A 1Y A GREAT FLOOD. Stony Creek, in Somerset County, swollen to a Torrent---Great Damage Done, JonNsTOWX, June 7th.—The heavy rains in Somerset County since Sunday raised Stony Creek to flood helghth this morning, and great damage has resulted. The Somerset and Cambria Railroad, running from the city to Rockwood, was tied up, and on both sides of the stream for many miles everything was overflowed. Stony Creek had risen here this after- noon to fifteen feet. The streets for long distances were like rivers. Houses, stables and out-buildings were brought down from up the country in great numbers. A lumber boom South of town was broken, and several hundred logs released. In many parts of the city families had to move to places of safety. Storekeepers and others will be heavy losers. So far as learned no lives are positively known to have been lost, but it is rumored that a human body went down the river this evening, A live horse went down this afternoon, but was taken off down by the steel works, The rolling mills were flooded and work had to be suspended. The rain was all from the South, the Conemaugh River comirg from the East, The water was the highest in over forty VeAars, On Clinton Street where the Halbert House is located and near to the Mer- chants® Hotel, several boats were floated, At the corner of Walnut and Locust Streets the water was three feet the curb. The entire Seventh Ward where the Sandy Valley Cemetery s situated is covered at 10 o'clock to- ight. The gas works is above ric light, coal oil and candles, At 9 o'clock the operator at Hoovers. telegrap hed that that town was rompletely submerged and the inbabi- .ants were fleeing to the hills, Several bridges had been were going down the river in a current running eighteen miles an hour. j wards of twenty residences were washed ff their foundations. At least families lost everything. The town of Bethel, 200 nh: thirteen miles south of here, completely sweyt away. The esti is $150 000 or more. The great flo od at Johnstown, sylvania, and places in the vicinity the 7th, was caused by a water west of Hooversville, in Somerset zounty. That village was entirely under water and more than twenty iwellings were removed from their foundations, One hundred families | nearly everything in the lower stories and cellars of their houses, In Grub Bows, Conemaugh borough, Morrillville, Minersville, Cambria City and ( oper dale; similar destruction Is reported. + At Johnstown, both the Conemaugh and Stony Creek rivers rose and inundated the lower portion of the town. It 18 estimated that 200 people temporarily made homeless and de- pendant for shelter on their more for tunate neighbors. The loss to grocery and dry goods dealers is great, The Cambria Iron Company, the Gautier Steel Company, the Johnson Street illway Company and most of stores suspended work in the afternoon, and the gas works were drowned leaving the town in darkness at night, except where electric lights were used. is reported that Mrs. DD. J. Morrell, e lower portion of whose house was wooded, died from heart disease, caused the excitement, and that Cooper dropped t vie loss spout 0st were 12 PE isd vie ’ Ont ! Colonel James M, dead at ocopersdale from Lhe same cause, They were each about 65 vears of age. -—— Two Good Dog Stories, The iog was play other day our Newfoun ing on the porch ittle girl, 4 years old, when she he gate and went The d not follow her, time ee mar] the child’s mother came out, discovered her absence and said to the dog: “Where is Nell The dog looked as if he Knew and wagged his tail fun- ously. this instant,” said the mother,” and find Nellie and bring her home,” Qual over started down the street to a neighbor's house not far off. Nellie was playing there, Inside the house, and saw ihe dog come and scratch at a veranda window, *I know what he wants,” little girl, “he wants me to br it I'm not going to do it!” he dog was not admitted, but he lingered near, like Mary's little lamb, and when two ladies called presently he brushed in past them through the door, Then, rushing up to Nellie, he seized her dress with his teeth and be- gan dragging her to the door. An at- tempt was made to drive him off, but he growled and held his place, The little girl, beginning to be frightened, gave up all resistance, and trotted home by hisside, and he delivered ber with an air of triumph Into her mother's hands. What “instinct’ would lead dog to do that?” A subtirban resident was walking at night, not long ago, acro:s a meadow, and Josing his way in the darkness fell into a diteh. His dog, a collie, had been running about in an aimless way over the field. Gathering himself up the gentleman called the dog, and crouching over