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of Cambridge University, England, is 1908.
OF these AIS are of Trinity College, 1928
St. Johns, 1874 Queens, &c.
The receipts of the Adrian and Kalama-
zoo, (Michigan) rail road ia miles) over
and above all expenditures have, for the
past season, amounted to Si5 900.
VIM Dunlap, Esq. the historian of tho
arts Of design and Of the drama in this
country, has recently been visited BY a
para'ytIc shock.
Charlotte Lee is the name of the present
Queen of the Gypsles. And her royal
equlpage is donkey cart.
The Boston Post of the Let inst, saws
1.-THE u. S. ship Erie, while lauIing into
the stream yesterday parted her hawser.
drove against the friga'e Ohio, and carried
way her boom and fore-yard."
Upwards of S4S 600 were expended in
improvements upon the Chicago harbor,
during the last year.
CAPITAL PUNIsHMESr.-The House Of
Representatives Of Rhode Island. have pas.
sed a bill aboishing capital punishment and
substituting imprisonment for life.
oliOH0 tubttS are UdAIIln W tUe Mdsbd.
chusetts legislature to abolish the punish
ment Of death for all crimes but murder in
the first degree.
Franklin's Birth day was celebrated st
Harrisburgh. Pa. by the Typographical
Association Of that place on the l7th ult.
The number Of pupils in he New York
Deaf and Dumb Asylum on the lst of jan
uary was so Ten less han at he same
period last year.
A writer IN 4 London Magazine proposes
to cover the roofs Of buildings with india
rubber.
Matthias The prophet is doing business in
his old line somewhere in Illinois.
The whole Chickasaw nation, with the
exception Of some three or four hundred in
dlvIdnals, have arrived safely in their new
country, west Of Arkansas.
Resolutions condemninc the Sub. Treas
ury scheme. and advising the members of
Congress from Ohio to oppose it. have pas
red the Senate Of that State by vote Of 20
to 10
The quantity Of oil imported into the u
States during the last year, was 100000
barrels, of which l9l,724 were sperm.
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The locofpcos are about to start paper
at Richmond. 10 oppose Mr.. Rves and de-.
mollsh the Richmond Enquirer.
New JERSEY LEGIsLATURE.-Th bill
au,hor,sing The banks to issue bills OF a less
denomination than five dollars, passed tho
! Council Oh Thursday evening-was signed
BY the governor. and on Friday became a
| law
A meeting Of the citizens Of Louisiana
was held on the Gath nit, az New Orleans,
and resolutions adopted in favor of a Ma.
lonal Bank.
There was received at the New York
Custom House on the LIST inst. S75 900 for
bonds.
In the windows Of a London shopkee per
there are four squares of plate glass, each
OF which IS nneiy-sx by ffv.sx inches
comprising in the whole upwards of forty
feet and weighing more than two hundred
weight each
The French Government loses BY the
extinction of all licenses to gambling nous
es, million francs per annum.
A NOBLE LApY,-The Marchiones. Of
Westminster spends $4,000 annually in
feeding and clothing the poor children Of
the villages near Eaton Hall.
CHEAPER CoAL.-The United S,o,e
Gazette says that there is every probability
that coal next year, will be at least one
dollar ton lower than it was last wear.
The Legislature of Rhode Island have
by vote of SO to 90, passed resolutions
resembling those adopted in January 1881,
ins'ructing the Senators to vote for tha
Expunging Resolution.
The whole amount of salaries to the civ
and Jude ary officers of New Jersey, is ou
$4,000.
General Gaines in his speech at We IA
dinner gwen to him at ST. Louis, amount
ed his intention of buying "a house and ID
and becoming citizen Of that place
the rema nder of his life.
A bill has been introduced into
Pennsylvania Legislature on the subie,