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deaths by sun-stroke ct Cincinnati, 81
ing about one-fourth the entire number
of cases.
| ~ Late advices fom Salt Lake
announce the prospeet Of an abundant
harvest. Elder Hyde had counseled
the people to lay in store against
famine. Emigration was brisk.
nf The United States Mint at
Philadelphia, coined last month $780,.
900, in gold 100000 in silver; and
$4,000 in copper.
or The gross receipts of the
Charleston and Memphis Railroad.
Company during the past year, were
| 81 $40, 900, and the nett profits aggre-
gated the sum Of SITS, 900.
HsEx President Fillmore has
been nominated fer the Presidency by
the people of Clinton, Ohio, without
distinction Of party. 1t was mani
mously agreed that he should run in
1860 as the Peoples Candidate"
or A statistical account gives the
number of beer breweries in St. Louis
at thirty-fyc, the capital, 100000
barrels Of lager beer made last year
100000; common beer, AGO bar
rels.
/ ~ 4 hostile meeting has taken
place in Aarizona between Lieut.. Now
Try and Edward Cross, editor of the Ar
iizonian. After four shots were effec-
tually exchanged, The difficulty was
amieably adjusted.
rs Two bales Of new cotton, the
| first Of the season, were received at
New Orleans from Texas on the 9Th
ut. Tie first received last year at
that place was on the 25ih Of July.
/ T The commander Victor Emau-
uel Lodge, No !, . At Louisville, has
received official notices Of the expal,
sions Of Daniel E. sickles from the order
ofthe Sons Of Malta.
/ ~ Miss Florence Nightingale. at
/ last advices was 50 extremity III, that the
worst results we're apprehended. Her
strength was Diminishing speedily. She
had been remove Higbgate 70 London
but was confined TO her room.
~ Mr.. Dodge, our late minister
to Spain, has written letter iayoling
the acquisitiouof Cuba by negotiation.
Daring his whole residence at the
| Spanish Court he never ycntured 10
breach the subject there.
i ~ The receipts from customs for
! the last three quarters Of the fiscal year
j are thirty-seven millions Of dollars, or
sum close TO Secretary Cobb's estimates
$ last November. The entire customs
receipts for the last fiscal year ara 6fty
! millions i've hundred thousand dollars.
e ~ The Princeton Clarion says
: that fellow Travelled forty miles last
: week to whip another fellow he had .
I spite at, ana got buddy whipped him.
self, Rather poor pay for such an eff
a fort.
\. or The gross earnings of the Louis
vile and Frankfort railroad during tho
past year we're s26s,o4e 10, and the
Expenses sl54,o97 81, being surplus
of nett earnings over The proceeding
year Of "a 500 "a, and over the year
y ending June 80. 1858, s22,20 %.
T There are ffty-nine churches
> lin New Orleans; forty Protestant aud
nineteen Catholic. OF the Protestant
, churches, fourteen are Methodist, nine
!. ! Presbyterian, eight Episcopal and only
two Baptist. DR.. Palmers Church,
! Presbyterian, cost slo2, 900.
: COMMERCE or HAvASA.--The OK
"a ports of sugas from Havana, from the
a LIST Of January 1850, to July %,
ri amounting 10 e44.667 boxes and 54ss
ii hhds, Of which lS4.72o boxes and
II 5ol5 bids. were sept to the United