The Irish Nationalists and the Ashantee War.—The Nationalist papers are furious at the success of the British troops at Coomassie. Throughout the whole campaign they have indulged themselves in the hope that our army would be annihilated, and that the Ashantees would be successful. . Now that events have turned out contrary to their expectations, they turn their attention either to depreciating the conduct of the British soldiers or to gloating over the. slaughter inflicted on them by the ene-.' my.
The feeling of America towards England is said by the 'New York World ' to be not unlike the feeling one might have for a cousin who had tried to oust one out of a handsome property by a lawsuit and failed. You would be sorry to hear that he had been crushed hi a railway accident, or shot in a duel, or sent to the penitentiary. You are not sorry to hear that he has been cut in a love affair, or that he fell down in a waltz with his partner, or that He was caught on the wrong side of "Wall Street in a little "flyer "of stocks.
Queer Matrimonial Arrangement.—Miss, Olympia Brown, a female preacher, was married at Bridgeport (U.S.) recently, the understanding being that she should retain her name, and not assume that of her husband: "And so it is," says the ' Hartford Times,' " John Henry Willis and the Rev. Olympia Brown; and he attends to his grocery business, and she preaches to her congregation of saints and sinners every Sunday; and they keep a snug little house in Bridgeport, on Golden Hill; and the name on the door is '. Olympia Brown'-r—----that partner in this matrimonial firm being the better known of the two."
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3
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288Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3
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