The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-01-29
miscellaneous Items.

a BARTLETT FEAR TREE in San Francisco,
which bore two crops of fruit last year, was
again in full blossom on New Years day.
DE. WIN,uIr ASD MEssRs. CURTIS AND
TuuMrsoN have just had trial Of strength ia
Chicago for Trt2n ~ 500. THOMPSON gained
it ly l,ftus the astounding weight Of 2.lO6 lbs.
A uI1II FELLOW. seven years DID, ,yas pick
ed up the other day in lcaly skilf on the Mis-
s3sIli. l.r washlf frozen. AMI stated that
lr had run away from home in st. Louis and
W. t,Cring for Chicago.
4 CuNRIt-roNiNH, who wac Illc luDou few
day % o or contribution 10 the state, offered
a lhuus nd dollar State Bond. This was re-
fused The sccclrrs Ike sensible doctors don't
lrk" truir own medicine
Tm. lrOIsr AZURE or WNsHISGToS TERRI
IuUY, have enacted that Vancouver shall 10 tho
capital OF the t,rrito,y instead Of OLYMPIA, and
that u lam office and poGitrntiary shall be lc-
Gated at Town.crd, and a university At Seuttlc.
The Republicans voted against the bills.
AZ rNsorIII,rICATEp COUNTRY LADY seeing,
for the first timc the queer looking unfinished
Lomr ui tie Capitol sail, II suppose those ara
the .ns works" "lcs, madam, replied a gen.
tlrman friend, 'thoy manufacture gas there for
thu whole Eatiou.'
TIL rEorIT or SAuLr Sra MARIE, and tho
whole Lake Superior region, were nearly forty
days without a mall getting none from Noyem-
b,r lGth until December 18th, when they heard
Of lIN,oIN~ election after it had gone to Puget's
Sound AMI come back again.
Sr. PAuI'- CATHEDRAL, London, one Of tho
most magnificent structures in the world, was
erected under the supcrintendence OF one bishop,
one architect and one master mason, although
the time occupied in building II was thirty-ivo
years. The cost of the entire ediice was ,OO0,-
900.
TIIE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL learns from Q
gentleman who processes to be "posted" that
| the Clifton House, at Niagara Falls, has re-
Gently been leased for few months to some pro-
minont citizens Of Charleston, B. G., for the 40
cOmmodation Of their families.
AT TIE LAST MEETING Of the Oswego County
Agricultural Society, "A resolution was passed
and committee appointed to see to the ENFORCE
ment Of the law turing dogs, and to make COM
plant before the Grand Jury OF Assessors for
| neglectng their duty in this respect; In conso-
| quence Of the great loss farmers have sustained
by their sheep being killed in that section Of the
| state.
| THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALLRoKD
| frauds in the recent election in the first Con-
gressonal district, Philadelphia, has resulted in
proving that Joms NJ. BuTiER had majority
| Of 200 over WILLIAM L. LEHMAN and was
| fairly elected. Mr.. BUTLER will, doubtless
take his seat in the next Congress with little q
no opposition from his opponent.
SAM HousroS, in sn address to the people Of
| Alabama, says Forty years ago, TO prevent
the massacreo Of her citizens gave the first proof
| OF my manhood in devotion to the Union. Tho
| hag that followed then was the same stars and
stripes which the sons Of Alabama have helped to
| plant on many victorious field. Since then Ala-
bama has isen nom an almost wilderness region
under the care Of he Federal Gorernment, and
| obtained a position which, without Union she
could not have achieved for ages, II ever"
SOUTHERN HurEs BUILT ON SASD.-Mrs.
| CoyINGIuN the agent for the Grover & Baker
| sewing machines, Is diligently prosecuting her