The Morning herald., 1878-11-13
PEN AvDscIssoRs.

What has happenedi Where am II
sfBen Butler.]
The French navy uses cars made at Car
-follton, Mich. 1--.. ! ,,,556
4 A rerintsr in Europe ID usually p
mild one here. al; ." a3f7.r 4a4
The Kansas road these nights are lit up
by emigrants' samr.fres. f7a q sg IA
Edisou's brother was candidate for cor
oner in St. Clair county, Micn..
Through Pullman cars will soon be put
on between Boston and Savannah. na
4 Dennis says its all lis--that he tried to
defeat the Essex Statesman, Ben Butler,
Marrying American girls has become a
craze with the nobility. English Letter.
+ NJ. Lesseps, of suez Canal celebrity, %,
Inmates that the mercantile marine Of the
entire world consists of 81 900 vessels.
Two young ladies nearly lost their lives
at the Herdic house, Williamsport, recent
ly, by blowing out the gas in their bsd-
room.
The Frankfurter Zeiting reports 4 slut
Of maid,servants in Frankfort: Many
women are offering their services at nomi.
nal wages IN order to secure homes.
A man was too thoroughly converted ia
a revival meeting in West Greenwich
Conn. He went home a raving maniac.
chopped up dog, and tried to shoot his
father, whom he took for the devil: :,
It is not the servant girl who is under
arrest in Allentown, Pa, for opening her
mistress letters, but exactly the reverse.
The servant received letters from her lover.
and the mistress yielded to curiosity and
read them. 'i.1' 'IeE
A Bridgeport cat was in the cellar one
day, and, seeing crab, went up to examine
| It. A moment later the cat was helping the
crab up stairs at rate of mile minute.
To a crab such a rate Of speed must have
appeared extremely unique.---Danbury
News. = Ina ~ scots
A youth Of sixteen in Eu PAGE County,
ILL.,, fell madly in lovewith his school mis-
tress, aged thirty, but his wise father i'm
duced him to give up his sweetheart, with
whom he had planned an elopsmsnt to
K ansas, for and 10 consideration Of "a real
nice double barrsilsd shot gum ps95lyefs
At Athens, Ga, one day l.st,vesk, ne.
gro raised an axe and fractured q compan-
ions skull with the weapon. Three pieces
Of the bone were removed. oas an inch
wide and two inches in length, anu the
next day the wounded man was out Of bed
| walked about the house and yard, and ate a
hearty dinner. ."ta p
A little girl at Boston was dying Of water
on the chest and her rarents refused to
permit her to be tapped, though the opera
ton was almost certain to save her life
The advice of the doctors and the entreat,
les of the clergymen failed to move them,
It'll the agent Of the s. P. G. G. threatened
to hold the m responsible in case the little
one died. Then they consented and her
life was placed out of danger. f%J'
Twenty-Five native students gave in their
names at meeting recently held in Cali
cutta as "willing to sign the pledge" not
against liquor drinking, but against early
marriage. The following is the wording Of
this curious document Deeply impressed
with the psrnicious character ofthe custom
of child marriaee, and with the evils that
have followed in its train, convinced Of the
solemn duty owe to myself and my coun.
trymen to discourage, 50 far as may lie in
my humble power, custom so hurtful to
Students, prejudicial to the best interests
Of my countrymsn at large-I hereby
solemnly declare that I will not marry, nor
allow myself to be given in marriage, till l
have completed the age of twsnty-one
years, my present age being"