Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-26
Notes and News.

Notes and News.
Gathered From Various Exchanges.
There were $50 fires in Toxic last year.
The Altoona Bulletin is the latest ven-
ture.
The majority OF the girls married in
Warren county, Ky, last year were mere
children, their ages running from Is to IL.
was estimated ut $40. 42S. 900, and in 1890
it had increased to s94, $4,000
" Billy the Kid," the notorious outlaw,
W as shipped West by New York society
for procuring homes Tor friendlcss chill
dren.
An Altoona young man MAS kicked cut
of 4 hotel, across the sidewalk to car
riage in which his aifanccd was awaitin.
him.
Several of the European governments
arc joining in an appeal to the Russian
court respecting the bitter persecution Of
the Jews That is dissracins i!ussia.
York county is the banner county for
the Lutheran church. Within its bounds
are about 5000 members Of tie general
synod Lutheran church.
A ST. Louis man fell from shot tower.
Every bone in his body was broken and
his remains had to be taken up in pieces,
they being torn almost into sireads.
The Princess Sun-ta what of Siam, and
her child fell into the water and drowned
because it is q capital crime for any but
the King to touch the person of royalty.
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n. ", has an apple tree well loaded with
half grown fruit and also bearing i num-
ber of clusters of blossoms just opening.
The bral,emen on railroads find it
quite difficult to get their lives insured.
1t is estimated that there arc 1T least ten
brakemcn killed throughout the country
every day.
The four citizens, one an alderman, of
Wilkcsbarre who prosecuted the liquor
dealers, have been convicted of conspiracy
to extort money. Three are in Jail and
one, the alderman, has skipped.
The Egyptian government has abolished
slavery within its dominions so far as to
forbid any person from being made a slave
in the future. AS the present slaves die
out slavery rs al institution dies out with
them.
A Green county, Ga, farmer says that
if melon vines arc clipped off about six
inches from the root after the first crop
is gathered they will sprout and bear Il
second crop that will be finer than the
first.
The grassh"ppcrs gathered i close har-
vest of the crops of Jacob W. Everhart, in
Penn township, Indiana. Timothy, rye
and wheat. cabbage and tobacco plants,
currant bushes, corn and clover are eaten
to the stem.
The Scotch definition of metaphysics is,
after all. not bad one "Twa men are
talking together. He that's listening dinna
ken what he that's speaking means and
he that's speaking dinna ken what he
means himseii-that' 5 metaphysics
Danbury, Conn, has been indulsing in
a new enemy of the potato. that begins ut
the top of the vine and eats down the cen
tire to the bottom, destroying it entirely.
1t is 4 slender, striped wurm. from one
half to threc-Gui.tcrS of IN inch in
length.
Letters from Wcs: Africa concerning
Stanlcy's Congo expedition show that he
is pushin" his way toward the interior ur-
der many difficulties, cutting road over
mountains which are very steep, at an
angle of sixty degrees and making very
slow progress.
Some idea of the temptation placed be-
fore tile Easton posto!ficc clerk, who rob-
bed the mails. may be gained from the
testimony OF the postmaster. who said the
registered letter clerk handled tens of
thousands Of dollars Il year and received
salary Of - cents day.
There has been 3,41S miles of new rail |
road constructed in the United States this |
year to date. against 2,22S miles reported
at the corresponding time in 1880. ,035
miles in 1879. 791 miles in 1878, .1O
miles i'll 1877. SIC miles in 1876. 457 miles
in 1915, 81 miles in 1874 and 1878 miles
in 1875.
Vernon Duilcc, ten years old, son Of
Charles Dn;iea of South Oil City, while
Oh 4 visit to his grandmother, Mrs. Max
we'll, ha,! driven some COWS from the pas
turc to the barn. which is hung oil rollers
at the top it toppled over on him. smoth-
cring hm to death iii the mad and water
beneath.
A runner snake ran ahead of an express
train on the Shenandoah Valley railroad
for about y miic, and escaped the track,
although the train was flying at tho rate
of fifty miles an hour The snake was
SCCu - ittii uC.tti st!ftt, Says InC teTaClOuS
chronicier, was found to have been burned
to death by the intense heat of the rail-
The year of 1878 was strangely fatal to
Italy. The first Italian General, La Mar
mora; the first king Of Italy, Victor
Emanuel the first infalIible Pope, Plus
lA the first astronomer, Padre Secchi,
and the first international arbitrator,
Sclopis, died in less than three months. |
Monuments to each have now been put up !
and arc continually being multiplied.
The PHILADELPHIA Inquirer states that |
maritime circles are still asitated over the |
Delaware pilotage law. 1t is thought by
some that the opposition to tho law will
result in two sets Of pilots, the pilots act.
ing under :hc Delaware law to bring
vessels from the D:eakwater to Marcus
Hook, from whence they will be brought
into port by Pennsylvania pilots, and vice
versa on Outward-boun vessels.
Secretary Window has appointed Hon.
Sherman o. lIoughton, of California, and
Hon. Thos. $. Young, Of Ohio, as agent
of the treasury department to assist Gen
eral II. Alexander Ramsay, of Wisconsin,
in investigating charges made by Repre-
sentative Page, of California. against
Superintendent Dodge. of the San Fran
cisco mint. All these gentlemen are now
in California and will begin the investiga-
tiOn this week.
As flock of sheep, about one hundred
in number, were being driven down Mich
i0an avenue ChicsUn oro oc <I,ao, <ooi- |