AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 3837, 11 June 1875, Page 3

AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

A carriage and span of horses was presented to Cardinal M‘Closky by a' few I pfeminent Catholics, of New York. .

. Business is so bad in Banama that dealers in paper collars have raised the price, from thirty *0 forty cents, per dozen, ,< 7 , , ■ ■■y A lady in Boss, Q., sent ~?, by mail haying 1,590 words plaiidy;-written on it, as many as two cbluma of' some' 'papers contain.

A very singular and important discovery, it is said, has been made by a market gardener. It is a process by. which potato plants can be made to yield fruit all the year round. . A hill foc the sum of 41,925d0L has been presented to the Brooklyn Board of Supervisors for dinners furnished jurymen in. the TiltonBeecher case.

A letter from Commander Lull, in charge of the United States Inter-Oceanic Canal surveying party oh the Isthmus, of Panama, has been received. at the Navy Department. He speaks favorably of the prospect that now opens.

t Chief Justice Morrell, of New York, has decided that a street railway company has a perfect right to eject intoxicated persons from their cars, and that the company is not responsible for damages in the event of the fatal injury of a person ejected under such circumstances

A terrible case of fanaticism occasioned by spirit rapping, is now undergoing investigation at Pequardeliio, Havana. A mother believing that she was acting under the orders of spirits, has tom out the eyds of her son. Advices from Port-au-Prince state that about two-thirds of that city was destroyed by the fire which broke out there on the night of the 11th of March. The loss is about 2,000,000d01., and 600 or 700 families are rendered homeless.

I or the past few months the Bay of Panama has been very phosporescent. In the dark, every wave as it broke on the reefs looked like, a wreath of blueishfire. Fish abound in the bay at such times, and the water is cooler than usual.

1 Komualdo Pacheco, who succeeds Mr Booth as Governor of California, is the first native of Jiat State who has reached the Gubernatorial chair. He was born at Santa Barbara, of Spanish parents, and was fifteen years of a;e when the emigrants from the United States took possession of the soil.

Major Johnston, of Cincinnati, determined that the gambling-houses in that city should be closed and kept closed, has ordered the chief o police to use all diligence in stopping the illegal business, and in arresting all offending parties. A correspondent of the ‘New Zealand Herald ’ suggests that as kissing is unknown in China, H. W. Beecher should be sent thither as a missionary and as the champion kisser of the United States. Paroxysmal, paternal, sisterly, reconciliatory, and inspirational kisses appear to be as familiar to Mr Beecher as household words. The honorable defendant, according to his own account, has done a great deal of kissing, He.rhaa kissed Mrs Tilton (sisterly), Mrs Moulton (inspirationally), Mr Moulton (experimentally), Mr Oliver Johnson (unwillingly); Sam "Wilkeson ' (unavoidably), Mr Evarts (professionally), Mr Sheaimau (indignantly), Bessie Tprner: (fatherly); and Theodore Tilton (reconciliatory)! After this extraordinary experience in oaculatory.performances Mr Beecher should certainly be qualified to teach the barians. all that they are' ignorant of in the delicate art. Brooklyn might probably miss, him, hut Pekin would be the gainer. If he should, after 'the' trial, consent to go to China in the capacity of a Plymouth missionary, he might conjugate the verb “to kiss ” with greater success than he has ever done at home. , The conjugation “ I kiss Tilton, thou kissest Tilton, he kisses Johnson, Johnson kisseth us, Wilkeson kisseth Bowen, Bowen kisseth Beecher,” ; might have wider application in the experience of Oriental dIXQUtCS. i'