, 1872-10-29

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Tofn. 1900 a,254
- a. Garaelds majority, 1885.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT
Parsons Chau1be7,n.
eusanosa. ...13, ,l01 10,377
H. =. Parsons majority, 2724
| MISCELLANEOUS.
Dr.. Punshon is about leaving for England.
SIR francis Hincks EiQ soon retire from the
! Dominion Government
| -Elfhu B. Washburne, our Minister to France,
1s to BE- banqueted at New York upon his arrival
| -Alexander Fl. Stephens paper is 80 poorly
supported that he threatens to discontinue it,
DR.. Butler, for the last thirty years The su
! perintendent Of the Insane Retreat at Hartford.
| Conn.,, has resigned.
| --Colonei Russell q. Conway, Of the Boston
Traueller. was seriously injured on Wednesday,
| while stopping runaway team.
john E. Hartranft Governor elect Of Penn
! sylSania, will be inaugurated On the third Tues.
| day in January.
George Lew, whom the Herald once eal7an-
ized into temporary notorlety by christening
him "Live-oak GEORGE" and nominating him
for the Presidency, is probably worth Sc, 600 900.
| "A daughter OF the brother Of Mr. Lane,
| who was recently murdered at Dorchester, was
made q widow by murder Of still more heart
less nature Mr. Adams, who was murdered by
Colt, many years ago, in New York, being her
| husband
| What with the accession Of the Hon. Oliver
Mowat, and the reconstruction Of the Ontario
Government; the great Reform banquet at
Toronto on the tdpis the promise Of an early
citing session only few months distant, which
will bow corrupt Dominion Government out Of
0ttawa, there is every indication Of lively po-
litical season. Canada paper.
IL. q. HOlton has resigned the Presidency OF
the Montreal City and District Savings Bank,
aerhfrh 11opifior ha hna rcnurinH
years.
The st. Louis Euening Despatch appears in
new dress, under the management and control
Of D. Robert Barclay. The staff thus far en-
Rloyed viii comprise BaztleJT I. Campbell, late Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer as editor-in-chiaf;
William q. Barclay, as business manager; and
Shepard Barclay, when he Gun spare the time
from his profession, as literary editor. =
Tho Rev, Isaac Clark, Of Aurora, H., has
accepted 3 call to the Elm Place Congregational
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Several attempts have been made to throw
trains from the track, during the past month, at
points in PennsylVania and New Jersey, 30 near
together as to suggeat the existence Of an in
famous gang OF robbers, who endeavor to wreck
trains for the sake OF plundering the passen-
gers.
The experiment. Of the Reading Railroad
Company IN carrying coal to Eastern ports in
stesners instead OF sailing veasels, and return
ing in ballast instead Of freight, ia said to be
CREST success. The Company are nov about to
add number Of vessels to their present feet.
The engines ere to he built IN their shops at
Reading, and the boilers and hulls in the ship
yards on tide-Water.
The Grand Jury OF sonoma County, CAL,
has indicted Mrs: Kinney for manslaughfer for
killing William Cummings, near Petaluna On the
18th Of July last. It is alleged that, after abe
rejected him and married her present husband,
he circulated raports derogatory to her .charac-
ter, caused separation between herself and her
husband, and injured her reputation.
Tho Oweuaboro (Ky.) Monitor publishes this
singular fact, which may account for the exist
ence Of blind fsh in Mammoth Cave and other
q this city, placed three perch dsh in the jail
we'll two years ago. On cleaning ont the we'll on
Monday, be recovered one OF them, bnt, aingu~
lar, to say stone blind and it's dark natural color
b1eached to almost transparency. Otherwise
the Imprisoned hsh Was aa full OF vitality az
when first consigned to its dark and damp
abode"
1t is at Petropau1ovski where people can
always look upon the North Pole, and where
visitors from the Arctic Ocean are most fire.
auent. Petropaulovsh constitutes only square
mile, aa it we're. OF the vast Russian Empire.
But Notwithstanding it's isolation, it is quite an
attractive place, according to tho gosaipy letter
Of the wife Of an American merchant. Petro-
panloVaki has ita luxuriantly waving grass state
bride, she appears in al her glory for about two
months in the year, while balia, and parties, and
social courtesies are indulged in during the sea-
son when the very heart Of nature Is frozen.
Commerce is Petropaulo7sk's main dependence,
but it doea some satisfactory gardening, raises
twenty kinds Of berries, and never suffers for
milk or tenderloin.
-East Cleveland is annexed, and becomes the
Seventeenth Ward Of Cleveland.
----Nebraska City has voted $40, 600 in aid OF
bridge aoross the Missouri at that point.
The Indians in Iowa have gradually dwindled
down to 48, including men, women, and chill
dren.
Nova Scotia girls are plenty in Boston.
Forty Of then applied at Morgan Chapel for
work. which they found difficult to obtain.
There will be more activity in ship-building
in New ENGLAND the coming winter than for sew
The October number Of the Dartmouth con-
tains Rufus Choate's va1edictory, which was de-
livered' in August 1919, and has never before
been published.
-captain Henry candel, of Wspeno, Iowa,
in the shoulder. The arm Was amputated, and !
there is little hope Of saving his life.
The Directors Of the German Savings Bank |
Of Wheeling, West Va:, beiaRing that q recent |
':run" on their bank was the result Of con-
spiracy, propose to arrest the conspirators.
Mobile and severnl Gulf ports in Texas have
been visited by swarms Of grasshoppers, that |
came on the wing end dropped in the streetH, I
whence they disappeared again IN few day.
- Seven miles east Of cGEbonda1e lies
tance Of five square miles the earth is underlaid |
with q bed Of almost pure carbon, nine feet aud
tho inches thick. |
What vas supposed to be q ship in the |
American Desert turns out to be 8 small boat I
which q man named Clark, engaged in teaming |
years ago, abandoned in an 1lnfrequented spot. |
After long and wearisome delay, there is
now fair prospect for the completion or extern
sion Of the Southern Wisconsin Railroad from |
its present terminus, at Monroe, through TO
Dubuque. I
Tie consolidation Of St.. Anthony into the !
City Of Minneapolis VAS made on the pledge of !
free bridges to be built, and the cost OF four |
bridges, projected, will be nearly 9500,o0o.
-Joseph L. Mccourtney, the engineer Of 3
freight train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, J
was examined at the Court Of Criminal Correc-
ton, ct St. Louis, Friday, on the charge Of hay
ing wilful1y destroyed the property Of his en-
ployers. On the 9Th Of this month two trains
collided near Eureka, and defendant had re-
ceiyed written instructions to stop at . switch,
so that the westward train might pass him.
For years past the lives Of our citizens, es-
pecia1ly Of women and children, have been se1i-
%ro 1t,,aa 1eok /