, 1872-11-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Sufferers from SHAY fever" OF autu1nna]
nothing else. '-~N
The required SUM- e25,ooo for the erection
OF Oonant Hall at Dartmouth College has been
raised.
An enterprising Yankee has opened an in
shtution in Boston for turning 1eft-handed peo-
pie into right-handers.
The hens have got an epedimic of their
own, whereby several thousand Rhode Island
hens have been laid in their narrow beds,
1t took twenty men, armed with Whituev
rifles, to kill q mad bull, near East Rock, Conn,
on Sunday.
The new buildings OF Trinity College at
Hartford, Conn, are to be located on the
City.
The class in Civil Engineering at the Maine
State College have, for practice, located d line
"A female circus-clown is the latest develop
ment Of woman's intellectual supremacy in Eng
land. Who says that '' wonans sphere" is not
enlarging?
a Mrs Jones, OF Cambria, Iowa, fell dead on
seeing her little son sitting at the top Of the
dangerous perch he had climbed.
The late James Gordon Bennett's elegant
residences, at Washington Heights and on Fifth
avenue, New York, are to let for five years. The
city house is offered for business purposes.
The proprietors Of the Illustrated London
Ne,os have despatched one Of their artists to
Pekin, in order to obtain illustrations Of the
festivities connected with the forthcoming mar
riage of the Emperor Of China.
An enterprlsiug Delaware peach-grower has
sent present Of choice peaches to Queen VIC
torla. He is now watching every express for a
gold Bnuf-box or aome equally graceful and re-
munerative token.
For frank man commend us to the gentle-
the fire in his block the other day was so clearly
due to his negligence that he does not intend to
call On the insurance companies to make good
his loss.
Some figures given by the Boston Adrerttsar
show that the profits of the manufacturers of
that State were 51oa,0 ,00o, 900 in 1870, or about
$68 per capita to the population The wages
paid amounted to 318, ZOO. 900, which, to those
employed in the factories, was equivalent to
$421 each.
s56, 600 Of the claims held by the United States
against the Government. During the month Of
September 3114,0 900 was paid, and the amount
due, is expected, will be handed in sometime in
November. .
Mrs. John Newberry, Of High Falls, N, T.,
beck, the 30th u1t, fell upon the track and had
both feet cut of. She was taken to McElroys
Hotel, where she died in short time. Her hus-
band and child and three ladies were with her
The civilization of Kentucky has been again
darkened by the public whipping Ct one OF it's
citizens. Andrew Jackson received ten 1ashes
upon bus bare back in the market-place Of
Paducah the other day for some minor offence,
and crowd OF idle spectators was witness to
the disgracefnl scene.-LoutsoiAe Courier
Journal.
The Kingdom Of the Sandwich Islands is on
the highway to bankruptcy: The population
grows smaller yearly, whi1e the expenses grow
larger. For nation Of $4,000 people, q force Of
twenty y-sx Supreme Court Judges, at salaries Of
$40, 1000 apiece, is maintained, with the usual
proportion Of inferior Judicial officers King
Ka1nehRmeha will soon ba able to take the
"poor debtors OATH at the rate things are
going. .--..-. ..
"A death from an Unusual cause occurred
near Shiloh, in the neighboring county Of Cum
berland, last Sunday evening. 4 lady who had
just returned from visit to her friends in
Philadelphia, eickened on the night Of her arri-
Eal-Friday-aad, after two days and nights OF
intense suffering, died. 4 post-naorten revealed
the fact that q piece Of tomato skin had rolled
itself into small roll, and made its way through
the walls Of the stomach, causing dreadful suf-
fering during its passage through q portion
weakened by disease and instant death, it is
ssg,pposed, when fairly throush--sal'" (M. -
The English, in trying to invent something
new under the sun, in the way Of attracting the
public, have at last hit upon q barnaid show
Fifty barmaids, all ribbons and fnery, sat be-
hind fifty bars, and dispensed beer and smiles to
The verdant youth Of London. A gold watch
was the reward Of the barmaid who took in the
most money. It was show neither very moral
nor very pleasant, Tor the rosy, bewitching,
plump and saucy barmaids Of the romancists Is
BY no means the bar1naid Of the metropolis.