GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 16, 19 January 1878, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Mr. Arthur Walshc, tho grandson of Lord Ormathwaite, has lately met with a very sad accident at Boulogne. In stopping from his bathing machine he trod on a piece of flint, which was so sharp that it almost cut tho solo of the foot into two. The hemorrhage was extremely profuse, and gangrene rapidly set in. Dr. Gazin treated the caso very skilfully, but it was thought desirable to summon Mr. Pollock, of St. George's Hospital, who found mortification spreading 80 quickly that ho deemed it necessary to amputate immediately, just below the knoe. Mr. Walshe is going on satisfactory at present. The Los Angeles " Express " says: In the early times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was one of tho most wealthy and influential residents of Los Angelas county. He held tho title to the largo tract known as La Dallona, anil had, besides, enough territory to form a province. • His wealth in cattle, sheep, and horses was proportionate to his landed estates, and whatever constituted wealth iu thoso duys Don Antonio had without stint. A few days ago u kindheartod citizen Was summoned to the bedside of an indigent sick man lying in an out-of-the-way place in Sonora. Tho poor fellow was at the point of death, and he told hit visitor that ho had not enough motley to purchase a prescription from the dru|[f store. The dying mini was the grandson and natural heir of Don Antonio Miiriu Lugo. " Thus runs the world sway."

Ihe following paragraph we extra* , from an American paper. Fred. Douglas was a runaway negro stave of America , and u special protege of the Anti Slavery j Society, and visited England some thirU i yeian ago, andduly made the acquaintance ' of an admiring British public at Exeter Hall, by a slump oration. The writer of : thaw few lines recollects being introduced to this black lion at the oame period, w hen a very little boy, and a vivid recollection still remains ofhuving wondered if the " bogie " resembled this dark gentleman Since the period spoken of Fred. Douglass has had many ups and downs in the world, but withal has made himself a general favonrite in the United States, notwithstanding the prejudice of colon What is more he i.siiomeancoiifrcrehaving conducted and edited u paper for many years in Rochester, U.S.,withconsiderable ability in aid of his ensluved countrymen. On the occasion of President Hayes to office lately, he, with considerable, political wisdom, appointed End. Douglas one of the Murshuls of tho States, at a salary of SBOOO. Baltimore, June ltlth.—Marshal Douglass of the District of Columbia, visited yesterday St. Michaels, Talbot country, Maryland, for the first time since he left a fugitive slave forty-one years ago. He was well received by his former master, Capt. Thomas Auld and by Wni. W. Bruff, who taught him reading and geography fifty years ago. In an address to the colored people, Douglass said that if in twenty years from now, the colored race as a race has not advanced beyond the point where it was whenemancipated, it is a doomed race. He encouraged them to earn money and keep it. A poor people are always a despised people. To be respected they must get money and property. Without money there is no leisure, without leisure no thought, without thought no progress.