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Day
30
Month
July
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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! - Grant will visit Garfield at his home. Mentor, O, - Kalloch has been arraigned for the murder of De Young. - Chicago's census: 503,298. Cincinnati 256,000. Boston 363,5fi5. - The public debt has been decreased since Aug. 13, 1865, $837,104,823. - More than three hundred lives were lost by the earthquake at Manilla. -Gen. Garfield promises to attend the New England fair association next naonth, if possible. - Ilersehel V. Johnson, of Georgia, who was a candidate for vice president in 1860 on the Douglas ticket, is very ill at his home in Georgia. _ ( - Rev. Herbert H. Ilayden, accused but acquitted of the murder of Mary Staimard, is making foldiug chairs in a New Haven factory. - Mr. Tilden is reportcd by his private secretary as being constantly iu receipt of propoaals of niariiago trom all parts of the country. - Greene Smith only son of the late great philanthropist, Gerritt Smith of Peterboro, N. Y., died last week leaving an estáte of 1,000,000. -Col. Thomas A. Scott is yachting about the New England and Canadian shores, and will shortly go to the White mountains. He is in much better health . -Secretary Evarts has an incoms of from $75,000 to $100,000 a year from his law business. It has run up to $150,000. Fees of $25.000 or $50,000 are nothins unusual tor hun. He is 62 years old. - George Bennett was hung at Toronto, Friday, for thekillingof Geo.Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe, one of th ablest editorial writers on the continent, and prominent in the Dominion's political affairs. -Household expenses, the New York Times says, have increased from 20 to 30 per cent. in that city during the past year, so that incomes of $2,000 annually go no farther than those of $1,600 a year ago. - Secretary Thompson said in an interview at Salt Lake that the navy was not the baby it was represented to be by the press, and that in case of war with a foreign power it would give a good account of itself. -The body of Ethan Allen was lately exhumed forremoval atLowville,N.Y., and the exhumer fund the bullet with which a British ranger killed him when on bis way to join the army at Sacketts Harbor in 1813. - An Enoch Arden at Mount Vernon, Ohio, is likely to get his wife back, for he returns with a fortune of $30,000, while the Philip Ray is a shif tless fellow, and has led the Annie Lee a miserable life for 14 years. - Citizens of Chatham, Mass., recall the case of Ensign Eldridge,once a ritizen of that place, who, in 1860, resolved to commit suicide by starvation. He had abstained from food of every kind for seventy days, when he died. -Gen. U. S. Grant has been elected president of the San Padro and Canon Delaqua company, which owns 40,0)0 acres of land in New Mexico, including copper and gold mines. Eastern capitalists are largely interested in the enterprise. - It is a reraarkable fact that the obelisk just brought to New York is the only one that ever had its base and pedestal ever taken with it. It is also the only one ever removed in a commercial vessel. All the others have had vessels built expresslv for therru man of Ilartland, Vt, went to Niágara Falls to commit suicide, but was awed by the cataract into the thought that a jump into it would prove fatal, so he stopped on Goat Island and shot himself. Chances for life pretty good. - Hon. Preston Breckinridge, of Sangamon county, 111., died, Sunday morning, aged 73 years. He was a cousin of the late John C. Breckinridge, but was one of the founders of the republican party, and once defeated Abraham Lincoln, in a contest for a legislativo nomination. - Mxs. Wetmore's suicide in Paris createa a sensation. Stae was an American divorced woman, stately and Kandsome. An English lord feil in love with her whom she expected to marry, but about the time the event was to take place the lord married another. - Crop reports from central and northern Minnesota and portions of Dakota continue favorable. The weather is fine, and if no decided change shall occur during this week wheat will be safe. In many portions of Dakota and Minnesota it is claimed that wheut will yield twenty-flve to forty bushels to the acre. -On Thursday of last week Gen. Grant arrived at Leadville, Colorado. He was met by two companies of cavalry, and flve companies of infantry, about 500 veteran soldiers, the pólice and flre departments. A salute of 100 guns was fired. The expense of the reception, about $20,000, is mostly met by private subscription. -Gen. Ueauregard, in reply to an inquisitive man at Washington, has written another letter to deny the absurd republican campaign whopper that he once made Gen. Hancock haul down the (lag at his headquarters before hc would consent to dine with him. Beauregard stigmatizes the charge as a "calumny," which is plainly too strong a word for such idiocy. -Dr. Tanner attributes his great powers of abstinence from food to the fact that lie was bom and brought up at Tunbridge Wells, England, and drank of the chalybeate waters to such an excess that the inner coat of his stomach became permanently affected. The doctors are anxiously waiting the time for a post-mortem to determine the truth or falsity of the theory. - Three or four of the men indicted with Kemble, Salter, and others for corrupt solicitation and bribery of members of the Pennsylvania legislature were not tried and convicted last spring with the rest of the gang. and consequently did not receive the benefit of a pardon. Subpoenas have been issued in their cases, however, and they will be brought befoie the very accommodating court at Harrisburg at the October term. When those men who fought nnder Hancock, during the war to crush the rebellion and to establish the supremacy of the government, propose to vote for and support Hancock for President, it is not good taste for the Garfleld Republicans to cali them traitors and disloyal. It may serve as a vent for chagriu and disappointment, but it wout check the exodus from the Kepublican ranks to the Standard of Hancock and English.

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