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Show CONDENSED MAIL, NEWS, The plantcrs'of Mississippi complain of an extended drouth. A Lynchburg (Va.) negro has announced an-nounced himself as the coming Messiah. Mes-siah. The first colored lawyer has just been admitted to practice in South Carolina. Caro-lina. Colonel Taylor, a well-known Nebraska Ne-braska editor, died of paralysis a lew days ago, ; An Alabama cemetery bears the in .scription over its entrance, "Positively no admittance here." - Ono Patterson shot and killed his brother-in-law, Shuffield, in Todd coun-county, coun-county, Ky., a few days ago. A modest and unprotected young man in Chicago had two girls arrested for "insulting" him on tho street. Cherokee county, Alabama, has a bearded Degress. Her whiskers are about threo inches long and quite gray. Nicholson county, Ky., manufactured manufac-tured during the last winter over 1,700 barrels of whisky, on which $35,000 tax was paid. Hon. J. L. M. Curry, onco one of the ablest representatives in congress from Alabama, is now preaching in North Carolina. A calf was born in Princeton, Ky., lately, without eyes, ears or mouth, and covered with a hull resembling that of a turtle. Edwin Souddor, of the firm of Scud-der Scud-der & Crocker, Denver city, C. T., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Wisconsin papers complain of a man who was mean enough to elopo with the only school teacher in Green Bay, thus shutting up the school. The smart boys in Quincy, III., cut off rats' tails, plant them in flower pots, and sell them to unsophisticated florists as a new species of cactus. The Boston common council have made appropriations for -music on the Common and other public places in the city, during the summer months. Colonel Tom Scott is tho best salaried sal-aried man in the Union. Ho gets -00,000 per year for the use of his name as an officer of various railroads. The bakers of New York city havo decided to raise tho price of bread from four to five cents for small loaves, and from eight to ten cents for large loaves. Kdwaid Potter is under arrest at Phu-'nix, N. Y., tor committing a rape on the wife of Frank Potter.hiscousir. Mrs. Potter, a fragile woa'an, w: a much injured. A new-fledged judge at Seguinr, Texas, lately imprisoned the entire bar of the place, except the district attorney, attor-ney, for contempt, though his court was not in session. Sam McCraekcn, the young man who shut his father in Chicago, has oeen di-uliariied from custody, on the ground tint it wna done iu self-defence. LIU father w.is drunk and aba-ini his : family eJiauie.u.l. i A Detroitcr has invented a machine Iwhieh trims wail paper, holds it up , against the wall, puts on the paste and ieuts off and smooths down tho strips, and does the work nicer and foator than three men. Thirty-nine libels for divorce were on ' the docket at the recent term of the j supreme court at Pittfield, Mass. I Fourteen divorces were decreed, and a : number of cases continued. In one jea.-e where au absolute divorce was' granted tor adultery, Lhe parties werei i seventy years old and had been married mar-ried thirty ye-ir. I Mr. King, a Boston aeronaut, has j ben oi" late construe ting a mammoth 1 baiioon. It wiii contain 100,000 cubic ' teot, bo V'l feet in circumference, com-1 prh-e l,''(nj yards of cloth, be provided with two cars the upper for scientific observations and the lower for pasen-i gora and baggage will lift 7,ouO pounds and carry fifteen or twenty persons per-sons easily. I |
