, 1868-01-17
Miscellaneous New. Items.


worth Of tobacco last year.
The headwaters Of the Maine rivers are higb.
er than those Of the Mississippi
It is thought probable that Santa Anna will
make his home at New York, during bis exile.
Freshly cut timber contains forty per cent. OF
liluids. -.
1t is expected that GGribaldi will take up his
residence in the United States.
London is extending at the rate Of two miles
Of buildings per day.
Seven million acres of public lands have been
disposed Of during the past year.
The German population of New York city is
nearly two hundred thousand.
George Catlin is about publishing "My Last
Rambles Amongst the Indians Of the Rocky
Mountains and the Andes.
The greatest number of old people in the Uni
ted States are to be found iu Massachusetts and
Western North Carolina
Georgia expects much of her peanut crop this
year. Two counties alone are expected to pro.
duce sixty thousand bushels.
1t is stated that the Order of Masonry Ia very
popular amongst the Chinese and that there
are many Mongolan members OF the craft in the
Braidwood district.
In London, Dec. goth, in view of the recent
Fenian outrages the Cabinet has determined, by
an act of Parliament, to suspend the writ of hd.
6eds corpus.
Fifteen thousand English cmigrants are mak>
ing preparations to come to the United States.
Texas papers announce the arrival of large
number Of German emigrants in that State
Corn sells for forty cents bushel, and cotton
for eight cents pound, in Texas.
There are FIVE hundred students from America
in the German Universities.
A Georgian estimates the present cost of rails,
ing cotton in his State at twenty cents a pound.
1t said to be the design of England to keep
hold of the territOry.of ;he Abyssiniau King
when she gets it.
The nitro gicorine explosion at Newcastle
was more serions than first reported. Eight per,
sons have Gied including the Sheriff
Postal cars now run between New York and
Boston, and the mails are sorted while in tran
SIT
The interest on the National debt is about two
thousand dollars an hour-day and night-the
year round.
Eighty years ago there were lGO offences In
England punishable by death. There is now but
one-murder.
1t is asserted that in New York city at least
900 persons wear false eyes. There are sever
al places where false eyes are manufactured
The number committed to the Insane Asylum
during the last four years from San Francisco
reaches 400.
The Philadelphia North american says there
are more people out of employment now than
there were in the hard times of 1857.
The cost ofregstration ia Virginia was $780,
900. The cost Of the military establish ment in
the State for the last ten months is S., 900 900.
Half of the dress circle at the Galveston
theatre, Texas, is reserved for freedom.
How to spell Tennessee in three letters:
X-e,c.
1t is much easier for an ill>natured man
than for kind one to be smart and witty.
When the Pacific railroad and the Suez
canal are completed, we can steam it around
he world in ninety days
Spotted Tails eldest daughter died of
broken heart because she could not fud a
white husband. Somebody had promised
,ut failed to fulfill
Fresh pork and frozen pumps may both
,e cured by salt
Why is side hill like "a lazy dog' Be-
'ause it is slopeup.
A liquor saloon at Nashville keeps hack
o carry home its drunken customers. :
A brook trout at Milwaukee, from Lake
superior, measures two feet in length.
An exchange has a correspondent who
as shot jay and wants to know if he should
end him to the dead letter Office
How may a man pay his church tax by
osses at the billiard table? Easily enough.
ylerical rates are curates and cue.rates are
illiard fees.
When the ladies Of the Court Of Sweden
ot through hugging and kissing Admiral
'arragut, they each and all exclaimed: fairy
Wv .
When you see man Indignantly demand
ng an apology from lamp post, for having
Knocked his hat off it is pretty good sign
hat the hat had brick in it.
Nominate your poison is the last express
ion used in lieu of the matterrof.fact What
7ill you have to drink?
A Presidential candidate who can't be at
acked, is simply a nuisance. lie spoils
usiness.-Republican paper on Grant
Victor Hugo considers Teunyson's Lock
ley Hall the finest poem produced in En-
land by any living bard.
A collection of Walter Savage Landor's
Unpublished writings is being made by one
f his literary admirers.
In 1866, at Washington, 7. c., according
o the report of the Police authorities, out
# "a, 542 persons arrested, $685., or more
han one third, were negroes.
The Hon. Reverdy johnson will soon be
lind He lost the sight of his eye some
ime since, and now cataract is forming on
is right eye.
A Judge of "a United States Court in North
)arolina has issued an order declaring the
of the Court to determine the
of its own jurors, independent
{ military authority.
1t is said that on hearing somebody recite
Rev Ralph Hoyts World for Sale recent.
y, Secretary Seward Immediately dispatched
IN agent to attend the sale and buy the
zhOle thing. -sa i's, Cd