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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 320, 17 April 1875, Page 3

The right to hol'd a racing lottery orsweep will be tiM at the City PoliceCourt. Thomas PL -Dodson, proprietor of the Empire Hotel, has tfeen summoned by the police for selling a ticket by which permission was given for a chance in a known as a "Monster Derby Sweep." Three charges all of a like nature, have been laid. '

Garibaldi's presence in Rome has infused new Jife in the old city. ■ His arrival kindled enthusiasm among all classes. After a piivate interview with King Victor Emmanuel, who received him with great warmth, the General took his.,seat in Parliament. So vast-was the " throng that his entrance was the signal for a tre-'. mendous outburst .of applause. : When silence was-restored, the President called: upon him to take the customary oath; rHe rose immediately and pronounced the for-' mulEe without hesitation, in a clear voice % This act of reconciliation was greeted with ; a salvo of applause. Garibaldi has taken up his residence in the Villa Severini. He eschews politics, declines to embarrass the : "Government, and concentrates all his energies upon the great work of sanitary re-; form, which he believes will restore Eome to her greatness. - His earnestness and enthusiasm are telling upon men of all ranks and polit : cal opinions. The.King and the Government are favorable, and prel miriary surveys have been authorised. Garibaldi looks to England- for substantial help to carry out his Tiber scheme. Offers have been made to. undertake the grand work 'on the granting of a Government guarantee. ; :

Serjeant Ballantine has gone out to undertake the : defence of the Guicowarof Baroda, with a fee of 5,000 guineas, and refreshers amounting to 500 more. The trial absorbs public attention. Serjeant Ballantine's of ' conducting the defence has pleasingly surprised the onlookers so far, although his cross-examination has been very, severe.. His son is his ju-nior-counsel. _ . Foot Pads.:—Corn Plasters. A Water Mill.—A naval engagement. . . r

A Rising Man.—A growing youth. - Qualification.-?—A lady applied to a fire insurance company for a position as agent. When asked what her qualifications were, she touched her unblushed cheek. A man in a New York rural settlement, who has been an inveterate smoker for twenty years, has suddenly and permanently given up the practice. He knocked the ashes of his pipe into a keg of blasting powder. Brevity is . the Soul of Wit,— When a Western-editor is in a hurry* he doesn't waste words by saying " It rained." He simply writes. •' after many days of arid dessication, the vapoury captains' marshalled their thundering, hosts, and poured out upon scorching humanity and the thoroughly incinerated , vegetation a few inches of aqua pluvialis.''—American - paper. ; Andrew Jackson when President of the United States;, wa's accused of bad spelling, but John Randolph defendedhirn by declaring that " a man must be a fool who could not spell a word more ways than one."

• The pioneers of a,new settlement in Arkansas belcl a public meeting the other day, and resolved " that the-great need of this town is about forty smart wo men." They think they would then be fortified against adversity. '