The Howard union. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-24
THE NEWS,

has been sold Tor So,UOO, nearly sou per
acre.
A Swordfsh was harpoonel of Cape
Elizabslh on Friday which was fourteen
feet in length and weighed seventeen hun.
dred papheSS His sword was three feet,
ten iaoseSiSSg.
The Salt Lake Daily Telegraph has the
name Of Brigham Young hoisted as o can
ddate for Governor of Deseret.
Some forty acres on the Missouri, near
Jefferson, have been purchased at S375 per
acre, by enterprising citizens, who intend
devoting them TO the culture of fruits, par
ticularlY of the vine.
The Empress Eugenie has sent thous-
and francs TO New York orphan asylum.
Queen Victoria's salary is about two
millions per annum.
A rebel pamphlet contains list of casu-
aities (confederate) in the battle of Chan
cellorsville May 2nd and 3rd, 1868, The
total killed were 1881; wounded, $500.
The rebels had twenty-seven brigades Of
troops engaged.
The Oil City News gives the number Of
oil companies at ,457, with a total capital
Of $SG9,594, 900,
Queen Victoria is said to have invested
in an American Coal Oil Company, the
stock of which is being sold in London.
Southeast Missouri, says the Cape Cir
ardeau Argus, will soon be as quiet as
before the war. Emigration is beginning
| 10 flow back into the interior, new buildings
are going up all over the city, and the sound
| of the mason's trowel and the carpenter s
hammer is 10 be heard from early morn to
dewy eve in the erection Of new habitation
for man.
Judge Gholson, of Mississippi, thinks
the war has settled two things l. Slavery
! is dead; 2. States cannot secede. The
Judge is wise man.
The sympathizers in Memphis are pro-
jecting home for the crippled and desti-
tute rebel soldiers of West Tennessee.
In the month of June, 1865, 1921
acres were taken up at Traverse City,
Michigan, under the homestead law, for
actual settlement:
The Louisville Democrat thinks that
sixty thousand slaves have gone over the
river on General PaImer's passes.
The population of Chicago is estimated
by the publisher of the new City Directory
at 226,0O0. The Chicago papers are much
elaled thereat.
Edmund A. Pollard, formerly editor Of
the Richmond Examiner, has gone to San
Domingo to live. This will add an addi-
tional "horror" to the place.
Jacob Thomson, the rebel agent in Cana
da, has abandoned his associates, carrying
with him all that remained of the "Confed.
rate funds.
An oil well has been discovered on Mar.
rowbone Greek, Cheatham county, Tenn.
but sixteen miles from Nashville. 1t runs
steady stream of oil of pure quality.
The amount of pay annually of Brigadiel
and Major Generals recently assigned tc
commands in the several Military Divisions
and Departments, will amount TO one million
five hundred aud fifty thousand dollars. II
1861 this portion of the military establish
ment cost the country thirty thousand dol
lars.
The subscriptions that are being takel
up among Southern sympathizers in Wash
ington city for the benefit of Mrs. JEFF
Davis have reached the sum ol Sc $50
The lowest contribution to the fund wa
$40, and the highest $500.
: Fifteen travellers, with their familie:
passed through Kansas City, on Frida
last, on their way 10 their home in Mort
: Missouri Five years ago they went
d Texas, on tour of observation, with
view of settling there. They have bee
prospecting ever since, and are now return
ing satisfied with the surroundings Of I'll
- old homesteads.
The carriage presented to President Lii
coin by number of gentlemen in Ne
York city is offered tor sale, by advertis,
+ ment in the papers of Washington city. /
h original cost was $4,000.
sr MARRYrNa.-Some three hundred "ul
8 bleached Americans" heretofore recol
e. nized as married, had, the ceremony solem
st lied in Canton, Mo-, 10 one week.
The new Territory of Montana is est
mated now TO contain q population Of
least $4,000 white inhabitants, though
has only been settled about three years.
Every foreigner who has honorat
. served in the army one year, is entitled
be at once naluralized without previous
nd declaring his intentions.
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Al The modest virgin, the prudent wife,