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Day
21
Month
May
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Plttsburjf lias 12,000 tona oí' iroB a ■vrciik. Tho ftirrovri most. cloar nnd uniform aro tliose made by tlie haml of Time. The tiggvCfcto trade of lliinieiipolis last ycur was $66,000,000. An organist at Litchfldd, Minn., played"Vhat Will tlie IIiuTest Be?" as a bridal couple marclied out of tlie church. Tho ilrst, attempt to mamifímtJifo woo1mi Hontcrinl by niiM-liinery in liutia S to bf lindo by tíic ElCl-ton Woolen Milla Compajif bi thc Ifenjaub. Tho Kiniís Of Portugal and Swodnu aro the royal poet of thc vrorld. Tlio luttor's poetic remleriii! of tho logend of Lolifiiufrin b;is jiftt nppeared in tho Offleial Swedish Gazelte, oí all plaoos. Tlicre is moro religión in the world than mny ioMgin. An advertfsonn-nt lateíy apinarod in a mrnin2 paper that a reütauraiit needs a cook and two walters, and that it is uttcily hopcless Ibr any but "(iodly uieu" to apply. diarios A. Thio of Brndfbrd, Pi.Inri, possibly with goori rcasoii, ftgroat distruatof bank. He nov has undoubted good reason to distrust bimscli', tbr liis wullot, oouUtning t3,SHiO. was stoleu liís pillow wlnlu lio slopt. Adam walker killod bimself at Aurora, III., bocaiuc ho liad beoti scnLcnced to mirisoumont, and tlic vcry sainu dav Marcus Boppe, a tnunp, connuittí suicido at Lui'.::istor, l'a., Uec;iu.jO a nn_íistrato roiusod to scud. lám to priaor. Wfopd carvin; i reccirln? especial attcntiüii in (riinnaiiy os un Industry o!' niitiun.il iinpurtan.ee. The woodcarving schools of tho empire, now nuinboriqg about one huiulred and sixty, aré to be ncveased to two hunditxt, and a great uumbur of prizea will be disti'ibuted. Tïni'oii tliuckwlts, a üungavian, ras last yc-vr cauglit poachiu by the licud gnmekecper oí' the litug ot' tlie Bolgifins on the royal pivs-rves at the Chat eau oi" Avdenne, au 1 he wm tried niid punishod. iteCKUtJy t!ie gamefceepci- was found dead, umi tho Urou lias been oharged wiUi the ïnurder. Major Vcsey of Clonborn, Ghilwsy, Ireiand, guined the ill wiil oi' the Irisii tabororo about iiim, nul a few weeks ayo, at uight, sevon acres of clovcr was du' wp so as to remtor theni wortiiless i'or pasturngSi It is e.stiinalcd that at lenst 200 men were enaxéd in this laborious and novel mothoUol' revengo. Of tlie 577 Ih-itish Pcors, 478 have gcats in tho llouso of Lonl, 4:54 by personal right and 44 by elcction, 1(5 ly the l'eers of'Scottluid and 28 by the IVors of Iielaiiíl; y hile the 143 peera;es of which tho holdora are not legistators at present are distributed iiinong the Feeresses md the lJeers of Öcotlund and Ireland. Mary Stock has starved liersclf to doath, at Alloghany, Pa. She believed that, in consequentie ot' her sinl'ulness, God has conunanded her not to ent. üha was kept alivo in the hospital by having food forced down hef throat, but on her return home she refused to takc any nourishment, and died after six weeks ahnost eiuiie abstinence. Beports from the vrine districts of France say that the extraordinary cold weather has so severely injured grape vinea that this ycars' erop will prooably be very poor. The vincs ia Burgniidy, and more espccially in Champii'ne, havo suiTere(t most. It i-i vnry doubtful it' the greater part of New York wine drinkers woild find this out if it was not published. There is some complaint that the ministerial ddegates eleotod to the Methodist General Conlerence includo too largo a proportion of the oüit-ors of the cluirch. Tliat tlüs complaint has some basis to rest upon is shown by an examination of the list of delegites choson by the fall conferences. Of 13? delegates chosen, eighty are presidium elders, ninetcen are