, 1872-12-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
here are ], 200 miles Of railroad in Nebraska.
The Inio1f Dennf at ST Paul Will ha ncc11-

There are 1900 miles Of railroad in Nebraska.
The Union Depot at st. Paul viii be oceu-
pied Jan. /.
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
General ). ". s. Browne is acquitted ut
Memphis OF the murder Of Captain J. T. Adams
for seducing his daughter.
Earle ?: Mason, ct Providence, r: l., has
Ali The Georgia papers IRE publishing notices
Of the death OF g Uncle Ned" of Savannah, ane-
gro, at the age Of liz years.
cent burning Of an ice-house there, 10000 tons
Of ice we're " reduced to ashes.''
The old Dalhousie College is to be sold aud
fine new building erected in the suburbs Of
Halifax for similar PURPOSES =
The American Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions is to hold its animal meeting
Of four days at Minneapolis, the 1st OF October
next.
So far, $4s, s1o:29 have been subscribed
ing House At Nashville, Tenn. OF this amount
Nashville subscribed $S3,04467.
The last Legislature refused~an appropIia-
ton Of $500 to aid the Vermont Historical So
ceiety in the publication OF the third volume Of
its collections, now ready for the press.
1t is proposed that the Second Connecticut
Regiment shall go to Washington when General
Grant is reinangurated, and they probably will
if $4,000 can be raised to pay the bills:
800, 900. is to be built on the Canadian shore
Of the st. Lawrence, opposite the Thousand
Islands.
During the year ending Aug. I, 1879, the
whole number Of barrels Of lager beer pro-
ducad in Cincinnati, was 1885, t483, or 13, 3,539,a7s
gallons.
Cathedral, to be cast By Herr Andreas Hanlu,
will be composed Of the metal Of twenty two
cannon takon from the French and presented BY
the Emnarnr of GermanY.
The towns Of Tioga and New Chicago, in
Kansas, the other day, after having disbanded,
relnpsed, and resolved into their original ele-
ments, effected consolidation under the name
of Chanute.
"A curious job WAS put through the Cincin-
natl Council the other day. The amount OF it
was donation Of $4,000 and 3 sehool-houAe
with it's furniture, to the managers ofst. 1avier's
College.
OF lightweight counties in Ohio only four
can boast Of . population exceeding $4,000.
These are Hamilton, 260, ,37o; Cuyahoga, l32,-
010; Montgomery, 64,006, and Franklin, 63,0f9.
Seventeen counties have diminished in popu1a-
Eon since the cenBus OF 1860.
"A long, red worm, resembling in appearance
what Is termed s'thous and-legged worm," is
formed in corn raised in wet lands in Northern
Kansas, and, il eaten by horses or cattle, proves
very fatal
1t has been discovered by Minnesota
farmers that two acres Of sundowers will supply
3 family with fuel through . long winter. The
wood Of the stalk, and the oil OF the seed, it is
said. make roaring and cheerful fires.
In the "exchanga' column Of the Queen
appears the following queer advertisement "a
piece Of Queen victoria's wedding-cake, cut off
and tied up by the late painter in ordinary, and
written on by him, to be exchanged for dining
room table-cIoth, or low tea-table, gilt legs, OF
good exchange desired"
During the month Of November the ship
menta of bullion from the mines OF Ely District,
per Wells, Fargo & Co.. amounted to S508, o66.19;
Al o1.n neAT nE7Y1% he
average, and will go far towards awakening capi-
talists and the mining population generally to
the value and importance Of the district.
An EnRlishman. in = letter to tha New York