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—Arkansas is railroad crazy. —Madlie. Janauschek is in Buffalo. —Oregon wants a bureau of emigration. —The California orange crop was poor. —Oxen are wanted in Oregon. Price, $1000 a yoke. —Mahogany is, so abundant in Nevada as to Deered for fuel. — Southern Indies are considering whether to con snuff-dipping. —Three stolen articles a week are offered to the editor of Harper's Monthly. —A New York paper calls General Hooker “the Mars of the Northern army. —During the last two months more than twenty Miles of new sidewalk were laid in Chicago. —The Czar has consented to allow all the trea sures of art in the imperial gallery to be photographed. —Mrs. Mary Dean Howells, mother of the poet Howells, died at Jefferson, Ohio, on the 1ith ult. She was 66 years old. —The Liberal journals of Madrid have been short of editors and writers since the commencement of the revolution. —Salvator Taglioni, composer of several bal lets, and father of the renowned dancer, has just died at Naples, aged 78. —Kernesville, N. C., with scarcely a hundred inhabitants, has sent North this fall nearly $100,000 worth of dried fruit. —Oregon Democrats are advising the Legisla ture to remove Governor Woods unless he refrains from the use of the veto. _—Mrs. Partington as B. Shillaker was a De mocratic candidate for the Makeachivette Legislature in the recent election, and was defeated. —Miss Kellogg, who has a world-wide reputa tion, has sung in opera in only five cities—London, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. —John Quincy Adams was a candidate for Re presentive from Quincy, as well as Governor of Mas sachusetts, and was defeated in both instances. —Some of the Indiana State banks have not yet completed the work of calling in and destroying their circulation under their old State charters, . —A St. Petersburg paper announces that there are no fewer than one thousand ladies in that city en gared in the remnunerative art of fortune telling. Some of Mr. Bright’s constituents have re quested him to use his influence for ‘the expulsion of the Jesuits from England.” Mr. Bright declines. —In prison, at Bourges, France, is a man, aged about 40 years, who has never done a day's work, and is now undergoing his eighth sentence for begging. —Fifteen hundred dollars reward is offered for the murderer of General Hindman, one thousand of it by the “‘carpet-bag” State government of Arkansas. —Dore’s illustrations of Tennyson’s “Enid,” nine engravings on steel, are just published in Son om completing the pictures of the “Idyls of the m.”” —Orders have been given to the chief engineer of the New York elevated railway to go forward and complete the foundations to Thirtieth street, imme diately. —Sacramento is to have a great wine factory if it will furnish two hundred tons of grapes this year as a beginning, and promise to increase the amount every year. —Notes of warning are sounded by the Chi cago papers against the waste of water in that city. Lake Michigan is but a small pond for the use of that growing town. —The Southern Penitentiary of Indiana has over four hundred convicts, where labor e supports the imetitution, and the appropriation by the State has yet been touched. —The criminal statistics of England and Wales for the year ending at Michilmas, 1867, show that 3861 women were committed for trial, charged with indictable offenses, and 15,548 men. . —Paris has thirty establishments for the sale of hereeterh for the table, which consume two thou sand five hundred horses annually, representing over @ million pounds of cheap and wholesome meat. —It is mentioned as a remarkable fact that a gen of American parents, who was born in California, has atisived his majority and voted at the recent aeons. He is believed to be the only case of the B —_At the California State Fair there was a great display of seeds. One exhibitor selected specimens of one hundred and fifty varieties and eight of cereals, and sent them nicely packed as a present to the King of Prussia. —The most recent style of thievery in Milan is invented by vagabond, who invike young milliners and scantstresser to the bale champetres, drag them with wine containing opium, and then despoil them of their hair. —Many of the postage stamps that have re cently arrived in Paris on letters from Spain, had the ween'’s head punched out of them, so that her Mest atholic Majesty will soon be out of print as well as out of place. —The ex-Queen of Spain left behind her one hundred and seventy carriages, several splendid Arab and Fogtish horses, as well as the finest collection of mules extant, in the coach houses and stables of her royal palace at Madrid. —All England that wears stockings is alarmed at the discovery that, in the process of dyeing certain colors, the fabrics chan into gun cotton. Imagine a whole audience blowing themselves up while stamp ing applause at a mass meeting. —A rudicerous incident was reported to have occurred at the polla in Quincy, Mars. The Hon. Charles Francie Adams deposited a written ballet. A few minutes afterward he returned and stated that by mistake he had put a receipted bill into the box. —It is announced in a Sicily paper that a line of steamers is about to be established between Italy and the United States, running from Naples to New York, and touching at Messina and Palermo. This will give a new impetus to the trade in oranges and temons. —It has been generally supposed that the term “base bel| —designating our national game—was of American origin. But Miss Austen, in her “North anger Abbey,” published about the beginning of the century, writes of a young heroine who preferred “cricket, baseball, c.,” to dorts. —The annual total production of coal in the world is about 175,000,000 tens, of which Great Britain produces over 100,000,000 tens. The Anglo-Saxon race, as represented by the United Kingdom, the United States, and the British colonies, produce 73 per cent of the world’s coal supply. —The book recently written by the Queen of Engishd has been translated into the Welsh language for the benefit of such of Her Majesty's loyal subjects as do not read English. The title page presents a perfect thicket of consonants, as follows:—‘‘Daienan © Ddyddiyfrein Bywyd yu yr Ucheldyrcedd. ’A recent number of the Columbus (Miss.) Fader contained an apology for a typographical blan der, which, it is said, had spoiled “one of the fest sentences in our editorial.” It then gave the cor rected reading, which shows us what is regarded as a Goce sentence in the under office:—‘“The insane drippings from the maudlin tongue of Ulysses the Lucky.” In the records of Clarke county, Washington Territory, is a deed of a lot of land in which is in clided a bill of sale of some livestock. The descrip tion of the two pieces of property is as follows:— “Also, that certain lot of land on the Columbia beltom, bounded by land owned by Alexander and others. Also, a white ball and twelve hogs west of the meridian line.” _The other day in Schenectady, an old lady, with two bandboxes in her arms, came to the track of the Central Railroad and inquired at what time the next train was due. On ben informed that it would see to ceses the city in half an hour, she quietly amped her bandboxes on the pavement and sat down, remarking that she'd wait till it passed; she didn’t want to be run over; and a body couldn’t be too keerful.” —A ghastly scientific discovery is reported from Turin, where Professor Castorani, the celebrated oculist, has, it would appear, found a way of killing animals, by forcing air into their eyes, within the space of a few seconds, and, it is thought, almost without causing them any pain. Within the space of a few minutes four rabbits, three dogs and a goat were killed in this manner. The most remarkable thing about this “killing made easy” is the fact that it leaves absolutely no outward trace, and it can be as easily applied to men as to animals. How Frank Blair Heard the News. Frank P. Blair, the defeated Vice Presidential can didate of the Democracy, arrived in Chicago at an early hour yesterday morning, and Seeves at the Tre mont House. Scarcely a member of his party called upon him, the terrible remit they had experienced no doubt deterring them from confronting their nomi nee. After reading the morning papers, Frank re marked that he had been beaten like ——, and that was the only way to be beaten. Some of his Republi can friends casually mentioned “Salt River,” to which Frank replied, that Salt River was not large enough; he was “going to Salt Lake.” Be left in that direction, via the Union Pacific, at the P. M., and has not been heard of since. It is to be hoped he may arrive safe, expouse because of ao Young, and perhaps he may succeed to a position among the Mormons.—Chicago Tribune, UtA,
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Nov 10, 1868
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