, 1883-03-29
Outside News.

The Now Jersey Fire Insurance Com
pany, after an existence of half a century,
has decided to retire from business.
The great wave that swept upon Ca
diz, Spain, in 1775, when Lisbon was
destroyed by an earthquake, was sixty
feet high.
The bond of S. T.. Wilson, administra-
tor of the estate eff Hugh Glen, is fixed
at S250000. This covers only the per-
sonal property.
People of Fresno county, Call, are
prospecting for a cobblestone placer, to
offer to some one to come there and
start an ostrich farm.
Montrea business men assert that the
frauds upon the Canadian customs
amount annually to hundreds of thou
sands, if not millions of dollars.
Sir Alexander Galt, Canadian Commits
sioner to London, has rendered his resig-
nation, but the government has requested
him to continue i'll Office until Spring
Frederick Billings, who presented the
library of the late George z. Marsh tc
the University of Vermont, has given
the institution $4,000 for library
building.
Bank of England notes are printed on
fine water.lined paper, made of linen
pulp. The manufacture OF the latter
paper has been in the hands of one fam
lily for more than hundred years.
A steam dummy is trying to pump out
the llOO-foot artesian well at Del Monte,
Monterey. Although it raises 1000 gal
Ions per hour. but little progressis made.
The water is lukewarm and brackish.
Illinois, it is said, exceeds Great Brit
ain in the number Of its courts and
Judges. Chicago alone has l,453 lawyers.
it is stated that the number of practising
and non practising barristers in Eng land
acentury ago was less than three hun
dred, now it is about five hundred.
Captain Korts, who was master of the
steamer Tacoma at the time she was
wrecked, and who was sentenced 10y In
spectors Freeman and Hillman to suspen-
sen for two years, it is stated, will appeal
to 9. G. Benis, Supervising Inspector Of
steam vessels, from the order made in
his case.
An unusual irruption of distinguished
visitors to this coast the coming summer,
is promised. Henry Ward Beecher, Miss
Frances Willard, Senators Sherman and
Edmunds. ex-senator David Davis, w.
II. Vanderbilt, Henry Willard, Chas.
Dana. Simon Cameron, Gen. w. L. Sher-
man, and many others little less proml-
nent than they.
People acquainted with Mr.. Corning,
whom Secretary Folger has chosen for
chief of the Bureau OF Printing and En-
craving, are very much surprised at the
selection. They say Corning is repre-
Sented TO be a man of very moderate
ability, with no qualifications for a posi-.
ton which requires so high an order OF
executive ability.
Governor Waller of Connecticut, con-
fined his fast day proclamation for Fri
day of last week tGood Friday to the
space of five and half lines, and still
found room in it for references to the
religious character of the people of the
commonwealth, and the "revered custom
of our pious forefathers'"
San Francisco CAL: Secretary Of State
Frelinghuysen, by virtue of his office,
has had the Malagassy ENJOYS in charge,
introducing them to the President and
others with whom it WINS proper for them
to become acquainted. 1t may readily
be imagined that he had no easy task,
when the reader has seen the names of
the distinguished visitors in print. They
are "a follows: Observation-Disclosures,
Ramaniraka, Andrianisa, Rabibisoa,
Rnnialahy. An eastern journal facetious-
" remarks that the Honorable Secretary
has since been laid up with lame
! Jaw"