, 1874-01-05
MISCELLAN EOUS.

It cost GAINESVILLE billiard hall proprietor
SAT for .1ttiu. minor punch the balls for hall
IN hour.
Some OF the French papers advise tho
drowning Of criminals convicted OF capital OF
feusc5
They tell OF citizen of Dubuque who,
after paying 8 policeman So ulsht for Elk
weeks TO watch his wife, discovered that his vito
had all aloug Deen paying the same lnan - d
night to watch her husband.
r. 1t is now esce1 tanned that the Rev. Mr.
Drake and wife. who died in Lagrange County
Ind.) recently, were both poisoned by tho
operation Of tearing from q wall green paper
cont aiming aTsenic.
Pigeon River is the boundary between On
tario aud Minnesota A road is nearly complet-
ed, thirty feet wide. from P1ge.,n River to Fort
William. The snow is two feet deep, but with q
mild winter SO far. The mail goes on anow-
shoes from Pigeon River to Fort William and
River aud thence to Isle Royale, il carried IN 8
row-boat. Lake Superior is clear OF ice, but the
bays and rivers are frozen over.
An agent of Seth Green's passed through
tanning 10000 California salmon, which we're
Matched at Green's fah-hatcliing establishment
at Caledonia N, T., and are now on their way TO
be put into the healwaters Of the Muskingum
River. They wero about Y inches long i. one
month old, and will grow to weigh from ten to
trout, but are more rugged than the brook trout
found in our mountain atreams.-Et7e Pd- J
Dispatch.
-:rhcre is o custom-houae rumor current tlat
for several years certain importers OF cabinet
woods have beeu allowed to receive walnut
veneers from France, FREQ Of duty, under the
ruling of an official who WAS considered the
s:tariH dictionary" OF the institution. The
woods hare loug since been used, and NOW tho
Government demands OF the several parties tho
-. A.
The matter is 10 be contested.-Boston Ad1er-
tiser.
The Standing Committee OF the Directors Of
tho Bunker Hill Monument Association will
petition the incoming Massachusetts Legislature
for an act declaring tho 18th OF June legal hoi-
day Tho petition sets forth that this was the
day on which Winthrop and his associates landed
in Charlcstown in 1880. bringing with them tho
Colonial charter. rs well as the day OH which the
battle OF Bunker Hill was fought, las yoars ago.
Hero is fresh trouble with the Liquor law
Of Massachusetts,: The Boston Beer Company
Was incorporated by law Of 1897 for the:pur-
pose OF manufacturing malt liquors in all their
varieties in the City Of Boston. Beer in transit
in the wagons OF the Company having been
seized, the Company socks restoration on tina
ground that having the right by law to manu-
facture malt liquors, it has also the rigl. to sell
them, and that the law under which 1t IS pro-
posed to confscate them is unconstitutional. as
impairing the validity Of contracts. Great stre;a
is laid upon the Law as laid down IN the Dart
mouth College case, aud the matter will 50 to
the Supreme Court for adjudication.
The anonalies Of custom-housa regulations
will never cease. recent order has been pro-
1nuIgated by the Treasury Department, that 10
per Gent Of ali packages imported shall be sent
TO the appraisers. Heretofore it has not been
considered necessary to send no many. espe'
cially when khe cargo consists OF ralsins, figs, OF
nags-of pepper, but. Oh account Of suit recent
" decided in new York, where d Government
truckman, employed to truck goods, sued to re-
cover because as many as the law reqnred were
not sent, tho Government Was mulcted in
heavy damages 4 cargo Of pepper, containing
4,000 bags, from Singapore, nf'w Lies as Damon'f
to the Appraisers store and back, at an expense
Of $780, wha1e tan bass would have answered,