him said sharply: “*Now, see here, Mac. [ want you to show me the path across this mead. ow, Go right ahead of me, do you hear, and show me the path—show me the path! The dog obeyed to the letter. With hig nose to the ground he followed the path fauthfully, with his master at his heels, clear across the meadow, until he had approached to within two or three rods of the limits of the field, Then he began to waver from side to side as if vainly looking for the path, and showed great confusion and even shame, Next day the gentleman went over the ground by daylight, and discovered that at the point where the dog began to waver the path was entirely lost in the thick graye, tid Qu. Some pe?" “(io the gate flew the dog and 3 ue said go home, NEWS OF Thi WEEK ® —In Cincifinati on the 6th, Fred- erick Bauer shot ’auline Dogenscheuer, then shot a Mrs, Zell, and then Killed himself. Mrs. Zell is not severely wounded, but Mrs. Dogenscheuer’s wound is considered dangerous, Bauer had separated from his wife and Murs, Bogenscheuer from her husband, they had lived joguther. M. B, Farley, Manager of the City Electric Light Works at Danville, Virginia, shot and killed George WW. Garner, aged years, on the evening of the Garner had been too Intimate Farley's wife, Near Helena, tucky, on the morning of the 06th, John H. Fleld shot his wife and two sons and then cut his own throat. All were living at last accounts, Jealousy and financial embarrassment caused the tragedy. In Pittsburg, on the atternoon of the 6th, Frederick IHer- mann, aged years, ‘in his own oth. with oh) months, beat his wife until he thought her dead, and then cut his throat, sev- ering the wind-pipe and veins,” Hermann was a Lutheran, wife a Catholic. senting to the baptizing of the eldest children by a Lutheran minister, but a few weeks ago she had her little daughter [azz'e baptized by a priest. The husband did not know of this until the 6th, when workman told him of it, and the in- formation drove him to frenzy. At last accounts in a critical condition, A was with him, and he **was reading his Bible and hymn book, awalting death.’ Herm: is said to have been ‘an in- man.” Near Huron, morning of the 6lh, shot led Mrs, i8 ni ober Dakota, the Simeon Nelson Shaw, Let nt, On iii and ki son, aged about 15, and hex sister, Miss Lyman, aged about 22. The tragedy was the result of a contest over a tree claim, which had been decided in favor of Mrs, Shaw, aec Nelson also shot a man named Kllsey through the body, fatally wounding him. After shoot ing Nelson returned home ind blew out his own bralns and tith from yellow fever new case were reported on the —ne death me —A letter from Santiago de Cuba, dated the 27th ult,, reports nearly 400 cases of small-pox there, The deaths from the 1st had numbered 40, all the victims having been unvaccinated. The d had appeared at Guanta- namo, — Mrs. Peebles aud her killed by lightning while asleep, near 3 ywn, Texas, on the evening of A : thunder storm vis- incinnati on the afternoon of the 5th, and disabled 400 telephone melting the wires, bris was washed from the hills the highways. Cellars | were filled with water, Oberlin, Ohio, on the 5 carried away nearly all the town bridges, and the water flooded four of the streets depth of several feet. Abont houses and the gas works were 11s Ui. seas infant were tarrifi terrific ited ( ments by The storm at th, to a fifty flooded. — News has been received in Quebec of a Sever earthquake recently felt County L’Islet. Pleces of rock forty fifty feet square were thrown from and f it ed. to 1031 3 ina ¥ 1 > thie mountains, some large trees were upre —A fire in Pueblo ith, destroyed IR. J. arug als house JARRE, }e | olorado Bruner & Co. % and E, DD. Na- Loss, $00, 0 Black Dia wholesa'e than’s clo insurance, mond Manufact works, at Zanesvill sumed by lightning the 6th. Loss, Mills and Elev were re rE he uring were con storm Diamond ana, the “ile E. O. Stannard were damaged UY axtent fF LS y exiens oi OU AN apache Indians have Arizona and and iti —nEY ON 16 al eft theh reservation in Ri gg gone on the war pat! o ported that they Lave Killed a i Four troops of cavalry left I Huachuca on the aftern« f the 6th on a scouting expedition under Captain Law They will probably endeavor atiles in the Patago- to prevent their getling teen ler. ort oon O a mountains ito Mex —Thomas Lamb, Judge of Maverick county, Texas, on the Gh murdered Lis brother Joseph on Mexican soll in a quarrel about the division of property. Tro ips had to Le called out to prevent the Mexicans from lynching Lamb. ICO, Hermann, who his child, attempted to kill his and cut his own throat, in Pitts. burg, on the 6th, is now believed to have a chance of recovery, as