weight.
Utica had baby show on the 7th
inst. The baby that looked most
like its father, and the one that
looked most like its mother received
IS each; the largest and smallest Is
each; the prettiest, $25.
The hard times are felt more in
the smaller German towns than in
this country, and it is estimated
that 100000 Germans have of late
gone into France after work.
The Dutch have an elephant on
their hands in the shape of turret
ship of great power which they have
just completed, but cannot get down
to the sea. She has been built at
Amsterdam, and the North Holland
canal is not deep enough to float
her.
Nearly all the principal railroads
in the United States, including the
Union Pacific, met in convention at
New York on the 9Th inst, and
made public the following resolu-
ton: Whereas it has been demon
strated that the rates on Centennial
tickets are too high, therefore, re-
solved, that the rates on such tickets
be reduced one full fare to New
York and return; also, resolved,
that no line shall be permitted to sell
round trip Centennial tickets unless
they participate in a reduction on