Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1869-01-08
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MisCELAANEOrS ITEMS.

champion American diner>out.
Charles Dickens. lr., is to succeeded Mr.
Wills as editor Of AL sae year Ro.asa.
Mrs. Mary Booth Goodrich. widow Of
Peter PArley,a died in Woodbury., Conn.,,
last week, aged e..
Alice Carey has been presented with one
thousand dollars BY her friends. Horace
Grecley did the presenting.
The two daughters Of Chief Justice Taney
are copyists in the Department, in the lntc~
sier and are very poor.
Hon. c. W. Potwin, Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
- donated 70 Marietta College ten thousand
dollars
The Emperor and Empress OF Austria are
expected n Paris 10 the caurse Of the pres>
ent month.
The English Minister At Washington gets
e3o. 900 year, 5000 more than the head
OF the Governmen, 10 which he is accred.
tied.
TIE Princess of Prussia, Who = The eldest
daughter Of Queen Victoria, has s;x chill.
drsn. The Youngest is six months old, The
next eighteen. She wns married ia 1857.
Hon. E. B. Washburas, Of Tlinsia, The
"fa,hss Of the Home" will viii he next
Congress. begin hn ninth term.
An ex-rcbel General, Ramsay by name.
was carsed 10 the New York police head.
quarters the other day, on . truck, dead
drunk.
A correspondent of The Ner FORK Ersn>
myth, bat person veil kaovn in The Fred
eric, Nd, and that The incideat related By
Whittier IN his poem vas sshsiantially true.
In Boxbsry, Mass. Ceumocose winslov.
Of the kearsage, - be appeared It The polls Of
election, vas greeted With three cheers.
Though South Carclinan by birth, Com>
modore Wins!ow has long been Al aboli>
tioniss, and is . Republican Of the radical
stamp. He hung ont the 6ag cf the Ksar.
sage from his residence ia the evening, and
addressed the jsbilant Republicans under il
The Buffalo Common Council il
aeita,ing the subject Of building .
bridge across the Niagara River to
connect that city with the Canadian
shore.
On Christman-cve the General
Council ofLouisville donated $1,000
bushels Of coal to the suffering poor
Of the city.
The census Of 1870, it is said, will
show the population Of the United |
States 10 DC 42, 100000
The Washington Home for the ref. |
ornation Of inebria,cs, at Boston, has
received, since its establishment in /.
1889 $500 patients, whom it has sup
ported. and half of whom it has re-
formed, at a cost of only go apiece.
BY its efforts hundreds of drunkards
have been restored to their families
with steadfast habits OF temperance.
Near the summit Of the Sierra Ne
vada the Central Pacific Railroad
Company has built . great lodging
house for four hundred men, whose
sole duty is to keep the track on the
mountains clear of snow during the
winter.
A new express movement is on
foot. The managers of the late
American Express Company, Thomp-
son, Of Thompson's Express and 9TH
er Express kings, are organizing a
project for the establishment Of new
company on the territory now occu.
pied BY the American Merchants
Union Express Companies.
The Des Moines Register publishes
statemeat showing that 81 SOC, 900
have been expended in improvements
in that city during the past year. 1t
claims that during the same time the
population has increased $500.
It is probable that Greece viii in
troduce the question Of Cretan claims
into the conference, and will demand
that they be allowed to choose their
own ruler by an election.
A man in Bath, New York, attack
ed his wife with . knife, recently,
threatening to kin her, because she
hai been bap,ised against Lis wishes.
Coal in abundance and Of excel.
lent qualit,-, has been discovered half
mile from Argcnta, % the line Ut
the Pacific railroad, 400 miles from
Sacramento.