well as his wife. The woman went with him to the hospital on the morning of the 7th and watched him tenderly, 5 ~Five boys-—three sons of John Beck and two of Paul Hindel-—whose ages range from nine to sixteen years, were drowned while bathing near Ma- quoketa, Iowa, on the 6th. Three of them got off a sand bar beyond their depth, and the other trying to save them. - Frederick dered fer wil ~Lightning struck a house near Brownsville, Texas, on the morning of the Oth, killing Manuel Portales and his wife and stunning four others. Two of the Injured, Eugenio Rineones and his wife, were each made blind in the right eye. By the fall of a scaffold loaded with stone, on a new warehouse at Washington on the Tih, John Clarke, aged 00 years, was killed, and six others were injured, two dangerously. The contractor says the men over. loaded the scaffold, contrary to his orders, ~It is reported from Johnstown, Penna. , that all the mountain streams have been overflowed, aud great dam. age has been done In portions of Som. erset and Cambria counties, Stony Creek, in Cambria county, was a rag- ing torrent on the afternoon of the 7th, and trees, barns and outhouses were swept down the stream. At Johnstown, the Conemaugh river rose so suddenly that many people had to fly for their (lives, The abutment of the | lower part of the city was innundated, { A large number of houses and | were flooded, and in some Instances the occupants took refuge in the upper As far as could be learned -The boller of a locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohlo Railroad burst on the morning of the 7th, in front of the passenger station at Chester, Penna. Joseph W. McCane, aged 19 years, was damaged. Two freight trains collided on the evening of the Gth, at a crossing at Shelby, Ollo, and 25 cars and 2 engines were wrecked, causing & loss of $75,000. Engineer Lyons was fatally injured. A milk train going to New York City on the evening of the Oth, was thrown from the track near of oxen, and 11 cars were wrecked. -n the evening of the 1st, about fifty men left Annville for Lebanon, Penna,, to lynch William Showers, in jail there for the murder of his two grand-children. The would-be lynchers hundred and fifty induced to dis- perse on the promise that Showers ‘should receive full justice,’’ Showers insists that the children were mur- Hoftnagle, who to Showers’ daughter children, after she had many different fathers, Showers claims that and murdered the hem in the ditch was married mother of the wh ted t rden, —The W. Jehnson, at was struck by All the family and two jured. bouse of G. liana, zhitning on the 1st, knocked senseless dren were dangerously in An express train on and Western Railroad ran to ber car on the evening of the lst and the engine was wrecked. Albert gineer, was killed, and the fireman severely injured. The collision was caused by the lumber car sliding from asiding to the malin track, 1 chile § 3 . SUOCK, €n - Benjamin ( ge, accidentally ag : examining a ourtrnight, 30 years i himself shot gun 'enna., on and two chi an old Missouri, Whi a at his the 24 tds while Scranton, leaves a widow idren. — Mob Meadows, Christian couuty, { by an assassin long the road with th, The cause is Meadows’ ac viction c 161 it was sl walk rey Zen cw » tivity in Yi man no sentence for murder, be forty-third county since the war, City, Arkansas, on the while whippiog bh of a murder Near dth, Alexa 8 wife, was Ralph Brown because he The Goat man's friends attempted lynch Brown, but he was safely lodged in jail. There was a revival of lawlessness in Rowan Kentucky, on the afternoon of 7th, John Mannin, marshal of Morel head, sted by a posse of two, attempted Wil 1 ogan, Sons of logan, thi the 1a i0T gel to desist. to county the As to arrest John and iam Dr. Henry Lexington + now in jail a of murder, He and they fired severe wound. & ’ 2 shot and entered at hi His « killed the two {Charles Spencer, * Known men in Dakots erre, for stealing 1¢ evening th in hands and two women njured, a named Dicl perhaps fatally A fast t tra b on the Fort Wi { road ran into a frei ph umbus, Ohlo, on Several Sresgh he Woman Wes tran morning of ti cars were wrecked passenger engine was nearly ed. he engineer jumped ar bone broken, an express train ipied by excursionists en rnia, were thro wi from the Sth. and 1 lemoli aod had his col two rear cars of west, and occ route to Calif the track at Pownal Station, on tie evening of the Tth, persons were injured, Mrs, 8, of Springfield, Massachusett ously. off The Twelve A. Wells 8, dangers Rock u Houghton, Hghtuing on and destroyed. House and the Michigan, the even- Ls IBS, ‘he Quincy Drum House, struck by ing of $60,900. - Albert H. Hoefllin, @ e loc al assembly of the Makers’ Union at Louisville, arrested on the evening of the 7th the charge of falling to good a shortage of $1400, Dr. O. I. Walker, an old citizen of Milwaukee, | was swindled on the 7th by unknown rascals, They the 8th I'reasurer of International on {of them took | tery cilice.”’ i several hundred | friend ostensibly him into “a mock He was allowed to win dollara, while his captured a 816.500 prize, but did not have the cash to for the ticket, The doctor ac- | commodatingly went to a bank, and, | drawing out $6,675, furnished it to the The confederates | then gave him the slip. ~The dwelling of A. Brown, at Bedford, Ontario, was burned on the morning of the 8th, and four child- ren, under 10 years of age, lost their lives, ~By a premature blast ina tunnel of the Georgia Central Railroad ex- tension, near Good Water, Alabama, on the 7th, two men were killed and several others injured. In Chattanooga on the afternoon of the Oth, a tank of gasoline exploded on the frst of a twosstory brick building at the corner of Fourth and Market streets. That building, a two- story building adjoining, occupied on the first floor by a grocery, and the Morgan House, a three-story frame structure, were destroyed by fire, Henry fler and Matthew [Deake, fire- men. were burled under a falling wall. was killed and the latter Four other men were dangerously burned by the explo- ion. The wholesale drug store Pleasants, on Wooster street, New York, was damaged on the afte: noon of the 9th, The former fire spread so rapidly through the build- ing that the clerks and customers narrowly escaped with their lives, —E, ¥, Burnside, a physician of iebanon, Penna., attempted suicide at Pottsville on the 11th by swallow- ing morphine. At last accounts his condition was critical. ~The body of a man found shot dead at Andover, Massachusetts, on the Bth, has been identified as that of Cornelius McClusky, a seaman in the navy, who was home on furlough. It 18 believed he killed himself, as his revolver was found near by, Ie had been in the navy since 1861 and done good service under Farragut, — Frederick Hermann, the fanatic who murdered his infant child, tried to kill his wife and cut his own throat, in Pittsburg, ou the 6th, died in the hospital on the morning of the 9il. visited the afternoon of there was a - A terrific rain storm Wyoming Valley on the the Oth. At Nanticoke ‘‘cloud-burst’”’ which deluged streets to a depth of from two to four feet, dislodged several frame dwellings and upset one, The fires in the boiler house of the Susquehanna Coal Company put out and all work in the mines stopped. Nearly two hundred Railroad road bed was washed away. New ou tue early to the (ralatea, ! regatta of the lub wok place Atlantic took the lead maintained it end, The Shamrock, Priscilla, Sachem , Gitana and others were ped at the start, — The annual Oth, Ti and hi is reported from Kansas City at the cable railroad cot has discovered a ¢ onspiracy 10 embez fares, gripman, named Jillson, combinion of the bell- rente: 1a room near the line of th ¢ road where the conliu took their meals, ‘*‘They would puuch 8.ips us atil perhaps 100 were registered, after which they would sitmoply ring the They would then take the punches ilison, who would nd them correspond with the slip.” S1X conductors ¢ niessed and were on the 8th, Jilison fled, Acacia, for New near Big Glace Bay, when re © pany there A discharged punches, and clors to J open them gis ~The steamship i8 Ash tia, she went asl! only account ore It w ore, us quite clear her off I Lh P bei ge yopartment full lightened of ff. Nat an I mitio Compasses asir ' [LAS After being she will The one «¢ be jonal Bank damaged the mornix ) of $5 the Wests pany, where Kyi whi ous combusti -—A sleeping car press train, on the JutLpe d a Duyvil on the mor and was up <3 in jostled and several passenger WAS litch near Merr! if the i set upants, nuinber, were peverelsy were train thr ii, evening . he engine I smashed up. » bruised and tl br severe! pas ro nen were Two hove. aged seven , sons of Addison Smit} othy Lacy, were drowned wh ear Knoxbury, York, {ith : ~A telegram from Delaware, says the rosebo has infested of New Wilmingtor d pest, whicl the vinevards and truc Kent county, for the | has reac hed its heig wenither of the clear last gradually leaving the apple trees, -The coroner's jury investigating the boiler explosion at Chester, Penna, » 10th, decided that the explosi from faults originating in ate, peach . nm Yfarose —- ———— Setting out on thy soul's pligrimage, unite to thyself what hearts thou canst, Know well that a hundred holy 2 heart, THE MARKETS IRONS. y fam b PROY Hee! git POE Moss, ooo conven Prime Mess, new Hides smoked RR jor sepoked , ..... ... do in salt Smoked Deel . Lard Western bis. Lard joose FLOU Re West, and Pa. sup. .. .. Pa. Family. ... Minn Clear... ... Pat. Wont Wht Rye Flour. GRAIN Wheat No. Hye.. be Corn, No. T W nite. - No, Bes cunsvinarnnacesss Ont, NO. 1 WhIte.oanvevreniiss _- No 40. 