The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-10
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
AT Pensacola, Fla, turtles weighing
$50 pounds are caught.
THE building for the Melbourne In
ternationa Exhibition is to cost f95,-
600.
SAMUEL MORGAN, formerly 8 MEM
Der Of the Vermont Legislature, gces to
prison for forgery.
IT is proposed to celebrate at Pompeii
this summer the eighteen hundredth an
niversary of the destruction of that city
by an eruption from Vesuvius.
THE Rev. NJ. L. johnson of Georgia,
VT, has obtained a medical diploma,
and hereafter will attend TO both the
spiritual and bodily ills Of his Metho-
dist congregation.
A MAN in Southwark, Wis.,, kept his
mother-in-law in subsection by firing a
revolver over her head whenever she
d~ispleased him. He has at length graz
ed her scalp with q bullet and been ar
rested.
TIE Municipal Council of Paris have
refused to allow the grand equestrian
statue of Charlemagne to be erected in
one Of the public places, the reason be-
ing that the hero in question was a
s'tamer of people,"
OVER $1,000 head of cattle are shut
up on the grazing range in Nebraska,
between the two forks of the Platte Riv-
er. The deep SHOWS prevent their
reaching the grass, and some have al.
ready starved. Fears are entertained of
the loss of the entire herd.
THE rival makers of baking.powders
disagree as to whether alum in bread is
injurious; but there can be no doubt
that arsenic is much worse. Mrs. Grant
Of Springfield, Mass, used so much of
the poison in q loaf that the family only
escaped death by the great size of the
dose.
The project of a canal between the
Rhine and the Mas seems at last to ap-
proach realization. The city of Crefeld
has declared its readiness to pay $780,
900 toward it,and it is confidently hoped
that low both the Prussian the Dutch
Governments will grant the necessary
additional funds. r
The Chicago Poorhouse became such
a resort for the county officials, for
whose benefit the Superintendent gave
elaborate dinners whenever called on to
do SO, that the Supervisors have passed,
not without strong opposition, a resolu.
ton forbidding any body but the pau
pers and employees to cat or drink in the
Institution.
THERE are in Russia many obscure
sects whose rites are on a level with
those OF the most barbarous savages.
The disappearance of sundry children
has resulted lately in the discovery of a
sect who hold that real blood should
take the place of wine at the Lords
Supper, and whose agents abducted and
killed infants to supply this.
NOTWITHSTANDING that the Govern
ment experts appointed to examine into
the desirability of a Government monop-
oily of the sale of tobacco, and the
Prussian Cabinet itself, are opposed to
it, a bill introducing the measure is be-
Ing prepared in the Imperial Chancery,
for opposition merely makes Prince
BiSm arck the more determined to have
his W way.
A SALT well at LIE Roy, N. Y, had
been bored to the depth of $50 feet,
when a rush of gas was ignited at the
mouth by contact with a stove, and the
blaze rose a hundred feet in the air. A
volume of water came next, smelling
and tasting strongly of sulphur. The
superstitiOus workmen fled in dismay, |
supposing that the Internal regions had
been tapped.
Four Boston girls, ranging from 8 to
II years of age, have been caught pick
ing pockets. They have worked mainly
in Methodist revival meetings, where
the crowding and the fervor made the
women careless as to their valuables.
Ninety handkerchiefs were found in the
little thieves room, besides many emp.
tied p~ocket-books and articles of jew
elry.
In Australia the anti Chinese agita-
ton gains in strength every day. The
Parliament of Queensland has passed
various bills to restrict the immigration,
but, as they conflicted with the treaty
between Great Britain and China, they
have been practically disallowed by the
Home Government, although subse.
quently the latter stretched q point so
far as to assent to q measure which is
prohibitory to a certain extent.
A YOUNG widow in Vicksburg an
swered a matrimonial advertisement, and
a long correspondence ensued, resulting
in a visit by the man. He was good
had pleasant manners, and
represented that he was a prosperous
New York merchant. The widow mar. ,
ried him, and two weeks of honeymoon
passed pleasantly. Then the husband .
disappeared, and has never returned to .
his bride. His motive in this adventure .
seems to have bees pure love of devil :
Try, for he made no sttempt to get any !
Of the woman's money, sud was ex- ,
Iremely liberal in his expenditures. /.