The Sun. — 1869-10-12 (London, England)

BUDGET OF MICELLANEOUS.-The first piano forte imported into America from Europe is owned by 2.1 r-C. M. Loomis, of Newhaven, and bears the date of 1786.-Sitka already experiences the blessings of anee:i tion to the United States. Her population has incres to 680, and the number of her groggeries to 60.- Plim,° Walla, Washington territory,reports marriages anddiVerre" in equal numbers ; alternating with astonishing regulo.ritP St. Louis has a female physician, who makes $lO,OOO year.-The New York elevated railroad is pronounced : success.-Madison-square, New York, is to have tit large hotels.-St. Paul, Minnesota, had a fur trade 170, year amounting to $500,000.-A. Cincinnati paper the editors of a contemporary a "congregation of asses'/ Georgetown, D.C., has had a "tournament," at which ii.,"" gallant knight who won crowned Miss Lillie Rice as Get -The ship Baltic has loaded her cargo of wheat at P; Francisco for Liverpool. It consists of 3,400 tone, 1, largest ever loaded at San Francisco.-Twenty-one 1),,e1;1 e sons belonging to Rockport, Maine, were probably 1", during the gale on the Bth Sept. Seven bodies haveb,,ep, recovered. All were engaged in the fishing business' a. , reward of $5OO has been offered by the Mayor of rt-tj delphia for the arrest of Hugh Maree, Neil DoughertY,''ol John M'Loughlin, parties who are believed to have slllO revenue officer Brooks. This reward is offered oe leo strength of affidavits made.-lowa expects to gain t4l:it Representatives in Congress by the next apportiooZ; -Three negroes have been burned in the dismal svPwo fire.-The Pacific Railway route abounds with 11°,10 but has no song birds.-An Indiana family in nine teerl-d has had three births, four weddings; and two deatho;„ Mr. Coe, at San Jose, has one hundred Chinamen new gaged in picking hops, which are dried in a kiln in eight to twelve hours, and are cured much more eirede ioally than in the open air.-Minnesota has complete wheat harvest, and estimates the quantity at 22,00 u! ei bushels, of which only 6,000,000 bushels will be retell'ot in the State.-A New York druggist gives cream of °col to would-be suicides who ask for arsenic. -The lletlo/ Capital Convention at St. Louis is to meet on October A State Fair is to be held at Jackson, Miss., boginuOited Oct. 26. -York State has 345 cheese factories suPP,a, with $106,000 cows.-Governor Geary, of PennsYlloo gave $5,000 to the Avondale sufferers, and PaAl3,l;l millionaire, $2,500. The fund thus far amounts to B''' -Caleb Cushing's fee as counsel for Mexico before tet Mexican Claim Commission is $30,000 in gold. 5004 and Co., the celebrated English thread makers, ere to erect a mill at Providence, Rhode Island, and Wil;,•gso ploy 800 operatives.-Three individuals in 31i'').,e got lost in the woods. They told their dog W../ home," and got there themselves by following nOOO, Harvard College has 577 undergraduates-128 sen 160 juniors, 134 sophomores, and 155 freslanie°' 1(0 foreign imports of Boston up to Saturday, Sept- 18,04 nearly thirty-eight millions of dollars, about seVeu....., half millions more than last year at the same time. 009 Ham Johnson, of New Haven, has given the Yale Seieoo.4l School $5OO, with which to buy geographical sel3stfe, in which department Yale has 52 new students. Frllg efr Brewer has just returned from a trip to the liocki tains, and Messrs. Wright and Gale, of the class of 000 i appointed tutors at the close of last term, have tiecoofir the positions.-The Mississippi Valley TelegraP oof pany have sold their lines to the Pacific and Atlantic poell pany for $260,000 in stock.-Various relics have jO3l sold at auction at Newport, among which were a emir lr o'l belonged to Cotton Mather, a clock 237 years °ii7ool4 various pieces of furniture that date back to a periodoof the revolutionary war. An iron hammer that '`cell:lin the Mayflower" was also disposed of. 1 to Colonel J. H. Grover, United States Cons";,/e4 Ancona, Italy, has arrived in London en route to York, on two months leave of absence. nSa Mr. Hooker, of the American banking-h°Rome, Messrs. Maquay, Pakenham, and Iloel‘er' passed through London on his way from America. _OO