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The brooklyn rre.byt,ry acquitted
Dr Talmage.
The Woodruff scientific Expedition vas
abandoned Tor want OF patronage.
Jenny Liod j. uow gray haired old
lady, Who wears a cap and = White cash
mere shaw
-Genrge Eiiut'- overwhelming grief at
the death OF her husband T. reported to
have 80 aggravated an ncurable Internal
malady that her health ), hopcies-ly shat
tered
~ The Philadelphia FINES thinks there Is
Que financial scheme on which al parties
eau unite, namely. the abolition OF twenty
cent pieces.
Several OF the rOcasset Adveniists ties
tined Thursday. that ,hey did not reveal
The murder OF the Freeman child FOR fear
il would prejudice their religion.
The late Bishop Amcs /. characterized
by the Christian AirOcl,e as "the great
Methodist statesman OF the last half ecu
fury. IL was a. statesman that he reu-
dcred his most valuable service to the
church, and displayed his greatest ability.
An elephant died recently in Calcutta
which Is said to have been ridden BY War
ren Hastings when Governor General NJ
India, hundred years ago. lie may prob
ably have been any years old at that time.
During the two years last past, the
prizes for The best managed farms In Ire
land have invariably been taken by those
who have taken partial courses in, or who
have graduated from, the various agricul-
tlral schools.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was not ashamed
upon occasion 10 play nurse. Il IS re-
corded OF him that be WAS often seen on
pleasant summer afternoons In Salem.
irundling hi. baby-carriage around the
paths OF the Common In solitary and Sc
date meditation.
Some OF the New York society ladies
insist on having carriage horses Of the
same color their own hair. Thus
woman we'll advanced ia life has gray
horses, or, ii very old, clear white; q bru-
uette drives black or brown, and a blonde,
chestnut or sorrel.
-Miuuesota never had such a rush Of
settlers as have locked into the State this
spring. Three trains heavily loaded with
Immigrants are sent ont OF St. Paul every
morning and most Of the new corners set
tie in the State. too.
A lady told Mr.. Bersh lately that she
had bequesthed s25 900 to his society. and
another lady LEFT small parcel with
card, as follows: Nine dollars. contents
OF the mite ches; of little girl (now dead)
whose money was 10 go to Mr.. Bersh's
poor dogs.
Francis +. Hayden OF Fitchburg. Mass.
is arrested, charged with poisoning his
sister Sarah T.. with arsenic. May 2n1, she
dying the following day. The bodies of
his father who died April 10TH and his
mother. April 18th. both after a short sick
ness, will be disinterred aud examined Tor
traces OF poisoning. The object seems to
have been to obtain their property.
-Ishmael Lee, pioneer IN Iowa and an
original abolition.t, died week or two !
ago While living in Michigan Ia early
DAYS he helped many an escaped slave on
his way TO freedom. Jourueying In IndI- |
ana once, he found slave mother and two
children who had been lett by their escap-
iny companions, The woman being i'll aud |
unable TO go further. Ishmael Lee took |
them into his covered wagon aud started |
on the road to the North. The pursuing |
owner OF the three fugitives overlook and |
talked with him, but providentially did not |
look into his wagon nor ask II he had seen !
them. They escaped la safety Lee was
All ardent admirer of Mr.. Blaine, and when |
the Senstor made speech at Des Moines |
last year the former went 10 hear him |
The crowd was so great that he had ditfi- |
Guilty in finding a place in which to hear
plainly; and just as Blaine began to speak |
Lees right arm was broken BY an acct |
dent. Nevertheless he stood quietly list |
ening tor an hour and hall with his |
broken arm, aud would not 60 to doc
tor and have IL set until the Senator had |
ended his speech.
Capt. James II. Stinson, who died very !
suddenly Of heart disease, at his residence |
In Andover. Mass, last week, was widely |
known in the merchant marine service, |
with which he was connected for some !
tbirty-six years. He sailed from Boston |
in the Buenos Ayres trade, for . long time
and, subsequently,, was 10 the East India |
trade. He was on board the last northern
vessel (the ship Amity) that left the port
Of Charleston previous to the rebel attack |
upon Fort Sumter. He left the sea and |
settled In AndOver in 1870. and has since |
resided there. He had suffered for some |
years rom heart disease, and his death was |
undoubtedly accelerated by excitement |
caused by Win, s>ing the attack Of large |
do. upon his little Erandchild, 3 years old,
sOn Of Manager Pred Stinson, Of the How |
ard lhen&um. He rescued the child, !