Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-25

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have stopped operations.
Payments to many things in Tex.
as ere required IN specie.
Scarlet fever prevails to such au
extent In MarOa, Ill, that the pub.
lie schools have been closed.
A sporting club, to prevent the
destruction Of game birds, is being
formed in Houston, Texas.
The lumber season Ia Vermont
has now closed, aud the gov.
eminent inspectors have been dis.
charged.
A married woman of Ottowa, III.
hes sued her own father for alleged
Islander. She says he called her q
common strumpet.
Two years ago Vermont was the
third sugar growing State in the
I Mon, producing II 600 hogsheads
OF sugar OF 1000 pounds each.
Cotton is successfully cultivated
on the eastern shore Of Virginia.
Beautiful cotton is regularly raised
in Aceomac and Northampton coun-
ties. and shipped either to Norfolk
or Crisleld.
The weather was so mild in Ore.
gon during the last week IN No
vember that strawberries and green
peas were ripcGing, blackberries in
bloom, oak buds bursting into leaf,
and fresh pork spelling.
The Rev. Green Clay Smith, late
Governor Of Montana, has accepted
the care of the Baptist church in
Richmond, KY, made vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. e. L. W.
DObbs.
It's worthy Of notice that while
there arc at the Gcumenical Coun-
Gil IS prelates from the United
States, but % are present from
Germany, and So from Roman
Catholic and rcactiOnary Austria.
A Western reporter has enter
viewed" a magnetic wave nov OIL
its way from the sun, and saws It
proposes to knock the earth to
pieces.
There are $4,000 street Arabs in
in the city Of London, "Street
Arabs" be it known, are vagabond
boys-children utterly hopeless,
and without any one to guide or
control them. The London papers
think something should be done to
rid the community of so great aud
growing a pest, and are endeavor-
ing to excite public Indignation and
interest in the matter, by the de-
claring that Of all these wrelched
urchins, the one half are Irish.
An Immigration society is about
being organized in Jackson.
a Boston woman has started a
new business. In her advertise.
mcnt she holds herself In READINGS,
to lay out The dead in the city or
country at reasonable rates.
a young wife of seventeen in
Chicago has got a divorce. She
married a fellow who said he had
100000, when he hadn't a cent.
Besides that, ne pinched her.
California wheat is 50 dry that
in coming cast through and into a
humid atmosphere, it gains greatly
absorption. This is quite an
element Of profit to the shippers.
The Greene county, Tennessee,
Iron Works, twelve miles southeast
Of Grcenyille, cost 100000, EN-.
ploys over 100 hands, and turns out
laily eight tons Of pig metal, which
Z sold chiefly in Richmond, Knox
7ille, Chattanooga and Atlanta, OF
$40 per ton.
A Southern dentist thinks that
,ne of the principal reasons why
at forty rarely have good
eeth is the free use of lard and but
or. If we did not use these arti-
les, says the dentist, our teeth
would DO as good, aud last as long,
IS those of cows, horses, and other
animals.
A husband in Floyd county,
values his wife and Child at
$4,000, and sues the lady's parents
or that amount. They have in.
'oigled them away.
Cotton raised six miles from Los
Angeles is noticed by California
'aper. The hollis are large and the
taple fine, and the cultiVator is
onfldent that cotton can be prolta-
grown in that region without
Wisconsin has increased its Gov
salary to $1,000
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