The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02
FLASHES FROM THE PRESS.

The first shad are selling in North Carolina at 81
each.
There will be four murder trials in Berks county,
Pa, in April.
The Governor of Arkansas offers rewards for the
apprehension OF fifteen murderers.
The Granite Mills, OF Fall River. Mass have de-
ciared dividend OF ten per cent Hard times.
The Boston papers are agitating the question OF
grand industrial exhibition IN that city next fall.
There were two earthquake shocks felt at Man.
chester. N. H. on the 26th ult.-one at two and
the other at five A. NJ. Loud reports accompanied
the latter.
The next wisconsin State Convention OF the
grangers will be held at Madison, commencing on
the third Tuesday of January, 1875.
There are 900 families in Southwestern Mime
sofa SUFFERING LOT the necessaries OF life. Their
crops were destroyed last year by grasshoppers.
The Iowa Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
TO Animals is prepared to come down on the pro-
posed slaughter of 1000 pigeons by the Davenport
Shooting Club.
A company Of federal troops has arrived in Co.
rinth, Miss. 1t Is thought they are after Ku Klux
and other vOlatOrs of the law in the counties OF
Alcorn, Prentis and portion OF Lee.
The relatives of the late DR.. Friend, Of Brushy
Mound, Macoupn county, Ill., are searching for
treasures which, it Is reported, the doctor left
buried in the neighbOrh0Od Of his late residence.
The abolition OF the pass system is working finely
in Illinois. The State legislators who formerly
went home on Friday and stayed till Monday or
Tuesday now remain and attend to business on
Saturday.
The accounts of the Delaware peach crop sent to
market during 1873 have just been made up, and
show 2, 100, 1874 baskets-quite decrease compared
with the crop marketed IN 1872, which yielded
1868 ,5x6 baskets.
The Albany (Ga.) Ne,cs says:-"On the night Of
January old Mamma Margaret (cOlored) died. in
this county. She was ITO years DID, and had given
birth to twenty-sx children. Her eldest son is still
living and is nnety-iour. and the youngest, also
alive, is ffty-eight."
The Grand Jury at Auburn, Androscoggin county,
rQ In m ar nc
M. Lowell, OF Lewiston, for the murder OF his wife
In that city on the 18th OF June, 1871 The skeleton
of the murdered woman was found in the woods
lew months since.
Kelly's Island is in Sandusky Bay. Lake Erie.
prOxmated closely to the following figures Two
hundred and sixty tons Catawba. at $500 O ton,
$4,000; sixty tons Concord and Ives, Seeding
$4,000; total. $5S,OOO
In accordance with Governor Straw's wishes,
only the legal number OF representatives, namely,
twelve besides the officials, will be admitted to
witness the proceedings at the execution of Frank
lin b. Evans, who murdered his niece over year
ago at Northw0od to take place at Concord, n. H.,
on the 18th OF February.
Henry Coulter, who is now comfortably situated
In Toronto. Ontario, will issue a formal reply to
George Brown in q short time. Coulter would like
to meet Brown and Bigln in race, and that will
probably be the burden of his proposition. He still
adheres to the title OF champion oarsman, to which
he entitled until he lOreits 1t either by defeat or
the nOn-acceptance OF proper challenge.
The importations Of sugar into Boston last year
were 1876, 0O00 900 pounds, or 81, 500 tons OF 1000
pounds each, equal TO $780, 900 hogsheads Of 1900
pounds each. This would have been full cargOes
Tor 43O barks and briggs OF 800 hogsheads each, or
nearly nine cargoes OF sugar per week throughout
the year. AS the cargOes would not average 300
hOgSheadS IL would amount to at least 600 bark
brig and schooner cargoes, averaging $50 hogs
heads each.