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Show D'KLIXOS. Two ladies preached from Bo?ton pulpits the other Sunday. The Cleveland Herahl publishes letters "from our colored correspondent" correspond-ent" in South Carolina. Maine brars of one of its citizens who has Frown a be;; rd eighteen inches loner in twelve months. Philadelphia boasts of bavins over a thousand youncr men training for professional base-bal'.ers. It is proposed in Albany to keep ornamental coffins on hire for state funerals, to be returned after the ceremony. cere-mony. A Now TTamp-hire fire originated by a child bein? put. to bed and given a kerosene lamp to play with. The body of a yonn? child was found on the prairie, near Peoria, Tils., the other day, with one arm and one leg pone, supposed to have been mutilated by a boy. A summer residence at Newport is being fitted with doors, windows and cornices, taken from an old bouse in New Jersey, and which bear the marks of revolutionary bullets. A live oyster in a Portsmouth, N. II., restaurant, caught the tail of a wandering rat between its shelly jaws the other ni.L'ht, and held the arrival safe till morning. A countryman, in the Providence police court, for breakfasting in public on an odorous parcel of codfish and cheese, was fined two dollars and costs. The State department is about to issue, is-sue, for light summer reading in the cars and at the watering places, four bulky volumes of correspondence on the Alabama claims. At a recent wedding in New York, among the bride's presents were two pieces of linen, four family Bibles, eight ice pitchers, twenty-two berry . spoons, two silk umbrellas, and a piece of toweling. A man in Adams county, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, while removing some hay from his barn loft, uncovered a turkey which had been missine for eight or ten weeks. It was still alive, but fearfully emaciated. Some boys in Portland, Connecticut, were playing with an old musket, when one pointed it at another, pulled the trigger, and the gun went off, blowing off the top of the boy's bead. The one who caused the sad accident was so moved by the result of his carelessness careless-ness that he jumped into the river and drowned himself. A very sad story comes to us from Keokuk, Iowa. A family named Pe-roe Pe-roe lost their three children, one after tjie other, by scarlet fever. As the father and mother were returning home from the grave of the last child, just as they were entering their gate, the lightning struck their team, killing it and the husband. The wife is now a raving maniac. A few days ago the body of ayoung Indy, shoeless, and with hr bauds tipd behind her back was found in the Oho liver, near Metropolis. The T'ariucoh Kaituckian speaks of the finding of the body of another young 1 idy in the Tennessee river, about six miles from its mouth. Tins y umg 1 idy, like th other, had undoubtedly un-doubtedly bpen murdered. The bands wretied behind the body, and th" f-et shoeless. In both cases, . - - bark strips wer used. The bare feet suggest the idea that the young ladies were taken out of bed. Who are they, and who has a key to the horrible mystery, are the questions east. |