The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-01 00:00:00

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—The New York

World thinks a good many railway directors might bo
accommodated in Sing Sing as well before as after Com-
modore Vanderbilt converts the prison into a railway
depot. --The victims of the Stonewall disaster are placed.
in rough coffins and buried in a long trench
dug on the crest of a hill near the river.
dispute as to the ownership of a hog appraised
at 5 dollars was tried in Lawrence county, Ohio, a
few days ago, the costs of which amounted to $2OO.—Thu
latest from Washington is that Secretary Bothwell in-
tends to resume specie payments at noon on January 1.--
The keeper of a peanut stand in Washington recently
died, leaving his daughter, who still carries on the busi-
ness, $60,000.—A policeman having savscl a New Jersey
lady, at Elizabeth, from insult, she has given him $lB,OOO.
—Sugar beet cultivation has been commenced in California
on an extensive scale, and experienced workmen and the
best machinery for making sugar have been imported into
the country from France.—The Wilcox and Gibb's sewing
machine manufactory, Potter's machine shop, and Cush • n
and CoggleshalPs tack works at Taunton, Massachusetts,
were totally destroyed by fire Nov. 10. Loss, $25,000.
The insurance is unknown.—The third annual Convention
of the American Institute of Architects was to be held in
New York ou Tuesday and Wednesday, the 16th and 17th
November.—ln New Mexico a priest is detailed to accom-
pany every stage to give absolution to those who may be
killed by Indians on the route.—Boston has just shipped
shoes for the first time to China.—The Onondaga giant is
now on exhibition at Syracuse. lie "rests on a slight
elevation covered with black velvet and surrounded by an
iron railing. The body rests on rubber cushions, and lien
in the same position in which it was discovered." It was
taken from the spot where it was, discovered perfect on all
sides, and is shortly to be subjected to a scientific investi-
gation. In excavating the giant a copper coin was thrown
out, upon which was a Welsh inscription aud the ate of
1091.—Cincinnati is to have a new s4oo,oooants'
Exchange.— The young lady clerks in the Treasurl
at
Washington are known by the beaux as "Revenue
Cutters !"—Mr. Clarence Cook writes to the Tribune that
medical science and education in France, if not going
Aeri
backward, are at a stand-still, and that American physi-
cians and advanced students, who go to Paris, assert that
not only are the medical men there, both physicians
and surgeons, but the courses of lectures and the
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Western newspapers are calling on the Government to
establish more stringent quarantine regulations at San
Francisco, as it is asserted that a number of Chinese emi-
grants afflicted with leprosy have already arrived in that
city.—The number of codfish
.caught on the Pacific coast
during the season amount to one million sixty-f onr thousand.
—There are at present 300 German newspapers or perio-
dicals of various kinds in the United States, exclusive of
journals, such as the Agriculturist, which, though appear-
ing in English, publisl AR edition at the Name time in the
hintne.