, 1864-06-13
NIIsCELLANEOUs NEWS ITEMS.

T.eipsic.
Major General Dix says the bounty bro
kers Of New York have robbed rettuits Of
100000.
The Reese River country was visited
May 9TH with the heaviest snow storm Of
the season.
"Put that back where you took it from" "
as the Irish lass said when young Rory
shatched q kiss.
The increase il omnibus fares from 6 to
10 cents in New York has caused consider
able indignation.
TIE Jamaica cotton planters are getting
along finely, and have begun to make ship
ments to England.
The late John c. Rives was practical pa
triOt. lie gave in the early part of the war
$4,000 to Recruit regiment.
Gov. Marmaduke, of Missouri, died on
the 10Th Of March. He was q loyal man,
but has furnished three sons for the rebel
army.
Artemus Ward has got safely back to
New York. His trip to California, Ne
vada and Utah was profitable and eventful
one. .#+-
John McFadden, of the Chapman priva-
tcer crew, convicted Of highway robbery,
has been sentenced to five years in the
State Prison.
New Jersey schools made eight barrels
of pineushions for the Metropolitan Fair,
but only Eve barrels Of the prettiest ones
were accepted.
Brooklyn quite turns up its nose at the
New York Sanitary Fair. Big it admits,
but tasteless, vulgar, incOnrehient, stupid,
shOddyish, and that.
Two meat markets in WoonsOcket, r. L.,
have closed operations recently, on account
Of the high price Of meats, aud the cOnse-
quent scarcity of buyers. s.
There is said to man in Ohio, named
Barber, who lifts, without any apparatus,
1924 pounds, which is 240 pounds more
than Windship ever lifted.
A woman in POwnal, VT, declares. she
won't have a telegraph put in her doOr-yard,
and every time | spank my children have
it 60 all over the country" .-rr' b
1t is stated that email herd of nine OK
en- and COWS, taken to La Plata in 1855,
has now multiplied to such an extent that
there are 10000, 900 in the country.
A few years ago, to settle an estate, a
parcel Of timber land in Mount Holly, W.,
was appraised at the value of 500. The
same land has recently sold for S3,375.
A depaved wretch in Scotland sued his
mother, 81 years of age, to recover the
amount Of her board for a number Of years
The case was not entertained BY the court
During the month Of April the value
Of exports from San Francisco was $685.
SS6, IS; during the same period the freight
paid on goods received at that port was
s710,624
The omnibus Ptoptietars IN New York
made mistake in raising the fares to ten
cents. People patronise the cars, go afect,
do everything rather than pay the ten cent
fare, and the stages go empty. aaeeat.
"John," said father to his son one day,
when he caught him shaving the down
FROM his upperl lip, "dont't throw your shaw
ing water out where there are any bare
footed boys, for they might get their feet
pricked."
From accurate statistics it is stated that
in the New and Old Worlds there are S,25S
lodges of Free Masons, with 5O0, 900 active
The number Of nbn-aetive and
those who have Withdrawn is nearly 3,00O,-
QUO. .sal. Hs. .4'j'
There is great excitement in Pennsyl-
vania about the removal Of the seat Of gov
ernmcnt from Harrisburg to Philadelphia.
An offer of 6ve millions Of dollars has been
made by the latter city for the erection Ofa
new capitol building. 4.i
AwidoWnamed Blaekstock, !, Of Allegheny,
Pa, shot man named Simpson few days
since, because he broke marriage enguge-
ment with her. Simpson survives the
wound, but the disappointed woman threat
ems one that viii prove fatal.
1t is estimated that the increase in the
number Of acres in the Southern States
planted to wheat, corn and potatoes, since
the war broke out, is from III, ,90c, 900 acres
in 1860, to 1880, 900 in 1862, to II ,20U,-
600 in 1868, and 20, $50, 900 IN 1864.
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