The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-20

RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA.
HONE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
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The debt of New York City, on JAN
uary 81, amounted to s1l4, 800, 1918
AMAN living IN Battie Greek, Mich,
BY smoking 20 or 80 cigars . day has
become a victim OF delirium tremens.
One night recently at Andover, Mass /,
a woman gays birth 20 tripiefs, and one
day after, in-the same house. her mar
ried daughter followed with Twins.
MRS. DIR. AMEs, Of Minneapolis, has
a lemon tree planted in 1857, IN fuil
bloom, and bearing 30 full-grown lem
ons Of fine quality pendent from It's
branches.
MISS MARY j. WADLEIGH, OF Sutton,
Mass, has no fewer than 100 pet cats,
and when one of them dies she has 1t
buried, and its grave marked by a neat
monument.
A LADY in Hungary has the distaff
used by Marie Antoinette In spinning
during her imprisonment. It is OF WOOD
and ivory, inlaid with silver, and still
bears the hemp left upon it by the i'll
fated queen on the ' OF her execution.
IT is a curious fact that no attempts
have been made to tame and utilize d
African elephant for draft purposes: 1t
is now proposed TO import trained In
dian elephants and experiment with q
herd of wild elephants which are now IN
the neighborhoOd of Port Natal
A BUCKsKIN pony, which, it is said,
Gen. Gushing rode in Mexico o
brought back with him TO Newburyport'
is now owned by a resident OF Ipswich
Mass. He is represented TO be Al years
old, and still ready for his share OF work
when called upon.
THE Worlds Fair at Sydney, Austria
liza, to be opened on the list of mex
August, will be chiefly contributed to by
the mother country and the United
States. Two ship-loads of American
machinery and products are to be ex-
hibited.
CANADA has abandoned special efforts
to induce immigration, and her agents
abroad, who have for years been hold
ing out all sorts of inducements, are to
be recalled. The trouble about the bus
mess has been that, while Canada paid
the heavy expenses, the United States
received a large share of the benefit.
Miss CHLOE LANKTON, of New Hart
ford, Conn.,, has just completed the col
lection of one million Cancelled postage
stamps. She began in October last, a
gentleman in Philadelphia having offer
ed her $500 if she would get the stamps
for him, the money to be used in getting
for her a life residence in a home for the
friendless.
THE Sultan's private palace is the only
par: of the Turkish domains in Cyprus
which the English have not purchased.
This will be q good place of refuge for
the owner when ConstantinOple becomes
too hot for him, as is likely to be the
case if the recent reports of conspira-
cies be true.
NEW ORLEANS is happy over the es-
tablisnment of q line of fruit steamers
to the Mediterranean. There will be
four steamers, which will land their al
goes in a month after leaving Messina
and Palermo, and will restore to New
Orleans her old supremacy in supplying
the West and South with fruit and Med
~itcrranean produce.
THE Society of Adventists at Battle
Creek, Mich, purpose to set up an indie
pendent kingdom. They are building
a paper mill, and already possess a SAN
itarium costing $685. 00, a tabernacle
worth $4,000, a college worth $40, 900,
and a printing-office and bindery worth
$4,000. Hard. work and freedom from
fashionable expense have made them
rich.
The ladies of Virginia are to erect at
Winchester, June 6, q shaft memorial
to the Confederate dead. 1t will be in
height % feet, the base four feet broad.
The column will be made of the finest
Italian marble, and surmounted by a
funeral urn and drapery, and the base
of Richmond granite. On its front will
be the coat-of-arms of the State, and on
the different panels will be appropriate
inscriptions.
ONE of the merchants of Barlow, Ca,
recently contracted with the son of a
farmer to deliver him an unlimited sup
ply of 'possums at so cents a head. He
thought the boy could not capture more
than two or three at the outside, but
what was his surprise when four days
afterwards the young man drove up
with 80, and excused himself by saying
that he had only hunted two nights, and
they were not good nights for catching
'possums, either. The contract was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on the ground that
the market was, already oyerstocked.
MRS. ELIZABETH LEONARD, widow of
Thomas Leonard, lately died at Granite
vile, S. c., at the great age of 107 years.
At her funeral was her only surviving
son, ove 80 years of age, and there al
SO stood around the grave q grandchild
Sc years old, several great-grandchil-
dren over 40 years of age, great-great-
grandchildren Is years old and a num-
Der of reat-great-great -grandchildre
five generations in all. There are liv-
ing at present 80 of her descendants and
210 have died.
Gov. JARVIS, of North Carolina, thus
describes himself: "In my childhood
/ read about the Governor of North
Carolina, and invested him with the
highest honors that befall mankind. As
I toiled and lsbored on q little farm by
the side of the sea, in noble old Curri-
tuck, l wondered if it were possible for
me to reach that high and exalted po-
sition. The prospect then seemed
gloomy. but l said l will try. eGuided
in all things by the lessons Of honesty
and integrity taught me by q ,pisas
mother and q holy father, aided by de-
voted and generous friends, and favored
by a noble and chivalrous people, 1 have
to-day reached the goal Of my youthful
ambition"
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