Nebraska advertiser., 1868-01-16

The benevolent ladies O. Hartford.
Conn. are about 10 establish al iudustri.
al school for vagrant girls. Fifteen thousr
and dollars have already been snbscfi-
ed.
A Quincy. Illinois, G%Istiller thinks he
can prove that government does not
get as revenue FIVE cents a gallon on the
wiskey made in that State.
Peat sells in Madison. Wisconsin. at
six dollars n cord. and IS generally and
satisfactorily used in hat place as a sub
stitute for coal and wood.
The bill for The emancipation of the
Jews has passed the Auslrlan ReichsraIh.
The ram StoDewalI left Rio JaneirO
November 18th for Jaran. The Peruvian
exploring expedition, under Adm1 fuck
rr. had reached I9ui.os, whence il would
descend the Amazon TO Para.
The Prussian railway engineers have
been among the ffss 10 lay rails without
~.leepers, planting them directly on the
ballast, and it is said, with Perfeel
success.
The Texas election is TO be held The
last Monday in January,
The scholars in the public school az
Clinton, Iowa, attend school but half a
day, The boys in morning. and the girls
IN The afternoon,
Thirty per cent, of The populations of
Great Bruain are unable 10 write their
names,
Fountain County, Indiana. is di~graced
by sixty divorces Ibis year.
Al Chicago. on the 10Th, VIM. And
rews attacked VIM. Hamilton, bita greai
hunk out of his lip and swallowed H.
.neHstaehe and all.
They are talking in Georgia ab,ul
passing a law making II a breach of the
yeace to dun a man for debt.
The New York Herald proposes a pur-
base of the Sandwich Islands.
France has a navy of three hundred
aud forty three vessels. During The pres
eDi year which were built in this country.
The Kentucky Legislature is about Ia
forbid a man 10 marry his cousin,
The New York Jocky Club are tC
have a 5000, 600 clubhouse. 2
Salem is closing up its shoe manufaclO.
Judge Bangs, of Lacon, H., who for
ONE time. has been under medical treat
uent a, the Kenosha Water Cure, say,
his disease was caused ty wearing paper
collars. into the composition of which
,rsenic enters.
A Catholic church. for a colored con.
graga'ion exclusively, is-,o be dedicated
in Charleston.
The French Blue Book informs us thai
he converts of France supply a very
lar .e portion Of The hair sold in market
- he IresSes cut off when The novice
axes the veil being saved for sale,
A tobacco grower in the Connecticut
valley has sold bis crop of last year for
seventeen thousand dollars. Il amounted
o twenty eight tons.
Accounts received at Massowah OF
he condition and progress of The British
expedition in Abyssinia are ali favorable.
The army was steadily advancing 10 the
Inte riOr, and up to the date of The latest
dispatches they had met with no Opposi
lion.
The widow of Sam Houston died of
yellow fever al Independence, Texas.
on The 9Th inst.
The NY. Mail advocates The publ;ca-
lion of engagements 10 order to prevent
filtration, s.
In California. ID. D." after a man. 5
name signifies drunk and d~rsorderly.''
A Texas paper wants The Shakers 10
open a school for teaching domestic
science.
The Chinese in Sau Francisco are
abou' building a magnificent theatre
for their use. Thryhave Two already.
The Rev. Dunbar, the Minneapolis big
amist, is making barrels under the pat.
ronage of the State of Minnesota.
The free distribution of coal to the
poor of Cincinnati has commenced. une
hundred and fifty loads were delivered
In one day last week.
A Western paper has an article to.
prove that ten years of journalistic labor
on a daily will break dowpth strongest
constitution.