, 1865-03-27

At the recent billiard tournament in Bos.
ton, William Tobtn won the golden cue.
There las been great fire at PORT m
Prince loss seven millions.
The. Newbuzyport QMass.) mills arcsuspend-
ing work.
Bishop Potter, Of Pennsylvania, has gone 10
California for his health.
new journal has been started in Turin
called the Count Gdrour.
Prince Alfred Of England has been on a
visit to the little Prince Imperial at the Tuil.
lelics, and had nice time.
Horze flesh is becoming very popular on the
Continent
Eight hundred thousand francs arc spent in
masses at Rome, and 2l4 900 in education.
There Gre 2 2,3S2 religious houses In Italy.
a Chinese giant is exhibiting in Hong
Kong, measuring 8 feet 8 inches in height
He makes way Mt a single meal with two pup
pies and rats ad lib.
There arc 81 900 bachelors in the colony OF
Victoria. and only 1924 spinstezs.
Potatoes are drug In Name at 70 cents per
busAel.
There were 3.cs4 illcgitimatc births in Scot
land last year.
A man in Hartford, Conn, has cn!f, one
year old, weighing 945 pounds.
Mrs, Wood, who vas severely burned at the
Metropolitan Thcater in BnfInlo, recently, is
dead-
N. Venct, in the Monde, says Of the Paris
style Of d1css: eff one of the present queens
of the. Partisan beau monde were to walk out
Of doors in ball costume, the sergens de vile
would lock her up, and the correctional tri-
oune visit her with the withering effect of
conviction"
The last of the swlss Guards who wen
present at The taking Of the Tuil1eries in 1792s,
died il Be5ne recently.
A pational conservatory has been founded
at Perth for the education of actors and
singers.
A new translation Of Faust is announced
in London.
a sister Of sylyanus Cobb hanged herself
the other day.
Dumas is publishing new novel: Lies
Souvenirs dune Fayositc."
The great library In the Rae Rchelieu has
2,00o, Goo printed volumes, 2oo,0o manu-
scripts, s, s,ooo, ,ooo Autographs and engravings,
and sc, 600 maps.
Tom Taylor has produced another SUCCESS
full play called 81 Settling Day"
The discovery bas Leen made In Paris,
among collection of autograph letters Of
Mad. de Maintenon, Of Ms. of Louis XIV,
the snbject of which is ''La Vie dc Cnsar.'
The oldest officer In the army is Adjutant
Peucodu, whose commission bears date March
81, 1783.
OF the 37,072 births in the eight larsest
towns Of Scotland in 1864, s. .4ss were legiti-
mate, and 3,634 illedtimate.
At The Prince Napolcon's ball, lately held,
the principal eastronomic novelty Of the even
ing was sa1ad Of iced asparagus and fresh
sliced trutiles.
An elopcmcnt Of a painfully sensational char
meter has taken place in London in high life.
The brother Of q noble Marquis, bordering.
upon>three score years. himself the father OF
u numerous IA ni'y, is one Of the parties; md
the lady, who is nearly related to him by
marriage, Is the wife Of noble lord, but oue
degree removed from the hetrship Of ono Of
the Oldest andwcalthiest m1r9ulsates in the
Kingdom. Tbs offending fair one. who has
not Jet reached her thlrtieth year, leaves be-
hind her scveral interesting children, but she
has taken with her the title detds to m at
tractiye feature in the shape of recently ac-
quired property Of the value Of nearly
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