Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF

enlploylng capltat Ylb,OOO,OO0.
Under the New Constitution of
Texas nine of jury may render yer
dict.
Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cor
nell University, New York, is to have a
monument.
1t is said that not a single member
of the Minnesota Legislature was born
in that State.
Prairie du Chen has an artesian
well az feet deep which throws up 30
900 barrels of water day.
Nebraska added thirty per cent. to
her population last year, notwithstand-
ing the pesky grasshoppers.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke has
been pastor of the Church of the Disci-
pies in Boston for thirty-five years.
The keel of a new tug boat which
was recently laid in San Francisco was
composed of one stick of timber 40
feet long.
The Sing Sing Prison Laundry is
iniuring the washing business i'm New
York city. Even An Sing can't COM
pete with Sing Sing.
There are in Illinois, according to
a late report of the Board of Education.
lifty-four colleges for males, six for
females, and thirty-five academies and
seminaries.
Ex-senator Henderson, of Missouri
who at first conducted the suits against
the members of the st. Louis whisky
ring, demands, it is said, $4,000 for
his services.
Ten million six hundred and thirty
seven thousand nine hundred dollars
worth of fires in New England in 1875,
not including poetic fires and centen-
nial orations.
Curator w. r. Smith, of the Bo-
tanic garden, at Washington after hav-
ing carefully cared for fan palm for
twenty two years, is repaid by seeing it
covered with blossoms.
The Savannah News says there is
no portion of the South where indus
trious laborers are not needed and
where they would not find immediate
employment at good wages.
Benjamin Downing, ''the Oldest
Odd Fellow in the world" has lust
died at Newport. He lacked two
months of being 102 years old. The
oldest old fellow in the world still
lives.
The champion farmer is Michael
Sullivan, of Ford County, ILL.,, who has
1900 acres in wheat, and 5000 in oats
and fax. He has 400 teams at work.
and no less than 800 persons on his
place. =
One of the important points of con-
trast betweemthe days of 1875 and the
present time is found i'm Wall street.
When the Declaration of Independence
was signed there was not bank i'm
America.
"A petition is before the Massachu-
setts Legislature praying for the revo-
cation of the sentence of banishment
passed against Roger Williams by the
General Court of the Province of Mas
sachusetts Bay.
j. M. VanCott, in answer to letter
from his client, Mrs. Emma G.. Moul-
ton, has advised her that she does not
need to take any steps to vindicate her
self from the charge of perjury brought
by Mr.. Beecher.
New York boasts of IA newspa-
pers and periodicals. of which 2S are
daily and semi-weekly, 137 weekly, %
semi-monthly, 139 monthly, BIZ
monthly and l6 quarterly. Thirty-two
"iS ~ iOiNiSh idhS ustSSs.
The Cheyenne Leader estimates
that 10000 people have gone to the
Black Hills mining region during the
last 3 months; they have come from all
directions, from the South, Utah, CALI
fornia, Nevada, Idaho and Montana.
Bully for old Kentuckyl Her total
bonded debt is only $1S4, ,394, and against
this she has in cash 81 1886 The
State has, therefore, money on hand
enough to pay every dollar it owes and
leave a balance on hand of over 81, ,000,-
900.
There is young lady in Georgia
who weighs 203 pounds, and is 6 feet
2. She is also accorded the palm of
beauty throughout the State. A proper
reserve withholds her name, but in
qniry of any one at Camilla, Ca, will
fetch it.
Augustus Schell, Chairman of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has called meeting of that
committee in Washington ON February
Y, to name the time and place for hold
ing the next National Democratic Con-
vention.
Indianapolis has lost a colored wo-
man, known as Aunt Sally Williams,
lO6 years old. She had very large
family, all the members of which, so
far as she could learn, had died of old
age, excepting one son still living in
Lexington, Ky.
I'm the State of New York there are
expended annually more than $lO6, 900
600 by consumers of liquor, or two
thirds of all the wages paid to laborers
i'm agriculture and manufactures, and
twice as much as the receipts of all the
railroads of the State.
Macon, Ca, believes i'm retrench-
ment. She has reduced the salary of
the Mayor from $500 to 81, 800 and
other officers in proportion, cut down
the police force from forty to four men,
shut off the gas, and dismissed the
Street Commissioners and his force. The
city never got along so peacefully in
the world,
j. G.. Chapman is the name of a
New Haven philanthropist, who during
the past year, has placed 2,l20 postage
stamps on letters dropped in the post
office stampless, at cost of $42.46. The
New Haven folks must be awful care
less with their letters, or else they like
to give Mr.. Chapman opportunities for
exercising his peculiar philanthropy.
"A little German girl, Rosa Cotter-
man, aged ten years, of Bloomington,
ILL.,, lately stood in the way of an infu-
rated cow while she put four or five
smaller children over a fence. Her
was nearly torn from her, and
she was badly bruised, but the Mayor
and police force, as they descended
from the lamp-posts and telegraph
poles, were loud in praise of her cour-
age.