The true northerner., 1877-08-24
PERSONS AND THINGS.
PLEvNA is Russian for tears.
IDA LEWIS is to have a pension

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Ida LEWIS is to have pension.
SUNSET Cox is shining at Watch Hill.
CT.
ST.; Louis is shipping horses to En-
gland.
| POTATOES are 80 plenty in Kansas IN
to be hardly worth marketing.
MARRIED, at Warren. XIV. Tboma.
johnson, aged 7S, and Miss Mary Allen.
aged 10.
MATT CARPENTER says he can pry over
and utterly chip to pieces the Michigan
Liquor law.
Hon. WILLIAM B. OGDEN left fortune
OF $S,OOO,OOO, but his funeral was one
without pomp or extravaganza.
OYSTERS grown in Virginia waters be-
long to Virginians so the United States
Supreme Court decides, and thus ends a
long controversy.
THE pass of Thermopyle is five miles
long and fifty yards wide at it's narrow
est part, where Leonidas and his 400
Spartans were slain.
MORE than.5, 900, 600 cans of corn are
now packed in Maine annually, and sold
in various parts of the world, giving en-
ployment TO from 6, ZOO to 10000 persons
during the packing season.
THOMAS JEFFERsoN's birthplace. Shad-
well, in Albemarle county, Va, is ad-
vertised for sale. Martha Washington's
house, in the same State, where she
lived before she married George. has
just been sold for 81, ,225.
The manuscript of Shelley's "Hellas"
has Just been sold in London for S95.
At the same sale a letter of Byron
brought $42, and one from Charles
Dickens, developing hiB ideas on the
subject OF speech making beside graves,
$13.
SILVER mining is looking up at New
buryport, Mass. Prof. Richards saws
the new China mine will yield good
profit from the surface; the Merrimac
pays per cent. month regularly, and
other mines are extending their opera
tions.
A NUMBER of lads have been appointed
whlpping-boys to the young Emperor
of China, who, for valuable considera-
tions to themselves and families, receive
the dagellations which the sovereign
earns by his sins of omission and COM
mission.
In the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, in
Paris, there is grave from which rises
woman's arm, beautifully chiseled in
marble. The hand is clasped by
another, evidently a mans, that comes
from an adjoining grave. 1t was the
fancy OF young husband who did not
long survive his bride.
The San Francisco Chronicle COM
ments on the strange fact that, although
in the last three years the Belcher,
Crown Point, Justice, Chollar Potosi
and Ophir mines have produced $18,-
600, 900 worth of ore, the stockholders
have netted not cent, but have had to
contribute $2,314,000 in assessments,
and still have debt of $1,OOO,OO
ENGLAND has spent, since 1870, $4O,-
r 600, 900 on her board schools, or on
| schools answering to our common
schools. In 1870 there were accommo-
dations for ,878, ,584 children now there
? are accommodations for 3,426, 748. The
| report on education for 1S76-'77 shows
, that over 600 schools, most of them de-
nominational, were during the year trans
ferred to the school boards.
2 IT is predicted that within fifty years
G a district of 100 miles square, including
the counties of Athens, Perry, and Hook
ing, in Ohio, will equal in productive
= ness any coal region in the world. This
s section has twenty-five feet of solid
} coal in five seams, the greatest vein being
i in some places twelve feet thick, and no.
:, where less than six. Mingled among
s the coal beds arc inexhaustible ones of
!, iron.
ALFRED JONES, colored resident Of
Worth county, Ga., bought on credit in
1871 farm of 10 acres, the price being
5000. He owned a mule, COW and
calf. In 1875 he had paid for the place,
3 and now he has torn down the old house
: and built two new ones, has three mules,
two wagons, seven cattle, twenty-five
(. hogs, 100 apple trees and peach or
l chard, farms leased estate of 200 acres,
, is out of debt, makes about twenty bales
of cotton year, and plants corn, cane,
,, chufas and peas literally.
: PAUL DE CAssAGNAC, the French Dep
uty, journalist, bully and duelist, re-
ceived his first instruction in fencing
from woman. She was the daughter
of Polish fugitive, by vocation fenc-
ing-master. She came to ask assistance
: ! for her sick father, and proved the truth
of her story by challenging doubter to
: bout With the foils, and easily disarm-
: ing him. Under the tuition of this wom-
an Cassagnac became one of the most
expert swordsmen of France He has
, fought nineteen duels, and never received
: wound.
9 A SHORT time ago, one morning, as the
I Midland Scotch express train was slack
ening speed for Bedford station, man
!. who was beng conveyed by Sherifrs
). officer, under warrant from the Provost
y of Glasgow, to London, took razor from
' his pocket and attempted to murder the
y officer by aiming a blow at his throat.
! The officer, being rather powerful man,
il avoided the blow, but received small
r cut on the ear, and tried hard to take the
!. razor from his antagonist, who, finding
I his efforts foiled, drew the rasor across
his own throat, nearly severing the head
+ from the body.
l. SOUTH BALLARD, Ky, is highly favored
Il by nature. Since last March two South
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