Show I 1 nce NIE newa NEWS WS ITE ITEMS MS I 1 ONE year ago the stater stat prison at sing sing contained convicts now it contains 1075 A TORNADO recently swept with destruction true truc tion over jackson mississippi and injured the state house and other property IN durham me recently some scoundrels entered the barns of several cit citizens liebs and nobody knows why cut the throats of f several horses and oxen leaving them dead in the stalls 1 M JULES SIMON states in his recent work on labor that there are beggars in paris who have received alms from generation ene ration to generation far beyond the first finst french revolution hereditary beggars trained to be beg and live no other way gov STONE of iowa and his secretary of state orwig who run the state on his own hook signing gov stones name to whatever he pleased have both been prosecuted for fon forthe the recovery of what is called I 1 the swamp land indemnity fund which appeared to tobe be missing A WRITER in the new now orleans christian advocate says that so far as he has ascertained between 1000 and 1200 church edifices were burned during the war these churches church eg ho he thinks had cost the people not less than WO in the loss the methodists were the greatest suffer sufferers era erb the baptists next then the presbyterians Presbyter lans rians the catholics le least as t AT a recent fire in auch france a woman with her child were in a burning house the archbishop offered ed 2000 francs then frail frati francs franes cs then an anulty of 1200 francs two anybody who would rescue them nobody budged thereupon he threw off his cassock ran into the flames rescued them anu and gave them the annuity he lie had woh won for himself |