, 1869-04-20
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- send forty families to Inquire nso the tzuth Of
that religion.
Tho Cunasd Steamship Company has contract
cd for two new steamships Of 5000 tons each. To
be called the Ahyss!nla and Age11A.
Tho Colorado latgisteT eayB that "rcllab1e infor.
nation Indicates that the red atins contemplate a
raid upon tho whites In the Territories more
bloody than the West has yetSsonered,
A nre u Toledo, Ohio on the 18th, DESTROYED
thfee oauaings occupied BY Morris, ssetttver &
Co., J. n Campbell i Co.. Doolittle K Kiea, and
Richards Brown, and all owned by the estate OF
Lyman Wheeler, Total loss oyesfs5o oao, partially
1nEured.
In Maine, during the past season. mice hare
done great damage Millions OF Young frutt traea
have been killed, young forest trees tntured. and
grass ruined. In a Dixneld orchard containinr
1900 grated trees on,y about ase hundred can be-
saved -
The New York underground street rat,wav nrn
Just passed BY the New York Assembly, m.f-s
necessary the destruction Of St peter'1 rhr7rrn
and the Catholic Telegraph asserts that any sttemnt
at such demolition will meet with lorcible
resistance.
Aaedler, the German astronomer, has neasurea
the heighth OF 1908 mountains In the moon.
twenty-five Of these are higher than Mont Blanc.
which IL within q few feet Of being three miles
high, and SIX are above 200 feet The highest
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The suicide Of Captain William Wilcox, OF ston-
tngtoD, well-known commander on the Norwich
line Of steamers, Was apparently inspired By the
tecent sell-murles Of his friend, Colonel Lester,
OF Norwich. lie spoke Of that eyeut with pp-
rroval. on the day previous to ending tis life.
A Philadelphia drayman has invented an "Oat-
meter''-to sarc time in the feeding OF auimals,
The machine In question turns with crank. The
horse or mule sits upon bis Launches and strolght-
H1irr
Into him at single revolution Of the cylinder, In
side u a minute and quarter.
In Greenfield, y. H., y few days ago, q man and
hts son, aged respectively about 70 and IS. were
called upon by about thirty men and boys aud
treated to a slde upon q rail, q distance OF about
one and one-half mile, for the offence OF abusing
the wife and mother. They were made to take
turns; while one rode the other carried one emu
Of the 1atl, md rice rsrsa. They were accompa-
nfed In their march by music from nfe and drum,
tin pana, DC.
The tota1 excavation on the Mount Gems Tun-
mel, mp to the 18th ult, was 5I,01s feet, leaving
9,us5 feet to he pierced In order to complete the
work. The Directors announce that the hard
quartz rock has been passed, and thst the excava-
tton will hereafter proceed at the rate Of 1877 feet
month. The tunnel, It is hoped, will be opened On
jan ], 1871, and the locomotives will be running
through By April Of that year.
At CovinHton, La, on Monday OF Last week,
Mrs. Kate He1les. taking pistol which abe had
borrowed OF D nelghbor, placed the muzzlc at her
breast and pulled the trigger, but the cap faled to
explode. She now put the barrel against her LETT
breast and, applying lighted match to the vent
nred the pistol-the bali passing through her body
and coming out at the right side, and the powder
setting her clothes on nre. After committing the
Decd Mrs. uerbes placed the pistol in her worS
basket, about which time some nelghbors entered
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