Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
: Tux Hew canal OH the Tsthnas Of Panama
will cost forty millions vf dollars.
The Libby prison at Richmond has held
since the war 125 900 prisoners.
GOVERNMENT expects to consume SOC, 000
tons of coal this year.
SEMMEs. the pirate. arrived at Mobile on
the 18th inst by way Of Matamoras.
The number Of new buildings erected in
the city Of Brooklyn during the past year was
one thousand one hundred and thirteen.
Two merchants of Louisville, Ky, have,
been 6ned $500 and costs each. for making
fraudulent income returns
Ton TuUMR catne very near losing hi. life
at the Hotel lie Louvre, in Paris, the building
having taken fire.
WOMAN in Missouri raised $4,000 by her
own work on half serc of tobacco planted
this summer.
EXTENSIVE coal-bcds hsvc lately been dis
covered near Hoboken, N. j.. and they think
they will find petroleum there.
A GOOD many Of the Minnesota Indians arc
preparin. to give til m.elves up to the mill.
tary authorities.
Tnr horse cars in Boston have been stopped
by tho ice in tho streets. The embargo is
fast being remuvud
TITS blows struck by Sherman have stag
gercd the rebel sympathizers in Canada, as
we'll as the rebels themselves
TIE sum nf sl17. 900 has been appro-
priated in Philadeldhia for the cleaning of tho
streets.
CoLospL CHARtBs A. May. of this State.
fyr some Years past Il resident of New York..
died id the latter city OH Sa urdsy last. K
The Postmaster General has ordered the
disc"n ihuance Of the letscr-carricr system at
Pr. derrick, Maryland.
torhry for Talbot cnunty, died at his residence
in Easton, VERT Suddenly, on Monday night
last.
IMPROVISATION has been received at the War
Department thai Col Mnschy has been mor-
tally wounded This corrohorates the state I
NETT Recently published in Richmond papers,
The new Minister from Colombia. South
America, to-day assumed the duties of his
esition, aud called upou the Secretary of the
State
A BoY driving carriage in funeral pro-
cesai n at Albany few days SINE. was found,
on arriving nj the grave, to be frozen to
death.
Tus Calcutta Englishman snys that the
culture Of cotton in he north we tern provinces
:. India has increased IF y per cent during
the past year. ...E..
E 7Hs publishers Of weekly papers in Ohio
arc going to tavs a Convention III January
4th, to see whether they cab afford to live or
not.
Az fas as ascertained. the sum of ono mill
lion four hundred and fifty -six thousand dol
lars has been contributed To American COL
legcs during the year 1864.
TuE shocks of an earthquake were expc-
YieDceS at Victoria. Y. l.. on the I'd ultino.
1t must have been very severe, as the peak Of
Mount Barker sank about 1000 feet.
RETURNS received at the Provost Marshal
Generals Buroa show the number of neil
raised by recruiting is larger now than at any
period during the past year.
TMK New Y.fS Journal of Commerce urges
the passage of q law making it apenaloffencs7
to dcfacc roeks, trees and bridges, with adj
versksncnts.
Coz. Charles o. Rogers, the principal pro-
trietor Of the Boston Journal. pays an income
of S68, 900 ycar Glad the Co.eneI is
sSBariii this cold weathsr.-I'icoyune.
An exhibition Of Mr. Felt's type-setting
and justifyng machine, with an explanatory
lecture, was given in Salem, Mass. last week
Mr. Houghton, Of the Riverside Press. wps'
present and expressed his confidence in the'
success Of The Invention.
TnF subscription to tho Scven-T Thirty loan
for ths iast three days as reported T., the Trea--
sur Dcpartnent amount to$3, zoe. 900, and
to tssc Tep-Rorsy loan for the same period.
e8l 500 900 OF the latter loan about $780,
zoe coo rcmaia unsubscTsbcd.
Tgs Pubic sehouis Of New York city have,
cost, this year, less ,hsn 81 1862. 16I a.:
and YET tia. ols hss one Of the moss ignorant
Of CumInan G,alpsils; and 1osta very enIight--
sned Board Of duration.
JEssig I, Thompsou, . teacher in, the
Ameriesn Church SCHOOL, az Rucnos Ayfes,
8. A. cropped desd on tho 18th Of October
last. while fer ling literary exercise The
mother. Of ,Ieaaie -esiias in Delaware, Ohio
- .ruk Sized 5 n smussots manufacturcr
tkeir'owE lss izoeis raising wool and aax i'm
sufhcieni a.ails tiss 10 supply them for their
present ssass s'sl so to lay sway for tho
future. &
DIX. Daniel ] hinges. an cn,iaont citizen Of
Maricn county. 30. lied there ct the ago of
seventy four, Gu The Son ult. Of injuries re =
oeivcd by.a fall from . railroad car. neaE-
Monroe station. oil lhr n ght Of th I'D