The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
HAYES is said to be worth $4,000

The trotting stallion Mambrino died
ut Flint, Mich, Sunday. His time-2:
2O-was the fastest ever made by a
stallion. lie was valued at 100000.
Michael Clarke, aged &c, of New /
York, troubled with nightmare, jump |
ed from a second story window Thurs
day night and was fatally injured.
Five persons were run over and
killed by a railroad train at Salem,
Mass, last Thursday. Two men and
three women, belonging to an eXcur-
sion party.
Belle Boyd, who figured so extern
sively during the war as a scout for
the Confederate forces, is now living
at Calvert, Texas, and supports her
self and sister by sewing.
Bishop Simpson was quite i'll last
week, the result of overwork during
the heated season. His friends, how
ever, reported that a few days res
pite promised to restore him to his
usual condition of health.
DR.. A. j. Flagg & Co., of Clare
mont, N. H., who have advertised
their medicines very extensively
through this part of our state, have
at last confessed that they are used up
financially and cannot pay.
Two young men were riding in
carriage near Alstead, N. H., Aug.
20, when the driver, Wales Meares,
about 1G years of age, reached for
ward and struck the horse with his
hand. The horse kicked, striking him
in the stomach and killing him instant
ly.
William Rittenour, of Tippecanoe,
Ind, has been married seven times,
twice to each of two women, and it is
charged he has not troubled the di-
vorce laws any in his operations. He
lives in big house, with ten or a
dozen wives and relatives, and is call
ed the Tippecanoe Mormon,
A New Jersey widow, relative of
Martha Washington, has laid claim to
200 square miles of territory in West
Virginia and Kentucky, including the
site of the city of Lexington. Her
claim is based on the records of an
old family bible, and on deeds which
her father had buried in the vicinity
of Baton Rouge, La.
A girl calling herself Cora Young,
who has just died in Bellevue hospital,
at New York, from the effects Of a
drug taken to produce an abortion,
said during her illness that she was
the daughter of prominent Boston
merchant, but refused to give her
name. She said she had run away
from home, and that her betrayer had
deserted her at New York,
A letter has recently been received
by the Chief Of Police at Denver from
Lake Addie, Mcleod county, Mimi,
signed by II. G. Giltner, asking for
information of his brother, Amos G.
Giltner, whose presence is required to
prove claim to the estate Ct his great
grandfather, said to amount to about
$3.50, 900, 900, the heirs having been
advertised for by the Government of
Holland.
John w. Lecllie, a Presbyterian
theological student, who was teaching
school at Lcesvillc, S. c., has been
shot dead by DR.. John L. Dent, son
of the county sheriff, who is now un-
der arrest. Leckie expelled one Of
Dents children from the school a few
weeks ago, and, having since severely
chastised another scholar, Dent was
called to examine its injuries, and
pronounced them very serious. Leck-
lie then went to Dents house for an
interview, carrying q whip, and was
there shot.
An old gray friar, who was showing
the supposed place in Palestine where
Samson killed 1000 Philistines with
the jawbone Of ass, explained the mo-
daS operdndj as follows; Gle took
hold of the ass by the tail and swung
=, the animal against the Philistines in
such a manner that only his head, and
of this especially the jawbone, struck
the Philistines, keeping off in this way
the surrounding warriors, and giving
the blow the necessary force to kill. l
: affirm that in this manner Samson
. could have slain million Philistines
provided the tail Of the ass did not
break"
Hon. Simon Cameron denies the
statement published in the New York
San that he prophesied the defeat OF
the Ohio Republicans this fall. He
!, says that he differs from the President
as to the expediency of trying to run
Republican Administration with
Democratic officials, for he thinks the
!, effect will be to make "a solid South
: with all that the term implies. If
however, the President should succeed
[. in building up and strengthening the
o Republican party, and thus promote
:. the good of the country, he says he
: shall rejoice with him.
/ Two brothers by the name of Hegt
= in the employ of Mr.. II. Cohenno,
h diamond cutter in Boston, victimizet
II their employer last week to the tune o
/ $4,000. One Of the brothers, a con
d fidential clerk was sent to Fhiladelphi;
t. on business, and, while there, he sen