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of California, did Tuesday, aged 10.
Edwin Booth was thrown from his
carriage, in Coscob, Conn.,, Monday,
and it is thought fatally injsred.
General James r. Chalmers has
declined the Democratic Congressional
nomination in North Mississippi.
The mother of Gen. Kirby Smith
died at Palatka, Florida, on the Sd
inst, at the advanced age Of ninety
years.
The portrait of Jefferson Davis,
Secretary of War under Pierce, has
been added to the War Department
collection.
The drouth in portions of Alabama
is fearful. "Trees dying and shedding
their leaves like Autumn" is the way
the news reads.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald understands that
the Secretaryship of the Interior has
been rendered to one j. Russell Jones.
Parkes, the ex-Treasurer of South
Carolina, who escaped from jail while
awaiting trial for plundering the State
while in Office, was recaptured few
days since.
1t is noticeable fact that, while
not one ex-President is living, the
wives of five of them surviye-hIrs.
Polk, Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler,
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. johnson.
The loss by the destruction of crops
through the recent foods and rains
will amount to about the same as the
loss by the Chicago fre--in round
numbers, two hundred millions of
dollars.
4 dispatch from Commander Rus
sell, of the United States steamer
Plymouth, says all is quiet on the Rio
Grande. The river is falling, and
there has been no indications for sew
eral days of cattle raids.
A charred single fell over birds
nest in Ingleside, Mass, while build
ing was burning close by, and some
young sparrows were thus protected,
although the heat was intense enough
to destroy the leaves on the tree.
The Prince of Liechtenstein has set
the example of disarmament to the
great military powers. His army OF
ninety men was disbanded last month,
and they have entered the service of
the Prussian police as spies, in civil
ian's dress.
Colonel Valentine Baker, recently
tried before the ASsizes at Craydon,
and convicted Of indecently assault
ing young lady in a railway car
riage, and sentenced TO fine and i'm
prisonment, has been dismissed from
the British army.
The official returns concerning the
late Kentucky State election give Nc
Creary, Democrat, a majority Of &c.
039 ever Harlan, Republican. The
vote for McCreary is about 900 less
than the majority for Leslie in 1871.
The House will stand ninety Demo-
Gratis and ten Republicans.
/ A special to the Chicago Evening
Journal from Whitehall, Michigan,
says the body of n. S. Grimwood
was found on the beach of Lake
Michigan, near Stony Creek, by A.
Beckykh. 1t had on all the clothes
except boots, and had letters and notes
of his trip, which prove beyond doubt
his identity.
A special to the London News,
from Vienna, says the Bosnia insur-
rection is spreading. The towns of
Berbier, Dubieza and Kostaineza are
. in flames. Many Turkish mobiles have
been slaughtered. Large numbers of
! Croatians have joined the insurgents,
and it is feared the outbreak will as
sumo the characterof a religious war.
In the month of July there were
one hundred and three new ncwspa-
pers started. OF these, nine were an
nounccd by the publishers as being
Republican in politics, nineteen Dem
ocratic, an the other seventy-five
claimed to be Independent Of both
political parties. Nine Republican
out of a total of one hundred and
three. Suggestive.
The Globe-Democrat has special
from Chester, ILL.,, which SAYS a vigil
lance committee has been organized
in jackson county, and two men,
named Montgomery Stevens and VIM.
Flood, arrested. MucAexcitelaent is
said to prevail, and the outlaws are 70
be given no quarter, Jackson county
adjoins Williamson county, and like
the latter is infested with gang of
desperadoes who defy the law.
The best premium system to slim
ulate farmers has been adopted in
North Mississippi. AGrnge Lodge,
numbering forty members, resolved
that the owner of the best acre of
corn should receive five bushels from
each of the thirty-nine other men,
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