The New York herald., 1872-10-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Dried fruit will be plentiful this season.
Brigham Young has ty-eight children.
Counterfeit postage stamps are in the market.
A large Summer hotel Is to be built on Shelter
Island.
There is great demand for cotton pickers in
Tennessee.
Swallows and tent shows are working their way
southwark.
The wheat crop Of Oregon this year will measure
1000 900 bushels.
General Lee's monument in Richmond Va, Is
nearly completed.
They are killing thirty eight pound coons in Lou
don county, Virginia
An English settlement is to be formed on st.
Grey squirrels are plenty in the western part OF
the State OF New York.
A county fair In Minnesota offers premiums for
the three heaviest women.
Hazing Is practiced by the lady students In the
college at Ann Arbor, Mich
number OF New York capitalists have ordered
vessels built in Nova Scotia.
In Beloit College. Wis, negro, an Indian and
Turk are among the students.
Played out Episcopal clergymen are to have
'Home" in western New York.
A Dunkirk IN. ~ girl has started for Yokohama,
Japan, to take charge Of school,
The State debt OF Tennessee is increasing at the
rate OF over million OF dollars year.
A man In Chelsea Mass. died recently from the
effects Of q bite received from spider.
The expenses Of the Philadelphia Post once are
about q hundred and sixty thousand dollars year.
This seasons cotton crop in Mississippi is the best
and the largest that mas been gathered Tor many
years.
The new Internal Revenue law viii reduce the
annual expenses OF collection about ten millions Of
dollars.
Mrs. vandeventer. o Revolutionary pensioner, died
recently at Marion, Ind, aged one hundred and
four years.
There is a woman one hundred and eight years
old who has son living that has seen his ninety
third birthday.
A snake is hanging. around Marietta, Ca, which
telegraph pole.
western widow would like to meet the printer
who, when she advertised for an agent made her
appear to want "a gent.n
folk; Va, to compete for the 100000 prize offered
by the State OF New York.
The cotton trade Of st. Louis is flourshing. The
annual receipts have increased since 1899 from
1000 bales to $4,000 bales.
Eighteen years ago the place where Omaha, Neb.,
stands was piece Of untouched prairie. 1t now
contains 20 600 Inhabitants.
Buildings In the burned district OF Chicago are
being constructed at the rate Of for every work
ing hour, or eight each day.
An Illinois county fair offered premium to the
Oldest girl that should visit the exhibition, without
receiving single application.
The people of vineland, N. j.. contemplate intro
ducing Chinese labor into the settlement for the
culture OF grapes and cranberries.
The apple crop OF Long Island Is unusually large
this season, and the farmers are now busy making
cider, there being no market for apples.
The sum OF S. 900 has been offered for the use OF
the Oard fence to be erected about the Chicago
government block for advertising purposes.
The Legislature OF Georgia has passed law ex-
empting from taxation for two years all cotton and
woollen mills that may be built In that State.
An Iowa woman has invented an apparatus for
raising bread. She should now try her hand at
producing something that will raise the nour.
The heaviest woman in Minnesota resides in
Stanton, and weighs 640 pounds. Her daughter
recently distinguished herself by giving birth to
triplets, all boys
An enthusiastic scientist predicts that In less
than twenty years balloons will make regular trips
across the Atlantic. The same was predicted over
twenty years ago.
The present season is said to be one OF the most
sickly ever known In the Northwest. In some
localities almost every person, old Of young has
has had q fever or some kind.
Senator Sprague, OF Rhode Island, has recently
presented full suits OF clothing to the officers and
crew Of the revenue cutter M0ccasin. who gave
theirs to the survivors Of the Metis.
There seems to be one bright spot In Georgia.
Troup county four years ago was In debt $4,000.
IL has paid that on, owns p0or-h0use farm worth
s., 900 and has 50, 500 cash in the treasury.
servant girl in Minneapolis, Min, was recently
burned by kerosene, and her employer charged her
for the oil she spilled and the nour, &C.. used to
ease her surerings. He then turned her adrift and
she died.