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Show tONDKNSKD MA II.. NKWS. Hon. Samuel Galloway, of Ohio, is recovering. lion. Charles Francis Adams will sail for Europe, in the Jiussia, on the 2-1 th of April, Two Harvard students have been expelled ex-pelled for insulting ladies in tho streets of Cambridge. Served them right. Jay Gould is said to have made about $2,000,000 out of Erie since he resigned the presidency of the road. In the municipal elections that have occurred recently in the Atlantic States, the Democrats have been fairly sucess-ful. sucess-ful. The Ohio delegation to the Philadelphia Phila-delphia convention will urge the nomination nom-ination of Wm. Jcnnison lor vice-president. vice-president. A lottery advertised at tho East for the benefit of the Charity hospital, San Francisco.is a fraud. There is no such institution or lottery there. A Mr. Northrup, of Connecticut, goes to Japan as superintendent of public instruction. Next there will bb i row in that kingdom about school text books. The Methodist conference at Worcester, Wor-cester, Mass., have voted to receive the lay delegates on Friday. All are expected ex-pected to be present. Four ladies are in this body. Chaffers, who was on trial in England Eng-land for libelling lady Twiss,wifc of the queen's advocate, has been liberated, the lady suspiciously declining lo further fur-ther testify in the case. George N. Kuapp, postmaster at Orleans, Ind., has disappeared, lie is charged with having swindled the government out of $4,000 through ' fraudulent money orders. Among the announcement of births in the St. Louis Jiepubliean, appears this: "On the Sth inst., at Jackson, Mo., a daughter to Isaiah I'oe, sen., '(aged eighty-five,) and wife." A Hartford correspondent of the Now York Times, writing four days before the election, announced great apathy among the Democrats and the success of the Republicans as certain. The now board of Eric directors deny de-ny all coilusion between themselves and Gould, relative to the past management man-agement of Erie, and the recent advance ad-vance of the stock. This is passing strange. Henry Mcssick, who was tried in the U. S. circuit court for New York, a a few days ago for perjury, has been released upon the ground that he is insane. This is a new application of the plea of insanity. Lieutenant governor Pinchback, of Louisiana, has been shuttling between general Grant at Washington and governor gov-ernor Warmoth in New "York, in an attempt to celebrate the funeral of the Republican feud in Louisiana. response to a letter informing him of his election as vice-president of the Grant club of Boston, Congressman Dawes writes : ' 'If my name in such a cause can be of any service to you, its use will gratify me exceedingly." A cable telegram reports Amadeus as saying that he will never abdicate the Spanish throne as long as he has the confidence of his subjects, an utterance utter-ance which, considering the latitude of its qualification, it cost little heroism to make. The testimony of Evans, who as an agent of the State of Pennsylvania collected col-lected from the general government 2J1,000 and neglected to pay it over, is by no means complimentary to the integrity of Gov. Geary or J. W. Forney. A Boston paper makes the surprising 1 assertion that a whipping post, set up i in the Common, would find plenty of use, if all the "respectable" Boston gentlemen who habitually insult ladies were tn rreeiri fl-m incline tnr. . impudence. The Miner's Journal, Pennsylvania, rctemog to tbe meeting of the Cincinnati Cincin-nati convention, pictures the leading ''recalcitrants" as humming "And Fm to be queen of the May, i mother, j I'm to bo queen of the May." A schism in the Democratic ranks is reported as likely to occur in New I York city, if the party leaders decide tu coalesce with the Republicans in , the Cincinnati convention, some of .them not caring the toss of a copper bciween a Cincinnati and a Philadcl-, Philadcl-, phia Republican. i It has long been whispered that an understanding exists between the cus-1 i torn bouse managers and the Y'oung I Democracy that Mr. O Brien shail be! Ifhe first mayor of New York under j toe new city charter, and his Democratic Demo-cratic followers shall support general , Grant. fi'i. Cummera'al. i To avoid contact with Mr. Berch who is an iceberg to sportsmen, a Mr' Taylor has invented a trap in which ij ; wooden dummies are used instead off iive pigeons, in shooting matches. Thel dummies are wooden balls three inches I ! in diameter, and can be thrown in any : direction desired by the man who j ; spring the trap. A man in Portland, Oregon, has, ,-ued his father and mother-in-law for 1 io.iA-.lamages, because theiruaughter ' and his wile 'toiled to come up to their 1 guarantee as to quality before be ma.r-: ried her, they having recommended her as strong and amiable while bet found her to be weak and peevish. 1 This is an attempt to make of mar-i riage, in law, what it too frequently is J in practice a merchantable transac- , lion. ' |