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some places.
The philanthropic Linda Gilbert has
given 1000 volumes as the beginning Of q
library in the New York TOmbs.
TIE President has nominated Benjamin
p. Avery of California, as Minister tc
China, in place of F. +. Low, resigned.
Seven men were drowned by the cap
sizing of a boat on Lake Michigan, gu
Wednesday, during the great gale Oh the
lake.
A student at Wi !braham Academy, in
Mass, named Laramor~, was probably IA
tally shot on Thursday by the accidental
discharge of a pistol.
10 ten Rhode Island towns (~inciuding
his OWN Gov. Towards name was on ev.
cry ballot dropped into the box. That
speaks well for him.
The lightning N Butte county. Caliior.
mia, a few weeks ago, killed hundreds Of
geese, tearing their heads and burning of
their feathers.
The peach trees Of Delaware and Mary
land, so far. have escaped damage from
frost, and. though yet in some danger,
bid fair to yield very large crops.
A Congressman recently apologized for
not delivering a speech on the currency
question on the ground that all the speech
writer's were engaged, three weeks ahead.
For selling a boy liquor enough to klll
him, last Sunday, a GROCERY in Brooklyn
has been deprived Of Its license. That
looks like letting murdercrs off very
cheaply.
The greatest bell in the world, the
Emperor William belI," destined for the
Cologne cathedral, has just beer finished.
1t weighs about 10000 pounds, is eighteen
feet high and fourteen wide.
Bald Mountain seems to have Quoted
down, now, and some of the people around
there are beginning to fear they got rcIi-
gion a good while before there was any
real necessity for it Louisville Courier.
Journal.
The measure Of the hard. money speech
of Senator Jones of Nevada, the other
day, was expressed by Senator Carpenters
congratulations with Why the deuce,
Jores, didn't you make that speech before?
1t might have changed the whole tenor of
the debate.
1t is now stated in a Spartenburg, s.
c.. letter, that all the Bald Mountain un-
pleasantness is due 10 a fire built three
years ago IN an aperture to smoke out a
coon, which fire is still burning.
The board of engineers appointed by
Congress to report on the practibility Of
the waters of the James and Ohio
have reported favorably on the
and estimate the cost as within
$50, 000, 900.
Passengers TO the Pacific by rail break.
in the S;eras with twenty feet of
snow around them four hours later they
wheat four inches high, and the next
lay see pear and peach trees in blossom.
A Learned divine at Burlington, Iowa, is
quoted as having recently said to a liquor.
dealer there {: ''Wretched man if the
bed Of that river was bank high and the
,uds Of salvation. and a June rise ofpiety
coming down from the mountains,
here wouldn't be enough to wash your
Feet !"
History has once more repeated itself.
)ohn Smiths life was again saved by po-
scr-huntcrs in Nevada the other day, for
when a big bear jumped upon him bis two
companions ran fog a couple of those ncc.
,ssary adjuncts of the kitchen crate, and
20 be labored the brute that he beat q
TASTY retreat.
Mr.. Wizard, the inventor of a new
of riding cannon, proposes to rife
1000 guns for the government at the very
ow rate Of $500 per gun, or $4,000, 900
or the whole lot. But, as low as these
erms arc, the editor of the Army and
Navy Journal says there are machlnis,s
OF ten miles from his office who would
life the guns at $50 apiece, and be glad
nough to get the job. 1t is very evident :
lat Wards object is to rife the govern. 5
tent as well as the guns. q
Conductors on some of the PcnnsyIva. I
ia railroads have not that liberty of ac-
as accorded their brethren 10 some
her parts Of the country, Because TWO
f them jokingly "knucked down on G
'eir living freight the other day. they
i've had to pay five hundred dollars each,
nd the costs of prosecution. They think g
: leaving a State where there is so much d
e
In America we seldom advance our I
ost accomplished men to public Office, Il
Inside of Massachusetts. When we he We u
k en- Charles Sumner and Charles Schurz q
1t of the Senate, we have distracted from i
about all its general culture. We have Il
Irewd lawyers and experienced mer. h
lants, and long-headed adventures left, p
At none like w. M. Evarts, who finds the Q
creation of a busy day 10 the freshness =
Homer, or the young moods Of a Greek
rio. Recently W. have managed to EN-. s
oy men like Bancroft and Motley in the
reign service, As for scholars like Ev.
is and Adams, who are already familiar
Ith political life, the country finds no oc- u
sion to use their services. How vast g
9 contrast between Great Britain and a
- Providence Star. y
News is received of the sinking of the .
'ench Transatlantic co npany's steamer a
irope while on her last voyage from 4
'vre to New York. The passengers and q =