The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-25
Miscellaneous Items.

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American apples are $40 Q bushel
in Australia.
One hundred and sixty -foux thousand
emigrants left Liverpool in 1879.
Bismarck is a member OF one huns
dred and forty-one different societies
Rotterdam is claimed to be the great
est tobacco trading post in the world.
The Gwin mine, in Oalayeras county,
California. is said to be yielding 81. 900
per day.
The Roman Senate has approved of
a bill forbiding theological instruction
in public schools. sa
Imperialists expect speedy restora-
ton of the French Empire, with the
Empress as regent.
Joaquin Miller has given Grace
Greenwood pair OF earrings made of
rattlesnake's rattles, ornamented with
gold.
The bill to incorporate Loomis' Aeri.
al Telegraph Company only awaits the
signature of the President to become
! a law
A dog with two tails was seer on the
street yesterday. One belonged to an
OK and was carried in the mouth of the
canine.
The colored people of Washington
are "gwine to tend dat 'nagural ball, OF
dere won't be any moro voting by col
ored men,"
The Senate Finance Committee de-
cides Secretary Boutwell, has no right
to issue the $4,000, 900. on reserve at
his own discretion.
! Rancid lard may be purified by try
ing it over with a little water, adding a
few slices of potatoes. The potatoes
remove the bad taste from the lard.
A New York dispatch of January
18th says the Evangelical Alliance.
prayer meeting, on the previous day,
was devoted to prayer for the purity Of
the press.
Postmaster General adyertiscs for
bids for The manufacture of 4,SS3. .00O.-
900 of postage stamps for the use of the
people of thee United States during the,
next four years.
A Montana Indian agent accounts for
his deficiency by declaring that he fur
nished the Indians 2s5.0OO pounds of
family soap, $500 worth of postage
stamps, and barrel of ink.
Simon Thomas, a Toledo boot black
and colored man, having by industry
made a handsome fortune, has purchased
the Lutheran church in Pettyville, Ohio.
and has given it to his colored brethren.
San Francisco is rapidly gaining no.
toriety on the divorce question, the courts
of that city having granted 237 during
the year just closed 1t is calculated
that the number will be greatly In
creased this year.
Advertising bulletins frequently find
their way to the garrets of hotels and
public places-certainly not very graft
flying to those who pay their money and
take their choice. The newspaper af.
ter all is the medium by which the
enterprisipg merchant reaches the
public.
| During the past two years, thousands
of cattle have been driven into Mon
tana from Texas, Colorado and Wyom-
ing. 1t is estimated that more than a
hundred thousand head are now in the
Territory. the owners intending to let
their herds increase until tho Northern
Pacific Railroad gives them an outlet
to market.
The Post Office Committee unani-
mously authorized Farnsworth, chair
man, to prepare bill to reduce letter
postage to two cents, and to require
prepayment on all printed matter except
weekly papers ciculating where they
are printed. The estimate for the Post
office Department shows s13,OOO,OoO
annually lost on account of postage on
printed matter being confscatcd by
postmasters.
The Secretary Of the Samana Bay
Company says it is stipulated with the
American Government that the Compa-
ny is to protect itself from outside in