The New York herald., 1871-01-14
q lERhL n. WS sTENS.

| Governor Ponder. OF Delaware, Will be inaugu
! rateI January IL.
| Four female physicians have their signs out at
| South Bend Ind.
There are forty-twO Chinese in Denver-twenty-
| nine men ANA thirteen women.
daughter OF +. T. Barnun has applied for di-
vorce IN 81. Joseph county, Indiana.
| John D. Bigcow, the Oldest citizen in Marlboro,
! Conn., died on Friday, December 81, aged 100 years
| and five months.
! Mayor Selby, OF san Francisco. has donated his
entire ,ears salary (sicoo) as Mayor to the public
| Charities OF the city.
rhc annual meeting OF the Connecticut State Ag.
rtcultura Society viii be held az New Haven On
Wednesday, January Ill.
A fair VIII he held in Poston the coming autumn
to raise funds Tor the Society tor he Prevention or
Cruelty TO Dumb Animals.
Governor Halght has partlOned All Nik, q leathen
Chinese, convicted of rape in sacramento, CAL IN
George H. Robinson, mate OF the United States
steamer saginaw, which was wrecked ia the Pacific
last &C obe, belongs In Maine.
Nantucket tAlass.) lady wea rs level once WON
by the queen OF llayi The jewel was presented 10
her father when a sea captain, by the Queen.
Potters Gran Hotel IN Chicago VIII be opened IN
1872. II VIII have 400 lodging rooms aud Will cost
Si,25o,0oO.
Florida has experienced this winter the collest
weather ever felt in that climate. Vegetation has
been seriously damaged.
The whole length OF The Hoosac tunnel now Opcned
is 1862 feet and yet II Is but little more than half
through he mountain.
The oyster beds of the Chesapeake yield about
25 ODu O0J bushels and furnish the chief proyenler
for 10000 persons besides.
The Unlted States Grand Jury Of California has
found a true bill against Joseph IL. Wilson Tor the
murder OF James EuStce, Oh board the steamship
California, Ill October last.
The supreme Court OF California having decided
that the testimony OF Chinese is not admissible as
against white persons, preparations are being made
to carry the question before the Supreme Court OF
the United States
An esteemed citizen OF Providence has just died at
the age OF seventy, who had been cashier OF bank
1ory-Ilve years, YET never was In New York and had
Cnly visited Boston twice.
South Carolina has negro Lieutenant Governor,
three negro Congressman, eleven negro State Sena.
tors. eighty negro Representatives ana one negro
Judge OF the Supreme Court
remarkable child is now living in Detroit II
is month Old, about six inches long, weighs one
pound two ounces and has cried since 1t was
born.
Miss Annie McCarty aged Ill years, died In Barry,
No. OH sunday, December 25, 1870. She was, per.
naps, the Oldest person in the Western country.
1t IS claimed that Kentucky is the eighth
State IN the Union in point OF population. For
merly she was the ninth. 1t that increase
during the past ten years Is greater than that OF
Ohio.
Among tue curioslties of the census is the re-
po ted case OF lady who died in Connecticut at the
agc OF seventyfour in childbirth
The new missionary ship Morning Star VIII be
| launched from the yard OF Curtis Smith, at East
Boston, about the last OF this month special
collection was made In neary all the sunday schools
in Boston on the sth inst In aid OF the enterprise.
There are few, II any. cents or pennies in use in
the Southern States Nothing less than i've cents
considered OF any value there.
| 1t Is remarkable fact that the first name drawn
from the jury box In Stoughton, Mass, for the trial
OF Moran, the murderer, was that OF Minor e. Pack.
ard, his VICTIM
One OF the Baptist churches In Chicago Is to have
chime OF seventeen bells, covering two octaves,
one oil the largest In the United States. The largest
bell, a Nat, weighs nearly four thousand pounds,
and the cost OF the whole will be $1,000.
Green Bay, Wis, ships more shingles than any
other port IN the world Last year IL sent 34S
shingles to market These would load l. 356 cars or
34S ordinary sized schoonerS.
| An Ohio man who passed around plate at re.
ligous meeting for contributions for the h athen
and then pockcted the money, has been acquitted OF
stealing Dy jury OF the vicinage, on the ground
that he was the greatest heather they knew, and,
| therefore justly entitled to the money.
A Georgia paper notes that at the recent election
in that State 1t was enough to p3rayZe regiment
| OF stasticans 10 see how many young blacks In
| May 1S49. In one county .'there could not nave
| been less than 900 OF these May pOps.n The date
] was the one necessary to enable them under the
State law to vote, and as the parrots were taught
| so did they talk.
| pack OF nine wolves are reported to have re-
treated into the mountains west OF Marysvlle after
playing sad havoc with the live stock Of farmers I'm
| Perry county, Pa. Wolves In various parts OF the
| country are apparently yearly becoming more nu.
merous.
| suit for divorce has been commenced in Illinois
by Jesse NJ Elliott, who asks TO be divorced on the
bama in 1867 his wife wanted him to Join the rebel
| army; he decfned; was drafted, and finally de-
serted to the Union lines and joined the Union army
| in which he renamed until the end OF the war. His
wife utterly refuses to live with him.