TIMELY TOPICS.
Natchez, Miss., is threatened with
the fate of Vicksburg, namely, deser¬
tion by the river. The recent rise of
the Mississippi river has thrown the
towhead near the Louisiana shore, and
there is now a current running on the
Louisiana side which threatens to cut
away the bar there, and throw it upon
the Mississippi side directly in front of
Natchez.
The inhabitants of Finland (Russia)
bury the dead only on Sundays. To
preserve the bodies for the day of funer¬
al they are put in the cellars where
milk, butter, cheese, eggs aud other
articles are kept. The doctors have
taken ground against this custom, and
have given alarm by declaring it to be
one of the surest ways of propagating
such contagious diseases as cholera and
typhoid fever.
Francois Grilhon, a rich French’farm¬
er, quarreled with his son-in-law, and
set his mill on fire. He then went home
and burned his own house, and as the
flames devoured it kept the neighbors
at bay with a double-barreled shotgun.
He then proceeded to throw a large sum
of money in gold and notes into the
blazing ruins, and finally blew his
brains out in the presence of tho horri¬
fied crowd.
The Russian newspapers complain
that the fluctuation in the grain trade
of Russia and the rapid change in
prices, are caused by competition from
the United States. As soon as Ameri¬
can supplies are brought to market, sale
of tbe Russian grain decreases, and
hence many Russian farmers are im
poverished and cannot pay taxes. As
the prosperity of Russia depends large¬
ly upon the grain trade, it is important
that full information concerning the
crop of Amerioan cereals should be ob¬
tained; and it is suggested in 8t.
Petersburg journals that Russian con¬
suls in the United States bo required to
ascertain the state and prospects of
the American crops, and to assist in
promoting the grain trade of Russia.
oft-repeated * story that the
Quakers area decaying body does not
seem to be true, for an English journal
asserts positively that not only has the
falling off in the number checked of members of
the society been for many
years, but a comparatively rapid growth
has also occurred during the last few
years. This is marked by the inorease
of some of the older “ meetings ” of the
body both in England denomination and America, into and
by the countries, spread of the small scale.
other if even on a
Notwithstanding emigration, there is an
addition to the small number of Quakers
in Norway and Denmark, and a
“ monthly meeting ” has been estab
lished in Syria. Some time ago a
Friends’ mission was begnn at Mount
Lebanon, and there aro a Bcore of mem¬
bers there.
The trial of a Chinaman for assault
and battery in the police court of San
Franoisco has brought out a strange
story of a Chinese girl’s unhappy ex¬
periences. She said that her parents in
China had sold her to “ a gray-haired
lady ’* for twenty dollars when she was
ten years of age. She was resold to a
Chinese dootor in San Francisco named
Lia Po Tai. This dootor has several
wives, one of whom sold her to a China¬
man for $40. Her market price gradu¬
ally increased to $160, and by the
time she was twenty years old she had
ohanged hands a dozen times. Recently
she heard that she was to be sold to a
Chinaman living in the interior of the
State, and it was in consequence of her
refusal to go that the assault was com
mitted and the distnrbance created that
brought the case before the public.
Lnkens’ “ Pith and Point”
An Indiana woman of eighty-eight is
cutting her third set of teeth with as
little gnaws as possible. without
If you can’t be generous
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and Maine (in 1876). The following
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1867; Minnesota, 1868; Iowa, 1878, and
Louisiana many years ago. In these
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unless the jury unanimously recommend
that penalty; hence there are but few
executions in these States. Of the
above States Iowa totally abolished that
penalty in 1872, but modified that law
in 1878 as mentioned. The following
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law, viz,: New Hampshire, Vermont
and Kansas. In these States the crimi¬
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year (Vermont two years) prior to exe¬
cution, when he may be executed on the
warrant of the governor, it being op¬
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shall, or shall not, issue the warrant.
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the ready reply, “ let the little
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