, 1864-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

ITOm Lne OTal MOUNTAINS.
A piano affords young lady a chance t
show her finger ring.
Tha price of hay at Cafsdn City ha
dropped within few days from 800 70 81
per ton.
A man was executed in Memphis oh tn,
2lst ult., for attempting to furnish materia
Of war to the rebels.
The receipts in the United States Trea
sury from internal revenue during Apri
amounts to S10,00O,000.
In q recent divorce suit in St. Louis
$50, 900 alimOny was awarded. Unfortu
nate place for husbands.
There are three or four female physicians
in our armies. Prentice hopes they will b.
able to bear confinement in camp.
The manufacture of boys hoops has be
come an active trade in Connecticut. ThC
price is from So to S. per hundred.
Several new and valuable copper minet
have been discovered in eastern Vermont
one Of the most promising Of which is neal
Norwich.
The brig AIert, the first vessel ever fitted
out in San Francisco for the cod fishery on
the Pacific coast, sailed for Puget Sound on
the 3lst ult.
Commander Selfridge has been removed
from the command of the Navy Ysrd at
Mare Island. r. A. Wainwright is named
as his successor.
The old Penn mansion in Philadelphia
is to be purchased by the Pennsylvania
Historical Society, whichha raised $50, 900
for that purpose.
The Danish residents Of San Francisco
forwarded, by the last steamer, n silver
brick Of the value of $1,000 toward the
support Of the cause Of Denmark.
Stephen Paxson, a veteran missionary
connected with the American Sunday School
Union, has organized over 1000 Sabbath
Schools and gathered together over 60, 900
scholars.
Nevada Territory now has thirteen pa
pers, Of which eight are published daily,
one tri-weekly and four weekly. Of the
latter, one is published in the German Ian
guage.
Mrs. Rebecca PeudletOn died recently in
NorthpOrt, Me-, at the age of 1O4 years
She was at Falmouth, now Portland, in
l775, when the town was destroyed by the
British.
Oil Greek. in Pennsylvania, lately pro-
duced 10000 barrels of oil during two
weeks. Another well in the same neigh
bOrhoOd was yielding at the rate Of $50
barrels day.
A woman has been carrying on curious
confidence game in Milwaukee and Green
Bay, Wisconsin. She dressed in male at
tire, married young ladies, and run of with
their money.
r A correspondent with Grants army, in
describing the battle Of the 10th May, says
that the fighting Of the "Old Guard" Of
Napoleon "pales before that Of our brave
and heroic soldiers"
Various plantations on the Sandwich Is
lands have contributed 500 barrels Of mo-
lasses to the United States Sanitary Com
mission, to go forward by the ship Lookout,
loading at Honolulu for New Bedford.
A publisher Of newspaper out West, in
the first issue Of his Journal, returns thanks
to those who loaned him the pecuniary
means, and to Heaven that there is no law
in the State enforcing Imprisonment for
debt.
A mild form of insanity, known as the
Sanitary Fair mania, is prevalent in New
York. A correspondent breathes forth in
Onesof the papers his laments, because he
has not seen his wife, who is suffering from
this disease, in three weeks.
Dr.. Richardson, an English chemist,
says that iodine placed in small box with
a perforated lid Is good means Of destroy
ing organic poison in rooms. During the
late epidemic smallpox in London, he saw
the method used with benefit
In the neighbOrhood Of the Caspian Sea,
petroleum is used as fuel by imprcgnating
clay with its eombustible fluid. The clods
are burnt on an ordinary hearth. The
NorWegians mix tar and saWdust, nodded
in the form Of bricks, and burn in similar
manner.
A man named Aaron Bedbug, Of Mont
gomery county, intends petitiOning the
Legislature to change his name. He says
that his sweetheart, whose name is Olivia,
Is unwilling that be should be called A.
Bedbug, herself o. Bedbug, and the little
ones Little Bedbugs.
A great excitement was created in Cleye.
land, Ohio, recently, by the accidental dis.
covery Of q large amount Of Mexican coin
in the river channel, at a point where work.
men are engaged in deepening Il. On in
vestigation the coin was found TO be coun-
forfeit, having been buried by forgers years
sSo. The finders Immediately became un-
happy.
Children who do not like castor oil can
have It prepared in the recent Paris fashion
-thequantityOf theOil prescribed isplaced
in Pipkin over FIRE, and an egg broken
into Il and stirred up When cooked, a
little salt or sugar or curnnt jelly should
be added. The patient cannot possibly de-