, 1864-01-12
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Linn is jubilant over last year's shoe
business.
= There are 154 woolen manufactures in
Massachusetts. r.,
- The loss Of life on the French railways is
only one in seven millions OF passengers:
h, - The New York Council gave their Prcst-
dent six hundred dollar watch as parting
e-There were two thonsand five hundred
end three marriages, and four thousand SIX
hundred and ninety EIGHT deaths In Boston
The sale Of pcws In Rev. Henry Ward
Bcecher's Church in Brooklyn, on Tuesday
evening, realized about $4,000 in rents and
nfcmfums. =.
The total debt Of the city Ct Boston Is
al, ,248, ,5So. Of this amonnt SS79,77S. were
added during the past year.
Nevbur,port is the only town in Massa-
chusetts which has IN Opposition mayor, and
hegiyes cordial support to the dovcfnment
wv The Pittsburg Chronicle says the two
iron clads building in that city Will probably
be ready for launching early in March.
"A young lady Of Paterson; New jersey,
on Christmas day ekatcd all the WY from
that city to Newark and buck, distance Of
There were eleven; hundred md thirty
seven deaths In Rochester, New York, last
year, decrease Of seventy y-ninc from the year
ptev!Trhe pWThe little A1chduke Rodo1ph, heir to
| Austria, tumbled ont Of bed. recently, but at
last dates Ind been picked up and was out Of
danger. --. z.,.. - 80,
don bankrupt, recently, his creditors discoV.
cred that his wife had over ffty.two yards Of
! silk in one dress. As the journallst say,
ssComment Is unne cessary."
the rrnEoat Marblehead during the attack Of
n re6el battery in Stono River, 8. G Is
nephew Of Gen. Meade, commander Of the
Army Of the Potomac.
A Madrid young lady murdered her loV-
er. stuffed bis body into her mattraes,
! md elept soundly on him for five nights,
when he smelt Eo bad that the police discov-
@ Il. T F. Perkins has been appointed post
| master OF San francisco, vice 8. II. Parker,
removed On account Of complaants preferred
Count Gurowski'e new book Will be out
in. about a week. Enough is known Of its
slinniDe criticisms upon eminent functiona.
1ies, military md civil, to create general
desire here to see the volume .,u.. - a.
port Of Philadelphia, during. the year 1868,
rIncuntciI TO s1t,628, ,96S, and the foreign I'M
rorts to $G,G69,53Q. This is the highest dg-
urcrcached in exports from that city in ten
| wears bGck, except IN leta.
= Mr.; McRee, the rebel commissioner In
Europe, publishes IN extract from letter
written by hlr. Memminger, on the 18th OF
September, stating that the Federal forces
Lave captured about q, coo bales Of the, gosv:,
crnmept. cotton, and that about 10000
bales had been burned to prevent US from
obtaining 1t.
heavy sto1c pier in England and totally de-
etroSed IL; the vessel 1tself was unin1ured:
The best and the strongest made iGon-mailed
slip could not stand blow such as steam
nam like this could give, driven ut the high
Get possible speed.
AT On exhibition Of tab1eaux Mt Bolden,
Macs, not lorg since, the babes In the woods
were announced to appear. The curtain rose
and disclosed tho three heaviest men in town
cpddled together. It locked as If the robins
had nulsed them with extraordinary 4
deity.
a Russian citizen named Mattiaroff,
having ineerted in tho journal Kolokol let
ter addressed to the Emperor, In which he
blamed principles that guided the policy Of
the Government, has been condemned by tue
! Council Of the Empire to flve years at the
I galleys, and to spend the remainder Of his Life
! In Siberia,