Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-10-08
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MlscellaneOus Items.

The number Of professional thieves Of
All kinds in New York 10 estimated At lO,-
600. M M
yield Of cotton in that country this year will
be enormous. le,
The great grandfather Of young Dumas
captured Fra Diavolo, and did brilliant SER
vice at Thionville. --a7s
In Leeds, England, there is a Lincoln
block Of buildings, named in honor Of the
great President. 5rr wf
II. F. Parrish has a nursery OF over
10000 fruit trees growing near the old Mis-
sion Ridge battlefield, at Chattanooga.
Gloucester, Mass, has 400 vessels and D.
000 men engaged in the fisheries. The pro-
Duct OF the fisheries this year is s8,0O0,0O0.
1t is good thing to have utility and beau
ty combined, as the washerwoman said when
she used her thirteen children as chothes-
pins.
There have been 1893 applicants for ad-
mission TO the Yale freshman class, of which
67 were admitted without conditions, 116
were conditioned, and 15 were rejected.
Mr.. Alexander, the Illinois seattle
king" has lost Ave hundred head of cattle
by the Texas distemper, and in Champaign
90. the loss exceeds seven thousand five hun
dred head. rs
There was a violent snow storm last week
on the White Mountains in New Hampshire
On Wednesday snow had fallen to the depth
of foot aud a halt near the head of New
Mount Washington railway. ti.N .N
The residence of James L. Day, near
Stonington, Conn, which cost fully s175, 900,
was sold a few days since to George s. Scott,
Of the Philadelphia firm Of Jay Cooke Il Co.,
for $45, 900.
Ten employees of the New York firm OF
W. n J. Sloane, carpet dealers, have been ar
rested for extensive frauds on customers and
the firm, by which they have stolen $780,
900 worth OF carpeting in the last seven
years. rfL1f
Two men on Kelleys Island are digging
talbours day for the body of an Indian
cIieb which Planchette has told them was
buried in certain place, with $4,000 worth
Of jewelry on his person. They are working
in limestone, but are not permitted to use
powder, and only pick fewinches day.
"A sensation was created among the mp
town people Of New York, on Friday morning
by the discovery Of the perfect remains of a
human foot and leg, embedded in some gran
lte which the quarrymen are blasting at the
corner Of Tenth avenue and FOrty-second
street. The granite is pale color, and the
human remains are perfectly black
Extensive fires have been raging in the
mountainous parts Of Sweden, particularly in
tho province Of Norrland. The peasants, on
several occasions, had to flee for their lives,
unable to save villages and farms from the
fierce conHagration of trees, plants, and even
tl,as, Ill 30 s1.n1
almost bleak waste.
The citizens Of the Nineteenth Ward of
Philadelphia, Penn, in which the murder Of
the little girl named Mary Mohieman occur
red, have offered a reward OF 81 900 for the
capture and conviction OF the murderer, and
a worthy citizen has offered handsome brick
house 10 the captor. The reward thus far Of
fered is two thousand dollars and a handsome
brick house.
In Middletown, Vt, is a single tomato
plant ten feet high and eight feet in breadth,
which had upon 1t one bushel Of fruit, some
Of them weighing pound each, and all of
them of large SIZE They are called the
perfected tomato" are thick meated, have
very few seeds, and always grow large. DR..
Burke has been very successful in the culti-
vation Of the tomato plant, and often picks
tomatoes weighing twenty-seven ounces. He
has model garden. lt. lrJf
The Valley Of Virginia retains its old rep
utation for fruitfulness. Scarcely q vestige
of the late war is visible" says TIE Lynch
burg, Va, News, "In this beautiful and
highly favored section Of country. 1t was,
secured from one extreme to the other by
successive inroads Of Federal cavalry, and
was the theatre of many desperate battles,
but every wound has been healed, and every
scar has disappeared, and her green fields,
turn of the blessed abundance Of antebellum
days.