The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-09
STNBE.fNS.

Miss Nelson will undertake to ride ion
miles in ave honrs at Madison Ind using twenty hors
That beetle found in Dublin docks wasn't
potato bug AFTER ALL and the Iiibernian mind i. much
relieved.
Chill will not participate in the Paris
Exhibition economical reasons some other nauon.
in the same boat
The pay of all the Government EMPLOYEES
Constannopc has been reduced 80 per cent un tho
warts over. No strikes
"A lad in one Of our polytechnic Institutes
recently described the United States "a country too
much infested with railroads"
Judge Biddlc of the Supreme Court o.,
Indiana has over hundred beautiful white rabmtsat
his island home, near Lceansport
The German Cabinet takes the summer
easily Alcer Of July II states that the Mniscrofw or.
ship is the only member Of In Berlin
"A fisherman in France lately got in tho
line rifle range and received in his body twelve bu
kts, but none penetrated to any vital part
The cOlOred Baptist Church at Florence
s c. has summarily dismissed those OF its members who
are implicated in late robbcrcs in that section.
The citizens Of st. John are forming
loan and mortgage association to raise money IN En.and
n interest rebuilding the city, at least
s2,yoVo being wanted
The Sovereign emigration colony Of
Boston has sent an agent to West Virginia cccta .,e
the colony. which numbers about sixty lamile.
OF farmers and mechanics
The Turin courts have just condemned
to death woman for paying So TO man To Nil hei
lover fourteen years standing In order TO prevent
falling into the hands Of young woman he was on III,
point Of marrying.
A North Carolina boy up tree tied a
rope around his neck told his sister he hang
himself and jumped the ground, surpo.ng the rols
long enough reach butt seven feet too short
aud he broke his neck
OF thirteen veteran volunteers who were
to restaurant in Louisville Ky, to get ration. oi
the citizen soldiers while watching strikers, six wore the
Confederate gray, six the fcdcral blue AMI the other
blue coat and gray trousers.
1t IL widely asserted that peaches in this
country very inferior to what they used 10 be-
attribute this to the tact that the original trees which
were imported here died out, and that the gratis IRON
these yield an inferior irmt
The police in San Francisco have re-
oeiyed orders sight all boys aud young
who are known to belong to the class denomnated
hoodlums" and to take them To the city prison when
they will be charged with vagrancy.
Three years ago Great Britain abolished
the customs duties and since then her cusomi
revenue has been raised almost exclusively from to
bacco spirits tea, and wine. Yet her receipts for tho
last three months show Increase OF g. 5OO over tho
receipts OF the same period IN 1870.
Ono of the largest women in the world
Fannie Wallace died at Ephrata. Pa, few days
She fifty four years old seven feet four inchcsir
height aud weighed Ave hundred and cightyhyc pounds
Her conn was seven cct ckht lntts IN tn-li. thrpt
six nehe. In DEPTH four feet WIDE at tho centre and
| two feet wide at the foot
Stephen Girard's precautions against
| Christian ministers in his college in Philadelphia
to have proved in vain The minister ii il true. not
enter but the Christian lay teacher may and the GOSPEL
| is preached there The sunday Shooi Time says that
Christian influences prevail there aud services OF Chris
| tan worship are regular aud well conducted
| -Bcechcr, whose heretical opinions are no
to his special friends is said to have commit
ted to paper his Tor doubling the Inspiration Of
the Scriptures and his belief that all moral law Is the lgi
cal product OF mans social state He lacked the courage
openly to proclaim these sentiments although he did nOt
disguise them from those with whom he was intimate
Tho throne room OF the Sultan at Com
stanunoplc is gorgeous apartment The gliding is I'M
cquallcd by that of other building In Europe From
the ceiling hangs Venetian chandelier with 100 lights
Ateach of the four the tall candclnbra
Baccarat glass are placed The throne is huge seat
covered with red velvet and with and back pure
| gold.
The first news OF the season from the
Arcuc ocean Is that the New bedford whaers aver.
asing very cncouragngly The men lett last summer ia
ships abandoned were found safe Point Believe Thou
being shore Is regarded indication that the
sells had been crushed by ice Point Believe is not tho
chart but the ships abandoned Point Barrow.
the northern cape OF Alaska
The French Post Onlcc, acting under in
structons from the Minister Of the Interior to
deliver letters newspapers nd dressed club. or cor
porate bodies, and the various postmasers have been
ordered 10 state that the law requires that an erurcs
passing through the post must be addressed o
person. Thus letters addressed To the Mayor Of
town commune wall be returned unless lis II
given
During his visit to Ems In August, 1867
Bismarck told an American gentleman that Prince cor
tchaS III was, in his opinion the greatest
time and expressed the belief that history would
that Judgment The Anne rican limited that among hi
! iu,d IA ns,tr at
rr.t place TO Bismarck himself to which the Coun
mo-lesty replied. 40; am onl, the pupil lie %, tn,
u ast, r'
During the hoodlum attack upon The
Chinese quarter in san Francisco any horse, were ,et
from horse-car stibes Tor the use o the ciunn cav
airy. Much difficulty was experienced IN prcgcnun- IA,
animals from charging up Suffer street whcuc,o iht
thoroushfare crossed Finally Capt Crti,ui,i
ccvcd tie idea OF sirappng car bell to the fommo OF M
Saddle, by the aid of which his entire command VA
started, halted. and Otherwise many uvrod with ths
greatest precision.
The theatrical and operate season Of
ls7I-ls7S at Par, expected to he one ct the most trl
liant ever known The nrst work To be given at ths
Italcn' Is already looked forward to with the kcc
terst by all amateurs ct opera Tor it, composer The
great Rubiustcn. anl it, author the mo- les. appreciated
jules Barber 1t, title }, "Neron. and II /, 90 te sven
wth splcnior quito exceptional at the luluen, The
Grand Opera ami opera Lyulue have both most ~
Wacuye programme OF nut,lto..
Tho highest point of land on Bloch
Island Rca 40 llll aad mon it ancN,asAuon artJ
rl,l with ,tuc. in and upon which beacon u.ht, wor,
burned ny tho British when they had possession me
island durns the war oi 1872 man from Hartford "A
singular story an connection with this hii site ami ~
j ssua fires Two men who subsequently, became .,,ij
wealthy ami were then living IN INSTRUMENTATION Il
lint, AMI Arson e. Pheps-nttod out vessels Tor lI h
Island, purpofns obe loaded win lumber anil t0 a.t
carry dock loads when asked what wa. toln a.it
somuch lumber tlc iupu,itvc Hartford olk, N,rc tt
tl.a IA .It,