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risd at Dublin and convicted. y
ONE man boasts in Indiana that he gets
new wife and new divorce every quarter
The best definition Of cholera is Beecher's |,
ast. lie says that cholera Is Gods opinion Of
,astiness.
AN artesian well has been sunk 2, ,24O feet
in 81. Louis, and Is still sinking, as are the hopes
Of the losers.
An English speaker recently advised
emigrants to stay no longer than one night In
New York.
A MAN lynched for murder in Delaware
was hardly cold whom he was proved to be innO'
cent.
CHICAGO is to build FIVE large school
houses, but offers salaries to Its teachers BY no
means in proportion.
The yellow fever is on the increase in
Galveston. There were eighty.one deaths there
last week.
FIVE school.houses and two thousand
four hundred bar.rooms are the latest Chicago
Improvements.
HOUSE RENTS have slightly declined in
New York and one Of the papers Of that city re-
ports that many houses are empty.
TwESrY.Eronr Of the Alumni Of the
Andover Theological Seminary died last year, ut
an average age Of sol years.
GEN. THOMAS has ordered the State
militia in Tennessee to be mustered out except
few companies in West Tennessee.
Ton Hoop, jr., is tempting the same dan
ger his more illustrious father split upon-writ-
ing novel.
The Colorado Register says there are
few persons in that territory whose incomes are
less than one thousand dollars year.
As one Of the results Of the war of the
people of St. Louis against some of the street
railroads two citizens and four conductors have
been fined.
Ar Quincy, Illinois, bridge is con
structing across the Mississippi, which will cost
81, 900, 900. 1t will be completed in about a
year.
THERE were one hundred and thirteen
fires in tho city Of New York during the month
of July, causing losses to the amount Of
$S27, ,OlO.
HAY is selling for Sl2 per ton at East
port, Maine. A gentleman informed us last
week that he could purchase hay In New Hamp-
shire for 81 per ton.
The Davenport brothers have rival in
. new wizard who has made his appearance in
England He not only shuts himself up in a
box, but gets out without opening the door.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Common Council
have subscribed 500, 900 in city bonds to aid
various railroad enterprises. The city has sll,.
800, 900 Of taxable psoperty.
NINE Chicago editors and nine printers,
not man on either side ever having played be.
fore, are to have a grand game at base ball this
week, at Dexter Park, "for the bolt"
A MYSTERIOUS story is in circulation Of
the murder of a Dublin informer in New York,
and the throwing of his body into the river, Its
discovery at the MOrgue, &c.
d. d. HrcucocK, NJ. D., Of Broomfeld,
Mass, died Of cholera at Fort Gibson, Cherokee
Nation, July H. He was for nearly forty years
among the Cherokee.
THE Council Bluffs Nonpareii says the
Union Pacific railroad bridge is located across
the Missouri river at Trains crossing. opposite
section three. It Is TO be thirty feet high, stone
piers, and not to cost over So, 900, 900.
The debt Of the New England States in
1865 was rs follows: Connecticut, $40, 900, 00Oi
Maine, So, 1903, 6sli Massachusetts,, $25, 555 747;
New Hampshire, s4,l69,slsi Rhode Island,
s3,62s, 5OOi Vermont, 81, 667 500.
The Indians continue numbering and
scalping travellers on tho Plains, and the rail-
soldiers are able to subdue them or render them
harmless.
| Corn has fallen in Texas from two dol
lars to seventy.fve cents q bushel. Ono paper
even reports that new corn can be engaged at
twenty five cents bushel.
Ar Hartford, Conn, on Saturday, the
Board Of Education met and voted to suspend the
normal school at New Britain, in accordance with
the resolution passed by the late Legislature.
The editor Of paper in Maine lost his
wallet containing a torn three cent scrip, two
postage st amps that hadn't been used but once,
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GILMAN TURNER, for nearly quarter OF
a century Superintendent of Public Buildings in
Maine, died very suddenly at his house in Au.
gusta, in that State, on Saturday morning, at
the age Of sixty years.
II The astronomers at Greenwich and
other points in Europe, were very long in making
observations on the night of the 10th, in regard
to the appearance of the metsOrs. There wa,
not much Of a shower.
RETURNS made to Gen. Staedman, Col
lector Of Internal Revenue at New Orleans, show
that the amount of tax paid to the Government
in his district for the month of July, is $780,.
677 Gl. This is an increase over the CORE.
spending month of 1865.
YoUNG O'BBIEN was executed in the
TOombs prison, New York, on Friday. He was
the murderer Of Kate Smith, his mistress, on
June 2lst, 1868. Efforts were made to procure
J pardon from Governor Fenton, but without
success.