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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
May
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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- Toombs will not run lor Orov. of G. - Moody took 6,000 from Bailimore. - Judge XSarnard of Tweed ring notoriety is dead. - Cyrus W. Field used to be a stationer and paper dealer. - Biahop Rosecranz left all his property to tho Ohio catholic clergy. - Canals in New York will ba opened for navigation May 8. - Leading temperanoe men of Ohio are moving for a local option law. - Boynton fiuished his Tfatcr trip to New Orleans on Sunday aftornoon. - Angelí i doing the vrork of three ordinary book keepers in Joliot prison. - "Wm. H. Vandarbili; roos to Europa bont the first of June foi rest and racrefttion. - Senator Logon treats tho duol ohallenges of Congressman Lowo of Alabiiua, with silent contempt. - The Timet, greoubaok nerapaper up in Neyvrago, of this state, has joined the departed nerspaper host. - Strawberries ure bought in Charleston, S. C, at 4 cent a quart and sold in New York at 50 cents a quart. - Ex-Congressman Eiddle of Tennessee, is the twelfth Congressman whohas suicided hnnself out of the world. - Ex-Senator Shields has been appointed Missouri's agent to prosecute jlaiuis against tho Federal Government. - Sara Tilden weighs only 110 pounds ind will be 66 years of age when be runs in 1880 to socure what was bis in 1876. Mrs. Pa- .-J wiy, ji - ■■' JJi'ifaïo'a oldest residonts, has just died at the age of 78, leaving an estáte of $1,000,000. - Overwhelmod wilh r.ogro rofugees, Kansas people are crying out "What 3ball we do to be savedèfroin thia sort of immigrant?." - Mrs. Gen. Dis was so proa'rated by her husband's doath tht sho could not attend the funeral, and will probably follow him soon. - Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape f rom the State Prison by sa wieg through the bars of his cell. - The plan for the asylum for the old and disablod employees of the New York Central railroad, for which Commodore Vanderbilt left $500,000, are about perfected. - The Democratie local oommittee at Okolona, JVliss., have publicly donounced the States of that place as a newspaper that in no wise ropresents the sentiinents of the people there. -The bill appropriating $800,000 for services of the state militia, and for other expenses in connection with the labor riots of 1877-S, was passed by tha Illinois senato and signed by tho govornor last week. - While she is awakonod, Dotroit proposes to have but one session per day of banking hours, from 10 A. M., to 3 P. J., instead of an A. M., and P. M., eeasion closing in the iniddie of the day two hours. - Alexander II. Stephens was 60 poor when he first comuienced the practice of law that he had to live on $6 per tnonth. This is said to be the secret of his assistance to poor young men, over fifty of whom he has assiated to a Hbertvl education. - A proposed combination of oil producers and refiners, forlimiting production and increasing price at the seaboard has fallen through. A Pittsburgh company is going to get all the mombors of the Cleveland combination indicted on tho ground of being conspiratorg. - Fred. Douglass said in his Staunton, Virginia, lecture the other night : "It is a mistake for the negro to move North; one of the most unfortunate predicaments that can be imagined is a negro in a snow bank ; it don't look right, the colora don't blend harmoniously." - The Chicago Tribune estimates that "every speech made in Congress costs the country about $5,000 each, not to mentiou the aiinoyance oí reading it." Tho only saving in thig clause is, that while we rnay be obliged to piiy for these things, we areneí, thank Heaven, obliged to read them. - A lady of Louisville, Ky., who ia au ardent admirer of the stalwart Maine statesman, James G. Blaine, numed her petcanary for him. On the morningof Easter Sunday she found a nioe littlo egg in the cage of "Jeeras," and in her surprise broke out with, "I vow thore is no dependenoe to be placed on any of these politioians." - Tho elegant and costly institution of learning at Notro Dame, near South Bend, Ind., was burned on Wedneiday of last woek. No hveg were lost. The fire caughfc from kettles of composition used in repairing the roof. Scarcely anything was saved. lts faculty comprised 30 members and its coursos consisted of commercial, classical, scien tifie, law, medical, and civil engineering studies.

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