AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

Southland Times, Issue 1716, 18 March 1873, Page 2 (Supplement)

AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

The hillsides in C Jifornia already show a beautiful green covering, and the grain fields that have been summer -fallowed are shootin? up the evidence of a bountiful harvest the coming season. Chicago is not pleased with her Nicholson pavement ; they wear out too soon ; from which we infer the wars of the transgressor are not hard enough to suit him in that town. A. Chinese doctor in San Diego named AhQuokaccidentally shot himself through the foot on Sunday last. " Physician cure thyself." Perhaps he can't, because he's Ah Quok. Some Indians ar« reported to have been killed by the earthquake near White Bluffs, on the Columbia, by the rocks shaking loose and rolling down into their camp, which is near the bluff. Nearly every important town in the "West -visited by the " cold snap " had one or more cases of fatal freezing. Th« Marysville Defender, a paper six weeks old, suspended publication on the 4th instant. Reason— Expenses $200 per week ; income much less than that sum. An agent for a South Kansas newspaper lately travelled one hundred milts afoot to collect $1.00 on subicriptions past due. He raised two dollars. The Sophomores at the Elmira, New York, Female College, have forbidden the freshmen wearing false hair. A ton of rich silver ore from Newava "Watts Mining District has been received at Los Angeles, for San Francisco. The Hartford Times tells of a gentleman in that city who, on getting a glass of soda, was retiring from the store without the usual little cerpmouy which follows that operation. " Kecollect," said the polite proprietor, "If you lose your pocket-book, you di'in't pull it out here." A funeral procession at Bal.iwin, New York, halted long euoujfti lo allow one of the pall-bearers to be pounded by a fellow wiio rushed upon him from a barn, and then tranquilly resumed its solemn aiareri. i A Connecticut farmer secreted himselt' j in his hen coop to see whai became of hia | poultry, and he caught a landlord ny the ! hair about midnight. Landlord pre tended to be drunk, and gave a man §20 to prove it. The New York clergy :oen are going to petition the Legislature not to allow newspaper reporters to witness and report executions. 1 hey think it barbarous, and believe it leads to further crime.