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Show Savannah U ' being burgled cxlen- j siveiy. j Connecticut hn a clumipion pedes- I triane.H. Atlanta resounds to the strains of ; the Jerusalem sinking club, colored. 1 A Pennsylvania jury acquitted two ; men who had pleaded guilty. ; Some bonnets are now worn so hiali that it is a very difficult matter to hold a parasol or umbrella over them. Pioche is a great centre of attrac-I attrac-I tion at present, every stage from Salt i Lake and Hamilton getting in loaded; so says the Record. Eighty thousand dollars worth of charred postage stamps were received at the department id WashinKton from Chicago: . An Indiana girl tcai fully consented to marry a man sho hated becauso she couldn't bear tho thought of losing the wedding trousseau. Cincinnati lias an apparatus lor j consuming her own smoke. If fihe j would now take another stride and J oonsume her own whisky, she might be . 1 pointed to with pride. Miss Jennie Pixley. a student, com-' com-' niittcd suicide at liockport (.N. Y.) normal school by taking strychnine, because her (Hernia did not fancy hor swoclhcart. The Rocky Mountain Xttcs says a new daily Democratic paper scheme is on foot in Denver. It oomea from Loui.-mlle, and ia reported to have forty thousand dollars capital. filrs. General Lander, who played in Salt Jjako during tho last week of September, lost her mngniGocnt wardrobe ward-robe in the burning of tho 'J'remont houso, Chicago, during the great lire. It is said that the Mormon book of : prophesies states that between 1S70 : Mind 1S72, the largest city in Illinois I , would be destroyed by lire, in j nils- i I ment for the murder of Jo. Smith. 1 I At a Philadelphia party there is I more talking than dancing, moro inua'ie ! 1 than fun. more ealin? than drinking. and more llirtiug lhati anything else during the evening. The boarding-houso koopcra in Lowell talk of raising their rates of board, the extra timo allowed tho mill workers to oat their dinner having largely increased their consumptive capacities. Tho Evans Journal says that John Abbott and Robert Wright, of Greeley, Gree-ley, wero out hunting on tho Big Thompson, when the gun of the formor accidently exploded, killing tho latter. A prize package man in Indianapolis addresses I ho crowd by shouting at the top of his voice, "Walk right up, gentlemen; you know tho more blanks you draw the more prizes there aro left!" The English magazines continue their eulogistie criticisms of Walt Whitman. Tho Lark Blue for tho current month has a long article on W. W., whoso verse it calls by far the most modern, exhilarating and Democratic Demo-cratic of the age. . Miss Carrie Jlurnhaui, while trying to deposit her ballot at tho late election elec-tion in Philadelphia, was naked by a bystander what ticket she voted ? ' 'A scratched ticket," was the answer. Tho interrogator moved off a step. One of the saddest scenes at Chicago was that of a woman kneeling in the street with a crucifix held up beforo hor and tho skirt of her dress burning while she prayod. While in Una attitude atti-tude a runaway truck da?hcd her to the ground. The king ol' Siam, it ia said, has decreed the abolition of slavery within his dominions after the 1st of January, 1872. A direct tax is to be laid to remunerate the slavo owners. The casual reader knows but little about Siam, but this is certainly good news. The Ely Record says the Morning Star mtno, Freiberg district, Pioche, has boon purchased for C, C. Goodman, formerly one of tho editors of tho Inland Empire. That editor is a disgrace to tho profession in the west, or he never would have monoy enough to buy a mino. But perhaps it was bought for him and presented to him ! That would be professional in tho sage brush country if he could only lind any one "green" enough lo do it. |