Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM AMERICAN  JOURNALS.  The horses in Wisconsin are dying of a mysterious  Brigham Young pronounces his benedictions in de. tall ; they frequently equal in length a floe-minute speech. '  About one million children gather weekly in the Methodist Suildsy s, hools of the United States, and are instructed by 160,000 teachers.  Artemus Ward's estate, it is announced, will be lees than 16,000 dollars.  The negroes of St. Louis have started a semi. monthly paper, called the Neu, Era.  - - • It may not he generally known that Kansaa is more than twice as large as the State of Nev York. A petition in favour of the eight-hour law signed by 500 000 names, is about to be laud before the American Con - Miss Nellie Marshall, a contributor of sketches to the cheap weeklies of New York, publicly denies that elle is to marry an English lord. Lord and Lady Amberley are mentioned as visiting the public institutions of Ruston, in which they are greatly Interested. The most surprising religious change recently reported is the conversion of a Mormon elder to Catholicism. The manufacture of flax in Illinois ha in a prosperous condition ; the flax mills there are now worked to the extent of their capacity. A boy in New London last week tried to stand on his head, and so injured his neck that he has not been aide to raise his head since. The Rev. Mr. O'Neill, a coloured preacher, has been arrested at Indianapolis for marrying a ci loured roan and white woman. in violation of the Indiana marriage law. The total number of passengers carried over the St. Louie city railways in October was 1,529,185, being an Increase of 215,073 over the same month last year. In Maine, especially in the large cities, it is reported that wood is being gradually superseded by coal as fuel, the latter being much the cheaper. A miller in Maine is said to have fallen into the wheel pit of ha mlii recently, and executol several rapid and involureary gyrations, but was rescued uninjured. General Sherman has issued an order announcing that peace has been male with the Rinses, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapahae Indiana The right of the Indians to hint gauss in the unsettled lauds of Kansas, Nebraska, and Co;orado is to be respected.  Thirty bakers in Baltimoro have been arrested charged with violating the city bread ordinance, and tev,ral thoussni lotees of bread seized and conliscated by the public authorities.  At the annual meeting of the New England Hospital for W.,men wol (Ankh-au it was reported that the whole her of notienta treated Were wail C 055, thvhlca sarong thirteen different nationalities.  --It is stated that about 70.000 person in the United State, on the Methodist Church annually on probation, but go no further—that is, they do not come into full corn. amnion. A Mr. Carter was murdered recently near Wins. boro, La ,by two outlaws. Two freedmen, who happened to be at w,rk in a field near by, and witnessed the murder, were also killed by the murderers, to silence their testimony. One of the criminals has been captured. A wonderful story is related of a lady in Wismnsin, Who plunged into a mill-point to save two boys from drowning Her cr.n.dine floated her, And eliogniz to that the b were kept above Water, and the what party drifted safely to the shore.  Ti.anrezard ha c arranged for the application of a pateeteel electric break t the can of the New Orlean% Jacks., bold Great North, rti Rinrocd, of which he I. pre., deht hie breok Is a French aiventiea. It is manipulated by the emonfer.  A Maine newspaper accounts forth, visinesa of the Shoe hueness in that State by the statement vcst. " the terdy arrival of cold weather causes people to wear old slims Binger than usual, and dimise,shes the demand." A New York street railway was taken up and it is said that the wooden sleepers were tome' to have printed their exact represeutatios mithe trpn The or, knots, anti mirvatures, were essay detected, both by the eye I o qe touch. A nsturailst in Boston has discoverel th, source -f arnsshrirmer nlnsin WO [nateu thwt-rhh4Rtinfng hrun (wed' hy the fir .-imPivers are caused oy ploy lug on tI.O r whit, like a fiddle with their hin i legs used as the bow. Dlierent kinds of locusts play differently In line and tune.  -A_