00 cinnee sorvsnnniim NO BMI. co vvnvnnns sono Fis Malian, Herning, Lab, 90 e 6 50 erring, Bans vis raters 3 SUGAR eee 8101600 Shou ceria barge is. . Powdered. . GTROUIAIOR. oc evn vs. «vires QONIOo. Acssssnvivass suvossne HAY AND STRAW TINOLhY, ORO ..co oviiarenid 80 MIXOd. oo ssvsveese suavsnsusce 10 00 Out HAY. .coeovensveiis cosivinsdd 0 R10 BAW, 1nsseesrasss a. | WHOM BUPA cov vnensnrsrrrnpyom w= Le Cam ub Penna, and W, Va, Fleece hm FOR. 4 so conuoinrnnnss Ur nus ennsrnnnn” RHI COST OF GOVERNMENT. The Vast Sum Necessary to Cover the Expenditures of the Nation. A statement showing the been made appropriated session for the Government for the end June 30, 1888, has amounts 5 at its late the up by sup- Year The forty- and a half million of dollars. There were two appropriation bills that become law-—-the River and which the President vetoed, and the was passed by but could President’s of adjourn- If we add the fourteen million bill which C Ong for bill, Iress, be the prepared and the millions on the public debt to the sum above mentioned, we have million dollars deemed by Congress the current annual expenses of Government The corresponding expenditures dur- ng Washington's administration av- eraged less than six million dollars a year, ‘The population is fifteen times as great as it was ther: the expendi. as great. Yet this 18 not an evidence of extravagance the Government vastly more than it time of Washington. The largest single | n is that for pen than eighty-three forty-eight required as the amount does people did tem of ap p No million dollars this purpose for the {iscal LI'hils sum alone would have pald he ordin ses of the for the first Constitution, post mile than from dee 2i008., snted for exper (zov- “xe unde: ) Next con ifty~live and a half this amount more illlons will der » and « tment. The charge of the army is : 88 than twenty-four millions, for the navy is t twenty. five new ships are of the salar! les paid nited Slates, for in the i i eighteen years until 18U8, taking {IN 1 Hh, 18 the 1 "it Ras ived revenues of the be ther he appropriation il, almo millions, because some to be built, Most officers of the U |Z Tess viVe, ' printinng opriations are provided Executive act and Judicial This tL COVers 1 & half millions more than it was twelve years ago, when the population was much smaller than it is OW, A great variety of matlers are rovided for under the bill known as he Sundry Cly ril Appropris act h uctieg, repairing pt ibiic i service, € revenue; payicg assessed; and a ct appropria- fons, this vear, ual amount. hus accounted for as wtions - htn EAV Louses: Olle ing th back duties ugly many others, Th niy-two mill 4 » iR id ¥ great iB i We ave tl! f of Lhe all but siars L di sposed of District of a, four ai Ministers and , abroad, one million and a balf; cultural Department, one millio Academ A hall 2 miilion; and mis ellan sous small ch are Hons; imbia 1008 abuses service | in & manner creditably, f 1 ith that world. olne the ty to expen . which the every year with- going to waste, by being e who are not entitled to succeed as well as any other limiting these aln This owever, sl ¢ have the ia mor e vy DUS we a COUN Y 1564, hould not the people to cease prove the service, that an in- success, ! Tect of eadi ng ito my ust also reme mbe r asing population must mean an in and that the ion itself is constant- requirements which e people make of their Government, while every new function of Govern adds to the cost of maintaining Wem i= of civ addi $ adding Ww ment ol - - Histor ic Island, A Small but I he land has had of Maita, which 1» eventful history from remotest one of the smallest in the bul eighteen seven mile ea of about 100 uneven sur- hills, but streams of have a most 10k for the rees that are among the such a Ages, length wilh an It has an with gently undulating forest This wmiand will | appearance were it few orange, fig and olive { scal ttered here and there little villages and hamlets, The island itself is one vast, yellow sandstone rock, which crops out of the shallow soil in big patches in all directions, leaving but a small portion of 118 sur- face fit for cultivation, What could have been the great charm that made the islands so attractive to the ancients and to those who have since the Chris- tian era battled for its possession is a mystery to all strangers who visit its shores at the present day. During the summer