Boston Post: July 2, 1869
Part of the Front Page
The Boston Post used to feature a front-page section called 'All Sorts,' which contained short news snippets. Here's a sample I found from July 2, 1869:
- Loafing is not allowed on the Cincinnati parks. The Connecticut Legislature fears it will be corrupted by a lobby that pays only $200 a vote.
- Brignoli is "bending his footsteps," as Colfas expresses it, "toward his home in the settin' sun." Hartford asks to be the sole capital of Connecticut.
- New York has no measuring worms this season, and thinks the English sparrows have eaten them. De Rodas begins his Cuban career with a big dinner.
- A Charleston incendiary put a kerosene lamp under a bed and roasted a whole family.
- Tennessee parsons are a queer set. An ex-Confederate General now appears in that role.
- A street car accident Failing to run over one man in a week. -[N. Y. paper.]
- Rose Bell is the only opera bouffer left in New York.
- The sea-serpent hasn't been engaged by any watering-place this season.
- Bright prospects for the Quakers-the Indians are " scouring" the Plains.
- The New York chess tournament has reached the 300th game, with 900 more to come.
- Now they say Borie boned the British Admiralty list for names for our war vessels.
- Green Clay Smith has entered the Methodist ministry.
- Commodore Vanderbilt and Hon. John Morriesey are larking together at Saratoga and else where.
- The Austrian War Department favors the use of the bicycle by orderlies.
- Colfax has recently been weighed. Of course hs was found wanting in brains.
- The last that was heard of the Fifteenth Amendment it was in Senator Anthony's coat-tail pocket.
- Gen. Sickles has had to take a sea voyage to re- cover from the ill effects of his record.
- Boutwell is about to resign. His first sensible move since he entered the Cabinet.
- Wall street is almost eclipsed by the Ocean Bank operators.
- The N.Y. Sun is so bright that it is getting tiresome to look at it.
- Gen. Hancock counts no stronger friends and admirers than among the people of New Orleans. - [N. Y. Times.]
- The Concord Monitor heads an article " Our Sewers," but only modesty prevents it from including itself in the category.
- The British Parliament has spent ?20,000 to dis- cover that the coal supply of the kingdom is suthcient to last forever.
- The Fenian scare has reached Anstralia, where frightened Englishmen imagine the natives are be- ing incited to revolt.
- An ex-Alderman of Philadelphia chopped his head to pieces with a hammer and ice-pick Sun- day.
- Costa has been requested to compose a new national hymn for Prussia, and the German musicians are wroth.
- List recently gave a concert for the benefit of the Pope, and sent His Holiness 30,000 francs as the proceeds.
- A number of the old Yerger family servants have come forward to offer money to aid their " young massa " on his murder trial.
- A stroke of lightning knocked senseless a parlor- ful of people at a Rockaway hotel last Monday, ex- cepting those ladies who were clad in silk.
- Roebling, the suspension bridge builder, had four of his toes mashed off on a New York ferry boat the other day, and will be lamed for life.
- George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is to give a Fourth of July excursion to all his employ?s, 1000 in number.
- The mourners at a funeral in New York, Thursday, had a grand fight at the grave, burying the deceased with all the honors of man.
- A Hoboken bartender was surprised by being addressed by a customer with, "D--n you! I guess I might as well shoot you." He dropped in time to prevent murder.
- The new railroad gambling law in Connecticut proposes to make it a penitentiary offence to lose money at any game of chance. The "fly cops" rather like that.
- Hon. John Covode has been appointed Chairman of the Radical State Central Committee of Pennsylvania. A fortunate selection-for the Democrats.-[Philadelphia Age.
- After that poor brute had been knocked dead in the prize ring at Cayuga Lake, the second of his antagonist offered to bet $25, even, that he was yet alive.
- A tragedian on the St. Louis stage was enabled to die with most natural throes of agony the other night, owing to the fact that the dagger of the theatrical assassin penetrated his flesh about two inches. He received great applause.
- The youth of Chicago is tempestuous. The other day wall how killed his playmate with a jack knife, then ran and hid under a barn from those sent to arrest him, and came out only after pistola had been brought into use.
- Two rival senoritas ot Puebla had a quarrel at a church door, and a duel was agreed upon. They drew lots, the winner having the privilege of one good stab at the other with a dagger. The loser died on the spot.
- A German savant predicts a big celestial transformation scene soon. He propounds the unique theory that the Zodiacal light is a gaseous ring surrounding our planet, and becoming gradually cool will presently concentrate and give us another moon.