, 1869-11-20

It is said New Jersey will can 6,s
900. 900 baskets Of tomatoes this year.
The Bull Run breastworks are in
process Of demolition.
Thirty>ons cents q word is the
proposed tariff of the new cable
The Yuba and Sutter county
farmers are preparing for their next
crop, ,-sxg ,s
A French scientific paper states
that hair combs are now made out
of old boots.
The establishment of a Bureau Of
Statistics in Washington Territory
is contemplated.
The revenue from the Southern
States is nearly fifty per cent.
greater than last year.
During the last 40 years the Ger
man immigration to this country has
been 4,486, ,O44. ~
, Twelve hundred persons were last
year summoned before London courts
for cruelty to animals.
1t is proposed to increase the
capital stock of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
Express from s1O,O00,O00 to sl5,,
100000.
Prussia complains that America
has sent over there a delegate of
Women's Rights women to Agitate.
At Mount Ararat, this year, 11O,-
900 Mohammedan pilgrims assembled
for the annual journey to Mecca.
Two young ladies have gone from
the Claverach Institute to become
East Indian missionaries.
The earthquake opened a seam
eight to ten feet vide at Waldobore,
Maine, causing alarm in the village.
The proposition for the reunion of
the Old and New School Presby>
terisn assemblies, has been ratified
by the required majOrities.
An arrangement is being concluded
between England and France to ex.
terminate the Chinese pirates.
The Pope'S army consists of 49,
600 men Of oil nationalities in fact
one of the most cosmopolitan mili-
tary forces extant.
The Spanish Government is study>
ing a new plan of territorial division,
which, if adopted. will divide the
country into ffty-four provinces.
The last proposition about Dover
Straits is to carry a railroad under
them from England to France
through cast iron tube.
A couple recently walked twenty.
eight miles, in Illinois, to find a
Justice to marry them.
The Russian Government proposes
to unite Odessa and Constantinople
by submarine cable.
Pacific mail steamers and the
Panama railroad company will reduce
their passage rates to a very low
figure.
The first newspaper published in
Virginia was a weekly issued in 1850
at $50 year subscription.
Timbers are being received for the
Sulro Tunnel from the lumber re-
gious of Washoe county. 1t will
take 1000 feet of timber to each sci
of FIVE feet.
Virginia has paid one million eight
hundred and forty thousand dollar,
tax on Manufactured tobacco between
March and September.
A terrific earthquake is reported tc
have occurred in the Ariquip District
Peru. The people bave fed from
the coast and are camping in the
mountains.
Next Christmas Eve is set for tht
marriage of some FIVE hundred
cousins in New Hampshire. Aftel
that date the intermarriage of frs
cousins is to be prohibited there.
In thu present year 46,757 acres
of land have been cultivated in Sac
ramento county; S,466 acres of whea
being sowD, and 24,OS1 acres o
barley.
Ex President Pierce's estate il
estimated at sl,OOO,OOO, the bull
of which will probably go to anephev
who is being educated at Princeton
College.
Providence, R. l., in propotion t,
its population, is the wealthiest cit,
in the Union.
A boy 10 Ohio of fifteen has beef
chewing tobacco ever since he wa
five months old.
The report that Grant had ordere,
the Departments to be hung il
mourning for the utimely death o
the celebrated racer Herzog, ha
been contradicted.
A government surveying party O
twelve men, under Nelson Buck
were recently massacred by Indian
near Fort McPherson. .
A Mississippi Judge has decide,
that the intermarriage of "white
and negroes is lawful in the State
, According to afidavits on file il
| the Louisiana Auditors office, ther
in that State more than five huudre,
veterans still living who fought Will
, Jackson in the great battle of Janu