The Sun. — 1869-09-28 (London, England)

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.--The United States suffers an annual loss of $300,000,000 from insect depredations.—Nashville, Tennessee, is putting up a $300,000 cotton Council Bluffs, lowa, with 3,000 inhabitants, has several square miles devoted to a park.—The San Diego Union states that out of 55,000 head of cattle that started from Texas during the past year for California not over 5,000 reached the State.—The revenue of the New Dominion for August was 5389,279, and the expenditure $757,387.—A coach of Wells, Fargo, and Co. was robbed in Montana by highwaymen of $30,000 in gold.—By the explosion of a bomb-shell in a machine shop at Buffalo a workman was horribly mangled.— One of the largest Sunday schools in San Francisco is composed of Chinese children. —The old banking-house of L. A. Benoist and Co. of St. Louis suspended, September B.—The stockholders of the Richmond and York River Railroad have resolved to extend the road to the Chesapeake Bay, thus shortening by seven hours the time between Richmond, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.—On the Bth instant the down freight train on the Jackson Railroad, from New Orleans, fell through a trestle-bridge near Kennersville. Four cars took fire, which, with contents,were consumed.— Professor Davidson's scientific party has returnee to San Francisco from Alaska. Tho result of the expedition-is satisfactory. The party visited a region of country never before penetrated by white men.—The Imperial Insurance Company of London paid $lOO,OOO in Philadelphia on the Ist inst., on losses by the destruction of whisky at the late fire on Front-street, and would in a few days pay $200,000 more.—Since September 1 it is unlawful for first cousins to marry in New Hampshire. Before the Ist, that is up to 12 o'clock midnight of August 31, it was legal for persons so related to marry.—An $l,BOO pup is the last present to Grant.—The Agricultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts, opened its autumn term on Thursday, the 9th September, with additions to its corps of instructors, of Capt. H. A. Alvord, of the United States Army, as Professor of Military Science ; E. H. Barlow, of Amherst College, Instructor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and Dr. A. S. Packard, jun., Lecturer on Entomology.—The old church at Hingham, Massachusetts, built in 1681, and the oldest in New England, having been thoroughly repaired and refitted, was re-dedicated ou Wednesday, the Bth of September. The church has had only seven pastors in the 234 years of its existence.—The Boston journeymen tailors have decided to demand an advance in their wages, equivalent to about $3.50 per week. For making dress and frock coats they will hereafter charge $ll, and lower prices to $7, according to the style of coat. The workmen engaged in excavating for the new Yale College dormitory, on the ground formerly occupied by the President's house, unearthed four bottles of very old mulberry wine in an excellent state of preservation.— The Canadian Medical Association met in convention at Toronto on the Bth inst. A large number of delegates from all parts of the Dominion, also from American medical associations, were present. C. Tupper delivered the address, after which the new medical act for Ontario was discussed at great length. The following, not residing in the Dominion, were elected honorary members: —Dr. W. ,Davis, of Chicago, Illinois; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D., Surgeon, United States Army; Samuel D. Gross, M.D., of Philadelphia; Charles A. Leo, M.D., of Buffalo University.—On the evening of the Bth inst. the thirty-eighth annual exhibition of the American Institute was formally opened to the public at the Empire Rink, on Third Avenue, corner of Sixty-third-street, New York, by an address by the President, the Hon. Horace Greeley.— The American papers say that the extravagance of Jenny Lind's husband has so reduced her circumstances that it is thought that she will open a school for opera singers in Paris.— Montreal has an important case involving the legality of the marriage of a white man and an Indian woman in the Hudson Bay Territory, and having 8300,000 dependent on the verdict.—The Richmond Enquirier is glad Harvard lost, because " the Northern people have enough to be proud of," and it desires that " some check should be administered to American conceit." The same paper is delighted with the present political situation in Virginia, and "thanks General Grant and Horace Greeley for it." The Boston Journal says that drunkenness is just as common in the streets of that city as ever, and that intoxicating liquors flow just as freely as when there was no law to restrain their sale.—Kansas claims to be the champion corn grower this year, and that its crop will lead every other State.—Chicago, upon orders from London, is exporting butter to China by way of California.—Lowell, Massachusetts, since New Year's Dry, has had sixteen suicide cases, chiefly of young girls.