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Show I.KLIX(iS. i Probably 150 negroes were killed at Vickaburg iu tho lute Monday's fight. Bret Harto calls Mark Twain the mot origami Imnioriat America htis produced. A young jockey in California, who lias ridden horses in several races during the p:ist two years, has been discovertd to be a girl. An Ohio sheriff felt a good deal of ombarrotsmentou having to take to the penitentiary a man who had been convicted of voting for him three times. " Old Massacliu setts there she stands!" D. Webster. Not so, Daniel. She is flat on her back, and & deniocr-tt'c party a-sitting on her. Washington Chronicle. A certain lady on f Fifth street wjuld scorn to be seen in a ten-cent calico, yet her name sometimes appears ap-pears in a five-cent print. We have been so'icited to pat it there. There are four clergymen elected to the next congress, and if one of them would consent to serve as congressional con-gressional chaplain, it would be a saving to the government oi $10,000 a year. Washington Capital: "What's the good of spirits?" Wurat Halted cried once to us. ''They can't subscribe don't want to advertise, and their news ie not worth a cent. Let 'em stay in hell, where they belong." Gen. Brisbin says the grasshoppers that have devastated Kansas do not hop; they fly. One cloud of them ws three day a in passing over the city of Omaha, and they did not ulight until they had gone 150 miles beyond the city. Dudley S. Gregory, of Jersey city, who died Inst week, made an immense fortuno by the proprietorship of the New York state lotteiies. He wis the man who advanced $1,000 to Horace Greeley with which to Btart the Tribune. Description of an Arizona wedding: The bride in white the happy groom the solemn minister the smiling parents, and from twenty-five to forty shotguns standing against the wall ready for use, make a panorama not soon forgotten. A negro gill in Nashville stole some white dresses from a lady recently, re-cently, and when questioned as to whatshe wanted witn them, replied, "I'se got 'ligion lately, an' I'bb a gwine to be bnp-ized. an' I did want a white dress ter be baptized in." A countryman, gnzing at a garden in the vicinity of Bostou, in which were several marble statues, exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Just see what a waste! Here's no less than six scare-crows in this ten-foot patch, and any one of them would keep the crowa trom a five-acre lot!" The statue of Stonewall Jackson, executed by the late Mr. Folev, the English Bculptcr, lor the cfiy of Charleston, South Carolina, is nearly completed at the Manor Foundry at Chelsea, near London. The general is represented as standing with a drawn broadsword in the right bund. A countryman on his fint visit Id Baltimore, invited a young lady to visit a tneatre with him. When they reached the ticket office he paid iiiiy cents for his ticket, and turning to his companion said to her, "tbe price is fifty cents." The lady parsed in her stamps, took hor ticket and fol lowed her rural beau into the theatre. |