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Missouri Legislature to establish
free pub libraries in all the coun-
ties Of tie State, and appropriating
one hundred dollars to each coun-
ty. ,5 s 3
It is rumored that Mr.. George
Fl. Boxer, our minister to Constan-
tinople, is on q trip Though Greece
and Italy. He will shortly perma-
nently give up his post and return
to his home in Philadelphia. ~
The Augusta papers report the
cotton pool as rapidly filling up.
It will close on the LIST of April.
The lowest estimate so far handed
in is 4,221,O00 and the highest 81
4S1, 900.
Dr.. Joseph Lei Conte, formerly q
professor in the South Carolina
College, but who for several years
has resided in California, is about
to return to Atlantic States. He
will reside in Georgia hereafter.
In the Western places where pub
lie drinking has decreased under
the crusades of the women the sale
of bottled liquor for home con-
sumption has proportionately in.
creased. 4
There is a fine opening for real
estate spectators in the neighbor-
hood of the North Carolina yolca-.
no. Land can be bought at trifing
prices at this time on the Bald
Mountain, but no one has an incli-
nation to purchase
Senator Summers will contains a
bequest of $1,000 to Harvard Col
lege as prize for the best disaerta-
ton on preserving international
peace. Mr.. Summers first national
reputation was won by his oration
on the :sTrue Grandeur Of Nations"
as consisting in system of inter-
national arbitration.
Mrs. Ann Sconce, the wife Of a
well.known farmer living in Scott
county, on Sunday, inflicted fright
full wounds with razor upon two
of her children, aged nine and two
years, and then cut her own throat.
Mrs. Sconce is dead, but the chill
dren may recover. She was laboring
under a fit Of Mysteries at the time:
General Santa Anna has arrived
at the City of Mexico, and paid a
visit to President Lerdo. lie in
tends to reside at Tucubaya, seven
miles from Mexico. His fortune
having been reduced to almost
nothing, the ex-President proposes
to petition Congress to grant him a
pension or the restoration of some
of his private property, which was
sequestrated by the State.
The French town of Issoudun
boasts of the most wonderful lusus
nature of the age. 1t is young
girl, fourteen years old, whose
body, from the waist downward, is
double, and presents two parts act
ing Independently of each other.
The two legs she uses for walking
belong each to a different trunk,
whilst a third one is quite insensi-
BILE to pain. She enjoys good health.
The body of Evans, the murder
err, was sold to Dartmouth College
for dissection. At the general as
semblage for prayers in the chapel
the morning after its arrival it was
found sitting in one of the pews,
where some Of the frisky students
had slyly put it. The President
omitted the customary services, and
the corpse was taken back to the
dissecting room.
Gerrett Smith thinks that the
Civil Rights bill will fail, and that
it's failure will be the death Of the
Republican party. On the other
hand, many Republicans think that
if it passes, its passage will be the
death of the party. So it would
seem that some Of the politicians
are confounded by their own
schemes. They feel like the man
who had an elephant on his hands.
Mr.. Bolin, a prominent granger
Of KickaDoO. Kansas, was buried