Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-02-07
BRIEF ITEMS.

| Alaska has nineteen volcanoes Free
Masonry has many advocates in China
North Carolina has public debt Of $685.
| 696, 6,000.-The shoe manufactories of Sa>
lem are being closed. The Boston free
library contains 10000 volumes-There
is great military activity throughout Europe.
Honduras advices state that revolution
is impending in the interior Only about
States is Twenty.four British
railways have deprecated ELI. $4,000 in
twelve Weston has been offered
$4,000 BY a New York rsbber house to trav-
el for them Letters from Buenos Ayres
say that the wool clip Of 1867 will be 1905
100000 pounds. Masonry upon the draw
pier OF the Burlington bridge was commen.
ced last week.--The beet sugar manutac.
tory at Cha,sworth, Ill.,, is now shipping =
car load Of sugar every week.--Two Lun>
drsd and ten thousand barrels Of mackerel
were inspected in Massachusetts last wear.
--One million FIVE hundred and forty nine
thousand emigrants have arrived in this
country since lS59.-Ten thousand more
German emigrants came to the United States
last year than the year previous
New York Tribune is negotiating, It is said,
for the purchase Of the Herald for one mill.
ion dollars. are six female physi-
clans in Philadelphia, each Of whom has m
income from their practice Of over $4,000
annually The London Times opened the
year with a seven column editorial An
immense bazaar 10 TO be held in the Royal
Palace at Berlin to relieve the distressed
people Of the Eastern Province.-The
passage ofthe propeller Caldwell through the
Straits December 29th and 30th is the latest
venture of the kind known to the inhabitants
Of Maekinac.-During the year 1867. the
receipts Of the Dubuque, Iowa, Post Office
over all expenditures was $l2.202.55-a
uery healthy showing indeed. d.-The Frerch
Prince Imperial stands first in his class 1t
the Lyceum.-Carpenter is painting full
length Of Greeley, including his hat and
booss.--Ela Soule, aged twelve, is ma.
king small sensation in Ohio with temper
ance lectures.-Fred. Douglass favors the
nomination Of Grant for President. -Cod>
fish are SO plenty in Newburyport bay ,ha,
they sell them there from the boats at 81 so
the pundred pounds, and sometimes have to
throw them overheard in order TO row the
boats in.-A scientific writer asserts that
champagne is easily made from petroleum.
Think OF it, drink Of it, then, if you can =
The first London edition Ia very large one)
Of the Queens new book was sold ont in
twenty y>four hours. Pepper pantelettes are
the latest notions" Woman is q delu>
sionw exclaimed crusty old bachelor 10 a
witty young lady. And man is always
hugging some deusion or other,' was the
quick retort.--In Springfield, Mass, il is
yet a common practice for the people to
guard against wi,cheraft BY fastening the
protecting horseshoe over the doors, toe
down The next Presidential election
will be the twenty>6rst.-A Halifax, Nova
Scotia, paper declares that Nova Scotia will
certainly secele from the Dominion, the peo.
Pile having determined to rid themselves OF
the new Government at any cost.--Ths
veteran Scion Robinson has entirely retired
from active dates on the New York Tribune.
| Hollands " kathrina" has had great
er sale than any other American poem
As far south as Texas the snow has been
unusually heavy. Titus county. Texas, has
had an inch and a halt Of the white dress
ing.-Mr. Charles Francis Adams has the
largest private library in New England
eighteen thousand volumes. new
books which will soon be published are a
now romance, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe volume Of stories, by Edward Ev
erett Hale voleme OF adventures during
the war, by Col. T. W. Higgnson and a
memoir OF Ulric Dahlgren, by his father, the
Admiral. has completed his latest
book, "St. Paul."-The library Of John
Z. Calhoun is advertised to be sold at auc
tion in South Carolina, as forming part oi
the estate Of The late Andrew p. Calhoun.
-Alexander Dumas is going to write a
historical novel on Abraham Lincoln
| Oliver Wendell Holmes is reported to be al
ready outlining another novel, the idea and
| characters Of which we're suggested during
| tie writing of the Guardian Angel
The Best and Original Togic Of Iron,
Phosphorus, and Calisaya, known as Cas-.
well, Mack Co.'S Ferro Phosphorated FL
ixir Of Calisaya Bark. The Iron restores
color to the blood, the Phosphorus renewe.
waste Of the nerve tissue, and the Calisay
gives natural healthy tone to the digestive
organs, thereby curing dyspepsia in its var
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