Miscellaneous

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 3

Miscellaneous

Ida Spaulding, .student in the Hartford (Conn.) Normal School, has boon dismissed from that institution, on account of her intended maniage to Wah Lee, a Chinese laundryman. jSII&s Spaulding was Lee's Sunday-school teacher. General Bad can, formerly Ex-President CJranb's military secretary, has made a formal demand on the executors of the estate for with interest and counsel fees, for literary services. Badean wrote "Grant's Life," which has been vaunted as an autobiography. The Mississippi River rose on May 14 over the high -water mark ot 1881. The water was within H feet of the stnge reached in 1851, the highest on record. Serious damages are reported in all the river towns from Minnesota to New Orleans. George Benson, who personated Patti's advance agent in Mexico and swindled the people out of a large amount ot money, committed suiQule in Ludlow-street Gaol, on May 16th, by jumping from the second tier of cells to the floor below, a distance of thirty feet;. The authorities were about to extradite him bo Mexico, and he preferred sudden death rather than dying by in a Mexican prison. Ifrcderiok Ma-ryelen, a well-known American play-Wright, committed suicide in New York, on March 19th, by asphyxiation. Pugili&m has reached a low ebb in Boaton. Sullivan's .benefit, on May 15th was a tame affair, and Phillips, tho manager, levanted with all the proceeds. A coloured j boxer named George Godfrey has chal lenged Sullivan bb liglil him tor any ainoun" up t0 £5000.,, „' * Congress lias appropriated #150,000 to build an irir-ship-pn .plans submitted by an inventor naiited M\ tic Bausett. Nathaniel W. T: JrJateh, » leading New York broker, was fdftnd on the morrjing of May Bth lying dead in a yard in the rear of 64, West 24th-street, New York, with his skull fractured. He had been having " a good time" vyith a Mrs Scofield (formerly of San Francisco) and her husband, who have both been held to answer the charge of murder. The woman insists Hatch's death was accidental. William T. Cbleman and Co., the leading mercantile house of San Francieco, suspended on May Bth, and made an assignmonb. The liabilities are pub down at $2,919,993, while it is declared that the house has $3,595,069 of available assets. The firm Were large shippers of canned goods, particularly to Australia. Among the assets are $51,000 in canned salmon at Sydney and Melbourne. * A dispatoh from Findlay, Ohio, May 21st, mentions that the people of the place were terrified by the appearance in the northern heavens of an illuminated shape, like a human hand from the fingers of which blood seemed to drip. Brookstown, Texas, was partially demolished by a cyclone on May 22nd.

Miss Clara (to Featherly, who is making an evening call) : *' Poor little tßobby t Bobby swallowed a penny to-day, and we've all been bo much worried about, it." Featherly (somewhat at a loss for words of encouragement): ",Oh, 11 — er— wouldn't, worry, Miss, Clara ; a penny is not much."