| Show I 1 CLIPPINGS pneumonia has broken out among the horses in massachusetts now the courier says bays that several have died of that disease at natick large veins of copper and silver harej have just usi been discovered within twenty miles of athens tennessee blondin lately met with a serious accident at Chilli chillicothe ohio after dusk he undertook to cross a ti tight daht rope whee wheeling linz a barrow and encircled encircle with wit h a blaze of fireworks doubtless in jealous imitation of the lite late splendid meteor before he had reached the middle of his aerial route one of the pieces exploded and set fire to his clothing there was no time to halt and extinguish the flames and the modern phaeton could only keep on his course and suffer the torture of or being slowly blistered with quite heroic self control he gained the frid end of his Is i kourney journey irney and succeeded in smothering the fire foll but ut not until his back was sadly burned the modern sampson dr winship of boston has recently astonished the public by I 1 lifting a deadweight dead weight of eleven hundred and I 1 sixty pounds the united states treasury is in in a pentar rious rions case the receipts from customs being being much less than those of last year the government will be compelled to stop the works on the public buildings for want of funds the astronomer herschell has predicted that england will this year be visited bya by a storm of a violence unprecedented in the annals nals of the globe the landed property of russian nobility is mortgaged to the amount of OE of this amount the bank of moscow has loaned on estates and the bank of st petersburg loaned on estates during last year four thousand two bu hundred n pounds of butter were made on a ang singie single farm in little compton mass it is said that seventy two white females were married to negroes in the state of massachusetts last year this looks as though things were getting mixed up considerably I 1 the english government ia is now building 5 53 3 steam war vessels Wv of various arlous kinda kinds carrying 1783 guns or nearly as many as the whole united states navy by the middle of next year when the ships LOW row on the stocks are completed the british fleet will count vessels with guns and horse power or about el eight lit times as many guns as our navy over awo two iwo hundred thousand men will be required to man the vessels the barnin earnings s of the sing sing prison for the month of july were 67 expenditures 64 the boston courier is responsible for the following not unapt application the personage and years of the prince of wales are pretty well defined by mr william shakespeare T the h e prince is not yet old enough for a man nor young enough for a boy as a squash is before ils itis a peas cod or a codling when itis almost an apple itis with him eyen cen een standing water between boy and man ile he is ver very yvell well weil favored and he speaks very one would think his mot mothers hers bers milk milic were scarce out of him it is said that the steamer lucas from memphis to st louis encountered a fifteen minute snow storm on sunday morning the of august the syracuse courier says that nearly all the tiie printers of that town are members of sons of temperance and ahw who are out are expected to be long the clayton ala banner says that a portion of the citizens in the lower part of ba barbour rb our county are suffering for bread braad they have declared their intention of taking the means of subsistence by force of arms from those who have supplies if their wants are not attended to the saturday review speaks of a story that the ladles ladies of the congregation of a fashionable preacher in london are subscribing him a fund to procure him a divorce A miss I 1 ss kate dickens the second da lighter daughter of charles dickens was recently married moa roa to mr charles collins a brother of wilkie collins and a rising author lola montez has recovered sufficiently from her severe attack of paralysis to be removed to astoria the N Y sunday times says she is as yet quite helpless being scarcely able to lift her land hand the best physicians give her no hope of ultimate recovery the original cost of the great eastern was she stands charL charged rea red to the present owners at of this amount I 1 is 13 preferred stock the holders of this stock will doubtless soon own the ship the secretary of the late atlantic telegraph gra cable cabie company in london has settled the question whether any message did or did not pass over the wires of the great def det defunct he swears to the interchange 0 e of twenty thousand words between the tw two o countries before the telegraphic influence ceased to operate the bangor union says all our maine blaine exchanges are complaining bitterly of the idron drought 11 ht it has been very severe in this region at oldtown all the saws have hare been stopped 21 it is said that the old first church in northampton of which jonathan edwards was pastor castor has had members since its organization in 1661 looi the present number being of whom are men punch says saya that the greatest spirit ep rit rapper oe of the day is mr galad CAlad gladstone stone who has just eiven elven spirits a rap in the form of 0 a heavy duty the owen count county indiana journal states that the census taker of montgomery township has encountered an old lady who was years old last ath of july she came from north carolina bathas been here many yearb years she is still in the enjoyment of 0 reasonable heath ileath and eyesight and a sound mind her hearing is is soine somewhat what impaired but the family converse with her in an ordinary y tone 0 of f voice with the assistance of a staff she can walk a quarter of a mile without resti resting rg her weight lis is pounds suii SuIr supposed posed posea to be between forty and fifty the census taken in jonesville janesville Jones ville mich put down a mans age at years instead of acres of land which was intended ile he was beaten however by the census man in the town of alleghany allegheny Alleg Alle aile ghang ghani hany I 1 who put down a mari man as havin having children c ildren lidren instead of acres of land it is said that the drought in texas is so general and so extreme that the large emigration flowing 1 into the state has ha been checked and many families from alabama and anti other southern states are returning to the their i r former homes the buffalo republic says it is a f act fact not generally known but most creditable to nii ali mrs mis s douglas that prior to her marriage she supported and educated her brother with means acquired by her pen theford the word wora pem pen pew being leing leing being 11 indefinite it may not be improper to explain I 1 that ithac mrs douglas father being an auditor auditory she was for ye years rs whilst a girl rated as a I 1 1000 clerk of the treasury department at washington 0 ton twenty five irishmen quietly taking their dinner at some railroad works near new jew orleans were very much surprised by the sudden and accidental explosion of a keg of gunpowder which scattered the whole injured six and terribly mutilated three the latest paril panis paris paper pam contains accounts of all kinds of suicides in in different pa parts arts of france in lyons a young man of 22 yearb years ears of 0 age ascended the steeple of a church and threw himself into the street in paris women by the dozen have lately made an untimely end to their lives and razors firearms and charcoal were ivere in great demand new york has voted alternately for the democratic and opposition candidates for the 1 presidency for the past twenty years viz for van buren in 1836 1630 gen harrison in 1840 polk in 1844 taylor in 1848 pierce in 1850 1852 1 fremont in 1856 alabama papers fear that thousands of poor people in that state will starve this fall the drouth has been b een so fatal to the crops ibe the larch forests of scotland are threatened with destruction of twenty eight millions of barches larches lar ches planted by four fand land land owners in in scotland within a century scarcely a any Y it remain alive toe failure is important as asno aano ago llo other timber ia is so well adapted for slee blee sleepers sleepers p ers on rall rail railways ways as the larch 7 in some parts of or ireland particularly erris there is is much distress many having lost jos their means of subsistence from the failure of the hay bay crop and the prevalence of disease the springfield P mass republican in speaking of the harvesting of a thirty three acre field in west springfield lately with the kirby harvester says though the men have surrendered to the machines in that locality the women still bind their shocks at a considerable rate and our better half after three on a saturday afternoon put up twenty three shocks each containing sixteen sheaves without encroaching upon the puritans sabbath |
