Salt River herald., 1878-08-17
PEN AND SCISSORS

Russian and Roumanian troops are returning home.
 Union College has given Edison the degree of doctor of philosophy
 Proposals will be made in Sep tcmber to make Servia a kingdom. The Russians estimate their to- tal war expenditure at eSS,Ooo,0oO roubles.
 Count Andrassy's only daughter is to marry Prince Alfred of Mon tenueva.
 In the whole Territory of Mon tana there are 24,5O0 Indians and 2,O95 soldiers.
 At Santa Monica, California, the 2lst of July, a shark weighing I25 pounds was caught
 Two poets, Tenuyson and Tup- per, have grown rich on the Eng land of the present.
 On the 27th of July, bark from Matana arrived in Florida with vel low fever aboard.
 The Whitworth 3S-ton gun, re- gently cxpcrimented upon at Wool wich, proves to be failure.
 Yellow fever continues at New Orleans. Total number of cases, 50; deaths, more than half that.
 A bale of cotton from Memphis has been awarded the first premi um at the Paris Exposition.
 On July 2eth Gen. Garfield, while bathing in the surf at Atlantic City, \. J., was taken with vertigo.
 Three Sundays in succession, ending with June Soth, London was visited by terrific thunder storms.
 Efforts are being made for the es- tablishment of q line of steamers between Cuba and the ports of the Republic of Honduras.
 A shock of earthquake was expe- rienced on July 26th at Los Ange- les, San Bcrnardino, Riverside and other points in Southern California. A flnlily in New Orleans of four persons were poisoned by using OK alic acid for sugar in cooking. One died and the rest may probably re- cover.
 Explorer Stanley is said to have accepted a proposition, made by the King of Belgium, to defray the expenses of another trip across Al rica.
 For the first time since 1852 a formidable plague of grasshoppers threatens destruction and desolation to thc'crops of the husbandmen in Salvador.
 Fourteen children and three teach CTS were drowned by. the capsizing of boat July 26th on the river Blackwater, near the town of BaiIie- borough, Ireland.
 The first embassy that has ever been sent by the Republic of Me1i- co to the sister Republics of South America has passed through Pana- ma on its way south.
 On the 26th of July p tons oi fine silver bars, valued at S75O.. 900, were shipped from the assay office in New York to the Philadel phia mint for coinage into the stand ard silver dollars.
 Reports coming in from Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota stat, that the crops are badly damaged in those seeiions. Wheat in somt counties will not yield over sever bushels to the acre
 King Alfonso las not recovered from the deep melancholy witl which he has been afflicted since tn, death of Queen Mercedes. It Ii feared he contemplatcs abdicatin: and retiring to a monastery for tn remainder of his life.
 Grasshoppers arc desolatin; many districts of Honduras. Crop disappear before them in a day and the sparsely populated locali ties arc entirely at their mercy The Government calls upon tn people to unite in some systemati way to drive off the destroyers.
 The Argentine explorer, Do Frau Moreno, claims to have dis covered the Patagonlan volcano seen by the T. s. steamer Omah: and named after that vessel, min months previous to its discovery b that vessel. He saw it in eruptio March Sd. It is the most southel Y volcano yet discovered.
 The Governor of Washingto Territory has brought suit again. the editor of the Democratic Pres for libel, laying his damages q S10-O0O. The alleged libel was tn OuhlicatiOn of a eharon that in