Morris tribune., 1881-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The number OF clergyman whose homes
are in Brooklyn is 449.
Michigan has produced pig with
trunk This should be checked.
General Grant has been unanimously
elected president of the Worlds Fair COM
mission.
The population of the United States &C.
cording to the complete official returns is
so, 152 ,S66.
From the way Maud S, is improving,
Mr.. Vanderbilt feels confident she will trot
next season in zoo.
Disturbances continue in Ireland, and
several acts of lawlessness, attributed to
the Fcnians, have been committed in En-
gland.
For the first time in ten years Tennessee
has republican governor. Alvin Haw
kins is his name and he was inaugurated
Monday.
There are sixty six thousand schools and
colleges in India, with an attendance of
one million nine hundred thousand
boys and girls.
Ben. Butler was the choice of the Massa-
chusetts legislative democratic caucus for
senator, being nominated by reclamation.
| Ben. wont be elected.
Thomas Ross, the inventor of the How
scales, was killed in Rutland, Vermont,
last week. by the bursting of an emery
wheel, near which he was standing.
In Winnipeg during the severe GOODNESS,
of which we had mild sample, it is
stated that the COWS, even when MIXED
beside red hot stove, gave ice cream.
The horse ridden by Wilkes Booth, in
his attempt to escape after the assassina-
ton of Lincoln, is yet alive and owned by
IA gentleman in Arlington. Connecticut.
memorial for the admission of south
rrn Dakota, and a division of the terri
ftory at the forty sixth parallel, passed the
territorial legislature, now in session at
Yankton, last week.
The Detroit Free Press says: "The
average woman does not pretend to be-
lieve half she reads or what her ncghbors
tell her. 1t is only when she wlacks up a
dollar to a clairvoyant that she expects to
get the real old solid gospel TRUTH"
"Finangelist" is the new term invented
by The Advance for the ''church debt
RAISER" Mr. Kimball. 1t regards MIR. Kim,
balls work as among the grand phenome
ma of the time. He has raised abont So,
5000 to lquidate existing church debts
and as much more has been raised or saved
through his agency.
"The Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government history of the late war,
written by jeff. Davis, is in the hands of
the printers, and about half completed. i!
will be finished in two months. Davis has
been engaged five years on the work,
which is dedicated to the widows and
orphans of men WHO died for the cause.
"You ought to have been to the painter
mine," said Jimmy Tuffboy. "That's the
fun More pounding with stuffed clubs
and smashing window glass, and stealing
sausage, and getting the best of the cop
and, and OIL" "'Twasnt half so funny as
the picnic at our house last night" said the
listener. "Pa chucked the servant cir
under the chin and ma caught him at it
Maybe there wasn't a pantomime then"
Neso Haren Register.
AT San Francisco, on Monday, George
Hines put revolver in his pocket and say
ing to his partner I'm going to have tina
girl or kill her." proceeded to the residence
of Lizzie Kuene, glrl of eighteen, liv
ing with her widowed mother. He re
newed former proposals of marriage ant
being refused drew his pistol and said '1'l
kill YOU" Miss Kuenc however was too
quick for him, she siezed shot gun. go
the drop on him and blazing away killed
him instantly.