Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1865-12-09
News Items.

Tho Government Advortisos number
Of gunboats, transports and bNrg0s, ut
public sale, at Mound City and Chatta-
nooga.
Ex-Governor Manning, Of South Caro-
lima has been elected United States Scnn-
tor from that State, for the short term.
About nine.tcnths Of the Veteran Re-
serve Corps will bc mustered out, under
the latO order permitting the officers and
men to choose between remaining in the
service and quitting it.
Tho Paris correspondent Of the New
York Times gives more favorable report
Of the health of the city. lie says the at
tacks Of cholera have reached two hun
dred day, with mortality Of Onc-half'
A boy named Sitesky, of Bohemian
parentage, andrcsdingat Palestine, Wis
consin, shot both his parents Wednesday
last, and then committed suicide. 1t is
supposed he was insane.
The Treasury Department Is SO poster.
ed with eounlorfoits "woll calculated to
deceive" that General Spinner advocated
the death penalty for manufacturers Of,
and operators IN, the spurious currency.
Fears are expressed by our Consul at
Manchester thG. the drOadfu ttlo'plaguc,
now raging in England, will be brought to
this country, and he advises a quHran-
tine.
The Jackson News is deeply troubled by
the election Of Judge Sharkey TO tho
Senate Of the United States, and endsa.
vors to case ilS pains by asserting that
many who voted for him did so under
protest and as matter Of pelicy.
The Montreal correspondent Of the New
York Herald, gives report that five rsgi-
ments Of British troops will soon arrive in
that city on their way to Upper Canada, to
guard against a possible Fenian demoR-
stration against that province.
The deficiency in the wheat crop this
year has been estimated at 26,0O0,0O0
bushels. The Commissioner Of AgricuI.
turO in his report for October states that
the decrease under last years crop WillbO
but l2,OOO,0OO bushels.
The government Of Savannah, Georgia,
was turned over to the civil authorities on
the lst inst, Mayor Arnold issued pre-.
cIamation on that day, rcyiTing all city
ordinances save those conflicting with tho
present ,sltus Of tho negroes,
A Washington specisl says that Chief
Justice Chase has decided that there arc
| legal objections to jeff. Davis trial at
Richmond, 50 the matter is as far from
settled as over. EzpatriatiOn Of DAYS is
talked Of in knowing circles at tho Capt.
tai.
A dispatch dated Marietta, NovembOr3,
and published in the Pittsburgh CONNER
eial, says; "llerbort's new well on Horse
neck Crock is now pumping over 400 bar
rels per day, and steadily increasing. The
oil is 40 gravity"
Tho army of the Allies in South Ameri.
on has captured tho town Of Uruguayana
and its garrison of 5,OO0(?) men, after
seige Of six weeks. A novel dispositonis
made of the prisoners. They are armed
and impressed into the ranks Of their
capIors.
Tho family Of woll.to-do farmer,
Burkholdor by name, have been engaged
for some time past in plundoring tho cars
Of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, at
Altoona; thOy stole thousands Of dollars
worth. Eight members, out Of nins-one
was used rs States ovidonco-worS sent
to the Penitentiary.
A company boring for oil on Highland
Greek, Kansas, recently, struck-milk, or
something hatresemblos it. They dOn's
know what to make Of the fluid, We sug-
gestthey try it ina churn. lfthOy "iOtch
butter" at ffty cents pound, we shall
know isn't water.
The usual monthly exhibit Of tho public
debt has been published by tho Secretary
of the Treasury. The debt was reduced
$4,0O0OOO during the month Of October
During the same period the legal tonder
currency has been contracted S44,OOO,OOO
through tho sale of tho new FyO-tWenty
loan.
Tho Cleveland papers tell story Of n
Young lady in that city who was thrown
l from a buggy by runaway horse, and
struck the curbstono, hor "Waterfall"
: breaking the force of the blow and saving
Q hor neck. TWAS bad for the waterfall,
: but good for the young lady
| Recently We heard Ia good story Of an
I, occurrence which took place in Nowbury.
r port, Mass. Aseryant girl in that towr
F. went to DR.. Spolotd for advice, declaring
Il. her ailmont to bo pain in the bowels. Th,
- doctor gave her a cathartic, and requested
J, her to call again in few days which she
o did. lie asked her If she had taken The
' medicine, to which she replied in the alhr
!. native, He then askod--"Did anything
}, pass you after taking it? "Yes sir" sh'
s, said, ga horse and wagon, and drove o
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