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...Fielding Lowery, late postmaster of Dayton, Ohio, committed suicide yesterday by cutting the carotid artery. The cause of his action was inability to meet a deficiency of $4,324 in his accounts with the post-office department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 11/14/1882 | See Source »

...week ago, is probably the expiring gasp of a custom long prevalent. They conducted themselves quietly, and made little attempt to make the proceeding a class affair. It is believed that this is the death of the last of the practices kindred to hazing and sign stealing. - [N. Y. Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/13/1882 | See Source »

...Harvard correspondent of the New York Evening Post, under date of Nov. 4, writes : "Of the three instructors employed last year, after Mr. Riddle's resignation, only one, Mr. H. J. D. Jones, is reappointed this year. This indicates not that the college intends to make less of elocution than heretofore, but rather a preference for the system which Mr. Jones uses. There has been for some years a desire to check the tendency to train young men for theatrical declamation, and to give instead a foundation of development better calculated to make good public speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1882 | See Source »

There are now 284 students at Smith College, six of whom are post-graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/11/1882 | See Source »

Nearly all the post-offices in Texas are in charge of females. It works so well that males arrive nearly every hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/10/1882 | See Source »