The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ex-Minister Christiancy is unable to get an
clue to the jewelry stolen from his room in
Washington.
Mr.. Chauncy Warner, of Cambridge, Vt,
has given $4,000 to establish and endow a
home for destitute children in st. Adams.
Grand jury returns seven indictments against
Captain Howgate, six for embezzlement and
one for forgery.
1t is thought Messrs. Upton, French and
Lamphere will soon retire from the treasury
department. the first named official has already
gone west on private business.
The crews Of the e-saving steamers are
threatening to resign owing to inadequate
pay.
Some rs Baltimore merchants and manufac-
turers visited the Atlanta exposition on the
2lst and were formally welcomed by Gov. Col
quit. Another suit of clothes was made that
day from cotton growing in the morning.
There seems to be a good amount of enterprise
down south yet.
Colonel Needham, who examiHd the affairs
OF the Pacific National BaR, believes that Its
capital OF $l,OOO0% and the additional
$l'ooo,oOO Tor Which its stockholders can be
drawn hj6n will be enough to pay Its creditors
Pull.
Clara Louise Kellogg, it is announced has
informed her troupe that her marriage will
take place in the spring. Mr.. Whitney of
phiIoduIphio In ha v,roanact;xo r,.oo,,
The Wabash river is running very high and
fears are entertained Of great damage in the
lew lands.
The Union Pacific railroad company is ne
gotiating for tunnel, constructed for mining
purposes ashort distance north Of Georgetown,
Col, as part Of the railroad line through the
Rocky Mountains. The tunnel when CON-
pleted will be five miles long, and will save
about 400 miles distance to San Francisco.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt arrived in New York
from Europe on Sunday last.
The great murder trial lie the social sensation
at Washington, and is likely to remain 30 until
the assembling Of Congress and the opening of
the winters regular round of gayety. A IA
vOrite rendezvous for ladies is the court room,
where the ordinary attraction, man on tria
for his life Is supplemented by Guiteau's bois
ferrous conduct. Four-flfths of the seats for
the public are occupied by ladies, who, when
not lunching from baskets, listen with intense
eagerness to the story OF the murder, while
bursts of merriment, caused by facetiOus wit
nesses, occasionally enliven the scene. The
Sun very pertinently remarks: "It would be
well to have care that this gravest trial OF
our day should not take on the features of
fashionable or popular show"
Illinois board Of health proposes to keep all
children out Of the public schools after Janu-
airy 1st who have not been vaccinated.
The Bay Of Fundy, at st. John, N. B., quar-
rying company is embarrassed by the suspen-
sion Of the Pacific bank, Boston.
The society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals offers to pay $50 for the conviction
Of any person fighting dogs, cocks or shooting
any animal for u wager. also a reward Of 1926
for the conviction of the keeper of any place
kept or used for such purpores.
Lake BEAUFORT, near Quebec, is frozen over
Mr.. Scovills and Guitsau divided the atten-
ton Of the court and jury on Tuesday, the
former finishing bis ingenious address, the lat
ter giving vent to frequent exhibitions of i'm
prudence and passion. The burden OF Mr.
Scoville's speech was that Guiteau inherite
the faint Of insanity, that all through bis life
instances Of his mental alteration have been
numerous, and, finally, that he was not of
sound mind when he shot the President on the
I'd Of July.
VIM. Walter Phelps, Minister to Austria
writes resigning his consulate, wishing to re-.
turn to America
It IL reported that Mrs. Christiancy on the
2srd inst, partially crazed by her trouble,
started out on perambulating tour through
the streets OF Washington clothed only in her
night-robes. The janitor Of the police court
secured a carriage and returned with her to
Major Powell, chief Of the United States &C.
illogical survey, is suffering from severe afro
ton OF the eyes. 1
Portland, Me-, lawyer brings suit for Sl0,-
600 against seven students Of Bowdoin college
for damages resulting to his son from hazing.
The Railroad Gazette announces the con-
struction OF 6,241 miles OF railroad during
1881. f9rEssE - 80 r., y. -
About ninety-ive per cent Of the cost OF the
United States postal service is paid by those
who use It and the remaining FIVE per cent Is
paid out Of the general treasury.
An old WORKOUT oil well near Warren, Pa,
has started afresh, and now produces 500 bar
rels per day. eiil
Examiner Needbam states that II the Pacific
bank Is able TO pay the S550,0O0 duo the Cen
raj bank, Boston, the latter will not be reor-
gsnized.
One thousand six hundred and seventeen
immigrants arrived in New York the day be-
fore thanka0iviuO