, 1872-10-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The University Of Minnesota has $50 etudt

Freshly slaughtered beef is being shipped
from Galveston to Philadelphia 49,.
-Tfack-laying on the river railroad from
"A first-class woo1len factory at Lawrence
burg, Ind, has failed for $3.50, 90.
The new State House at Lansing, Mich,
! calls for 1000 carloads Of Ohio stone.
Judge Curtis, Of San Francisco, got q fee Of
$4,000 for defending Mrs. Fair.
1T will cost the West Shore Railroad Com
pany half q million dollars for the right OF why
through Newburgh, n. X. :;
Cattle n, may - be 2, seen g daily grazing on the
| three months ago the tide ebbed and flowed.
Judge McKinBtry, Of San Francisco, decides
! that the publication OF q legal notice On Sunday
| is not legal publication.
The lake tunnel at Cleveland has been COM
pleted q distance Of 1000 feet from the crib
shoreward, and there is yet to be excavated be-
| fore reaching the shore section about 1900
| feet.
The San Francisco Postmaster is housed up,
waiting for his black eyes to heal. He sup
pressed citizens paper, and the citizen rocip-
rocated.
The large property corner Of Fifteenth and
| Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, was last week
! purchased for the Young MEMS Christian Asso-
citation by John Wannamaker. The new hall
will contain q 1ecture-rooua, reading room, and
| gymnasium.
New York srfnd1ers are again flooding the
| country with circulars in regard to counterfeit
-Arace between the Chicago d Southwestern
| and the Kansas Pacific Roads, for the Solomon
Valley, makes track laying up the Republican
particularly lively.
The Supreme Court having confirmed tho
appraisal Of property for the extension Of the
Capitol grounds at Washington, D. c.. the work
OF such extension will be commenced as soon as
the property cnn be decided to the United States.
The next reunion of the Society Of the Army
Of the Cumberland will be held at Dayton, Nov.
20 and Il, the time having been changed from
the 18th and Goth Of September, as heretofore
ranged.
Costs have been incurred to the amount OF
9a00, in the Valparaiso (Ind) Courts, over calf
to be made at the sitting OF the next Circuit
Court.
There is a rumor in Oregon that the North
Pacific Railroad Company lad purchased Ben
become tho owner Of the Oregon l. California
and the Oregon Central Railroads.
-Messrs. Brooks L. Glenn, OF Mount Sterling,
ILL.,, have purchased an interest in the Jackson
vile Sentinel, and this week the new firm will
commence the publication of q daily edition Of
that paper. It will be issued every morning, ex-
cept Mondays.
A fire at Coultervi1le, Randolph County, ILL.,,
18th, destroyed Edgar T. East's drug store,
Mieely d j. BFo;,s o,s store, and other property.
The losses by the fire at Whitehall, ILL.,, will
not exceed 545, 900, and already the Indications
are that "rebuilt Whitehall' will exceed its
former condition in point Of the character OF the
business houses which will take the place of the
old ones.
-Jsmss r. Stevens, too much promising
young lawyer Of Troy, N. T., was arrested We'd
nesday on charge Of breach Of promise, juat 4
few hours previous to his Wedding. The COM,
plainant is Elizabeth Erwin, who sues for 5000
damages,
Huge lumber piles now cover a good share
OF the Cleveland burnt district, and in couple
Of months stranger would not see any signs Of
there having been g. hundred thovsend dollar
fire in that locality.
The contract for building the Rapid Transit
Railroad, in New York City, will be let in ten
days. lha lower depot will be in the City Hall.
The park tunnel will be from the park to tho up
per terminus, 1872 Second street, where similar
depot will be constructed, The work will cost
$4,000, 600, and be completed in two years.
-Go6wpn a1!Ecs. Of Canisteo N. Y, died re-
csntly FROM glandere. contracted from q horse.
The s1!tfesings Of the deceased waro most ex~
crlciating-he literally rStted away-pcrfectly
conscious a1l the trae; aud it WIS Eaid he was
the werst looking sight ever beheld, and WAS
bnt1ad wrapped in the bed-clothea upon which he
died.
The first family reunion OF tie Rawson
fam!iy was held in Worcester, Mass, . few days
ago, at which some tvchuntred members Wero
present. The naweons claim to be the descend
ants of Edward .Rawscn, for thirty-a;x years
secrotary Of the MASSACHUSETTS, Bay Colony in
MASSACHUSETTS,, two hundred years ago.
"A few days since 9 man rs years Of age,