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Show ! Torre Haute calU mothers in law - i "collateral relations." j Tho wild gee.-e- liudiug it too cool lor I their com fort at the north, are heading 1 for the "sunny south." i A Mobile scwiog woman is down sick I from sores iu her mouth caused by biting off green sewing silk. A oontemporary eays: "Tho hret printers were Titans." There are a good manv "tuht uns" among them ' still. ' 1 Charles Jefferson, son of "Joc"haa created a sensation in the farco ot the "Speetro Bridegroom," in 1 luladel- phi a. The New York 7rilutie nsks a con- i ! undrum: "Which is the largest room ; in tho city of New York? Answer. The room for improvement at the city hall." Farmiugton, Me., has voted to exempt ex-empt from taxation for a period of ten years, all manulucturing establishments erected within ita limits, investing capital to the amount of $5,000. West Point, Miss., has been in- , vested by U. S. troops because a young 1 man inadvertently threw some water from a second-story window, and it ( fell upon a negro. The grape crop of tho Lake Erie islands is-lands this year is estimated at ten I thousand toDS, worth, at tho lowest prices $000,000. Tlio area cultivated ; is about 5,000 acres. Two negroes have been arrested for causing the late firo at Goldaboro, Ga. They confessed to having poured kerosene ker-osene on the floors of unoccupied rooms in tho Goldaboro hotel, and set it on fire. Tho deaths from yellow fever in Charleston, S. C, from 25th July, when tho first caso appeared, up to 9th September inclusive, number 47, of whom 20 wcro males and 27 fo-males. fo-males. Do Cordova, the humorous lecturer, is preparing a lecture entitled "Pity about Brown," devoted to the recently developed frauds in tho government of Now iorkoity, and another on "The Dyspeptic Club of East Piotown." A full-bearded young grandfather ncccntly had his hirsute appendage shaved off, showing a clean face lor the first time in a number of years. At tho dinncr-tablo his little grand-daughter noticed it, "gnzed with wondering eye, and finally ejaculated: "Grandfather, "Grand-father, whose bead you got on ?" - A Scotch minister recently told his neighbor that he spoke two hours and a half tho Sunday previous. "Why, minister, wero you not tired to death?" asked the neighbor. "Aw, nac," said he, "I was as fresh as a rose; but it would have done your heart good to see how tired the congregation was" There is a band of negro outlaws near Jcannerette, St. Mary's Parish, La., who murder and rob indiscriminately. indiscrimi-nately. In that neighborhood, on the 8th instant, the dead body of a map and picture pedler waslound, who bad evidently been robbed and murdered. The wreckers from all parts of the Florida coast are swarming to the eastern shore and loading themselves down with the goods, wares and merchandise mer-chandise cast upon upon tho beach from tho lato wrecks. A body of United States cavalry has been called into requisition to stop the depredations. depreda-tions. Frederick Cheney, a youth of nineteen nine-teen years, in Wilniat Flat, N. JL, phot himself on the lndinst., mortally, it is supposed, lie is an eccentric character, and committed tho act purposely, pur-posely, "while standing on his father's grave in the cemtcry. Ho first shot himself in the sido, and, loading again, shot himself in the forehead. Henry Green, a young man, arose in his sleep in Buffalo, a few nights ago, while dreaming that ho was swimming, and leaped out of tho window win-dow of his chamber. His fall broke both of his wrists and awoke him very thoroughly. Getting upon his feet, ho , went to tho front door of the house, and finally contrived to ring the bell j with his elbow. |