, 1877-03-02
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

Very few Mexican Preside nts re
tire from Office alive.
The rinderpest-ilence again afiiictl
the cattle of England.
Little Rhode Island groans under
a debt load of 100000.
Blue glass has risen in price 30C
per cent. and the dealers smile.
1t has already cost $4,000, 900 tc
exterminate the Sioux Indians.
Boss Tweed is losing his faith in
nature. $6,000,000 will not release
him.
The Boston Transcript reports that
a lady "was drowned in a previous
edition of that paper"
John D. Lee, Mormon Bishop and
murderer, has escaped execution. II
is a shame to disappoint the devil
this way.
The supply of boots and shoes
made and consumed in the United
States is equal to FIVE pairs each per
year for every man, woman and child
of the population.
A man in New Orleans sdvertises
that he will give tuition in law, re-
ligion and journalism, /" sitting any
body to become an able lawyer, cler-
gyman or editor in one year."
Statistics show that there is sea-
son for matrimony, and that the pref
erence falls to the last quarter of the
year; next to this the second quar-
ter is acceptable.
In the restoration of old churches
and the building of new ones Eng
lish churchmen have spent an aver
age of about $4,000,000 per annum
for the last forty years.
Maine shows pretty strong on In
dians yet. The 'Passamaquoddy
tribe numbers sos, aud the Penob-
scot 48S; total, 996. This is the best
aboriginal show in New England.
During the present winter thick
ice has formed at Shreveport, La,
and eleven inches of snow fell, while
Red river was gorged with ice. No
such weather in Louisiana before.
Many new facts have lately been
discovered relating to the manner in
which the bottom Of the ocean is con-
stantly receiving accumulations from
the debris of the land. The deposit
ton is almost entirely carbonate of
lime, and will some day become
limestone rock.
Mile de Boisgnon died at a mad
house in Paris few days ago. She
was famous actress of light comedy
and burlesque parts in the days of
Louis Philippe, and then was rich,
and it is whispered had the Duo de
Nemours and Prince4de Joinville on
her list of lovers.
In Maidstone, England, the other
day, the master and mistress of St.
Johns school, which was Built and
endowed by the late Earfof Rom
ney, quarreled through jealousy on
the part of the woman Of her neice.
In fit of passion she threw a knife
at her husband as they were sitting
together at a table, and the point OF
the knife striking her husband in the
throat, killed him almost instantly.
A Cape May parent gives notice
that application will be made to the
next Legislature of New Jersey for
the repeal of that section of the
school-law that prohibits the use OF
the rod in the public schools, and
proposes to insert in lieu thereof that
the county superintendent shall fur
nish each teacher with raw-hide Oh
rattan, with instructions to use them
We have in Congress now several
men who about ten years ago were
plantation slaves. There is a mar
sitting by the side Of II. B. Payne
the millionaire banker Of Cleveland
who, twenty years ago was sold OF
the auction block for e1,300. II
1860, while Paine was laboring il
the Charleston convention to secure
the nomination of Stephen A. Doug
las, and to postpone the war, he wa
picking cotton in the fields Of Alaba
ma. There is another man who wa
sold by a North Carolina planter il
Alabama because he was discovered
at night with a spelling book in hi
hand. There is man in the y. S
Senate, sitting next to Theodore Ere
linghuyssn, who, ten years ago
could neither read nor write, AMI
who was emancipated from SLAYER,