, 1876-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gathered, will be the largest since the war.
Alsacs and Lorraine are 10 send u colony to
Pennsylvania in the spring.
Edgar Allen Poe has had monument erect
ed to him in Westminster, Md, churchyard
Another storm has taken place off the Eng
lish coast, vessels being wrecked and lives
lost.
The United Stutei Mint coined S43, 900
last year, one quarter Of the amount being
silver.
The United States Army numbers fifteen
hundred and forty officers and twenty-tour
thousand men.
Stanly has found in Africa larger body
Of fresh water than Lake Superior, and q
man with more wives than Brigham Young.
The United States Treasury will be much
benefited by the exposure of the whisky ring
frauds $2,OOO,0O0 being expected to be re.
covered.
Gilmore's Garden in New York has been
iSHDS' ioi thANSo VI ioui iOutbo NUM- DtHlU-
ming OF the year for Messrs. Moody aud San
key at 81, 800 per week.
A New York Jnstico has been convicted OF
malieasance, and sentenced to fine of $50 or
one months Imprisonment. Rather light
punishment for guilty judge.
The danger Of giving way to passion has
received shocking instance in the death at
Troy, N. Y, ofa woman at whom her hus
band threw lighted lamp, it breaking and
igniting the oil which ran over her.
The Depression in the British iron trade
will be likely to lead to great suffering in
England this winter, as one iron producing
firm near Leeds has just discharged between
two and three thousand men.
A ship Captain with his wife and two
children and five seamen were picked up af.
ter fifteen days suffering in boat, having
been wrecked off Cape Horn. The long
boat of the same ship with nineteen officers
and men has not been heard from
The Prussian authoeites have met with a
check in the Federal Council of Germany,
their proposition for coerciyc press laws lav-
ing been rejected. The Government of Ger.
many is quite stable enough to allow every
possible liberty to the press.
The Mexican Congress is at present con-
sidering a compulsory education bill The
attempt to enforce such measure in Mexico
seems a bold one, but the Government have
already given proof that they lack not cour
age to carry uut reforms of this kind.
Russia and Japan have concluded the ex-
change of the Kurile Islands for the
southern part Of Saghalien Island, which is
Immediately north of Japan. Russia's OBJ.
ject in acquiring part OF Saghalen is suppos-
ed to he to secure possible base of opera
tions against the Chinese.
The civil war in Turkey is becoming
bloody, if the telegrams sent are correct,
Recently the insurgents were reported to
have defeated the Turks with great slaughter;
row another engagement - said to have
taken place in which the insurgents were
completely routed and lett six hundred killed
on the field.
A Japanese Steamship Company has tor
some time been running in opposition to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company on the route
between China and Japan and San Francisco.
Large losses to both companies were the re.
suit, and now the American Company has
sold out its steamers to its japanese rival, and
the latter has monopoly of the route.
There is village in New Hampshire
which has produced twenty-sx editors, and
it was In allusiOn to this circumstance that
pious old deacon there remarked: "Yes,
there were twenty-slx OMEN, but as they've
all left town, reckon the Lord won't lay it
up again u.s."
The Export OF Print Cloths from New Eng.
land to old England seems to he something
more than bravado, a. in the case of n ship
ment of American iron to Liverpool some
time ago. A comparatively large quantity
has been already shipped and Fall River
manufacturers have !bought it w".,n while
to appoint commission :" ,,-.r england and
make arrangements for tue t.dde.
The Alleged Conspiracy at Rangoon seems
to have been made too much of, us the attack
on the arsenal was by band OF robbers, and
is not now believed to have any political sig
nifcance. 1t seemed unlikely that the Bur
mese authorities would engage in any intri-
CUES against England so soon after China,
with which empire Burma is closely connect
ed, had yielded to British diplomacy.
Brigham Young has again triumphed in the
Fedral Courts, having been released from the
CUSTODY which was ordered by a judge for
his refusing to pay the alimony ordered in
tiie Ann Eliza case. To condemn him to pay
aimony in such suit would be to acknowl-
edge the validity of polygamy, which would
he fur worse than want OF remedy for indi-
vidual Injustice.
The Trouble Between the United States and
Spain seems to have blown over for the pre-.
sent Spain adhercs to her right Of trying
American citizens by Court.martial in Cuba
but conceds them the advantage of hav.
ing advocates and procuring witnesses on
their behalf. This is certainly as little as
could he done, and the only surprising thing
is that such privileges ON the part of citizens
of another country should ever he in dis.
pute.
THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT has been ar-
a. al, ~.