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: The total amount Of CONSCIENCE mon
cy" received blythe United States Treas
urcr since 1863 is Sl2I 900. -, .~.
f Sir Roderick Murchison has left 81,
ioyO, 900 personality and large realty. L
was not made by geology though. :.
A company with u capital stock 0
$40, 900 has just been organized ln'NeN
Britain, and will soon commence to man
ufacturc the "wcb wire bed"
Miss Eliza "Doolittle, of Boston,, was
|attacked with hcmorrhage of the lungs
in the school room of that city last week
and died almost instantly. .., =.
The young ladies Of Watcrville, Die.
having recently organized an anti-tobac
co society, the young nFn OF that town
have organized an anti-corsct society. !
The Hon. JOHN Trollopc, son Of Lord
| Ecstevcn, and two other students have
been committed for trial for riot ahd as
sault at Cambridge on Guy Fawkes day
! III. A. Hervey, of Springfield, who
built several of the leading skating rink>
in this country, and and was President
of the American Skating Congress, died
recently Of the consumption at Nell
torue, in southern France. ~
T. THE two principal thoroushfares in the
burned district of Chicago, Wabash ave.
nue. and Randolph street, were lighted
with gas on Friday evening last for the
first time since the great fire. 80, ;. -
An order will soon be issued from the
Treasury Department directing that all
tGovernnncnt business OH the Pacific: coast
be transacted on q currency instead or a
gold basis, rs heretofore. All contracts
and the like will be paid in currency,
An entcrprising Massachusetts farmer
has stocked one OF his pastureswit wild
buffaloes, With he PROPOSES totame and
domesticatc, and viii try the experiment
of crossing With the DYrham, Ayrshire
taiIa Jersey breeds of stock '''i.'-' '-' .
. The little "rodcIst" squirrels THAT
swarm in California arc being turned to
account for glove making. y company
of French tanners pay fifteen cents "
skin. One farmer has trapped and
skinned thirty thousand of the little
pests of the grain fields within the last
| fifteen months:
a Swiss gcologist recently met his
death in singular way, while geologic
ing over thc-.Atps. He stopped to pat a
tame kid, which bounded Land as he
stopped to resume his works disloged Il
pile of rocks upon him fropfs the ledge
above, killing him instantly.
:. Mr. Gwinss;Jeft'rcys has returned to
England from this country. 1T is ANT
tie singular that some specimens en-
trusted to him for examination BY the
Chicago INcademyof Sciences will prob
;lbfyibe- the otly ollcs saved from tlie tire
by the Academy: -.
The health authorities of$Ncw York
are confident they can Stay the increase
of small pox- - - s%aaa>. -.
Two horses and fifteen cows were
burnedsin Hollesley, Mass, with astable,
Wednesday niorliilig. SO -
Trains are irapedcd on the line of the
Pacific railway lin some cascs several
days, by the deep snow.
Tn q drunken row at New Haven,
Tuesday, Michael Kearsc lost Iris life,
and another man was seriously wounded.
The trouble between Prussia and Bra
zil terminated with the release of the
German sailors impFisonedatR at Rlo janet
10.
Pow T Rnrl-s q Catholic nricst was
rnn % nvcr and an fatnilv inftIrsd-bvIhc cars
81 HVorcostor Mae. on Tncsi,v nipbt
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Several of the Communist who MUIR
dered Generals Thomas and l.ecomte,
were executed Tuesday. General Hosscl
among the number. '>....r .:-,oy- =,
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