The Red Cloud chief., 1879-07-24
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GEN. LoNGsTREEr is said to be max
ing money in the hotel business at At
lanta.
SENATOR BAYARD says ten million
people in the United States use tobacco.
A FARMER on the shores of Lake On
tario has had nine acres washed away
in 90 years. He is evidently losing
ground.
AN East Bridgeport (Vt.) woman, who
is crazy over the loss of her child, dress
es up a Cat and carries it about as il it
was a baby.
THE late Princess Christina Of Spain
had a romance in her life like ordinary
girls. She lost her heart TO q young
Englishman of inferior birth, and the
impossibility of marriage broke her
heart.
AN ignorant old negro went to a more
ignorant old doctor in Adair County,
Ga, for a prescription, and was given
81 large shot, to be taken nine at a dose.
The last dose killed him.
AHELPLEss paralytic at Dover, Mass,
is kept alive by constant motion, and
has been constantly rocked, night and
day, for several years. 1t is also neces-
sary to rub his limbs often to induce
circulation.
AN earthen bowl, filled with rice and
fish, and four lighted candles stuck into
it, and the whole surmounted by a Calls
head, was found on the stoop Of a New
Orleans house. Somebody had under
taken to put the inmates under a vou
doc spell.
A BOY in Crawford County, Ind,
married when he was IL, and was a ia
Their at Is. He lately married a second
wife, and now, at the age of so, is happy
with a second child. There is 62 years
difference between the ages of the two
children.
MAD. VALENTINE NREDENBURG of
New Orleans has just been awarded
$4,000 as damages sustained by her in
the loss of a husband, who was torn in
pieces several months ago by a bear in
n of the public parks.
FIVE negroes and one white mar have
had Delaware justice administered to
them from the lash of a tails.
The whipping took place at Newcastle,
and was viewed by a large crowd. The
Sheriff laid on the blows, but lightly,
and the prisoners seemed to think ii
pretty easy punishment.
A MARRIAGE performed by a COM
mander of a vessel at sea, and duly en-
tered in the log book, is considered legal
and accepted blythe Christian Church
in general; still, for fear of future d.
vorce cases, a bill is now before the En-
glish House of Commons to renCer such
marriages really legal.
THE safe in the Arlington mill at
Lawrence, Mass, was opened in the
night, three months ago, and $4,000
stolen. Paymaster Wainwright was
suspected, although he vas President OF
a Young Mems Christian Association,
and he was compelled to resign his po-
sition. The real thieves have just been
detected.
Mrs. BOsHART of Lowville, N. Y,
chloroformed a kitten rs the easiest way
to kill it, and the animal, placed in a
pasteboard box, was buried in the gar
den under a light covering of earth.
Two days later, Mr.. Boshart heard ii
mewing, and, upon unearthing the box,
the kitten crept out alive and sprightly.
No one familiar with the story OF
Judge Packers life can fail to be touch
ed by the allusion to his wife, who
shared both poverty and prosperity
with him-that she is to have whatever
she wishes out of his great estate, and
that all of his determination respecting
the distribution of his property are SUBJ
ject to this provision of the will.
A ROMANTIC young man of Darn
stadt and his betrothed tied themselves
together and jumped into a pond last
winter because the girls parents oppos'
ed their marriage. The GOODNESS of the
water chilled the young mans ardor,
and he disentangled himself and made
for the shore, leaving the damsel to her
fate. He was lately sentenced to three
years and nine msnths in prison for the
performance.
PRINCE GALITzIN, a young Russian
nobleman, converted by a bible given
him at the Paris Exposition, proposes to
build 80 bible kiosks and to fit up seven
bible carriages. He intends to travel in
Russia with Mr.. Clough of Paris, whom
he has engaged to have charge of these
carriages, saying: "Since Christ laid
down His precious life for me, l will give
my whole life and time and fortune fol
His service"
THE latest dodge by which charitable
people in England are imposed upon i:
very simple but ingenious one. A mar
carefully, but plainly, dressed, Visits the
churches, is overcome by faintness dur
ing the service, falls into the aisle and
is carried out, to the great disturbance
of the congregation. A pitiful tale Of
starvation and want is told in the vestry
when the man ~revives, and, of cours
a collection is made to relieve the pang.
of hunger which the "poor man suf
fers.
A WOMAN named Marceline Guiot, q
years of age, has Just been condemned
to death by the Court of Assize of the
Vienne, in France, for one of the mos
abominable crimes on record. Sh.
forced her step-daughter, q little girl O
s. to take with her soup 16 pins, two
needles, and some pieces of wood, and
the unfortunate child expired in the mos
horrible tormsnts. There could be ne
recommendation to mercy even from
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