, 1864-01-31
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

= The total number Of arrests By tho polico
Of Toronto, Canada, during the laet year was
j, ,114. The total number OF arrests In 1862
Tes 4,sA, showing a decrease during the
past rear Of i22 as compared With tho number
In 1a3
The Columbia oil.yard at Pittsburg, Pa,
EEas 9estroIed by fire On Saturday morning,
tie ED, with its contents.
"A fourth island has been discovered ed
Joining the tsThree Slsters'' in Niagara river.
It Is selerated from the rest by Channel Of
wafer about 50 feet wide from the third, and
is made Of easy access from it by the trunk Of
q Erge tree Which Las fallen acroes the
channel.
About two years ago an eccentric LAWYER
OF Toronto appeared in court with full-sized
cnr wig, which was subsequently stolen from
him. He Las now caused the arrest Of tue
high constable on q charge Of purlofaiue Il.
and the trial is looked for as likely to 5, d
fource Of considerable amusement.
MIR. francis r. Magee died at Ph,ladel-
nhi: on Monday last He held position in
tEe cuetom honse during the administration
e aua & me q E dacsp5s %s
one Of TIC directors Of Gitard College.
mir. John B. Blossoms, Of Syracuse, died
Suddenly last week from the effects Of chic
rofolM. He bad been bathing his limbs with
the fluid, and had retired to lis room. Soon
after his wife entered and found him lying
upon the floor dead handkerchief satu-
T1ted with chlofoform and IN open bottle
were fund by his eide 4 post n,ort.7n exam
ination revealed the fact that his lungs were
ycry much ccngested from the effects Of the
inhalation ofth chloroEorm.
- The Jam Of Ice In the Niagara river at
Lewiston, y. r, has crushed OF carried out
into the river the buildings on the docks,
10th at Lewiston and QuecnstoWn, Canada
Some Of the buildings were carried AWAY, and
left high on tho ice some distance from shore.
1t is the most destructive ice jam lewiston
ians hare had since the great ja1u in april
some eighteen or twenty years ago. The
runaway buildings have been torn down aud
brought ashore. The Loekport Eu:oa says
the Jam OF ice on Sunday night carried away
j. T. Wriglt's liquor warehouse in Queens
town The contents had previously beon re-
moved: Also the warehouse on the Ameri-
can side, belonging to Neleon d Cornell,
With docks, stairway, &c. Approximations
can Hotel. The ice is still piling up-in some
Places thirty feet above the ordinary level of
lie river. Much. fear Is ezpreees I'd lest q
greater amount Of damage viii ensue.
Laura Eeene, says grecn-room gossip,
has made ten thousand dollars during her late
four months Tour out West: She plays mex!
week III Washington, and afterwards ut tie
Howard AtlenEum, Boston.
1t is proposed By some Of the friends of
Rutgers College at New Brunswick, New Je1-
ses, to connect m astronomical observatory
with that institution, and us an initlatory
step tic trustees have resolved to procure u
complete ect Of astronomical Instruments
Ore gentleman has already given the most
Qrircd-nainely an equatorial telescope
Tie Hartford (Ct.) Times says: t..Thc
Colts Arms Manufacturing Company are
making splendid pair Of rcVolvcrs, designed
to be pIcse nts1 to General Grant. Tho illn-
dies are of black horn, beautifully polished,
and the barrels, magazines and other steel
which is beaten into dcaIgn previously cut
out Of the steel. The other ornaments,
guards, De-, are Of solid gold Tho pair are
70 be enclosed In handsome rosewood box,
l1nca with velvet, and accompanied by al1 tho
tools, &c., belonging to thein--the cartridge
-Dennison Grant and wife, OF Mansfield,
Connecticut, celebrated their golden wedding
Inst week. They hare had ten children, all
Of whom arc Nvin.-, aud all but one were ut
the reception. charles Sears and wife, Of
Yarmouth, Massachusetts, both seyenty-fve
yeara old, celebrated their golden wedding
on the 18th. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gribble, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, commemoratcd the fiftieth
year Of their married life on the 10th inst.
The Buffalo Express says: Ezra Cornell,
Of Ithaca, having conceived the idea that the
1edica Of the Hospital Aid Society Of that VII
lage coald make better progress In their no.
bic work Of sewing for the benefit of tho COL
flGTss # they would talk less, accordingly Of
IL twelve ladies could be found who would
eew all day without speaking. The task was
entered upon By fifteen self.saerilcing women
Of TINT vi1lage, and fourteen Of them actually
accomplished this very difficult feat Of self
Gcninl, although tempted in various ways by
large number Of visitors and intcrlopers.-
One Of the number failed in the undertaking,
having been tempted into i slip Of the
tongue.
"A lady Of New York city, noted for the
2cntcnces ard accuracy Of her observations OF
life and society, bears her testimony to re-
m:rlable physiological fact, owing to moral
causes, which is worth stating for the pur-
rosc Of its being verified. She atiirms that
of thc births taking place in that city, those
which occur In families whose attachment to
the Union Is decided and jealous, are mostly
boys, willie in families in which there is de-
ci6cd sympathy for the secession cause, they
arc girls. The observation Of our readers
may help them to instances confirming the
:acf, OF showing it to he a mistake. It has
often been said that in countries wasted by
long wars which carry Oft the male popula.
t!en, the male births largely predominate.