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New r;llDllow suit.
The trial Of Belknap has been post
poned until Norenrber.
Two million men in fhe United
States are now out of eap@eynost.
Hancock stock is rising fast sua
he appears to be the man TO bea.
Hayes.
California has 100000 acres in
wheat this year, and expects a yield
of 5000, 600 bushels.
The Italians bring up from the bot
tom of the Mediterranean yearly $50,
600 pounds of coral, worth 81 $50, 900.
Grasshoppers have commenced to
appear in great numbers in Northern
Alabama and are occasioning great
uneasiness.
The Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they number 800,
600, rank higher than the natives,
and are generally Weather than the
Dutch colonists.
There is an alarming outbreak of
cholera at Yalvooda village ON the
Bombay and Bavoda Railway. Of
two hundred inhabitants one hundred
died in three days.
Two Chicago girls, who made a solemn
VOW last week never to be separated,
have played their first game of GRO
quet for the season, and to-day are
not on speaking terms.
Monday last, there were over eigh-
teen thousand gallons of fine straw
berries offered in the Louisville mar
ket, and prices ranged from 20 cents
to 40 and IS cents per gallon.
New York State pays her Governor
the largest salary ofany State in the
Union,I $4,000 year. Michigan,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
land, and Vermont each pay their
Governor 81, 900 a year.
The Texas Legislature has passed
a law by which it is made a misde-
meanor, punishable by fine of 800,
for any person to use profane language
within the hearing of the occupants
of any private residence.
An insane man stood on a railroad
track in New London, i'll front of an
approaching train, covered his eyes
with his hand, as an ostrich tries to
hide itself by putting its head under
its wing, and was run over.
Mary Compton is in Jail in Cleve>
land because she matrilnonially engag-
ed herself to Christian Reiber, took
5000 of his money ostensibly to buy
a wedding dress with, and then told
"the old fool she already had a hus>
band,
The San Antonio CTexas) Herald
saws the stage drivers between that
city and Kingston are to be provided
with umbrellas 20 hold over the stage
robbers in case it rains, while they are
robbing the mails and relieving pas
sengers.
The war-cloud now hanging over
Europe gets blacker, 1t is thought
that the Turkish revolution may de-
lay q general war, but will not pre-
vent it; and in the event it does take
place England will ally with Turkey
against Russia, Austria and other
powers. The war will be n fierce one.
Sevres vase given by Louis XVI.
to Tippoo Sahib was sold in London
recently for over 81 ,295. 1t was ta>
ken at the seige of Seringpatam by
Ensign Gordon, afterwards Adjutant-
General of Bombay. 1t is urn>shaped,
with futed neck, stands about IS
inches high, and is richly ornamented.
Two mcn own 100000 acres of
land in San Joaquin and Santa Clara
valleys, California, upon which they
pay about $40, 900 yearly in taxes,
Their names are Lux and Miller, and
they began their business lives in San
Francisco as butchers, without any
capital. The land is used as meadows
and pastures.
Boston, June 19.-Quebee suffered
disastrous conAagration yesterday,
The fire broke out in the hotel on
Richtems street and swept over a ter
ritory six hundred feet wide and a
mile in length, destroying the entire
business section. Seven hotels, nine
churches, the custom house, the court
house, the post Office, United States
consulate, two banks, the dock, the
vessels in the river, a portion of the
bridge over Richtems river, st Johns
wool mills, stone and china warerooms,
and two hundred and fifty stores and
houses were reduced to ashes
The Reformed DUTCH Board Of
Publication unites with the Publishing
Committee of the Southern Presley
terrain church in the United States in
the publication of The Gospel Sewer
and The Children's Friend. These
papers are to be published simultane-
ously at New York and Richmond.