Nebraska advertiser., 1878-04-04
Items of Interest.


/ Buffalo Express.
An Illinois woman has written to
one Of the Assistant Postmaster Cen
erals to pick her out good young
man for a husband. He at once re-
piled that it was not his business to
sort the males, and she wasn't an
Ohio woman, anyhow.
Count Stolberg Wernigerode, the
new Vice Chancellor of the German
Empire, Is the man mentioned by Bis
maIck over year ago as the proper
man to succeed him as Chancellor.
The Count is now about 40 years old,
and a man after Bismarck's own
heart.
Some of the Eastern press are try
ing to get very angry with Secretary
Sherman because he shows a willing
ness to obey the law in its letter and
spirit. The Secretary knows pretty
we'll by this time that the anger of the
Eastern goldites is the safest thing in
the country to disregard. d.-Lqt6r
Ocean.
The new medical bill which passed
through both houses of the California
Legislature provides among other
things that every practitioner shall be
by law subjected to the code of ethics
agreed upon by the State Board, and
that it shall be treated as a violation
of said code and subject any practi-
TONER to rejection if he advertises
himself as an expert in any speciality.
The San Francisco papers pronounce
the bill monstroslty and urge Gov
ernor Irwin to veto it.
Mrs. Kicker, the Washington law
yer, makes it a rule every noon to pay
for lunch for the prisoners In the dock
Of the Criminal Court
Mrs. Ann Hopkins, whose age is
one hundred and seventeen years,
lives at Cedar Creek, Tenn. Her hus-
banL died about twenty years ago, ag-
ed one hundred and nine. Living,
she has three sons, George, age nine
ty-eight; Abner, age ninety-five;
Enoch (the baby age ninety.
Attorney General Ogden, of Louisi-
ana, is reported as quite frantic re-
garding the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Anderson case. He re-
fuses to waive any right, and will ap-
ply for rehearing of the case.
A resident of Wood wich, Me-, eigh-
ty-three years of age. recently offered
a young lady. who is about sixty years
his junior, $40, 900 if she would become
his wife. She consented.
Arrangements have been commenc-
ed for grand reception to Gen. Grant
on his return from Europe next Fall
1t is proposed by prominent Philadel-
phians, and will take place at that
city.
Mr.. Sherman has the frankness to
admit that he erred in his opinion as
to the effect of the silver bill, and he
sets strong example to the goldite
newspapers which they ought to have
honesty enough to follow.
Judge Tyler, of the Clarksville
Eenn.) CrIulIuo, c~nrt Calls the at
tention of grand.juries to the prevail
ence of lynching in that State, and
warns them that the snbversion of
judg juries, and the law by masked
scoundrels inevitably results in the
wreck of society.
A young Georgian married a girl
sixteen years of age. The father of
the girl claimed her as a minor, and
the husband claimed her as his WIFE
A Georgia judge decided that both
were right. He decided that tie
woman was legally the young mans
wife; but that, as she was minor,
she must remain with her father un-
til she was twenty-one years old.
A glance at the map will show that |
the Russian lines along the Sea OF
Marmora and the Bosphorus are so
arranged that the divisions could, |
with Turkish cooperation, possess the
W hole coast line, from the Dardanelles |
to the Black Sea. in few hours. In
fact, they could do this without Turk
ish cooperation. When it is remem-
bered that all of the Russian army
which crossed the Balkans is still near
Constantinople, and that the rem
nants of the different Turkish armies
are being concentrated there, presum
ably with Russian approval, the situ-
alton, to say the least, has a queer as
pect.
1t must be admitted that England
has some grounds for fearing that
there are secret arrangements between
Russia and Turkey. L may be re-
mem mbered that there were secret pro-
visions in the famous treaty of Tilset
between Napoleon, Alexander. and
the Sultan. By the open treaty it was
agreed to restore the Danube princi-
palities to Turkey, but the secret trea-
ty entered into at the same time pro-
vided that Russia should take the
whole of Wallachia and MoIdavia,
and that the British Ambassador
should be expelled from Constantine
pie. 1t was not until the Conference ;;
of Jassy in the following year, that
England learned all the facts in the
case. 6
The Wilmington, DEL, Conference i
of the NJ. E. Church passed resolu- t
tions endorsing the temperance move
ment but condemning the temperance
tramp, and warning people against
in the work and placing
in entire strangers. :
The House Committee on Post-of- r
fees and Post-roads has discovered =