editora and othcr noii-itinorants, and but thirty-three ar" Distors. Mary Mullnney hanged herself from a tree at Coshocton, Onio, because she liad been desertod by her lover, llenry Moor. Tliat was fi 'teen years ayo. Lately Mooi-e was killed by the aix-identaí dísckarga o f a gun under the same tree. Tlie people of tho neighborhood not only believe this was a just retributioo, but some ot' thum declare that tho ghosts of the paír may be seca walking there every íiight. Bccause a funeral party was beliiivl tlie appointed time in reaiohíng the cliurch with one ol' his dnitñ jparishioners, the Kev. J. llamüton of Lynsted, Euglaud, refused U let thein enter the building, or to read the biirinl service. Ai'ter niueh delay the cuilii. was adinitled to Lhe ehurehyard and placed in the open grave, and theiv lelt until next day, wlieil the gervice was read over it, and the gravo lilled in When the Czar, nt the suestion of the Czarevitch, intrusted Gen. Loris Metikolf with the senu-tlictatorial ofiice he now holds at Si. Petersburg, h Í3 reported to liave s;üd to the lattor : "ilv dear General, I ain very sorry to be obligad to offer you, in all pi-obubility, as a target tbr the Nihilista. But a.s it is iny íuty to appoiut to otfice the worthiest men, 1 uaiinot possibly spare you. Let us hope that the assassins will continue to aun at me alone." l'rince Leopold, the Qucen's youagcst son, borñ on April 7, íSoíi, has been preven tod, by eonstitutioiial delicacy, t'roin enibracin a proí'ession, but has iuherited, beyond any o'l liirbrothors, bis tather's taste., lie was enterad at Christ Chureh, Oxford, an is a niember of the University and Docíor ot' Civil Law. An Kiiyrlísl trinco ol' thc blood royal daea not reside in the collogo to which he is attached, but in a house of bis own Prinoe Leopold, however, had his owi set atnong the students of his timp, aix niight ot'ten have been scen playin, chess at the Oxford Ohess Club. The Jewish World (London) clares that the femiiy legend given by Lord Beaconsfield in the proface to his lather's work is all wrong. Tho l'amily name was not Larra, nor dkl tlie Premier's grandf'athcr assume the name of D'Israeli, "never borno bel'ore,' when flying from tlie Spanish luquisition. 'ílio nanie oí' La really belonged, in a way, to tlie íirst wit'e oí Benjamín D'Israoü, grandí'atlier of tlie Premier, from whom lio is not descerní ed. tíhe was the daugliter of Gaspa Méndez Portado, a Portuguesa Jew whose wife Abigail was a Lara anc had placed on her tombstone, ii Milc Kud road, the following iuscription whichsuggested the legend : "Xne Bcpulchre of Abigail, wid.w of Gaspai Méndez Furtado, of l'ortug-al, wlio altor suft'cring tho .ciiures of tho Inquisition, lled for proteetion to England with her children, since namei Kachel, Rebecos, Judith, Abraham Isaac, and Jacob, whom she educalei in tho Jewish faith and established well in marriage, when, having survived her beloveddaugli ter Rachel, shi was called to rest Friday niglit, Sept 17, 17134, aged 66." Tlie Rebecea men tioned mavried, as is shown byanothe tombstoue, üenjamin D'Jsnveli, ani died lcaving one daughter, "Rachel,' who was not related to the Premier H i rinccpuOed ir - ■■■ V:---Ma' secc Minister Christiancy has fHed his liill for divorpe against his wife, in whioh specific acts of adultery are charged, while slie will return with charge of gross cruelty. The Washington gossijis aro awaiting finther developmentsin thlsnatíonal scandal. Minnesota republicana instruct fnr Windom; Dakote likewise if Windom has añy chance, otherwise l'or Blalne; Kebraska for Blaine. Democr its of California, Xew Jersey and Virginia will BOt instruct.

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