Nebraska advertiser., 1857-03-12
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The receipts of the patent Office last year.
were $l65.000.
Water is selling in St Paul, Minnesota, a
ten cents per barrel. n
Quite a number Oflead mines have been dis
covered in Missouri 81
The population Of Montreal, C. Z, has in
creased 5000 since 1855.
The consumers ofsugar paid S. 900 u-
ties en- sugar last year.
New York has furnished Wisconsin with
100000 Of its inhabitants.
The widow Of William Wirt died at Anna
polls, on the 25th ult.
The thermometer has been down to 50 de-
grees at Jacksonville, florida.
A company of sixty gipsies have their tents
pitched IN Culpepper Co, Va.
Mary Hewitt, the peotess, has been writing
u History Of the United States.
The 81. Paul (Miunesota) Times says, that
fre-wOOd is selling in that city for So a cord.
More than sixty persons have persisted BY
cold the present winter in Iowa aud Wiscon-
sin.
Moses Carlton, at one time the largest ship
owner in New England, died at Wiscasset, Ne,
on the 5thinst.
The sugar crop in the United States has d.
minished from 400 900, O00lbs. per annum to
I2o,oO0.OoO lbs.
Rev. Lorenzo Cary, Professor of Ancient
Languages in the Farmers College, Cincinna-
Il, died on oath inst.
The most insidious destroyer Of life in this
country is consumption; it carries of 100000
persons annually.
The old Eew Hampshire Gazette, the OLD
est paper in the country, has just entered upon
its second century.
There is a man in Auburn, N. Y, who goes
bareiOOted in winter, without experiencing any
Inconvenience.
The gold mines Of Australia yield largely.
In Melbourne, on the 10Th of Oct, 1885 oun-
ces were entered for shipment.
The product of the Ohio Valley exceeds by
one hundred per cent the entire product Of
England, Ireland and Scotland.
During the year just expired, thirty Revo.
lutionary soldiers have died. The number or
che pension list, last July, was 514.
Eighty-eight persons committed suicide il
New York city the past year and precisely thc
same number the year previous.
It is reported from Washington that Presi
dent and Mrs. Pierce will visit Cuba in March
on account Of Mrs. Pierce's feeble health.
The question having been asked when wa.
the celebrated "cold Friday, p the Boston Tray
elleF says it was the 18th of January, 1910.
SIT is a fac" saysthe Bombay Gazette, .tha
the entire population of Hindostan does no
average a sixpence year for clothing"
Chicago is becoming the religious metrop
oils Of the West; there will soon be within mn
around 1t not less than five theological semina
Tie&.
AS many as 10.362,20O eggs were importe
into England in the eleven months ending th
30th ultimo, and all for "home consumption!
Near Racine, Wisconsin, a donkey wa
lost in the snow. and at the endof twenty-se7
en- days, came out alive and we'll. So say
she Racine Advertiser.
The Legislature of South Carolina has pas.
cd an act requiring two years residents of FOL
eigners, to enable them TO vote in that Statc
after naturalization.
Daniel Webster's professional income as
lawyer, in Boston, during the year 1848 an
184S, according to his sons memoranda,
mounted to a little over $4,000.
It is reported that Mr.. Rhoades, of Auburn
partner Of Seneator Seward, is about to con
mence a libel suit against the New York TT
bune, for comparing him to the forger Hun
ington. r
Under the title Of "an act to encourage ma
rimony,n a bill is pending in the North Car
lima Legislature, which empowers not only a
Judges, but all practicing Lawyers, to solen
nize the rite.
Il is stated that common bar soap, rubbe
upon the bark of the peartree until a good CO.
is deposited, furnishes a perferfect securit
against blight and will even restore health
trees that have been attacked.
The Washington correspondent OF the Phi
~Adelphia Ledger says, that since 1872 ty
hundred and sixty-one officers Of the army r
signed their commissions in consequence Of Il
miserable pay allowed them.
A writer IN the U. S. Gazette SAYS perso,
may sleep quite comfortably in cold weath
with but few bed-clothes, by placing ono ortv
thicknesscs ofpaper, (commcn newspapers w
answer) between the ~coyerlets Of their bed
The number of public and private arm,
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