The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-06
SUNBE4HS.

whipped him until he declared that he the thief; but
Investigation proved hun innocent
Mrs. Lawrence makes speeches in tho
streets ,r~orwich. ns-ns the ..-yy --~olo-,ss a..
sailing Christianity. Her tongue is long mud active and
she can always command large audiences
Commissioners Spnncy and Walker OF
the Boston Police Board disagreed about the appoint
ment Captain and had fight OF three lively rounds
ending with the interference Of the third Commissioner
The Rev. james Burnham's marriage i'm
Pennington. year two caused comment because
he was NJ years old while the bride young Achd
was lately born to the pair. and its public baptism was
proud occasion for the aged father.
Mrs. Judah, an aged California actress,
was to have a benefit performance on her retirement
from the stage. shrewdly calculating the inspiring
effect OF music. she combined a tree concert with the
auction sale seats and the result financial
The translation OF the " Merchant OF
Venice by Dom Luiz l.. King Of Portugal has just been
published anonymously. although extracts have been
given In the papers attribung the authorship to the
King and thus making public secret Of the affair The
book viii not be offered sale but will BE- distributed
privately, as was the Kings translation Of Hamlet"
According to the Paris Golos, the plague
OF locusts in the Caucasus is assuming alarming proper
tons The locusts devouring whole districts. and
the price Of bread in consequence has doubled At the
time. with the setting In of warm weather fears Of
the plague assuming more viruent form are enter
tnined. 1ncendiarism likewise continues. and panic
grows among the ofiicialS
"A young man who saw n fellow fall
PROSTATE the sidewalk in Western city drunk and
nsensible concluded to make some observations lie
accordingly stepped into dark from which point
he could without being lie declares that inside
OF fifteen minutes six different men passing along and
seeing the drunken man lying the sdewa stopped
over him and went through his pockets
Tho Fulton IN. " Patriot prints note
from Mr. I. A. Edison dated May 90 in which he says
have nothing new at present TO communicate regard
ing the electric light but the whole subject will 10
through the press mill long. as Just
rounding up the corners and expect in shor time TO
show the unbeeycrs something that will make them
doubt no longer A. soon as am ready to make
hbition Of the light here shall open my laboratory.
The inventor Of shoes for walking on the
water gave exhibition at Memphis lie stepped boldly
OF the evee but the buoyaney OF the shoes not
equal to expectation aud he Immediately sank into the
river lie was nearly drowned when rescued that
they rolled him a barrel No successful the
trial Of flying machine at San Francisco The inventor
started from housetoD nuttered briefly In the AIR aud
fell into a stream where the apparatus nearly caused
his death by sinking him.
Cardinal Newman takes his title from
the Church Of ST Georgia de Ncabro the only in
Rome dedicated 10 the patron saint OF England. This
Church contains under the high altar, the bend u St
George and the red silk banner. which exhibited
the day Ash wednes day and ST Georges day.
the only days when the church Is open TO the pubh
Two minutes walk distant is the church Of Marian-
Cosnedln under which Is preserved piece Of St Pat
rick's skull, exhibited on that sainrsd day
The Paris police adopted an ingenious
plan lately to nnd out how certain firm was being
mvsterously robbed. ono day a large box or rather
sent TO the store and brought into the back
Office. 1t marked "ENposite Materials" Air holes
had been bored In it, and from this position the detective
for one inside-could overlook the store lie
about noon when there boss" 10 be seen that
Of the clerks the door watch and the other
10 the till. from which he took some money
Residents OF Texas have called on tho
Governor protection against thieves murderers and
outlaws. aud petition recng the necessity Of military
aid has been sept to the Capitol and miliuamen are
ordered to the counties thus troubled Tie petitioners
that armed bands rob and piagc and defy interior
They run OF stock and away property. and
whoever goes In pursuit endangers his lite. The trouble
is in the main the borders Of New Mexico and the
Indian Territory and there according 10 the petitioners
little short OF a reign OF terror exists
The Brussels correspondent OF the Journal
de. Diib says that there has been prevalent notion
that Belgians are nation devoted Roman Catholics,
but thisis mistake The majority profess that faith
from tradition and are moreover. lazy enter into
theological inquiries and controversies In fact they
quite indifferent At the time there Is fraction VI
intense and selfasserng Catholics represented In the
press by the Courier lie Bfursi aud Bien Public The Iad
penianc' Hsgs lis almost violently the other way
In these days of king Staying Portugal
stands as rare example among Continental coun.
tries Of kind feeling between sovereign and people. The
respondent Of the Journal ds, Dab under date
OF May 7: The telegram will have conveyed to you
account Of the serious illness OF the Queen. but it will
have informed you OF the sympathy and devotion every
where shown by the people and OF the intense sAfac
ton exhibited by them when her conyaescencc was an
nouncodn The King only lett his wlfos bedside to give
his personal thanks for Inquiries and the esponden
says that this nesss IN one sense happy event. IL
at,ested the bonds uniting sovereign and people
-Dermatophony, myophony. tendophony,
discovery OF the mierorhone ana imply that by the
ncrophone doctors able TO hear the sounds from tho
now OF blood in the skin aud from the contraction OF he
muscles and tcnd4ns, aud from the vibration OF the bony
structure. Through this invention an Inflammation III
OF the internal organs shoald be easily discovered
Tor Inflammation always accompanied by the increased
activity OF the circulation Since thus hear tho
rush Of blood in the ugs OF the fingers, II may be pre-
sumed that we shall soon be able to realize the old motion
about listening to The growing Of the grass
The spinners, manufacturers, and en-
ployers Of labor in and around liudlerseld Yorkshire
lately held large meeting discuss the operation aud
effect OF the Factory act OF s7t the OF
labor to 56is week Mr. j. W BroOke. great mlowner
ola family well known for forts In behalf Of the working
classes contended that such Improvement had
taken place In the structural arrangement OF wooleI
mills tended 10 ncurnhze the evils formerly arising L
health. ana that % hours would not now be productive
o. harm II was impossible Tor EnsiIsh manufacturers
working only 90, hours. compete with Conunenta
. |
rallied for Il repeal Of the act
Tho Philadelphia Walnut Street Theatre
she Oldest theatre IN the United The owncrisJ
Clarke, the actor who lives In Lon ION of the
Clarke bought the Broad Street Theatre In Philadelphia
aew years ago AMI played there hi, last visit thi
country instead Of going to the walnut usual Man
ager Goodwin, the lessee Of the Walnut rctanAted b.
hiring the Park Theatre, AMI transferring his best Gu
gagcments TO that house, leaving only seeonl.raie star
. to the Walnut The latest blow at the Walnut was III
production of an absurd drama from the pen OF a Phli
dcphia court Interpreter Nearly all the lawyers IN
city made the occasion one OF great hary, bing N
y author commenting loudly on the play, and hectorin
the unfortunate performers
Tho idea Of cutting ship canal through
the lsthmus of Panama is at least three and half Gel
l. turtles old Philip H. OF Spain had route carefully
Neyed by some Flemish engineers but never pushed III
natter Peter eyhn, an English writer in geograpl
i ca treatise published In oxford m the early part III
seventeenth century. observes that many have M,
TONED To the Council of Spane the cutting OF nayig
BILE CHANNEL through this small Istnus Ia shorte
our common voyages 10 China and the Moluccocs ~
the Kings OF spgnc have hitherto attempted IT, paru
because II hc should mpoy the Americans IN the work'
he shout loose these few of them which his people hav