, 1864-04-02
MIscELLANEoUs NEWS ITEMS.

The rebel Congress cannot agree to con
script negro soldiers.
The New York city and county tax thi:
year will be Sl4,000,000.
Richmond society is represented as terri
bly, domoralized. We believe it.
Jenny Lind is giving concerts in London
for the benefit Of poor clergymen.
Empress Eugenie has insured her life fol
million of dollars. Louis pays the policy
A large number of Sioux Indians have
perishcd of cold this winter on the prairics
Hartford will give a piano-forte made
from the Charter Oak to the N. Y. Sanitary
Fair.
Letter postage for any distance in the
Confederate States is ten cents for each
half ounce.
The annual expenses Of the city Of Phila.
delphia are now over Eve and a quarter
million Of dollars.
The Maine soldiers in the field have al
lotted to their families the past year the
sum Of s42s,s57.7s
No liquor can be vended in the House
wing of the capitol ut Washington. Speak,
er Colfax won't have it.
The negro who nursed President Lincoln
during his attack Of varioloid is dangerous
iy i'll with the smallpox.
A partially insane man committed suicide
near Sacramento, few days since, because
Of the fancied ofiensiveness of his nose.
Fears are expressed that the water will
give out at the Boise mines. There is more
cause for fear that the mines will "peter."
A queer old gentleman being asked what
he wished for dinner, replied, An appetite,
good company, something to eat and nap
kin"
It's reported that Vallandigham, through
his friends, is applying for pardon. We
hope the President will pardon JEFF. Davis
first.
A British soldier was fOgged in public
square in Toronto, recently, with SO much
brutality that a physician interpOsed to save
his life.
A Springfield paper asks what military
order is like lady crossing the street on a
wet day? Dress up in front and close up
IN the rear.
The Boston Post says, Gas We have an
excess Of 81 GIG females in Massachusetts,
above males, where can bachelors find a
Oe1.er marke
A Denmark paper says England's is q
morality Of guineas--hcr policy that of
shoP-keepers-both well represented by
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II was exceedingly liberal IN saloon
keeper TO advertise that "those OF my pat
rcffs VINO may desire y, can be sent home
on awheeibarroW gratis.
Leavenworth, Kansas, is said to be grow
ing more rapidly than any other place IN the
western country. II mas population OF
htteen or twenty thousand people.
A moderate degree Of backbiting should
rather be encouraged than thought i'll Of
~ n"'iieu "Vni"u, "s shShs cumPSued"
ton for the Aattery she has lost.
San Franc;sco claims IN cor.rmc moro
animal food than sny ~ o,bcr c;,v | oS ;,s % So
in the country II has I0O 00i};nbah;,sn,s
who consume daily o., ,s52 pounds Of meat
Some of the osd F.llows, Lodoe. ,ro
r.L;.c nrsnara,;ons ,owarI co,ohra.;n, III H.
4Sth ann;versarv oS ,bo Order IN ths Iis;,aS I
State. to take Dlaee on tle 2(tb Of Anr;l'
to ,o,. Ar.h.,a oh.w. ,h.,L GA a..
h A,.sm;t sn,oEa frb" oha,rs.nS U~ .,a,,". ,""'
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