, 1873-02-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

North Adams, Mass, has 14.ooo population,
md wanta city charter.
THE smallpox has cost Bangor, Mo-, over
$4,000 for supples to quaranttned fatni1ies.
-Eloven now Hungarian bhnls it is reported
aro to 10 formed under Government concession
with capital of 938,000,0o0.
Tho Total amount Of land granted BY Con-
720 acres, worth s442, ,O90, 500.
Mrs. William T. 5hepardaon, Of Lenox, was
accidentally and fatally shot at Springfield Mass.
on Saturday, by hcr 5-year old son, who was
practising with revolver.
"A farm Of 100 ncros, in tho suburbs Of Indi-
anapolin, bought, four years ago, for Rl0,000
then thought to bo M o1orbitant price, WAS last
weok nold for SG0,000.
-- One Of the officers OF the Nebraska Agricul-
tural College says the limited experiments in
that State thus far made IN tho cultivation Of
sugar beetH are not sufficient to Justify the in
vost1nent Of capital in tho erection Of beet sugar
manufactures.
Mexico has no Credit AIobtlier, but It has q
game called draw poker. A representative Of
one of the leading railroad companies recently
lost $780, 600 while playing with somo of tho
Government authorities, ind his subsidy
scheme got through their Congress without any
-Four foot-pads attempted to rob tho Rev. Z.
?. Marvin, editor of tho Boston Daily Neios,
Saturday eyoning, on Broointleld street. Ono
% demanding Il liz M monoy Or lis ill., Whiio tic ss oh
1uption. Mr.. Marvin shouted for assistance,
and the robbors fled.
approach of death is illustrated by tho following:
" The San joaquin (Cal) Republican has for
some timo kept at the head Of it's columns: Tho
Daily Republican has o larger circulation than
any paper published in Stockton This waa in
Fridays paper, aud on Saturday it died"
Tho report that Harvard had abolished or
was about to abolish tho system Of compulsory
attendance upon lectures and recitations is not
truo, and there is no probability that it will bo
is declared, intend to adopt system somothlng r
Like that Of the German universities.
They arc having quite conflict in Sioux
City for tho right Of way between the st. Paul
4 Sioux City nd tho uiinotg I! Central lsailroaa
from the northwest, aud the rich country Of
Northern Nebraska
a couple OF aimpletons in Centre Lisle,
Brouno County, N. Y, concluded 1t would bo
party which they were attending: When tho
knot waa firmly tod they lcarnod with astoniBh-
mont that the man who Ind performed tho core
mony wns Justice Of tho Peace. and now they
tor to 1.-Two together or clamor for divorce.
Philip Cornish, d section hand on tho Now
Haven l. Northampton Railroad, living at East
hampton, hlaAu., Is n hero. "hilc going over
dcgrees below zero, lie found a broken rail two
miles below tho Easthampton station. Knowing
the torrible consequence, he stood, unrelieved,
for three hours in the intense cold, tagged three
trains to run BLOW, and in al probability pre-
vented frightful accident. Ho ffozo ono OF lis
fee t, and barely escaped death.
Tile Cincinnati Commercial il spoculating,
in an excited manner, about tho great fire OF tho
future in TINT city. which. 1t Gays, iB sure to be
tremendous oontlagration, owing to the quantity
OF petroleum stored thore. Wien It ia rolneln-
bared, however, that thero Id also goodly lot Of
Cincinnati whskoy stored there, which ia first
class patout fro oxtinguisher, tho Cuoinnatiany
need fear no danger. Water puts cut fro. eveu
though it be colored aud poisoned, and put up in
barrels marked whiskoy.-LoaisuNe Courier
Journal.
Miss Clark, young lady aged 10 years, Wis
iting some relatives at Sault Hte. Marie. WA
compelled to remain there owing to tho carly
close Of navigation. sho seemed roconcilea to
hor fate until quito recently, whom Ble detor-
mined to return home by way Of the overland
tiyou, accompanied hor through. Ihey mado
the distance, 90 miles, In snow-Hl,oea Iii about
eight days, reaclling hero last Saturday. She
seemed worry much pleased with hor journey. mud
more anxious to complete 1t Than her oompah-
Lake, whioh plaeo thoy reached In Hafety.-Che-
ooygan (aiich.) independent.
Tho days Of romantic houBe-breahera are
not yet oyor. We read of threo robbers who
visited house III an Eastern city, one of whom,
servant girls, aud, with revolver, persuaded
them to lic still aud mako no cutlery, while tho
other two went through the establishment, .gob-
blng up tho silyor~waro, mailing good moal
from tho lardor,-butt grllthling beca,lao thoy
found no ~, Wno to Tash , down their rephst I'd
tho two had boon gono long enough to lnBuro os-
cape. the bedroom sentinel deliberately kigael
tho two girls, and followed his comrades. Tho
girls atntea that rl.e rohbera wore all handsome