Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-12


failure.
Miss Kellogg contemplates, it is said, win
ter concert tour ON the continent under the di-
ection of Mr.. Strakosch. w.
Boston will one day have q memorial of
some sort in recognition of the life and services
of William Lloyd Garrison.
This country will never be rid of terrible ex--
tremes of temperature until Charles Francis
Adams marries Kate Claxton.
When Chinaman becomes bankrupt his
creditors rush to his house and take everything
they can lay their hands on.
Gen. j. r. Chalmers, of Mississippi, will de-
liver the address at the next annual meeting of
the Southern Historical society.
An exchange says, ''The Abyssinisn year
Abyssinia is not a slow country. -s.
An encampment of Baltimore soldiers at
Cape May in July will no doubt add to the life
and gayety of that city by the sea.
An English magistrate says that bicycle
rider has no right to go faster thsn the drivers
of other vehicles on the public streets.
Balloon sScensions ill be feature of the
Manhattan Beach this season. Those who rave
not been up in balloon should try the sensa-
ton.
A Texas lady, married five years, recently
went North with nine children and couldn't
explain it ON any other basis than ''Texas wa
ter"
Surgeons and druggists at Newport are very
anxious for the polo games to begin. Half a
dozen games are worth considerable money to
them.
Some fifteen or twenty of the Long Branch
cottages are already occupied. 1t is said that
the demand this year has far surpassed the
supply.
Great Improvements are being made at At
lantic City. The hotels are being refurnished
and reprinted, and numerous alterations are
noticed.
The members of the First Presbyterian
church of Norristown, have decided to improve
their church edi6ce by having the lofty steeple
coppered.
Bald headed men, says an exchange, have
increased nineteen per cent. in six years. This
is due p obably to the stupid management OF
Indian affairs.
A belated poet who has been engaged on a
death Of his queen, will change the dirge into
epithalamium.
According to official statistics the number OF
emigrants from Germany in 1878 was 24,217,
or 2, 253 more than the previous year. Of these
20, 373 sailed to the Omitted States, 1,048 to
Brazil, LIS to Australia, and the remainder
to the small South American states.
A nd
railroad train tried to push his wife out through
window, and had nearly succeeded before the
frightened woman was rescued.
The inmates of the San Antonio poor house
are unable to sleep at night by reason of the
number of mules and other animals which sur
round the building and keep up an interminaI
BILE racket.
1t is expected that General Grant will make
his appearance at Long Branch during the lat
| ter part of the summer. His cottege there il
being painted, and new stables are in the course
| of erection.
Colonel James B. Fry, assistant adjutantgep
eral, United States army, has been granted one
years leave of absence ON a surgeons certif
| cate of disability, with permission to go be
yond the sea.
The English) Agricultural Gazette says thai
cases of passengers receiving an incurable dis
ease from the breath of glandered horses arr
rapidly increasing through the criminal neg
lect of drivers,
Count Beust is said to be the wittiest embas
sador in Europe. He has that great charm O
7 the humorist, grave demeanor-for he wa
originally intended for the pulpit-and his con
versation is full of brillianey.
The largest houses in England are Wrest
Earl Cowper's; Wentworth, Earl Fitzwilliam's
and Knobe, Earl Delawarr's, where there ar,
five acres of root: The largest in Ireland il
Gosford, Lord Gosford's, in Armah, and il
Scotland, Drumlanrig. ~ T
Negotiations are in Lrogress for the purchas,
by the British of Delagos Bay and the ada
cent territory in South Africa. from the Portu
guese. This purchase will give England th,
command of vast region, and will surround
Zululand on every side with British territory
The richest hotel man now living in the
United States issof Boston,, Mr.. Parker. HI
was worth 81, SOC, 600 few years ago, and ever
with the shrinkage that has taken place, is nov
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plain man from Maine, and FIRST figured in
Boston rs q coachman for q gentleman.
The sultan has sent to the Hospodar of Mon.
tenegro a letter of Solicitation ON the birth Of
the latter's second' son, containing the expires
sion of q hope that the good relations between
the two countries may hereafter be strengthne
| ed. In the four centuries of Montenegro
history this incident in absolutely unique.
Among the daily callers during Mr.. CARR
sons illaess was Mr.. Thurlow Weed, although
| it may be stated az curious fact that, not
withstanding both were printers, editors, ant
advocates of the same cause, Mr.. Garrison hac
never met Mr.. Weed personally until the latte
called upon him in his sick room two week.
ago. a
The Jews born in Servia have hitherto beer
permitted to settle and carry ON business only
in the towns Of Belgrade Posurevatz. Semen
dria and Schabatz. are now, in consequence o
petition they addressed to the home ministe
allowed to settle and trade in other towns o
the .,principality, where they may als'
build synagogues and schools. Public grant
will moreover be made to the teachers of Jew
ish schools in the new settlements, as hithert.
in Belgrade. nrTrYr1 Tn At
The Canada farmer says; A few sim
pie rules in the arrangement of fowe