National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-09-15
ALL SORTS.

One house in every twenty one in Boston is un-
occupied.
The Centennial COMMITTEES of Iowa are making
Thorough scientific survey Of the State.
The latest estimates make the Southern cot
ton crop this year nearly $50 900 bales less than
last year.
Tennessee's new school law provides that fer
like services OF male and female teachers like
salaries shall be paid.
The whole number Of failures in the United
States this year, so far, is sS77, and the amount
Of liabilities ga, e4o, $50.
Ground has been broken for the "Stoaewall"
jackson monument by Foley, on the north side
Of the Capitol at Richmond.
The Georgia Commissioner Of Agriculture says
the farmers lose annually more than e. 900 900
by the injudicious purchase and use Of fertil-
izers.
Bass the English brewer, employs 5000 COM
mercisl travellers, and pays the Midland rail-
road average Of ss55, 600 per annum for freight
age.
The bsrnacles on the bottom Of the steamship
Great Eastern form . layer SIX inches thick
in places, and are estimated to weigh three hun
dred tons.
Mr. Rusk!n is about to establish . public pic
ture exhibition in London, where he will invite
artists to send pictures, to be shown under his
own supervision.
The famous Gold Hill mine, in Rowan county,
North Carolins, was sold under 9 second mortgage
for S25.00o and the work Of development VIII be
immediately begun. ED
Cotton receipts at all United States ports for
the year ending August 81 amounted to 3,473,634
bales, and estimating overland and Southern con-
sumption at $50 600 bales the total crop of 1S745
may be set down as ,s2S6s4 bales.
The committee on foreign trade report to the
National Cotton Exchange in favor of establish
ing at Liverpool head tribunal, where all bust
national exchange can be instituted.
Judge Aackey is hearing arguments this week
upon the proposition to place the affairs Of Colun
bia, s. O., in the hands of receiver. The Repao-
lican organ asserts that the city is hopeessly in
solvent, and the most rotten portion Of the State
A geological collection Of remarkable interest,
more especially to Londonsrs, has been added
during the present year to the British Museum.
1t consists Of the Thames valley series Of remains
Of British elephants, rhnoceros, deer, oxen, Sc,
which have been discovered in the Ilford marshes,
near Stratford, during the last thirty years. and
has hitherto formed the unique private collection
Of Sir Antonio Brady, Of Stratford-le- Point. the
plants, all Of which have been obtained from IL
ford. The longest tusk In the collection measures
nine feet. The general evidence, however, is held
to shew that the Ilford elephants were rather q
small race. The rhinoceros trichOrinus. like the
mammoth, was clad in fleece, the climate of the
period being apparently Of Arctic severity. The
British lion, which recent geology shows 70 have
been no myth, Is represented by lower jaw and
phslapx Of the left fore-f0ot- The Brady collec-
tion also includes the Thames valley hippopota-
mus, which Is found 1t Grays as we'll as At Iford.
The ruminants, such as the stag, bison and OK,
constitute fully one half the collection, number
ing more than 500 specimens. They include seven
specimens Of the great Irish elk, megacerus HI
bernicus, and fftY Of the red deer.