The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-22


Those who bought stock in the Philadol.
phia Centennial show will get back only o. 10 on oach
share costing $40
They are still boring in that artoslo,
well in Charleston. S O.. and have reached depth ~
| 1875 feet. but found no water
The great cascade Of Trocadero. which
is under construction in Paris. to cost $50 con an.
will be finished In time for the Exposition ne vt wear
There was recently quarricd without tha
use Of powder, AT the Barrc. Mass. granite quarr,e.
block weighing es tons being forty eetIonv seven,
| teen high aud ten thcL
The estimated cost Of rebuilding the Uo.
tel de willie, destroyed by the Paris Commune in 1871 WA,
| i6oD,UO francs II appears that an adiiton.,
sum Of 5.yntr francs will be needed.
--Gustave Dorc has lately been engaged in
illustrating Arioso, and is now at work upon clo.al
vase, to be ornamented with one hundred AMI ,n.
figures. for the Paris Exposition OF ncxtycar
| During n recent visit to Venice thu
Crown Princess Marghenta of Italy distributed s,s hun
dred dollars from her own purse to the cy poor I'M,
Princess Is very charitable ani universally beloved
The woOllen manufacturing business In
the eastern part of Massachusetts, is represented h bs
healthy There only four vacant mills. and som, a
those running are holding their cloth for higher prices
Republican papers in Paris complain
that grinders arrested for playing the Mar,
seillaisc," strictly republican air. while allowed to mia,
Napoleonic airs such Partant pour Ia syre WIN
| IMMUNITY
The Mayor of Waco, Texas, went to Chi
cago business fortnight ago during his ab.ens,
| some one presented his resignation to the Council n
| was acccrtd, and a new election ordered but hs 10
| turned in time TO spoil the joke.
-Lampasas Springs Texas, Is the popular
watering place Of the Lone star state but the day,
party OF hor,cmen dashed in among the sooufncr. g,
ing the comanche warwhoop. and when they LET, three
dead bodies found in the streets
Providence. jealous of the London 10
| has tv.d 20 has
her own. Ina recent number OF the Providence Jo,,as
the superintendent OF Parks acknowledge the tepto
| ten squirrels, two crows, aud Guinea pig.
AT the close Of the first centennial Of the
United States there 2i7lLVO7 hogs In the whole
country, 1893 100 were in route to Cincinnati and
the rest chiefly between 81 Louis and Chicago Thsm
| less than two-thirds Of a hog 10 each citizen
There are 1875 Temperance reform clubs
| IN New Hampshire. with an aggregate membership u
5000 men, OF whom ron eighteen years Of
age Both political parties trying hard to hei
| support in the coming gubcrnatoria campaign
In recent number of the hd6penddnc<
B'5s Correspondent writing IRON Egypt says that the
native officers uncontrollably Jealous OF Americana
holding commissions In the kh,diye's service Fraer
ni1auon between the native and imported sol,
sought for by both parties
The University Of Tdbngenwlll celebrate
this its four hundredth anniversary. twas founded
| by Count Eberhard i'm Bart. best known through Uh.
lands poems uhland. who was native OF Tubingen
also occupied a chair the University The University
upsa will also celebrate shortly its four hundr,dh
anniversary.
Tho backer OF a horse in Sacramento bot
$500 race. AMI deposited pieces OF lea pipe sealed
look like rolls OF gold On being detected he asue$
that there was no fraud because his horse
win anyhow but that argument did not satisfy ses
crowd and he compelled to test his horse leedu
escape being mobbcd.
During the first six months Of 1877 the
Pa d.ai in nas III p nj
horses. donkeys and mules. against 4tO2 for the
responding period Of 1870 The increase is VI marked
character The persons who endea,or TO populsrle the
~ Ass.s ~ u 4 y ~ !. s.sa
more nourshng than beef. although often quite
, agreeable Paris contains more than nifty butchsrs
shops specially devoted to this article
Burr Cox wGs one OF the wickedest men
in Ellis,on Ohio. He was drunkard gambler, and .
fighter but he had spectacle family whom he abused
Aiew DAYS he went home halt drunk and maddencd
by gambling losses and declared that he would hill his
wife lie .rouni Ratchet for the purpose he SAID, %
choppins her head on but when he made the ate Lie
son aged fifteen, bravely grspped with him. The woman
tainted from fright but the boy fought desperately aud
finally killed his father by stabbng him with KNIFE
Accounts Of hangngs by lynchcrs are
common reading In the spapers the TAR West but,
tits rarely that the mobs extends to burning
an ofend, at the stake such. however. the torture
inflicted on George Jackson, negro in Hamburg Arb.
lie had cruelty murdered little .ir and the temper Il
the people would not brook the delay trial na,k.
cd party took him the iail at .t rltg, Am ou
ofthe village chained him to post piled around
him. and burned him to death This dcndishn. more
than most Of the citizens approve and being
{ made to punish the perpetrators
. Lord Beaconsicld's private secretary
and most confidential friend i Mr. Montague sono
the Rght Hon II l. Cory an lrshman, and At time
Tory First Lord Of the Admiralty, by .islsr Of Lord
. Palmerston iAvore sicpsoninlaw the pliiautirope
Lord sha,tcsbury Mr. Cory who has tor year. Dc,a
"A
about 81 and the possesscr ri competent fortune The
+ suggest appointments have. from time 20 time bccn
offered him hut he prefers hs present yeas
and is no doubt invaluable IN IT, for III .reat pnt
with Prime Minister TO have private ~hs
isa once capable. devoted and discreet Lord Bacons
- heldis II most agreeable man to serve under al~aJi
y good tempered. courteous. and considerate.
+ The Bulletin de Stdtisqlp gives some de-
tails OF the value OF the landed property and houses te
longing t. the French State The palace and saren Of
the Luxembourg are valued AT G'r"eH francs The
l. School OF Fine Arts at +rooco franc. the ralis d, IN
r. dustre at .ouDu.n francs. the new opera House 90 ~
n cron francs the seyrcs manuacor! atau"t'"iran's
a the Chateau OF Saint herman nt lu.fr""'rauc. ne
" Palace the Tlys,, nj traucs ami tr t 80
! Bourbon at 2ornen francs Abroad She ho''i OF a
French Embassy at Berlin /. is5aoo" uau,.. ibc h e
of the Embassy london at 97au,p franc. 'l' 49, h.
h Mcdic the 'at Of the French Academy ln R'n' At
10 eono,nrancs and the school at AtL,u.at a''ir..'t
/ Altogo 'hc the value Of the landed rroler, o. 'c 4is
a Is estimated 90 amount io si.7-n npoun
.r Anna Louise Cary is recovering from cn-
, ecstou of ihc uus. Nau,oe Lake. tie comedian u
: very SICK M Cleveland Editor Harding OF n., llshan
" apolis H.o'ff hH, typhoid pneumonia utih'as e. hefi
81 is sst, better since lac returned from Euio, huehi
n has undergone second operation TOR tuuoi anil u
very oN from cNhauston senator Morton hn, lra ys
oi one arm ami seriously Frustrated Ben do h' nd
lr better ana his death is dm> Hnucii"ri Ni'Hi
10 Cameron, brother ol simon, d. DIAM. ruusD n BE"
~ burr, Pa Bishop Haven brought ni,N maH. .A 40 n'
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