, 1864-01-13

Salt is Scents per bushe1 at Turks Isl
An nnti*pugi1ist society is talked of in
England.
Charles MAcKAT has come back to
America TO write for the London Tsuae*.
The Wins1oW case, involving something
over s. ,0oo, 600, is on trial at Bridgeport,
Connecticut,
Cart. JONI T. JORDAN died instantly
in the fremont Temple, Boston, lately, just
before Wendell Phillips began lis lecture.
AT Shanghai, China, the people alternate
betWcencholera and epidemic dysentary.
Several American steamers have lately
been wrecked In the vicinity Of Turks Isl
and.
The merchants of st. Thomas hayc
closed all accounts with Porto Rico, Hayti
and Cuba, and will not trnnsact any further
business With those places exc: c:pt for cash.
The New York city Board Of Education
has voted to spend S200, 900 on fire-proof
library building for the Free Acadeny-an
expensive library room for war times.
-On prospcctors have made pilgrimage
to Mccea7 Penn, and land has gone up from
oi1-bearing region equal to Oh Creek.
-Madame 6ucca, Of the Berlin opera, Is
Eucl q favorite there that she has been en-
Jagged for life ut an enormous SALARY, with q
six months vacation annually 10 rest her
Eelf.
During the last year one hundred and
twenty-eight persons over seventy years Of
age died Ii Providence, Rhode Island. One
was aged one hundred and three years, and
thiIty-eight were over eighty years old.
The Massachusetts State Reform School
has nautical branch, from which, last gear,
eixty-two boys were shipped in the naval SER
vice, and forty-seyeu in the merchant service,
The addition of similar departments to the re-
form schools Of other Suites would prove q
national advantage. :
MIR. N. Pierce, Of East Lexington, Mass,
l,as carried milk to Boston for sixty-three
years, rising ut o'clock every morning. For
sixteen years he has not missed nday in the
personal delivery Of his milk, and he still
keeps at 1t.
"A crime similar to that committed By
the notorious Palmer is the subject Of judi
cial investigation in Paris. a physician in
sured the life of his wife for 500 000E $780,
the first premium, the young woman died.
The suddcnness Of the deAth, and the large
amount for which the life was insured, Gre
ated suspicion in the minds Of the directors
OF the Insurance company, and they deter
Eiued 10 make the case known to the highest
law authority. An investigation was COM
menced under the Direction of tho Imperial
Attorney General, in consequence Of which
the physician was arrested and committed to
the prison of Mazas.
The report Of the commissioners of Po-
lice in New York estimates the population Of
That city ut Loco, eco, and Of Brooklyn at
eco, Geo. 1t suggests number Of measures
for the better regulation Of the city, Us, for
instance, the revocation Of license to mock
auetionecrs when convicted Of fraud: strin-
gent law against concert saloons; the estab-
1ishmcnt Of o truant school; tho transfer Of
the present fire department to paid one, and
the assessment Of offnsurance companies for its
--".t ..t The Ma.,c.'cc &C.. message nuts ting pou-
ulatiion at the same figures above given. Tie
value Of real and personal estate is $494, 1885,
813; tax levied, S1l ,565, ,672, or eleven dollars
ard half to every ono Of the population, and
rnther 1ese than two doll0rs hundred On the
assessed value Of the properly.
The Wheeling Lte'lfyenar says: The
swa1ns Of boys who have been making merry
with their eledges. for seyerul days, upon
Monroe, Quincy and other streets, Laye chris
tened their Elcds with all sorts of faucy mines
Indicating speed, stability and safety. Two
Of the fastest nre named Abe Lincoln and JEFF
Davis, JEFF Is a fast sled hut skips and tears
up tie snow and runs In devious ways unless
well guided. Abe is not so fast, but is heav-
Ter and more substantial and runs with IN
honest steady precision. He Is always neck
and neck with JEFF and frequently ahead
The contest between the juvenile partizans
Of these two sleds, Is rery lively, ana yester-
day violent outbreak was likely to have oc-
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