, 1872-11-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
| On the goth inst, Governor Booth, OF Califor-
| MIA, Issued pardons to eighteen coavicts.
The Kansas Pacific is now sperating. 794
miles Of railroad, and will be Increased shortly
| to 1000 miles.
The St. Paul d Sioux City Railroad Was
| opened just before winter set in; and now, for
two weeks, two thousand men have been at work
re-opening it. ..... .....
The new town Of Kearney Junction, where
| the Burlington Missouri Railroad taps the
building $50 houses to-day.
During the month Of October, s6 news-
papers we're established in the United States,
! and Al suspensions we're announced.
! The Boston, Hartford & Erie Road win re-
place its Boston depot, which was burned in the
COST eo SO, Zoo. o. ~'Nt"''A A''' 9'-'N'Dt' ~
The stereotype plates IN the Boston Pilot
they were in vaults, the plates were melted
down, and less than 10 Per cent Of them are
The city Of Indianapolis has ceded to the
state-House Square, and the Legislature will
take immediate measures for the erection Of
new State-Eouse.
-shanghae advices report that multitudes
are dying from the famine in Corea- Tens of
thousands Of Chinese at Annoy are suffering
from IN Indian fever called eengue.
Vote of some Of some Of the principal cities
OF Iowa: Dubuque, 3,068; Davenport, 5000;
Burlington, 1857; DesMoines, 2,145; Council
BLUFFS BLUFFS, ass7; Clinton, a41 1899; ottumwa' 1856;
The Superintendent Of Schools in Van
Buren, County, Iowa, has revoked the certificates
of 80 school teachers, who refused or neglected
to attend the Teachers Institute, as they we're
required to by law.
OF SOC, 600 people within the area OF the
North Alabama Conference, -245, 600 belong to
no church. At least 175, 600 haye no churches,
and 100, 900 children never attend Sunday School
About 100000 are whites, and 100000 arc
negroes large proportion Of whites can not
read or write. ...
In the case Of George D. Wright, Of Fond du
Lac, Judge Miller, Of the United States District
Court for the Eastern District Of Wisconsin, has
decided that bankrupt cannot sell his homo
stead and claim his store IS 8 residence by NOV
ing into it, and orders that the store and lot be
delivered to the bankrupt's creditors.
The Grand Trunk Railway was accommodate
ed by the Government of Canada with q loan
of 915 000 600. It has paid principal or IN
terest, and at current rates the accumulation OF
tie latter would now probably represent sum
not less in amount than the principal.
The authorities of San Francisco recently
offered reward Of 38 for every human body re-
covered from the bay. This excited q lively
competition between the Rogue Riderhoods OF
ers WAS all harvested. But aB these reapers Of
men continue to gather IN the bodies, the papers
intimate that some Of them aid in supplying tho
bay from the ranks OF the citizens.
The Art a. scciation Of San Francisco ap--
piled through II. De Breuil, Consul-GeneTal OF
france in tia. city, to tho French Government
for information OF tho terms on which such
plaster casts N those used in tho State Art
Schools Of Paris could be obtained. The re-
spouse is that France hss not forgotten the ho-
and will present set Of casts to the agent OF
the Association in Paris.
"a serious charge has been prefe11ed aeai17t