The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-20

caskeu. A rusty sign of washing and
ironing" was conspicuous on the side of
the dead mans house. ~-'
From the Tribune Altona: A French
paper learns that at recent railroad &C
e cident in this country, where many per
::Fsons had been injured, surgeon was
loudly called for, when a gentleman pre-
sented himself, took his case of surgical
instruments from his pocket, and had
cut off several arms and legs ere it was
discovered that terror of the catastrophe
had made him raving maniac.
A Boston women induced her rather
weak-minded husband to will all his
property to her, and then locked him up
in wood-house to die, while she reeeiv-
ed the courtship of the man whom she
intended 10 marry when she became a
widow. In her absence, the husband s
friends made a search, and found him
emaciated, drugged, and nearly dead.
She was arrested.
Elizabeth Staurt Phelps having been
asked to write a creed for union church,
prepared the following; II believe that
God so loved the world that He gave His
only Son, that whatsoever believeth on
Him shall not perish, but shall have ever
lasting life" Added to this is covenant
pledging the subscriber "to befriend the
poor, to guard the tempted, to uplitt the
outcast, to be tender in treatment Of all
meek and endangered souls" +.
The Duke of Cumberland will have in
lucntial relatives when he espouses the
Princess Thyra, of Denmark, but it will
; be out of their power to restore to him
the kingdom of Hanover, which his father
lost by his hostility to Prussia in the war
of 1866. It is quite reasonable, therefore,
that the Danish and British courts should
recommend the Duke to accept the $lG,-
10000 which Prussia agreed to paw his
tatheras indemnity, and cease to be
monarch only in name.
The Crescent, the national standard of
Turkey, is said to have owed its origin
to strange circumstance. According to
the legend, the Sultan Gilman, founder
OF the Ottoman Power, saw on one occa-
sion In a vision Crescent moon, which
appeared to keep increasing till it
stretched from the east to the west; and
1t is said that the sight so Impressed HIM
that he thought he could see in it so
much of his own empires future extern
sion, that he was at once led to adopt the
crescent for bis imperial banner.
A Havana dispatch says royal order,
dated September. IL. 1878, is promulga-
ted, which directs that fugative slave
named Forrer, who made his way to
Madrid, where he applied for documents
to save himself from the consequences Of
of his flight in case he should return to
Cuba, shall be declared free. The order
directs furthermore, that henceforth If
B any slave, for whatever cause, shall en-
ter the territorial or maritime Jurisdiction
OF Spain; or Of any of her colonies or
possessions outside of the Island of Cuba.
such slave shall be declared free, and all
children born of slave mothers, after the
latter have touched the soil of Spain out
side Of Cuba, shall also be declared free.
The owners Of slaves liberated by the or
der will be duly Unidentified. ~
-<o 49,
While the scourge in the Southwest is
being abated every day by the healing
Influences Of the cold weather, a small
epidemic is having its run in Western
Virginia. For distance of forty miles
along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, it is said, there is hardly house
in which diphtheria may not be found.
The cause is apparently far reaching and
the range of the dangerous malady af-
fords fine field for sanitary investiga-
ton. The country is generally supposed
to be comparatively free from these pes
tilences, but the ignorance and reck-
lessness of the rural population frequent
" more than Offset the purer influences
OF country air, and the medical inspector
IS frequently needed out of town quite as
much as in town. .