The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

MARRIAGES.—A novel marriage took place in
Lawrence, Kansas, recently. The lady had come from
Scotland to meet the gentleman, who resides near that
city. The parties had never met before. She had never
seen the man whom she had sailed across the ocean and
come out to Kansas to meet and to marry, in obedience to
a betrothal made by the parents in the Old Country.--
Gen. Gordon Granger was recently married to Miss Mary
Letcher, of Lexington, Kentucky.—Alderman William B.
White married in the City Hall, July 20, Mr. Andrew
Bressert and Miss Fanny Purlas.—The rumoured mar-
riage of Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren, the
sister of Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb, is officially contradicted.
If Mr. Barnum is to be trusted, the Commodore, when
Miss Lavinia► Warren was married, devoted himself to per-
petual celibacy. Miss Minnie is at home with her parents
in Middleborough, Massachusetts.

OBITUARY. —Ex-Senator George B. Guir.ess died,
July 20, at his residence in Watkins, Schuyler County,
New York, aged 75 years.—Mrs. Emily Fulton, wife of C.
C. Fulton, proprietor of the Baltimore American, died in
Philadelphia, July 20.—Commander William P. Buckner,
of the United States Navy, died at his residence in Brook-
lyn on Sunday, July 18.—Laurent Clerc, for more than 50
years identified with the cause of deaf-mute instruction,
died at his residence, in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, July 18,
aged 83 years. He was a native of La Balme, near Lyons,
France. A deaf mute from infancy, and a pupil of the
Abbe Sicard, he came to Hartford in 1816, at the request
of the late Mr. Gallaudet, and became, in 1817, a teacher
in the American Asylum at Hartford, the first institution
for deaf mutes established in that country. In 1858 he re-
tired from active duty on a ponsion.—Dr. Jacob E. Stick-
ney, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, a practising physic-an
for over 50 years, and a former member of the Legislature
died on Saturday, July 17, at the age of 73.

LITERARY ITEMS.—Professor Van Vleck, of Wes-
leyan University, Middletown, has been engaged by the
superintendent of the Nautical Almanac to take observa-
tions during the total eclipse of the sun on the ith of
August.

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—A number of the
leading citizens of San Francisco have organized a society
for the protection of Chinese from lawless white men and
boys, who amuse themselves by throwing cayenne pepper
into their eyes.—The New England Hotel in Cleveland,
Ohio, was partially destroyed by fire on Saturday, July 17.
The loss was $25,000; insured for sls,ooo.—Ground has
been broken for the new Yale Theological Building, Now
Haven, and the public ceremony of laying the corner-stone
will take place in a few weeks.—Great Britain has 14,500
miles of railway, costing $2,510,000,000, against 43,000
miles in America, coating only sl,B7o,ooo,ooo.—William
H. Seward dined at the Almshouse, San Francisco, on the
Bth July, and was much pleased with the•manner in which
he was entertained. Ho addressed the inmates while they
were at dinner, and expressed regret at the misfortunes
that had compelled them to become inmates, but was glad
to see that they were well cared for.—A. new sugar re-
finery has been incorporated at San Francisco, with a capi-
tal of $200,000, which was to commence operations about
the Ist of August.—The great National Horse Fair will
be held this year at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 to
10, inclusive.—The State Assessor reports that the total
valuation of taxable property in Nebraska is $12,000,000 ;
of this $8,000,000 is the property of the Union Pacific. This
shows that the valuation is six times greater than in 1862. -
From the weekly statement of the Commissioners of Emi-
gration, issued July 21, it appears that during the present
year, up to date, 159,019 emigrants arrived at New York,
against 125,542 for the same time in 1868. The disburse-
ments for the year were $298,654 89, leaving a balance in
the Treasury of $257,768 32.—A census just taken shows
the population of Mexico to be 9,000,000.—1 t will be 28
years before the 4th of July will again fall upon Sunday.
—The Hotel Pelham in Boston, weighing 5,000 tons, anir
having walls nearly 100 feet high, is to be moved by iron
rollers a distance of fourteen feet.—lt is reported that the
cotton caterpirar has made its appearance in Alabama.—
The first fruit car on the Central Pacific Road left Sacra-
mento, July 23. The load was principally with plums
and pears for Chicago, and a few boxes of grapes for New
York.—Two negro murderers were executed July 23—one
at Portsmouth, Virginia, and the other at St. Louis.—A.n.
International Industrial Exhibition will take place at
Buffalo on October 6, and preparations are now being
made for holding a Wyrld's Fair at Washington /Tat,
year.—The increase in the number of horses in the United
STtaheteswehionlceenluBmol3'er is now said to be 8,000,000, valued at
6 is estimated 1,750,000, or 25 per cent.
or something more than the whole 2,656,000,000
na-
tionalvaniti, debt.miss 0
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Kentucky,lllinoi s,
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horsel-
raising States, in tho ordor in which they are given. Cali-
fornia, however, has increased her stock in a greater
ratio than any other State, namely, from 160,610 in
1860 to 500,000 in 1869.—Tbere are now in Russia 360

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