Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-02-04
News and Other Items.

ing with great acceptance in Dublin.
Crime has of late been alarmingly on
the increase in Germany. Desperate
murders and robbeTies are almost daily
occurrence.
Iron hats have arrived at Dublin for
the protection Of Informer X errigan in
the Joyce case and the informers in the
Huddys case.
The New Orleans Picayu1< calls Fred
die Gebhardt tho Josh Billings Of love.
His bad spelling Is radient with senti-
ment and humor.
A Berlin correspondent OF the London
Daily Ne,os says the Gar is making
efforts to bring about the former friend
ly relations between Russia and Ger.
many.
1t is proposed to stop female labor in
the chain and nail shops in tho Black
Country, England, an infant having
been starved to death while its mother
was working,
British army statistics show that the
effective strength on January LIST 1882,
was lS9, 1873, against 1855, 95S at the same
time in 1881. The total number Of de-
sertions was 4,4l2, of whom 1853 re-
turned.
Gen. U. s. Grant has been asked to
accept the presidency OF the National
Rifle Association. 1t is thought that he
will do so. There are but few things he
would not accept. Anything that has q
presidency atteched goes with him.
Mr. Crawford, Glasgow merchant, is
about to present the city Of London with
statue Of Burns, at a cost of $4,000.
Mr.. Crawford is an Ayrshire man, as
Burns was. The statue will be placed
in the Thames Embankment Garden.
A small toy balloon, such as children
are wont to amuse themselves with, was
recently set adrift from a steamship
ashore near Dover, England, and in two
hours thereafter the message which IL
contained was posted in the town.
A pigeon match has been agreed upon
between Captain ). III. Bogardus and
Dr. w. +. Carver, to be shot at Louis
vile on February 22d, 100 birds each,
for 81 900. Five ground traps ore to be
used, and the London gun rules are to
govern.
The telegraph wires strung about the
Newhal House in Milwaukee prevented
the placing Of the firemen's ladders at
the windows. Mayor Stowell writes
that but for the obstruction caused by
these wires one-half of the lives lost
would have been saved.
Miles City, M. T., has a haunted
house--a genuine article, with a well.
behaved ghost in regular attendance.
Two families have vacated the premises
since the supernatural visitor moved in,
and the owner offers the house rent free
till the first OF May.
A bill is to be introduced in the House
making graduates of West Point serve
three years as on-commissioned officers
before getting their epaulettes. This is
to bring them into more perfect accord
and sympathy with the rank and file OF
the army. A strong lobby will oppose
the bill and prabably defeat it.
The London Times of January 18th
reports that Henry M. Stanley has
reached his scene OF activity on the
Congo, with 5000 tons of goods. The
stories circulated some time ago of his
serious illness in Paris and his sojourn
at Nice and in Spain were apparently a
ruse to conceal his actual movements.
According to the Publishers Circular
the number of religious works which
saw the light last year in England was
TS9, while the number of novels was
only 400. After this, remarks tho Lon.
don Truth, we shall, perhaps here less
about "the pernioious tendencies of
modern literature, very fa9orite topic
with sundry journals.
Samuel Langdon Terry is the most
written about young man in the present
Legislature. Mr.. Terry should not al
low himself to grow vain thereat, but
should remember that two sessions ago
Mr.. Braunhart was similarly treated. In
this case, however, we think il to be
brains that draws attention, while in the
other II was brass. Sacramento Bee.
Buffalo has an organization which has
found way to etfectually dispose of
tnmps. A woodward started year
and half ago has proved success.
Married men are given n cord or half a
cord to saw, and single men quarter of
cord. The former are paid by orders
on groceries for specified articles, and
the latter by orders on cheap lodging
house for lodging and meals.
The Methodist Episcopal pastor of
Birmingham, Ala, published a card in
which he said: "My church is for white
persons exclusively, and colored people
are not invited or expected to attend. :"
Revival meetings We're being held, and
negroes were attending them in consid.
cradle numbers. The excuse for their
exclusion was that their presence him
dered the work among white sinners.
The ministers course has been strongly
condemned, but the Atlanta Methodist
Adrocate defends him, declaring that
"the conferences in the South need at
least twenty more like him.
Tehama county has on her hands a
prisoner, charged with assault to mur-
der, who possesses both heroism and a
conscience. He was confined in the jail
at Red Bluff when case of small -pox
occurred therein, and with one or two
other prisoners was sent to the pest,
house. Shortly afterward one Of the
other men ran away and has not been
heard from, but Stevens remained, wa,
taken down with the disease and re
covered. He was allowed his liberty for
several days, and inally-after having
been provided with new clothing and
his person disinfected- came volun
tarily 10 town and gave himself up tC
the authorities, saying that he was in
nocent of crime and believed that the
law would deal Justly with him. Most
men would have decamped at least MS
soon rs they recovered their health,
there having been nothing to hinder es,
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