, 1869-11-27
General News.

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General News.
The late storm changed the course
Of some Of the rivers in the White
Mountains.
The registration for The election
10 New York will probably exceed
10000 in the city.
A SLAYER having $50 negroes on
board was captured on the Arabisn
coast by a British cruiser.
Sisters Of the Stranger is the name
Of society organized in New York
for the relief Of strangers in that
city.
Telegraphic communication be-
tween Russia and China has been
interrupted by extensive iuundations
in Sibers.
The journey OF the French Ems
press to the Suez Canal will cost
about Sl50,O0O in gold, besides pin
money"
A Methodist minister in Tennes-
see is under arrest on a charge of
trying to organize a band of thieves
and murderers.
There is a falling off of one>third
in the tobacco crop of Maryland and
Virginia, and about oue.tenth
throughout the West.
The Local Parliament at Quebec
is convoked for the 18th of Novem-
Der. The Dominion Parliament Oh
the 18th of February.
The Partisan trades societies are
forming a combination preparatory TO
a general strike to break down all
the trade mOnopolies.
Upon the recommendation of the
Secretary of the Interior, the Presi>
dent has accepted 63 miles of the
Western Pacific Railroad.
DR.. Leggs has accomplished the
bootless feat of translating the Chin>
ese classics, the first volume of
which is already published in half.
There is no ex-president chosen
to Office by the votes of the people,
living to- o'day-a state of things that
has not existed before in this coun>
try.
The colored men in the neighbOr-
hood Of Macon, Ca, have raised
$500, 900 worth of cotton this year.
Many of them invest their earnings
in land.
The receipts from Internal Reven.
ue for the six months ending Sep
tember Both, exceed by S2,25O, 900,
those of the corresponding period in
1868.
The Sultan has dismissed bis Sec-
retary Of the Treasury, because thai
conscientious functiOnary declined to
supply him with sufficient pocket
money.
A number of high officials have
been discharged from Office 10 Tur>
key, it having been discovered that
they we're in the secret pay of The
Viceroy of Egypt.
The peach stones cast aside BY the
armies at Petersburg, (Vs,) have
shot up into groves of trees forty five
miles long, which this season we're
loaded with fruit.
In many towns in France, women
possess the right TO vote 10 muAici.
pal affairs and in one of them it is
said that the Council was recently
composed wholly of women,
A NespOlitan has invented an in.
strument which he calls an amismo>
graph, which shows the velocity of a
vessel, the changes in her direction,
aud the deviation of the compass.
The prospects of the japanese
colony in FL Dorado county are fat
tering, and the greatest confidence
is entertained by the Japanese that
their industrial experiments will
prove q success.
That portion of Washington Ter.
ritory east Of the Cascade mountains
is reported to be rapidly filling up
with settlers. Over one hundred
claims have been taken in Yakima
Valley this Fall.
A monument to Humboldt is to
be erected in Mexico.
Forty thousand miles of railroad
are in use 10 the United States.
An altar costing 100000 has
been placed in the St. Stephens
Church at New York.
Bismark is said to be in better
health than ever before in the last
twenty years.
The Gar is having q history Of
the American rebellion translated for
his perusal.