Show NEWS ITEMS THE local editor of the richmond bich Eich mond indiana telegram recently passed a comfortable corner residence in this CRY city s and from the open windows of the parlors the note notes s f from KOM a pianoforte piano forte poured forth accompanied by the inevitable oh who will care for mother now assing passing aroun around the corner his way led by the window indo of the kitchen hitchen kitchen and over I 1 the e sten steaming in coo cooking ing stove and surrounded with it all the appurtenances of cooking he had bad the opportunity of witnessing dear mother caring for herself and aalthe all ali the tho family besides his admiration for the daughters musical talents underwent a collapse A COR correspondent corresponded NT of the sacramento union linion writing from idaho territory mentions the subject of the rival routes from san ban francisco to montana and as he a appears to h have ave traveled over all of the them spears his opinion is worthy of some notice he condemns the columbia and colorado river routes in toto tote and says that by the humboldt chico or austin are the only ones that nature ever intended and it is for the interests of california to open them reese reese heese river eiver reveille A and schoolhouse school house in henry county ind have lately been burned because a negro preacher lately held forth in them by invitation AN ill treated wife sued for a divorce in springfield mass the other day and the judge justice biglow after hearing her evidence as to her husbands cruelty I 1 decided the case in her favor without further ado and said that in a case of violence by a husband to the wife he would not hear all the points before deciding in favor of the latter the woman might forgive cruelty towards herself but bi the court would not AN interesting and important de cission touching the res responsibility of common carriers has just been decided at milwaukee in which the american express company are made to pay two hi indred dollars for damage done to a cremona fiddle while in transportation notwithstanding the attempted waiver of responsibility exceeding fifty dollars expressed ex expressed presse d on the companas comp anys blank receipts IT is stated that a rich gold placer has been discovered in the franconia mountains new hampshire within the limits of the town of lisbon and a company of hartford and springfield men with a capital of has been formed to work it every dollar of stock hav having ing been disposed of they have leas leased ed si six bix x hundred acres for one hundred years AN irish paper says that one unexpected and curious effect of the cattle disease in england has been to raise the value of goats to an extraordinary in ary degree these hitherto despised animals are re now exported in considerable numbers from ireland and have been sold in several english counties at from four to five pounds each the ordinary price being not over ten shillings tim THE pittsburg gazette says that a coal company has piled near honesdale Ho in that state tons of coal coal said to be the largest body of coal ever collected in one heap on the face of the earth it would require a train over miles in length to remove the stock or carts would be needed reaching in one continuous line more ihan than 2000 miles THE effect of high rents is beginning to tell on the prosperity of chicago quite a a number of business men have left and are leaving the city for the reason that they find it impossible to sustain themselves under the pressure of the enormous rents exacted both for business places and dwellings A TERRIBLE disease has broken out among the mules in the neighborhood of helena ark and vicksburg miss which threatens the most serious consequence already above one thousand mules have died in one neighborhood near helena two hundred died in one night ST louis mo has now inhabitants for whose accommodation there are 91 churches 32 hotels sinews papers 9 0 of which are dailies 30 public and 54 private schools 4 universities 4 medical and 3 commercial colleges 44 breweries 11 distilleries and 1151 saloons tre THE marble bed of the kansas says a western paper is immense it is reached at a depth of from twenty to one hundred feet below the surface throughout a large extent of country WE wn learn that during these cold coid nights ice forms a quarter of an inch thick in the neighborhood of reese neese river biver where ever water is quiet guiet t or standing in shallow basins eeville reveille eee eve itle ille may 22 northeastern NORTH EASTERN iowa has been visit ed by a most disastrous storm and freshet the destruction of property has been great and one entire family were drowned I 1 THE tre dismantling of all forts around washington was completed april 30 the different garrisons having by former orders been directed to vacate all earthworks earthworms earth works in and around the district THE massachusetts state constable has notified the keepers of restaurants oyster saloons etc encin in boston that they must stop selling of ale at their counters thebe THERE is high water everywhere in the mississippi couii couil country try and the planta pianta J eions in all directions are being flooded the planters are in despair A FISH vish epidemic is reported at richmond mondea va large numbers and all sizes float on the water and when take taken n out appear bloated and die in a few min utes tiie THE missouri river biver says the council bluffs bugle of may 3 is unusually high and has caused much damage on the low lands THERE was never so much crime in vermont as now and the officers sa say bay that four fifths of it is to be attributed attribute to liquor one county has fifteen criminals who will be sent to state prison |