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Chinese domestic servants.
Tho efforts made to cultivate the tea plant
at Calistoga. CAL, have entirely failed. Nearly
all af the plants, it is stated, are dead.
A lad named Haas was boiled in q beer yat
skin came of. He died in few hours,
There was fight at Shilo Church, Coyinc-
ton County, Miss, the other day, in which. the
combatants we're the Sullivans and their friends
on one side, and the Chains and Dykes on the
other. Two men were killed outright. another
nortally wounded, and four others badly in
jured.
The authorities Of 1Iiddletown, Ct, propose
to use the $4,000 which it's liquor dealers have
paid for licenses as fund for tho relief OF fam
iheB who receive injuries or damages resulting
from the drunkenness Of those upon whom they
are dependent for support.
--A despatch Gays OF the conaagration in
White Hall, Greene County, ILL.,, last Friday
'' The town is more completely wiped out OF
existence than was Chicago. The desolation is
complete. During the fire some rufians under
IVES promptly quelled by the ccitizens.''
Tho Garde Repub1icaine Band, eince it's re-
turn to Paris, has played at the Tuileries,
where, says the Ieuue ct le Gazette Musicale,
"elle 3 execute le Stars st le Yankee Doodle
American" ''star spangled Banner" is too great
amo4thful for French speakers go tho national
melody is conveniently abbreviated into "le
Stara.'
The only persons left at the Tip-Top house
on Mount Washington arc three signal officers,
who are equipped with large stock Of coal,
four barrels Of onions, about forty hams, twenty
goods and Ill manner Il grocere5 g n profasion sa
violin, harmonicon, . good-sized library and
quantities OF newspapers, and expect to spend 3
pleasant winter.
The progress Of the Hoosac tunnel during
September was as follows: East end, 112 feet !;
west end, 85 feet; central shaft los; total; $40
feet. Total length opened to October /, east
end, 0935 feet; central shaft, east, ,293 feet
west, 339 feet; west end, 8,298 feet; making d
total of 20, 800 feet; leaving 689 feet between
the east end central shaft, and 3,557 feet be-
tween the west end and central shaft.
One J. @. Bruce bought an elevator at IN
diano1a, Iowa, about month ago, and, being
prominent member OF the order of Patrons Of
Husbandry, drew in large amounts Of wheat
from members II that region; When things
the Grangers, banks, and other parties, to the
amount OF somewhere between $4,000 and
sal, 900.
The Postmaster General Of England, in his
annual report, quotes, among others, the fol-
gentleman, which goes far to prove the perfec-
tion to which the postal system has been brought
in England: "Having recently arrived in Eng
land, and not knowing the present whereabouts
dence thus: "Upper Norwood, or elsewhere ~
received reply in orderly course OF mail say
ing that it had been delivered to her on the top OF
stage coach in Wales. I venture to say no other
country can show the parallel, or would take the
trouble at any price"
-co1dwater and vicinity, Mich, has been
startled by the most cruel murder that has oc-
CURED in Branch County for years. The factB
are as follows: About IS months ago Miss
Wedge gare birth to an illegitimate child, the
father Of whom, one Ryan, abscondcd to Missou-
said, promised Miss Wedge that: if she would
dispose in some manner OF her child, then he
would take her Wcst and marry her. So eho
carried the child-a little girl-down to the lake,
threw it in, and stood and looked on until it
ceased struggling and sank: Thon she went
lated what she had done. On the 5th inst.
both she and Ryan were bound over to the Cir
cult Court.
Judge Benedict, Of New York, who has just
sentenced criminals to one years imprisonment
through the Post Office, has remarked that the
chat the law allows. "The BUSINESS" says the
New York journal Of Commerce. "is 30 deadly
to the best interests Of manlind, so barbarous-
Iy ut war with all that civilization is endeavorng
to do, that We do not trust ourselves to suggest
an adequate penalty" but the Journal never
thelesa mildly recommends q return to the whip
png-post and the pillory, for persisting in which
little Delaware has been SO often held up to
3corn. The lash is noW being reinHoduced into
he English penal code, for offences which COM.
he result up to this time is highly satisfactory.
The Internal Revenue collections in the
First District Of Ohio, for the month Of Septem-
Der, 1879, amounted to 1928, ,235.98. Of this
amount, s486, $3.50 were derived from the tax
IN spirits.