, 1872-12-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
I'm, ahasa asEcqsad va1nafinu ~ (la1 393

On ahaa assessed yaluatlon: So,U5o,3so.
The fund for the Robert E. Lee memorial is
Wy The H' schooner J. Fisk, Jr., goes into winter
quarters at Cleveland.
The schooners Eyaline, Hubbard, and T1ow
bridge, reported lost, are safe at this port-,
1t is proposed to create new county in
Pennsylyania, out Of parts of Montgomery,
Chester, and Berks.
The canyassers for the new city directory
announce that the total population Of Mlnneap-
oils is "a, ,29G.
Bishop Wbipple'a new and handsome resi-
dence at Faribau1t, A1inn., had q narrow escape
from destruction By fire on Friday night last:
The Rochester N. " Common Council has
zens in Committee of Fifteen to prepare q
charter for the city securing deslred reforms in
| municipal government.
"A fire destroyed the grist and aouring-miu
owned by Bowe j. Wheeler, at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, last Thursday morning. LoHs between
Sc, 600 and $4,000, with no insurance.
The ste:m barge Burlington, which sunk
few days since near Bar Point, Vas, on second
effort on the pert OF the wTeckers, got into De-
troit Saturday. and taken into dry dock.
A pair of loot-hecons made headquartors at
Highland Lake. East Andover, N. H., for half q
century; aud the other day stranger shot one
Of them, which SO enraged the citizens Of the
neighborhood that the man was IN danger Of be-
ing lynchcd.
.-Shipments Of coal from Honesdale, Pa,
during the season. havo been 1,e97, ,298 tons;
and from Mauch Chunk. t, 5,27G, 613 tons. The to-
tai shipments over all routes from the coal re-
gion to Dec. aggregate II. .874 793 tons, aa IN
crease Of 3,A99, 718; and this increase would
have been much heavier but for the horse dis
ease, which had partly stopped boats for nearly
three weeks.
the Rock Island capitalist into the Mozart Watch
| Company swind1e, hes baen arrested at Pontiac,
Illinois, for obtaining money under false preten-
ces. His operations there consisted Of selling
| 80. ~, +r4 411r {%$
Florence Rowe, 10 or y years Of age, living
| in Chaplin. Franklin County, Iowa. saw 9 large
| eagle attempting to carry off goose from her
| fathers barnyGrd, when she seized the eagle By
| the wing and dragged that and its prey to the
! house.. Tie goose-thief measured seven feet
from tip to tip.
| The Panama Star and Herald gives astrik-
ing illustration Of tho vigor and rapldity OF vege-
tation in the tropics BY referring to tho bushes
and trees growing in the ruins Of the burned As
| pinwau Hotel at Panama. It is scarcely more
! than two years, since this eonfaGration took
| place, and yet there ere now growing within the
walls trees at least thirty feet in height. They
belong to what arc called trumpet trees genus
| croHding out Of tho highest doors and windows,
SO to render it probable that, in their further
growth, they Will throw down the walls with
| which they ere interlaced-
| Fire Department for tho financial year ending
April so; 1865 were s1s0, ,2l8.46. Since then the
city has annexed Roxbury and Dorchester, and
! for the financial year ending last year the e3-
penses, exclusive Of repairs on engine houses
and fire alarm system; were $3.50, 249. g.; g. In
| 1868 the salaries paid amounted to S99, ,209.04
last year this item foots up s2l3, ,467.22. In the
| past five yaars refreshments furnished the Com;
mittee On the Fire Department have amounted
to $40, ,459.47 while carriage hire, which in 1865
! Ta5 51045O WIS last year $408.45.
The French National Assembly contains 2
Princes (Orleans), Z Dukes, 80 Marquises, 81
Counts, il yiscounts, Is Barons, and 81 other
noblemen. Classed according to occupations,
there are 163 landed prop1ietors, 155 barristers,
48 manufacturers, contractors, and ironmasters,
IS officers Of the army, 85 Judges or forne,
feasors, Is notsres md ex-nota1ies, 1G Wholesale
warehousemen, Il naTal officers, 10 attorneys
bankers, slipowners, 2apothecaries, Bishop
i parish priest, | Protestant clergyman, silk
spinner, chiseller, former compositor, l silk
weaver, dealer IN jewetzy, i e5-ta1-cone ector
Deputies are sagante, Journalists, authors, ani
e1-odicials Of former governments. Il. Pory:
Papy, the Deputy for Martinique, is negro
| Pal 1fQN Gazette.