, 1872-10-26

Destructive fires have been raging in the pine
RES Of C1ark County, Wis.,, .,.,
The subscription to the Texas kal1oad L
still 1924 $50 short in New Orleans.
Marquette, Mich, claims to be increasing II
permanent population ut the rate Of GOO yearly,
Tho Dartmouth students have subscribed
81, 800 for boating purposes. $40 noa(nouse
Citizens Of Montana are seriously aEitatins
the project Of North t. South Trunk Hallway
to connect with the Union Pacific
Thomas McCle11and, q brakeman On the
Northern Division of the milwaukee, d ~ fan
Railroad, fell under an engine and was lm1ae-
diately killed, at Richdeld Station, WIS., Inu's~
The cotton crop is moving to foreign ports
with unexampled rapidity, caused by the want OF
tage of the high rates Of foreign exchange upon
exports. .....-.-
The Troy Marble Company has received the
contract for furnishing the United States WITH
100000 head-stones for the National M cenete-
ries, from its quarry near Rutland, Vt.
There is q ru1nor that the Spragues, OF
Rhode Island, who have furnished and are still
furnishing Augusta, Me-, with mills and facto-
ries, are going to build in Bath, Me-, and have
been negotiating with view to the purchase OF
Henry Uline, who has been occupied OF late
in making alterations in the machinery OF the
Arctic Touring mill, at Minneapolis, met with q
horrible and fatal accident, Thursday afternoon
ed in one Of the New York Courts, to recover pos
session Of certain real estate decided by man
who alleges that he was married while drunk,
and conveyed his property to his wife under tha
same circumstances.
The baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
has ordered that hereafter no freight trains
ehall be run upon that road On Sunday, except
ing those freighted with live stock, and similar
order will be nut in fo.3e on the ConDelsvl1a
Road. This will not interfere with the Sunday
passenger trains. .....-.-.
-Advices received from along the lines sever.
ally surveyed for the route OF the Cincinnati
Southern Railway warrant the statement thn5
right Of way through Kentucky WILL be granted
to the Trustees free Of expense.
AS coupterpoise to the accounts published
Of the exodus from Alsace, it is announced that
500 young Alsacians hare joined the German
depots, a large portion OF them beng one-year
men.
An old lady from Warren r. T., while visit-
ing her son, Caleb Short, in Fall River, went to
the door to see the torchlight procession Of the
dremen, and, making . misstep. was pr@ee,pltated req
of the platform about two feet, and fell, strlk-
ing on the back OF her neck, and expired H.
stantly.
Near La Crosse, Wis, the other day. Wales
E. Gi1e, visiting bis grandfather's, was shot and
killed by an exuberant cousin who pointed an
IS empty pistol at him.
The City Of Denver reports only 50 deaths in
four months, and charges that II Of them were
consumptiyes, who came to the Territory when
beyond hope OF recovery.
1t will be recommended to Congress- that
the entire building OF the General Post Office
Department, in Washington, be raised to pnt 4
story under, because an additional story on top
would spoil the architectural effects.
"A few days since, q young lady OF Urbana.
Ohio, who had been i'll 3 short time, died. and
and the body was prepared by soTowing friends
and attendants for interment, and placed N the
coffin. The night before the day OF the funeral,
number Of young lady watchers we're seated in
room adjoining that in which the coffin had
been placed, when, greatly to their con-
steyaatEion, the figure of the dead gizl appear
horrided attendants had somewhat overcome
their fright, seeing that the supposed corpse
was really thing Of life, they took measures to
care for their friend SO startingly restored to
them, almost from the very grave, and Rhe re-
likely to recover.