AMERICAN NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 130, 7 May 1872, Page 7

AMERICAN NEWS.

An artesian well in Texas spouts sodawater.

Wife-beating is said to be a “ standard amusement” in Oregon. There are 31 convicted murderers in the Michigan State Prison. The snow blockade was a godsend to the hotels in Salt Lake city. Tar and feathers are said to bo the prevailing epidemics in Indiana. Once more the grain stored in Chicago reaches millions of bushels.

Barnum is going to open and u run” a first-class museum in Chicago. A Rock Island lady receives a quarter of a million love letters per annum. A Milwaukee judge preserves order in Court by exhibiting a seven-shooter. The Cuban authorities are taking steps to check the Chinese immigration to that island. Negroes tried in Alabama nearly always object to the jurymen being of their own race. The Montana Legislature has refused to entertain any application whatever for divorces. Brigham Young is now a prisoner in his own house, though allowed to take exercise with an escort. As a set-off to the woman’s rights movement, the Boston Milliners are employing male seamstresses. A curiosity-lmnting Yankee has been plaguing the Grand Duke Alexis to give or sell him one of his shirts. In Indiana, recently, a young lady was struck dumb while singing in church, and lias not been able to speak a word since. The Tribune calculates that there .arc 200 gambling hells in New York, in which 2500 rogues make a living off 100,000 dupes. A Newburyport (Mass.) woman lately became the happy mother of triplets, one of j whom has black hair, one red, and the other I white. j A Florida man’s life was saved by a bundle I of unpaid bills in his breast pocket, which | turned the point of a would-be assassin’s i knife. A German lager beer saloon keeper in New York is too fat to get through his doorway, and for several years has not been in the street. Southern coloured revivalists have adapted the touching hymn “ Shoo Fly,” to a psalm, the first line of which reads, “ Sa-tan, don’t bodder me.”

The New York Herald, which likes a big lie better than a small truth, now fixes the amount of Tweed’s defalcations at ten thousand million dollars. An industrious shoeblack in Buenos Ayres, who has amassed a large fortune by his labours, has gone on a European tour with his “ family and suite.”

According to General Pleasanton, who collected the tax on them, the enormous number of 1,332,24(1,000 cigars were used in the United States last year. A very singular matrimonial case recently happened in Essex county, Va. A gentleman’s second wife’s two sons married his third wife’s two daughters. In the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania eight ferocious bloodhounds are kept for the purpose of patrolling the yards at night, they being less expensive than guards or watchmen, and not so likely to be tampered with or to sleep at their posts. A Western paper having boasted that a very young lady of sweet sixteen had killed j a large buck, weighing 1(50 lbs., the Itichmond I Enquirer says that Richmond girls kill young | bucks any time, some of then quite “ large,” land “weighing 100 lbs.” The subject lias | yet to be discovered upon which an American 1 editor could not produce a joke, and a good one too.

A story illustrative of the way in -which revolutions arc got up in South America is told by the Anylo-Bradlioii Times Three or four years, ago an Argentine second lientenant made a ‘ pronunciamiento’ in the city of Corrientos, but was beaten and captured. At his court-martial he was asked :— ‘ A hat ]od had you in the affair ?’—‘ I was Com-mandcr-in-Chief of all the infantry of the revolution.’ —‘ How many men had that infantry Y —‘ Seven men,’ replied their Com-mander-in-Chief.”

Miraculous Restoration of Health by Hollotrail's I'ills! Miss Ellen Knight, oil, Mtanliopcstreet, Regent's-pmk, a young lady of the most delicate c institution, had snllered for years from overflow of Idle and had digestion, causing palpitation of the heart, with great dillieulty of breathing ; to walk the least ascent was impractihle. The best medical advice had been obtained in London, Birmingham, France, and other places, hut in vain ; nor did she receive pcim incut relief, until she took a course of Holloway’s inestimable Pills, and she is now enjoying the blessings of good health that for the previous eighteen years she had been a stranger to.

Sketched at Islington. —Purchaser : “ K-a-t-1 is no’ the way to spell 1 cattle.’ ” Drover, writing the receipt; “ Naebodv could spell wi’ this pen. T1 lore’s been ower mony drunken bodies usin’ it !”

“ Home Buie'’ is one of the great questions of the day in the Home country. Punch thus describes what “ home rule” is, as enforced by a strict disciplinarian (fc.ni.alelNo smoking, due observance of the scraper and doormat, cold .dinners—without a murmur, early rising, early setting, no latch-key, rice-pudding, toast and water, standard authors, improving conversation, no puns, Sunday clothes, long walks, long sermons. no liros before November or after March, thick bread and butter, thick boots—third class, | black draughts, gruel, goloshes, comforters, no | hot water, round games—for love, instructive [toys, little pocket money, marsala, Exeter Hall.”