, 1873-01-06
GENERAL.NEWS ITEMS.

!, The Charleston (s. o. Courier is for sslo,
! '-Eau Claire, WlH, has atlAily-tllo free Press.
i -Pnohlo, tho metropolis Of Southern Colorado,
spent s6oo ooo @ n improvements last year.
I :--Over 900 ;Amorlcnn girla arc now rccotyinR
their cducation In English schools.
In . arctch Of s1b 1nilcsdu tic Toxas Pacific
Railroad therc will bo but alx bridges,
"A hospital ia boing, built ut 81. Paul, MIMI,
will cost 920o,0o. ;,
|, Moro than nvo hundred and 1lfty millions
sterling arc Invested in railways in Great Britain
Tho country does not respond chcorfully to,
tho call for ton million dollars to got up Phil
edclphia centennial celebration.
.-Ihoro Was good Bkating on, tho ArkanBas
River, at Pine Dluff, tho day after Christmas,
and tho oldost ,iuhsbltaut mover eaw tho lko be-
Tho Nebraska Indians arc allowed to rido
trco on all trains thoy can jump on whilo tho
former nrc. in motion. Tho tribe is'bolng ro-
Colonel Hubert oatimatea ttat twenity thou-
sand people have lett Georgia in tho last two
! years. The railroad agent At Dalton reports
TINT four h,1ndrod omigrants Lad loft that place.
Tho prizo Committee Of Lousiann fair
| have been vainly soaking boy Under II who
neither drinks, gambles. nor carrieB concealed
| Weapons. q =
-Jsar-rings aro now fastened to tho car by
acrow, and an addition to domcatio noises Sun
daay morning Is in tho ahapo OF Mercy, mol
| where is TINT scrow-dritor ~ -
by arrangomonts made botweon the proprie-
tors Of tho Now Orleans Republican aud tho
National Republican, tie latter paper was dis
| continued on Sunday morning wook.
Mr.. Reed, Of White Crock. Wisconsin, sent
his Ron, 12 yeats Of age, to deliver letter to
lady. The little follow gotit soiled, and, droad-
ing to deliver y tose W 4 up Then fearing pun;
Deliberately jumped into tho river and drowned
hnboR. - =
"A little 8-yoar old German child, walking
along tho streets Of Now York on Christmas day
whito horae lying in tho atreot, aid breaking
away from her companion, ran and placed It
teuderly upon tho old horae's frozen head.
| "A Now York papor complains that FREQ lovo
t'e institution Of marriage; and that now tho
\ last stop toward emancipation has been taken,
by d 1nnn who hns invontod shirt buttons that
can DO put on with . screw-driver. With this
deylss tue Last necessity tor wifo has gone
as nwoko the echocs Of Hamolin. Since tho
minors' strike, all tho rats hayo loft tho mines,
and are awarming In tho town in such largo
numbers that serious alarm Is folt. Thorodents
tack horaeB and other domestic nnimala, and an
| noy people in thoir sleop.
.-Thare has been . terri1o rise in pricoz ut
Romo. Mono but the long -pursed can fAis year
nearly double last year's price, and apartments,
a month, now cost Sleo. It Is hinted that prob
ably those charges will provo SO prohibitnry to
mont pockets that thero will be q aoarth Of Wis
ttors, and no1t year, not improbably, an nhato-
ment in rents.
In Vincennes, Ind, 3 short time sincs,
gentleman coming homo UNEXPECTEDLY ono night
noticed that ono Of tho windows Of his wifp's
bedroom WAS opened, notwithstanding the c1ld
weather. Ho was somewhat sugpioious, and
examining tho premises found d man outside,