The New York herald., 1870-12-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The failures in Cincinnati within four months
have amounted TO g. 000,000
The use Of telegraph poles Is sold TO bill posters in
New Orleans for ten dollars for each pole.
The colored people arc to celebrate Emancipation
Day on Monday evening, January 2, by grand levee
in Faneul Hail.
The elephant Empress was sold the other day for
$4,000, ana orc DOWN SZu0 worth cl sIdDle tue ICl-
lowing evening.
There are two hundred convicts making cigars in
the Joliet (Ilnois PenitentiaTy. They make about
zoo, 600 weekly.
A Chicago lawyer, named Goodrich, entered no
less than 243 divorce suits in the courts OF that city
during the past seven months.
The town Of Boothbay, Lincoln county, Me-, with
population OF three thousand, has not an Irish
man, negro or John Smith in it.
, Tho value OF advertising was realized by rura
! New YORK merchant who advertised for small boy
when his wife presented him with two.
An old mar in Saybrook. Conn.,, lives on farm
that never was bought or sold it having come down
TO Him from his ancestors, who obtained 1t from the
Indians.
Prairie chickens in Illinois are very numerous this
season. and afford immense sport to the hunters
Large numbers Of them killed by dying against
telegraph wires.
MI t. Mann OF Milford, Conn. recently sold 10 an
agent Of the French government 14.00o kuapsacks
Which ne had bought OF our government TO manu-
facture into boots aud Shoes
Maekerel, coIfsh and herring are said to be sure
10 be cheap this winter. Prices must come down.
the fisheries have been very successful, aad mil.
lions being brought 70 market.
An inconsidcrate teamster named Frank Scott
tried to make mule 1ouri hand pull IL, 900
pound load up the leyee at Cincinnati and very un
expecteds found his way to the Hammond street
station house the charge OF cruelty to animals
preferred by Bergh I'm itator.
An indianapolis paper thus sums up the divorce
market:--BrlsK competition among the lawyers has
brought down the price or divorces very In this
market. We quote:-Common separation, Sl5;
small alimony, S25 large alimony, 500 TO $500.
There but lew Of the latter in the market Gene
raj business good and increasing.
There will be State convention OF the miners or
Illinois, at Bloomington, January f. 1871, TO consider
and decide the measures necessary To be inc0rpor.
ated IN can act for providing for the health aud
SAFETY OF persons eMpleyed IN coal mines III the
State or Illinois, be submitted 10 the next Gene
raj Assembly, aud TO issue and circulate petitions
FOR signatures in support OF the same
a horse case, involving some thousands OF dol
lars is On Trial ut Lewiston, Me. The parties
us n. Catler, OF New York, pleintif. and Jesse 5.
lYlord, of Lewiston, defendant. Cutler purchased
$500 the other 500 and gave his noc for the
amount. He now declines paying rhe note on the
ground that the most valuable horse was not what
he was represented TO be. He was bought fof
trotter and Gurns out 10 lie a PAGER, on which ac-
count he has been ruled out OF several races.
The foolish woman, Mrs. Asa jones ,of uopeviile
Clarke county, Iowa, VINO eloped with 4 scalawag
who was In her husbands employ, mas been heard
from. The Sentinel says that on SATURDAY, The I'd,
Mr.. Jones received the intelligence that his vile
wgs at ner SISTERS at Des M0iaes, deserted by her
betrayer, penniless and nearly craZed. Alter the
guilty pair had secured Jones money, TO the amount
OF about S240, they took the cars at Wcodburn, pro-
place lie deserted his victim, alter securing al toe
money she mad, as well part OF her clothing,
threatening her life II she attempted 10 follow nLm
farther.