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The Toledo "Times" advocates the nomina-
| ton Of the Rev. s.. d. Sbatfer to the Office of
Mayor, chiefly on the ground that his election
would, in the language of DR.. Watts, make Of
the city .
"a little heaven below"
The Rev. Abraham Pryne--Parson Brown
| lows antagonst-hns been presented with q
service of plate by the coored people Of Phia-
delpiia.
Seventy-two white women were married to
colored gentlemen, in Massachusetts,, last year.
Mrs. Stowo will visit Paris in October, in
tending, it is said, to place her children at
school in that city.
The Hon. w. l.. Underwood, representative
from the Third Congressional District, Ken
! lucky, declines denomination on the 4th March,
! inst.
The Guernsey "Tmes" states that the recent
fire in their Jail had the effect of soaring mad
man into sanity.
The public printing for tie State of Indiana
will, in future, be let to thJ lowest bidder.
A turnpike road is to be built from Charles
town to Jeffersonvile Indiana.
The recent speech Of the Hon. Isaac g. Col
Inns, of Hamilton County, Ohio, against a uni
form rate of interest, with observations on the
| 10 per cent. law, has been published by Nevins,
| vi NOlthpuS1 NhiO'
Tho "IIomestead Bill" was lost in the SEN
ate on Saturday.
Resolutions in favor of the speedy annexa-
| ton of Cuba were under debate in the Ohio
Legislature on Thursday and Friday last. The
last resolution proposed-''that we arc in favor
of the acquisition Of Cuba"-was laid on the
| table.
Mr., Fred. Wise, of Covington, who was ap-
| ipfa oil 10 nurqnrshin in fha II g Nouu hnq
resigned
On Friday morning last, the Barney House,
Galmsburg, ILL.,, together with the buildings oc
cupied by Sage e Reed, dry goods dealers /;
Dunn & Co., grocers, and Smith &c Co., grocers,
were totally destroyed by FIRE. Loss is cstima-
ted at $4,000. Supposed to be the work of an
incendiary.
The Hon. Pierre Soule has returned to New
Orleans from Mexico. He spent about month
upon his hacienda, giving his attention to mat
ters connected with its Improvement.
1t is said that distinguished lawyer of New
York is about to give up lucrative practice,
and go as a missionary to Japan.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday night, Miss STRAIT
ton attended bal, and on her way home, &C
companied by her brother, complained of being
unwell, and sat down on q doorstep, while he
ran for assistance. When he returned, she was
q corpse.
Those well-known advertising agents, N. NJ.
PettingiIl & Co., New York, have subscribed
$500 to the Mt. Vernon Fund.
q. II. Marshall, ESQ.,, of New York, in a
letter to the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association,
says "Some time since sent you my con-
tribution to the fund, check for $50, to be ap-
piled to the noble object of purchasing the
mt. Vernon Estate, so that the remains of the
Father of his country may be preserved invio-
late forever. 1 now have the pleasure to in
close another check for 81 900, in memory Of
my grandfather, Nathan Coffin, patriot of the
Revolution, who, when n prisoner of war or
board British ship, and tempted by the high
est offers to enter their service, replied, rHang
me to the yard-arm of your ship, if you will
but do not ask me to become traitor to my
. country"
t The counties on the frontier of Canada viii
, be saved a good deal of trouble by the new
, Canadian decimal coin; for although, by care
full analysis, it has been proved to be about
per cent. less than the United States of tn,
same nominal value, yet in the ordinary trans
actions of business it will, undoubtedly, pas
current as of equal value. The silver is fine
than the American, but the coin is lighter.
, A monstrous wildcat, weighing about thirty
: five pounds, was killed few days since on tn,
| farm of Mr.. Cauniif, near Detroit. lie wa
, dispatched by Mr.. C.'s hired man, after q So
we're fight, the monster having whipped TIVE
large dogs after receiving two shots.
A grey heron was recently shot at 0ran, il
Algeria, with copper ring attached to one o
his legs, bearing the Royal crown of Holland
and the inscription, in English, "ROyal Hawk
ing Club, Loo, Netherland, 1880"
The Troy "Times" informs us that a Mr.
John La Mountain is busily engaged in tha
city in making preparations for the construc
as- I'LL hA,1 - l.
able to cross the Atlantic during the comm
v summer.
t In aluding to the repeal of the Ten Pc
+. Cent. Law by the Ohio Legislature, the "Mac
a a-cheek Press" observes: "They are doing
d nice lot of work, over there in Columbus, 70
| a different set Of gentlemen to undo next win
= ter. It's none of our funeral, and we won
C cry about it,"
* We learn from the "0ho Statesman" tina
y one Clark Crooks, a printer, was arrested i
d Columbus, on charge of forcibly administer
|, ing poison to his wife, at Newark, on Frida
last. The woman was not expected to recover
:, Crooks has already served term in the Peni
It tentiary.
In st. Louis, a few days since, n lady fe
y dead while listening to some little girls VIII
1t were singing. One of the songs was of q dea
child, and she had just begged that they woul
sing that, Tor 1t put her IN mlnd OF her oW
lost child when she rose from her seat and Q
once expired. Her malady was congestion {
the lungs.
An "ANCIENT" GONE HOME.-Mrs. Hanna
Phillips, an old lady who has resided on Squa
Beach, Monmouth Co., N. j., for many year
died on Tuesday evening last, in the one hm
s. dred and eighth year of her age. She enjoye
extraordinary health, and retained her facu
= ties till the last moment of her existence. ST
conversed frequently and fuently of the RevC
lutionary War, and many were the anecdotC
she would relate of those days. Her husban
, was one of the defenders of the "block- house
at Toms River, and was also engaged in r,
, pelling the numerous attacks of that notOriol
= band known as the "Pine Robbers" who il
M Se tested that part of the county of Monmouth
Q; She lived and died without receiving pei
Il sion. |. ...w
The YOUNG LADIES of Australia are, in mar
respects, remarkable. At thirteen years of ag
al they have moro ribbons, jewels, and lover
IS, than perhaps any other young ladies of ii
IS same age in the universe. They pratte-ar
b. very insipidly, too--from morning till nigh
in They rush to the Botanical Gardens twice
n week to hear the band play, dressed in 81
costume. They wear as much gold chain
rho Lord Movor in his Stnte rohes As th,