West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-27

parlor rifle, at distance of fifteen wards
shot clay pipe from little boys mouth
Such reckless hazarding of human life can
not be too severely censured.
Here is recent Parma advertisement:
To be sold or let for July quarter, a church,
with bell, sacristy. pulpit. altar linen. ta-
pers, incense burners, &C., all in good prep
aration. Apply, sc.
The famine in India is slowly dying out
everywhere; the survivors are recovering
health and strength, and the small quant-
ties of food imported show that the people
have suticiency Of grain.
At Lincoln (Ill) a few days ago, a Mrs
Condor Smith died very suddenly while her
husband was absent When he was noti-
fled of the fact he was struck speechless,
and physicians pronounce him incurable.
Ohio farmers are daily receiving notices
with the blood curdling signature, "Work-
ingmen's Bread or Blood Committee" :"
warning them against buying labor saving
machinery, and especially self binding reap
ers.
Among tue curious exhibits at the Paris
Exhibition are those of Norway. She pre-
sents various tanned fish skins for gloves;
that of the eel prepared for harness and
machinery bands sixty feet long from that
of the whale.
On Friday of this week there will be a
large parade of State troops, several orators,
and doubtless an immense crowd of people,
to participate in the ceremonies incident to
the centennial anniversary of the battle of
Monmouth, at Freehold.
The longest stage route in the world has
just been established between Fort Worth,
Texas, and Fort Yuma, Arizona. The line
is 1860 miles in length with daily arrivals
and departures, and carries the United
States mail under recent contract.
A recent calculation says that the demand
for lumber increases in the United States at
the rate of twenty, five per cent. per annum.
The forests decrease at the rate of 7, 900, 900
acres year. The fences alone are valued
at $1S0,000,000, and they cost each year
sos, 100000
There died in Berlin last April gentle
man named Bersig, the greatest manufact-
urer of locomotives in Europe. His father
began with capital of $780, lent him by
Berlin tradesman, and the son left $15,-
100000. Since 1887 the firm has turned
out over 3, 600 locomotives, and they employ
over 10000 men.
Italy is to have jubilee next year to
celebrate the 1S00th anniversary of the de-
struction of Herculaneum and Pompeii, the
scene of the ceremonies to be at the latter
place, as better known of the two buried
cities. So the European papers state.
though why a 'Jubilee" should be held in
celebration of such an event is not easy to
understand.
The Hon. Lyman Trumbull has presented
a cross Of flowers, in a glass case, to the
Lincoln Memorial Hall, at Springfield, Hi
nois. 1t was placed on Lincoln's coffin at
Philadelphia while the funeral cortege was
passing through that city, and it afterward
came into the possession of Mrs. Trumbull,
who retained it up to the time of her death.
| Scri6ner's Monthly for July is gem.
| Chief among its good things is an article on
"Bird Architecture, and another on "The
| Police Of New York" The splendid story
'tRoxy" occupies several pages and grows
more interesting as the tale unfods DR..
Holland continues his editorial talks, and
the publisher gives the usual amount of brio
a-brac.
The cruelty of which a. Wisconsin wife
complains, in her suit for divorce, is that
her husband tied her securely and shaved
her head. The defence is that she bleached
her black hair to lemon color by the use of
acid, and that he, deeming such thing
highly scandalous, took the only means of
undong what she had done. He says that
he bought wig for her, initiating her nat
ural hair, so that her bare head might be
concealed while nature was remedying the
disfguration.
Two prisoners were lynched in Springfield,
Tennessee, in a manner that indicated love
of murder, rather than a desire for justice,
on the part of the mob The lynchers came
from village thirty-fve miles distant, and
had no special reason for being excited by
their victims crime. On the other hand,
the people of the community in which the
crime was committed tried to prevent the
unlawful hanging. The trip seemed to be
/ for pleasure, and the party was composed
of roughs, who got very drunk on the way.
Christian K. Ross says that of the 497
boys who have at one time or another been
supposed to be his lost Charley only three
were found to have been kidnapped, the
others being poor little friendless waifs
many of whom are now provided with
comfortable homes. So the general alarm
raised since the sad loss of little Charley
Ross, will result in saving hundreds of
waits, who had chanced to fall into the
hands of brutal task masters-tramps,
thieves and montebanks, and have been
happily rescued by human persons striving
to restore the kidnapped boy.
Mrs. Williamson, who was murdered in
Cayuga county by her husband, was only
seventeen, and had been married two years.
Her mother at the time of the marriage
told Williamson that the girl was too young
to choose husband, and that she would be
sure to fall in love with some other man.
This warning did not induce him to wait,
but made him jealous and watchful of his
wife. His determination to kill her was
made deliberately, and after he had good
reason to believe that her mothers predic-
ton had been verified. After shooting her
once and inficting slight wound he saidl
'sThat's too bad meant you shouldn' t
suffer- Then he took more careful aim