Tbere was a heavy snow Irl Aber
deenshire, Scotland, on Saturday; arid
the harvests were interfered witb
thereby.
A school-master at Tiffin, Ohio, used
a piece of rubber, bose witb which to
whip bis pupils, and it proved SO effec
tive tbat a little girl was nearly killed.
Tbe Menuonites are about to estab
lish a mission among the Indians id
the Island or Koojab, 009 miles
of Sitka, Alaska.
Tbe judges of Franklin eotla(f
Missouri, wbo bave bten locked tip id
tbe St. Louis Custom bcuse for. to
months for contempt of tbe United
Sta'es District Cmrt, in refusing i
n'andamus on tbe county authorities to
levy a tax to meet a judgment, were on
Friday released for a little season, in
order that tbey might go borne and 1
bold court for tbe dispatch of local bus
iness. A despatch from London nnd"r
date, of October 31st, states tbe fol
lowing terrible crime : In HalbsUdt,
iu the Bender District, Bessarabia, tbe
wells used by the Gcrtnao eolony bave
been poisoned with arsenic. A bun
dred persons are ill and five died. Tbe
perpetrator of the crime baa Dot yet
been discovered.
Everything was ready for a duel
near Berlin tbe other day. Principals,
seconds and a surgeon were there all
ready, when tbe wife of one of the
principals drove up in a carriage,
jumped out, drew a pistol, presented it
to ber own breast, and said she would
kill herself unless the duel was giveu
up. It was.
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A Virgiula newspaper of October
30 says j Information reached here to
night ot tbe death of one of the most
notorious characters in tbe country.
