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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. New York, April 9.-Boucicaulia answer to Agnes Robertson's divorce bill declares that no marriage ceremony was ever performed, that he several times offered to marry her to legitimatize their children; that he has given her $100,000 at various times; that her associates have been so bad that even the police of New York closed her residence in London as a suspicious report; that his daughter was prematurely married at the demand of her fiancée, Mr. Clayton, that she leave her mother or wed him immediately. Finally, that Agnes Robertson is about to take a theatrical tour and uses the cost for advertising purposes. ---- CINCINNATI, April 10-- Enoch Mosslander a bachelor 77 years old and reputed wealthy, was discovered burned to death in his farmhouse near Bellare. The theory is the robbers burned him, trying to extort from him the secret where he kept his money, that having been once before attempted. ---- NORWALK, CONN. April 10-The committee of inquire report the charges of immoral conduct against Rev. A. W. Paige, to be true, and recommended his expulsion from the conference. ---- NEW MARKET, N.H. April 17-The body of a man nearly nude was found yesterday in the woods at Durham. The head and one arm were missing, the clothing scattered all about. There was every indication of a sharp struggle for him. --- LONDON, April 19.-A Burmah [Burma] correspondent says the Mandaly [Mandalay?] astrologers maintain that in order to remove the evil influences a great [propitiatory] sacrafice [sacrifice] is requisite. The victims will be taken from all ranks to a number of 491?. The priests contribute 100, the remainder are men, women and children. Many arrests are made to secure the sufficient number for the victims to be selected from. The priests who have hitherto enjoyed immunity from sacrifice are quitting Mandalay in great numbers. The Catholic convent was entered to procure victims from among the girls there, but the attempt was frustrated. The internal condition of the country is most unsatisfactory. The people, while ??? the folly of king Thibaw acts are helpless to effect a change. --- SAN FRANCISCO, April 9-This morning Edgar P. Hain, shot his wife in the breast at her residence on Market Street, and then fired a bullet into his own head, behind the right ear. He may recover. He is conscious, but refuses to state why he committed the atrocious deed. They had been parted for some time. --- DEADWOOD, D.T., April 9.-The acting governor is the absence of the governor, has granted a respite in the case of Martin L Couk, now under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Cailtron?, in August, 1878, ??? July 2d, so that he can take advantage of the bill now before Congress, allowing appeal in criminal cases from the territorial tribunals to the supreme court of the United States. ---- CHICAGO, April 9,--The Journal learns from Washington: W.C. Moulton, secretary Sherman's brother in law, who was in the city yesterday, informed your correspondent that the secretary entertains little or no doubt of his nomination at Chicago. His recent visit to Ohio was of the most satisfactory character, and he returns here fully convinced that he will have practically the united support of the Ohio delegation. ---- LONDON, April 12,--Seven hundred men, boys, women, girls, priests and ?? is ??? at Mandalay for the ??? of the king's health, were buried alive, not burned, under the towers of the city walls. Following is the explanation of the horror; Wherever a city is built in Burmah [Burma], human sacrifices are offered. Every new monarch usually has a new capital. The evil spirits are irritated. There has been no change of a ??? and the virtue of the old sacrifices being gone, to appease the evil spirits, the astrologers declared it necessary to offer seven hundred lives. The sacrifices were made by order of King Thibaw ---- CINCINATTI, April 12,--??? Boyd, yesterday, in the presence of about a thousand people at Muhordsville, Ky., jumped from the railroad bridge over Green river, a distance of one hundred and twenty feet, to the water below. He sprang off the bridge, head foremost, and struck the water in that position. In a moment afterwards he appeared swimming. He was picked up by a boats crew, and when brought ashore passed through the crowed, receiving what money was offered. He was not injured in the least. ---- NEW ORLEANS, April 12,--I. Tucker, charged with the murder of Abe Frazer, in 1876, was taken from the jail at Greensburg, St. Helena parish, on Sunday morning by fifteen men and shot to death. It is said that the people of the parish generally condemn this act of lawlessness. ---- CHICAGE, April 12,--The INTER OCEAN learns from Washington: The extraordinary number of emigrants arriving this spring is attracting attention, and if it keeps up the immigration of this year will be larger than ever before. Since the first of January, 2, 317 have arrived at Baltimore, as against to 189 for the same period last year; and 35,822 have arrived at New York, against 1,111 for 1870. During March last the number of arrivals was 21, 638 against 3,913 last year. It is said these immigrants are an unusually good class of people, most of them having sufficient money for a good start in life. ---- NEW YORK, April 12. -- The receipts of the walking match which closed on Saturday night were $8,683. According to agreement, one half is that amount goes to the managers, the other half is to be divided among the contestants. Har? receives $7,173 in addition to the sweepstake of $9,??? and $1,000 offered for beating Brown's record. Pogram receives $3,587; Howards $1,792; Dobler $899; Allen $448, Krohno $241; Williams $112; and Hanwaker $30. ---- ALBANY, April 13,--The first woman to vote under the new law for the school board was Kate Norseman, secretary of the county woman's suffrage society, member of the faculty of the state normal school, and sister of Gen. Stoneman. ---- SAN FRANSISCO, April 13,--At five minutes past 1 p.m. the heaviest shock of earthquake occurred, felt for years. The motion was vertical; no damage is yet reported, although the buildings rocked so that the motion was plainly visible. The Nevada Block was apparently swayed a foot out of the perpendicular. ---- NEW YORK, April 11,--It is said that if Vanderbilt should sell all his New York Central stock, he would become owner of $100,000,000 in government bonds or about one four-teenth of all in existence. As it is he owns more than any one man ever held against this government and amounts to as much as the entire annual expenses of the government some years before the war. The checks for interest which he will receive every ninety days, will amount to over $500,000, or over $5,000 a day. ---- CHICAGO, April 11-The TIMES of New York has definite knowledge that Tilden has by no means given up his presidential aspirations. On the contrary he is as sanguine as ever. In fact he has always been an optimist, has always ??? the stocks, has made most of his money by picking up decaying enterprises in which other men had lost faith, and his is the characteristic most marked in him now. His disease is not pralysis, but Bright's disease of the kidneys. He does a tremendous amount of work and uses stimulants freely. He exercises daily on horseback but always closely followed by an attendant, for his friends fear he will someday fall from his horse in a fit of weakness. His most trusted friends are Henry Watterson, Andrew Green? and Alman? S. Hewett with whom he has become reconciled and is on intimate terms. No doubt New York will send a Tilden delegation to Cincinnati. ---- The TIMES Syracuse says the result of an investigation of Washington of a careful newspaper made the discovery that the universal ??? is against Tilden, that he could only lead the democracy to defeat and is the least responsible candidate. Southern men are outspoken against him. It is freely predicted that with Tilden Virginia would be lost to democracy, with a grave chance of losing half a dozen other states. Democratic congressmen from North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana say, it would be impossible to hold their states in the line?; reasons are various. The cipher dispatches, his anxiety, the income suits and his failing to take the office to which he was elected in 1871. ---- |