Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-09
Caa, Mias ExpIosiuo.
Selected News Reading.

A new species of the tea shrub
has been found near Trebizond, in
Armenia. A demand for It has
sprung up In Persia.
A religious Bsvarisn journal de-
clares that Szegedin was the Sod
ON and Gnmorrah Of Hungary,
and says that the flood was retribu-
tioD.
A factory IN Hanover, Germany,
makes glass in close imitation of
marble, and the tables, foor-tiles.
etc, which ii turDs out are prefer
able to marble on account of super
ior hardness.
The Rev. Stephen Rasco, Baptist
as,or aud postmaster at Mattewan,
3 'ch., is sud 10 be insane. There
bar been not hing erratio in his pull
conduct, but In the postofflce he
stg money from letters.
Am Elephant died recently Ia CAL
cuff which is said t. have been
rit ~ by Warren Hastings when
Governor General of India, hum
dred years ago. He may probs bl Y
have been 30 years old at that
time.
The Scotch have reputation for
gravity, yet Punch receives more
Jokes from Scotland than from any
other part of the United Kingdom.
The Scotch also do more laughing
at theaters than either the English
or the Irish.
A crazy woman IN Lawrence,
Mass, believing that she was di
vinely commissioned to assassinate
Father Coleman, sprang over the
chancel rail, IN ST Mary's Church,
ami lunged at him with n knife.
John G. Cheney Is, according to
his advertisements, "Vermont's
gifted young temperance orator."
but his labor in Northampton,
Mass, has been interrupted by his
arrest for bigamy. He has three
wives.
The municipality of Paris lately
formally accepted the legacy of
$479, 600 bequeathed ty Nine. Rls-
sini to found an asylum at Passy for
indigent French and italian musi-
clans. There will be accommoda-
tions for more than hundred.
Establishments for the refining
of petroleum are increasing fast IN
Japan. The existence of petrole-
um in several OF the provinces has
been known for twelve centuries,
but 1t was only six years ago that
the Japanese learned how to refine
it.
The late Mr.. McGahn, the London
NeWs correspondent who first di-
rected attention to the Bulgarian
atrocities, is being all but conon-
ized by the Bulgarian natives in
gratitude for his fearless services to
them. They are about to hold
| high religious services in his MEM
ory on the anniversary of his death,
and Prof. Muller OF the st. Peters.
burg University il about to write
his biography for distribution
among the Slavonic race.
General tie Hon. Henry H.
Clifford, the senior of the four Major.
Generals sent out with reinforce
m-nts to Zululand. and who il con.
8. quentiy likely to succeed Lord
Chelmsford and Sir Bartle Frere,
Is a member OF au old Roman
Catholic family, being the brother
of Lord Clifford and OF the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Clifton.
A man in Portland, Me-, intends
to publish book entitled "Amer-
lean Peerage." His circular Gays
there are many descendants of
titled perssns in the United States,
and he begs that families of such
distinction will send him informa-
tion, particularly as to the lives Of
two or three of the great men the
family has produced in America.
The Paris Univers says that the
celebrated Statesman, Lord RipOD,
formerly u Protestant and a Free
Ma+on, now fervent Roman
Catholic, has purchased the sauctu-
AIRY aud cIositer of st. Damian,
near the town Of Assist, in Italy, in
order to preserve those monuments
for the piety of the faithful and the
admiration of artists. H Is about
to establish an orphanage there.
Mile. de Macleff daughter Of o
rich Russian, has been arrested H.
ST Petersburg for connection with
u Nihilist conspiracy. She 10 but
twenty years Of age, ana lies ia
chains in the citadel of Kiew
where the Countess Panin aud the
daughter of General Gertsfeld are
confined under similar charge
The young ladies gained their rev
oIutionary ideas from fir quentint
lectures at the State University
The present heads Of the housr'
Of Norfolk aud Sn, herland have foI
the first time in their history absn
doned the Liberal party and Joine'
the standard OF the Earl of Beacons
field. The Duke of Norfolk owe
his liberty to sit in the House o
Peers TO the Liberal party, who re
msiuea out of power for years OF
account OF their support of Calho
lie emsncipation. 4r,d the nrta -
.U.-.O t.s I.ihed4m rpm lhenl.