months the heat is almost un- endurable day and night, while in the autumn the unhealthy sirocco winds blow over from Africa, and in the winter it is swept by heavy gales that combine all the terrors of cyclones and levauters, Valetta, its principal, and, in fact, its only city, has a population of sixty odd thousand, about half that the island contains, Immense lines of forts resses, probably the largest and most impregnable in the world, that were built by the Knights of Malta, encircle the city and defy its capture by other nations, in in width, i miles, face, § yr 8 OF Eu Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, (EWS IN BRIEF C als ¢ by A law taxing apita is proposed ieorgia, ~— Augusta, Wisconsi all of a yellowish gnow ir two ago. ~The last he number Jere at 970, A 25f00% seen taken In Jay a week ago, ten cents per legisiator in + » the Lay reports there a census of Bes of Americar shark is rep Monterey, Californis a mastofon of have been discovered (reorgia. — Emil Mancke, a famous German wrestler, weighs 441 pounds, and : eet 11 inches tall, —FProhibition is expected 0 carr; the counties in Dakota ou ~The remains of argest size Atlanta, ti Wie near Aid taide of the ‘e —**Jubilee” Juggins which the present “pl English turf is known, ~A projected underground 8 Lo use cables as snd be lighted by electricity. ~During the reign caesar, Rome, 1t is eal pop yulats on of about 2,50 -Monterey Is sal shar acteristically Mexican than ther city or town in Californ -A famous deer f n West Ross-sl t extends to about A is Lhe name inger’ on Dy the ra! a means of propul WAY S101 Augustus lated ), O00, t ¥ vi gd ¥ Of had a emain G-months-ol one! ity } and urios Hot have sud ithough nehes a tained Ly fourteen d oming cl BRC ICY 0 bave yung German e spr Car rs ¥ + % ¥i ts il alm in ‘ fF IRa i ing } i — A Pittsburg drumme the righ tof Helena, Monta {to collect a license recent Supr —Th e | Jand netie £25 000 were to the Img —J aco West Virginia, maple tree the ran twenty-seven —The widow of the well-known basso of Puailada. was drowned solae five years ago. in New York recently, of consumj tion. -— The highest ot human beings is said ¢ hist cloister of 21 priests live at feet. — Ab pt drawn in birth, and many of knowledge of ou lish language, from iron eme Court de al Exhit a profit prese; it serial Insti Weich, nabiled by the Budd. Hanie, Thibet, where juries, as the Starvation Cause 1 f iy per sons, in London, duri ng the year 188¢ as shown by an official House of Con 0 Tt iis. — Mary Queen of Scots of age when executed in Castle, Queen Elizabeth her death warrant, was (1587) B4 years old. -— A meteor that didn’t which glowed for a quarter of according to the statement of a Quebec correspondent, | lighted up that cisy and vicinity vividly a few nig! ago, ~—A young girl attacked a sneak thief i1n Newark, New Jersey, the othe: day, threw him on his k and held kim there had seen store, ~—It is reported that a man sylvania has a hen which re An egg measuring six and eight and a half inches, T black DBrahima, and 1s on the retired list. —{ive Oil, sad to quality, is being made this season ir Sonoma, California, and us | prod uclion of olives is confidently expt come one of the most im} tries of the place, wT D6 deat! hed 4 ul Val until assistance a him steal hat hat in Fenn- cently laid a half by be hen is a enough 10 be ¥ r § ‘ be of (Le Lnest 43 Plainfield {New ic Light Company with bouseholders for on lamp at §S a year; two, $6; seven, at additional -A tended wi $2 each, and §2 lamp. steam or nnibus, which 3 ran regul larly over country roads, is said to be running now ir Dresden, Saxony. It is managed by two men, and carries foriy-six passen- gers, with considerable freight. -Larcinda Easter, a colored resident of Newbery, South Carolina, is said be 100 years of age. According to newspaper accounts her mother died at the advanced age of 119, and she, like her daughter, had 22 children. ~11lustrated journalism iz becoming quite popular in Western Pennsylvania, at least it would seem so by the recent issue of a Pittsburg paper, the supple. ment of which alone contained thirty two wood-cuts, Young chickens, the Microscopical Society of San Francisco fears, are filled with the seeds of consumption and may communicate the disease te people who eat them, but this will hardly bear the market for brollers to any extent, ~Two petrified articles have been going the rounds of the newspapers; one, a strawberry discovered in Georgia, and the other, a log, In Dakota It is supposed, however, that they are one and the same thing, the berry havi grown to the sige of a log by the time it reached Dakota. to
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