The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-13
HERE AND T.

HERE AND THERE.
SENATOR MORRILL,, Of Vermont, says
he Knows a man who will be entitled to
$4,000 under the back pension act, and
who now receives a pension of 500 a
month.
A SAN FRANCISCAN, who was sued for
the value of half-a-dozen shirts made TO
his order, pleaded a misfit, and appear
ed on the witness-stand wearing one of
the garments. He won the case.
THE heading Of an account in a San
Francisco newspaper of a mining acct
dent, Gone Man and Twelve Chinese
Killed." is an indication of the ruling
prejudice on the Pacific coast.
OVER the frozen surface of the Niaga-
ra River smugglers in sleighs have been
carrying petroleum into Canada and
bringing back tobacco. Arrests of sus-
pected parties have just been made in
Buffalo.
RICHMOND (Va.) woman of IS gave
birth to a child recently. Her husband
is about the same age. They have four
or five children, all of whom are grown,
and the youngest possibly 40 or 50 years
old.
A LITTLE girl in Hartford, while suf-
fering from a severe attack of humps,
held a kitten in her lap and constantly
caressed it. In a few days the face of
the kitten began to swell and there were
mumps for two.
ANUMBER of young citizens of Zurich,
Zwitzerland, have started for Georgia,
where it is proposed to establish a Swiss
colony under the auspices of the Work
mems Society. Others will follow.
ONE hundred and twenty-five families
from Sharon, Pa, will locate in the
spring upon Government land neal
Glyndon, Iowa. The heads of the fami-
lies were former employees of the large
iron-mills near Pittsburg.
ONE of the applicants for a divorce,
at Galesburg, ILL.,, the other day, was a
lady who said she had lived with her
husband Is years, and all the clothes he
had bought her was a bunch of hair
pins and a toothbrush.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has
Just decided that the rents and profits
of the estate of a married womal, not
settled upon her for her sole benefit and
use, are subject to the payment of the
debts of her husband.
In one of the Brooklyn docks night
has been turned into day by an electric
light for the purpose of enabling a
small army of workmen to. repair one
of the largest European steamers.
Hitherto work of this character at night
was impossible.
TIE benevolent clergyman who goes
about with large estates in his pockets
for buxom widows, has been getting in
his. work at Grand View, two ladies
there having been induced to advance
him money with which to recover the
property left by hitherto unheard-of
relatives.
FUNERAL reform is desirable in some
parts of New York. A paper in that
city states that the remains of a child
8 years old were followed to the grave
by As carriages, and a poor Irish woman
spent $3.50 of the 5000 which her hus
band left her to give him ga dacent
burial"
A NEW sect, the believers in the age
to come, has been started at Boston,
composed of enthusiasts, who hope some
time to join in rescuing Palestine from
Moslem- rule. Jonathan Cummings,
formerly a Methodist minister, one OF
the leaders; and editor of the Age to
Come Herald, hopes to remove his paper
10 Jerusalem for publication as soon as
he can raise the funds.
A BIRMINGHAM (England) manufac-
turer has received from his agent in
Turkey the following order: some of
my customers is in want of a dog-skin-
ming machine. You have probably seen
or known such q thing. Through the
machine holding the dogs, when still
alive, in a few minutes the skin is off
them, and.the dogs also killed thus,
without giving them much torture.
Please send drawings and lowest prices,
etc.
CHARLES F. BARRY, who committed
suicide in New Orleans, left the follow
ing note to the Coroner's Jury: Seen
tlemen, you can bring in your verdict
without trouble or delay. l have taken
my own life by taking morphine and
laudanum. I tried hardlto make a liv-
ing, but utterly failed. No person had
compassion on my old age or would give