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Gleaning?.-Official records show that upwards ef one hundred and fifty female : recraita have been discovered, and made to resume the garments of their sex. Quite a proof of female patriotism.California has beefi relieved of the severe drouth from which it has been suffering,— There havb recently. been severe rains, and vegetation is recuperating... In efforts tending to the suppression of the T^llion, the Chicago-Beard uf Trade eeema never to weary in welldoing. Two thousand dollars were Monday morning subscribed by ififKr. individuals or. firms,.: for Jhe [purpose of paying to recruits For the hundred days’ service the sum of $15 per month daring their absence. .. ... , . The Quebec Chronicle says:. “The gold digging mania may now be fairly said to have 6oizeii upon: the.people..of Lower. Canada; facilities of travel and transportation are organised—a four horse stsgo. already runs daily from-Point Lavi to the mines, and a weekly express is also established..The sanguine friends of ths new Atlantic Telegraph cable estimate that it will transmit' eight words a minute. The old cable conveyed only two and a half a minute. The Red Sea^ine is worked at the rate of seven words, and the Malta and Alexandria.line at ten words a minute. .On the mountains, in Vermont, the snow it more than five feet deep on a level, and eo deep that teamsters have been compelled to abandon log drawing until it melts away,Charles Noyes, the ex detective who robbed the United States Express office in St Louis last sammer, made his escape from jail on Friday night last, and is still at large.Bayard Taylor ib in seclusion at Cedarcrof,; his tharming Pennsylvania home, hard at i work upon a hew novel of American life, which will appear next Autumn,i In a letter John M. Botts said: From the* portico of my house I and my family have i seen ni^e battles fought on my own fields,and l just before my own door, between hostile i troops, who but yesterday, as it were, boasted i of a common history, a common nationality, i and a common destiny.”1 A remarkable case of the preservation of a 1 body body is noticed in the Boston papers.' A Chelsea undert aker made a disinterment a few weeks since of the body of a lady who had been buried in the Garden Cemetery in 5 Chelsea for nearly sixteen years, for the pnr-1 pose of removing. th« remains, to Plymouth,* when ho found tho body in a singular stats ot* preservation. The coffin was decayed away, and the head .(- ih© body' was almost* entirely gone; but from the shoulders to ' the feet had not in the least mouldered in ‘ the grave. The body, was white and solid i as marble.t milB ■ IgVlmi -
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Quincy Whig and Republican
Quincy, Illinois, US
Sat, May 14, 1864
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