Show t CLIPPINGS CLIPPINGS lc is ny va the receipts at the united states branch mint at san francisco during one week was 0 ounces aces of gold dust an and d the coin coln coinage gl during a the same time was A woman called mina Hening heringhi Heni henl nghi hl doing business as a sole trader in san Francisco has applied for the benefit hit fit of the insolvent law liabilities near assets nominally she is evidently a business woman and pretty much understands the credit system A letter ietter received in san fran francisco cisco by tho tb golden gate states that a la lady dy in the second cabin of the Uncle sam on her down passages passage cuther cut her throat with witha a jackknife jack knife when four days out from san francisco and although livan living t when at acapulco was not expected to recover her name is suppressed one half of an orchard of fifty acres eight years old lately sold in oregon for the fruit of oregon is said to be sup superior eri erk to that of california upwards of five thousand letters were sent by the southern overland mail on ahe the dinst the number forba forwarded i r did ded b by y each mail maii mailhan has steadily increased for thelast the last six months it is estimated that there are from five to seven thousand welchman Welch men scattered dve ove over arthe the hills bills and valleys of california 1 1 the lae scarlet fever is prevalent in the town and neighborhood of shasta the hongtong Hong 0 kong 0 fress press pross press of sept kept ath say says that there is a dried specimen of a real mer mermaid enthat city it is about two feet longhat long has a head like a monkey with hair on i it farms jarms arms and fi fingers anz ger S also like a monkey the back is its scaly and the tail precisely that of a fish it was brought from japan savans who hapa hake hava have examined it ba say Y there is no mistake about it the sale of rufus choates library just completed c by auction will realize to his family about twenty years ago the number of colored men in canada west was now there aro more mor then ethun in four months afi after er the tha passage of the fugitive slave law poured into the country twenty million of wooden sleepers are replaced annually in england ii useless less from d decay e this iten item alone requires the felling f eli ell in of three hundred thousand trees occupying five thousand acres of land it is proposed says the liverpool albion to construct an iron tube or tunnel with ditl separate passages passage sor for carriages foot passengers and a railway for the purpose of connecting C the shores of the mersey by a communication this tunnel will be launched I 1 on the river and when it is placed in proper position it will be sunk to the bottom and the proper approaches made at either end thi the museum of the late hugh miller has been purchased by the city of Edin edinburg burg Lurg for the sum of one thousand pounds sterlin sterling ali an english 0 missionary now in sumatra lately wrote home borne that be had the melancholy satisfaction of examining the oven ovea in which his predecessor was cooked the subscription towards the erection of a monument to hogg the ettrick shepherd is proceeding 0 favorably A alioth has as been obtained 1 amounting 0 to la early nearly and the duke of buccleuch Buc besides a subscription of ol XIO los ios has gratuitously supplied a suitable I 1 block of freestone for the figure which ista be executed by mr currle carrie sculptor dornick nor Dor at the cost of I 1 austrian finance finances shave have fallen lower than e ever er to the dismay of all capitalists it has just transpired that after having C brought out a national loan of in 1854 she has fraudulently increased the issue to or in excess some pack mules inkles which had been driven to eureka mills serra kerra sierra county dal dai cal and back to la porte in a train during durin i g the late severe severe weather died from the exposure the sac union says that it appears frona the papers that the boys in the sharp town of sonora imagined that the young e lord grosvener was green and waked hi him m up at his hotel in order to try him at cards he played with them at poker whist seven up euchre and other games they seeking b all the time to get him intoxicated but it turned out that he beat them fairly with their own weapons and in the morning was the only sober man in the crowd he is now popular in that locality and the boys will fight for him his early ed was attended to A destructive Sn etive fire oc occurred currid in buffalo between the hours of denand n d twelve olal 0 ci at night which destroyed the large grain elevator torand and warehouse adjoining the new york central railroad deboton Dep oton ohio er with an immense quantity of grain gram and other property stowed within the building buildings ts belon belonging in to the company were valued at and something over bushels of grain mostly wheat valued at making a total of worth of property destroyed the project of mr gisborne for a submarine telegraph from batavia in the island of java to moreton bay in australia by way of timor and cape york has been favorably received both by great britain and australia and there is every prospect of its soon being carried into effect one half of the means required by the enterprise will be furnished by the Colon yand one half by the home government in a speech at liverpool some time ago mr gladstone said dr johnson I 1 think says and I 1 have a great respect for whatever falls from him that whatever induces a man to live more in the future and less in the present exalts him in the scale of creation if that be so and I 1 am inclined to believe it is eo so the position of the railway shareholder must be an exalted one the ship royal charles was totally lost near ban bangor banor Z or on the british coast of pai pas passengers s e n lers gers who were on board only ten are said bald mohave been saved about half a million in gold w was s on board atthe at the time the tile disaster the amount of gold produced during the lakten years by the miners of california california and australia is said to be the potato crop in canada is large and good and in the toronto market potatoes sell out of the wagon at twenty cents and by re tallab twenty five cents per bushel some of the indians indiana on lake superior have formed a temperance society the occasion of this was as follows A large number of them had collected a considerable amount of mone money yin rin in small sums which they entrusted to the keeping keepin a of a chief in whom they had implicit co confidence 11 fi dence this ibis dignitary was not in infallible and one day went on a spree and spent it all the red men had an indignation meeting over it and after a most emphatic serle series s of grunts formed a self protective association cia tion based on f fundamental und principles that is to say the first indian gindlin who got drunk was to be tied to a stump and whipped with twenty five lashes the king of the hawaiian islands and his house of nobles have proclaimed his royal highness the prince of hawaii heir to the throne of these islands about the middle of nov last there were in one day vessels in the port of chicago add to this the arrivals and departure of one hundred and fifty railroad trains each may klay fr omand to dif dlf different derent quarters of 0 the country and some estimate of the trade carried on in chicago 41 42 41 calibe can be obtained we understand says the san francisco e times that four of 0 the sol soi soldiers 1 on board the golden gate contrived to get away from the steamer after she was in the bay in the fog it is reported a harder set of fellows never were newfound found to together a ether that they robbed and abused the steerage passengers with impunity drove them from the table and in every possible way vay disgraced themselves and the name of soldiers it should however be stated that at most there were of the whole two hundred not over a dozen americans americana the balance being 0 foreigners of the lowest description the steamer columbia delivered in san francisco at one trip boxes of oregon apples valde VALCE or DOCTORS adrian the sixth de bared that a physician was ve very ry necessary t to 0 a populous country for were it not forth for the e faculty men would live so long and grow so thick that one could not live for tor the other |