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Isaac Bennett of South Berwick visited Dover, N.H. on Saturday, got gloriously drunk and drove his horse recklessly about the streets until the animal ran away and “fired out” the drunken driver, landing him on his head on a reservoir cover. He was badly cut and bruised; had he been sober his brains would have been scattered all over the street. The Rochester correspondent of the Portsmouth Times asks: “Will some one throw a brick at the Portsmouth correspondent of Foster’s?” He evidently thinks Portsmouth is south of the Mason & Dixon’s line. Morris Hennessy, sixty years old, was killed by the fall of a …

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Charles Parker, wife, and two children aged two and four years, fled from Decatur, Ala., when the yellow fever broke out there, to the home of relatives at Oak Mountain. When within fifteen miles of Oak Mountain they were confronted by the shot-gun quarantine, and driven back. On the 7th inst. a brave physician went in search of them, and found them all dead, the parents having died in the woods of yellow fever, and the children of starvation. The Biddeford Journal remarks: “The democratic newspapers are still strugling [sic] to hold down the remaining republican plurality in Maine. It reminds one of the late …

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News and Notes Jeremiah O’Neil, one of a gang of four white loafers who undertook to give two colored men an unprovoked thrashing in Providence, R.I., Sept. 15th, was fatally shot by one of the colored men. There was a free fight in the Westminster Presbyterian church at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16th, over the alleged immorality of the late pastor. The police quelled the riot. Charles Kinsel of Philadelphia is experimenting with an air-sailing ship. The mugwump bosses of New York have ordered their followers to vote against Hill for governor. A full-blooded negro testified in a rich Irish brogue before a Brooklyn court …

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During the labor parade in Cleveland, Ohio, a party of foreign anarchists in the procession refused to salute the stars and stripes with their red flag, and were soundly thrashed by the real laborers. Then five of the anarchists were arrested for riot! In a political fight at Clarendon, Ark., Sept. 3rd, three men were killed and the sheriff wounded. At Lodi, Ohio, Sep. 1st, a young girl watching a base ball game was struck behind the ear by a foul ball, and at Republic, Ohio, the same day, the catcher of a local club was struck over the heart by a ball; and both …

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The Elbe at Hamburg has crocodiles in it, thirteen having escaped from a menagerie steamer. A large paper mill at Neenah, Wis., took fire at 11:30 p.m. on the 22d inst. While it was surrounded by people the boilers exploded, shattering to atoms the building, which was of brick and three stories high, and killing eighteen persons, fatally wounding seven, and injuring many others. The money loss was $100,000; insurance $52,000. In a fight at a Baptist meeting at Monticello, Ga., Aug. 23d, two men were shot dead, one or two mortally wounded, and several badly hurt. Over thirty shots were fired. Those fellows evidently …

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According to the returns of the keepers of the Boston public baths, there were 250,000 visitors in July. Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge some time ago, and escaped without serious harm, on the 7th inst. jumped from the Hungerford bridge across the Thames at London, and was drowned. William Grady, a worthy young man of East Boston, aged twenty-four years, was murdered by a drunken sailor named Van Buren on the afternoon of Aug. 6th, while trying to protect his slayer from the savage attack of a drunken mate named Coleman. Edward H. Olmstead, head clerk in the bursar’s office at Harvard …

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