, 1876-03-10
News From ALI Parts.

OH0 UOlldT put al lub0IoSI OilO nun
dred years at 24 per cent. interest
added yearly, would more than pay
the national debt.
A shocking idea is advanced by the
Scientific American, which suggests
electricity as an agent of the death
penalty instead of the rope
Senator Christiancy was married
last month to clerk in one of the
departments, Miss Lille Lugenbeel.
The happy groom is GA and the maid
about 20. =
Congressman Piper, Of California,
owns 200 acres within the limits of
San Francisco. He is of Swedish
descent, carpenter by trade, and
caught the California fever by read
ing a speech of Daniel Webster's in
which the future of San Fran cisco
was described in glowing terms.
A patent has been secured for
condensed beer. A barrel of the
condensed beverage is put into a
package about the size of a gold
watch, and FillremAin sound for any
length ot time. This condensed ar
ticle will bother Government Off
cials not little in seeing that it is
properly stamped.
The State of Nevada will make a
worthy showing at the Centennial.
1t has secured a location upon the
exhibition grounds for the erection
of veritable quartz mil, with stamps,
amalgamating pan, and all the ma
chinery required for extracting the
precious metal from the rough
quartz. Thousands from all parts of
the world will thus, for the first time,
look upon q quartz mill in practical
operation.
A terrible water spout burst over
the city of Valparaiso, S. A, on the
10th of December last. 1t fell with
a tremendous blow turning the streets
into rivers and sending fright to the
hearts of the people. During the
day all traffic and business was en-
tirely suspended. Several cars and
carriages were swept by the flood to
the beach, and a lady and little girl
were drowned. Little did the people
expect that in the month of Decem-
Der, in the.very heart of the Chilian
summer, they would have such a
frightful tempest of rain, as the vol
ume that fell on that day was half as
much as ordinarily falls for the year.
During the year 1875 there were
issued in San. Francisco 2,290 mar
riage licenses, and 642 DEGREES for
divorce; one divorce to 81 marriages.
In one case application for divorce
was made on tho second day after
marriage, and in another case fifty
years Of welded life had convinced
the aged couple that they were not
intended for each other. Even the
Chinese have caught the mania, as
one Celestial couple have a divorce
case now pending in that city.
A contract has been entered into
between the Directors of the Panama
RailE1ld Company and the owners
Of q number Of steamers running on
the Atlantic coast, for the. .i1angura-
ton Of an opposition line of steam
ships to California via the Isthmus.
The competition with the Pacific
Mail Company and the Overland
Railroad which this will create will
undoubtedly result in q material re-
duction of the charges for passen-
gers and freight between New York
and San Francisco.
MRS. CUENINGHAlr, whose name
rang from one end Of the world to
the other some 20 years ago, as the
assassin Of DR.. Burdell, in New York,
is now q pleasant-faced. matron Of
55, temporarily residing in San Fran
cisco with hor fourth husband, Mr..
Williams. She is the owner of q
rancho at Loreto, Lower California,
consisting Of 40, 800 acres, and upon
it are two valuable copper mines,
the Giantess and Sauce, estimated to
be worth two millions, which she
will not dispose of but is keeping
for her surviving children, q son and
daughter, whose lives she says have
been oIouded and darkeied by that
horrible New York tragedy.
About twenty three States of
our Union are to some extent pro-
ducers of salt. Virginia, Ohio and
Michigan are heavy producers, and
our Canadian neighbors have entered
largely into its manufacture; but
the chief producer of salt on this
continent is the. State of New York,
whose springs are located in Onon-
daga county. Her springs are the
strongest and her facilities for man.
ufacturing the best. At the salt
works of Salina and Syracuse the
brine is obtained by borings. The
wells are $50 to $40 feet deep at the
former place, and between 225 and
$40 at the latter; 35 to 40 gallons of
water afford a bushel of salt, while
it takes $50 gallons of sea water for
the same result.
JAS. @. WINeARD, of New Orleans,
the inventor Of the original Gatling
gun, claims to have discovered
force by which he can destroy yes
sells built of iron or otherwise, so as
to leave no trace of them in their
former shape, and that, too, without