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win be commenced Immediately. It Is ex,
pected these powerful batteries viii be com.
p1eted In tTp months.

viii be commenced immediately. It Is ex,
pected these powerful batteries Will be com.
pleted In two months.
About year since man named John
Pennington, living in the suburbs OF Liver
pool, England, murdered girl named Jones,
With whom be had been Keeping company.
= larSe reward WAS offercd, and the utmost
vigilance Was used to trace out the murderer,
who, it was found, had assumed the name OF
John Brown. Under the impression that the
murderer was living In Boston with a woman
Ehom he had married, q detective came from
John Brown, who had been living with a
woman Of u-repute, had gone to sea in the
brig LauT1lla, for Cape Haytien. Everything
appeared to poiut at him rs the criminal. The
Liverpool officer returned home, aad the har-
Dor police were ordered to arrest John Brown
SO on Tuesday. The mau said that his real
name was John Pennington, aud that he came
from Liverpool, but upon examining his body
certain expected Indications were not found,
such as tattoed wrists, defective toes, &c. 4
brother Of the murdered g1rl, Tho lives ut
New York, WAS sent for and had an interview
not the murderer Of his sister, and he was
accordingly discharged. a further singular
feature Of this nff;.ir IL TINT Brown was born
within few rods and bears the same name
as the murderer, and that each upon coming
to this country assumed the nare Of John
Brown -
The Burlington CT ! Frs hxss describes
in M many day, as having occurred At sbel.
burne week ago. It MAS rather j land 'drop''
than 'altde:"
.some flre acres Of land suddenly sank
away, as If let drop by the running ont or
change Of place Of supporting quieSsand- 4
small wooded hill vas cut in halves By the
the other dropping number OF feet aud
leaving perpendicular face Of earth, reach
ing above the tops OF the trees which crowned
the now sunken half Of the hill top. Some
Of these trees were split lengthwtse by tha
operation, one half remaining up and the
tions, much as some families here have been
divided by the war The bed of the Il Plot
River was also raised twelve or ffteen feet in
spots, not by the earth sliding in, but by IN
apparent croNdlng up OF the bed Of the stream.
On the whole 1t was apparently singular af-
at which It occurred is fixed BY some work
men who, having LETT with load Of hay, re-
turned to find their Held Of labor some way
below where they 1efs It,"
Since ths var began the nomen-
clature Of the navy has undergone very
material changes. Almost every month
new principles Of naming vessels have
OeeH duVpttu. 1H9 lAtd5I II tuo c01lsLeu-
ing Of steam tugs after the flowers of
the field yesterday, for instance, the Cav
eminent purchased the tugs Aux and Fargo,
which were Immediately called the Honey
Guck1e and Carnation. We have already a
Violet, Daisy, Hyactnths Rose, Dahlta, Lilly,
Woodbine. Another new mode OF baptlsing
vessels is also Of very recent date; it is that
of calling medium size sceam coryettes after
places, such as Newbern, Honduras, Mount
Vernon. Fort Jackson and several Others.
The two fast ffigates which Mr.. Steers and
tlon, are called the Idaho and Wambanognc-
The new navy yard iron clads seem tn have
been all happily christened except the afian-
tonpmah, which is the name Of m IndiA IN
chief who was desperate traitor, and soma
wag has suggested that the Navy Department
should name one Of It's vessels the Benedict
Arnold, In order to have the namts of white
and black traitor perpetuated on tho register.
The old pearmain apple 'ree on the Wyl-
lyE estate in Connecticut, the seeds Of which
were brought over in the MasfloEer, has u
fine crop Of apples upon it nov, The tree Is
overM0 years. old.
One of the substitute soldiers rho were
presented for, examination In Providence
MtelJ, was a man who gave his name as we
will s,J, Michael Flynn. When he stripped,
oi ohn Sullivan. "But 1 thought you said
your name WAS Michael Flynn" said the doc
tor. s'Yes," stammered the Htbern1an sab,
shut I've been married tNice!' Michael
passed.:
AT meeting Of the Cotton Supply Asso-
citation, held in Liverpool on the uth Of Au-
gust. letters and dispatches were read from
tie English consular agents abroad, sho wing
eiyely carried on in countries and districts
where it never before had been grown, aud
that the prospects, both as to quantity md
quality, we're very fiatterlng. Reports from
the West India Islands say that tho people
there are prepared 70 produce immense qu,n-
Of them In the seed, In tha: state 1t can be
furnished at from three to d7e cents per
pound, covering freight and other charges.
The supplies from districts and countries
which furnished cotton last year for tho first
time ri1l be Increased over one-thlrd this
year.
"A writer in the Army and Nayv Journal
been In use In tho q. 8. navy for nearly two
years. All of Capt. Parrott's guns are un-
questionably tha finest guns in our service,
and it is the general opinion in naval circles
that tLey will supersede all other rlded guns.
1t Ia significant fact that Admiral D1hIgren
has sent ! re1uisition TO the ORDNANCE De-
partment tor eighty Of these guns, to replace
his own smooth bores. -
The Board Of Trustees Of the State Uni
qers1ty Of Iowa, have filled the vacancy In the
Chsir Of Ancient Languages, occasIoned by
the removal Of Prof Lille. by the election Of
Prof. Joseph 7. Roberts, L. L. D., Of Bur
lington, Iowa. They aIso appropriated, at
their Last meeting, $500 for 81 ymnasiunl.
There will be, after all, but one Germaa
opera troupe at New York for tha next sea-
son, under the management Of Mr. Carl
foFfrn Tn Nntv
viii be At the Academy of Maaic, and com
neace In December. 1t is said that Theodor
FoEmee, the tenor, DALI Aste, the hasso, and
Mad. Iaszfo, the soprano, are engaged.
The other day. in private party, 1t WIS
thought rather difficult to sing series Of
tones in, progression Of fnll seconds. 4
lady who was present solved, however, tho
problem Immediately without difficulty.
When asked how abe had done It, she replied:
nfeE .ones @ q lug Eey o.
4 Hat"