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Show INKLINGS. There a.-e said to be 25,000,000 acres of woodland in Virginia. Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, is putting put-ting all his relatives in office. An ice factory just started in Memphis Mem-phis gives entire satisfaction. The Yorkville, N. Y., police are afraid to attempt suppressing the ruffians of that place who are a terror to the peaceable citizens. Nice place, that, for a quiet family. Edward P. Weston, the famous "walkist," walked 100 miles at the New York rink, a few days ago, in twenty-one hours, thirty-eight minutes and fifteen seconds, and didn't seem much fatigued. Albert Bierstadt has just finished the largest painting that has left his z easel for a number of years. It is a view of the White mountains. Miss Lewis, the American sculptor in Home, is only half a negress, her mother having boon an Indian and her birth-place a wigwam. Northern parties are exploring the creeks of the Potomac, for the purpose of locating a fish farm from which to supply the markets of Washington and Baltimore. A little boy, the four year old son of Jacob Dcmory, of Bloomington, Macon county, Missouri, shot himself through the abdomen, a few days ago, while playing with his father's revolver. In Charleston, a few days ago, Alexander Hamilton, by whose neglect a colored man lost his life, was fined fifty dollars by a magistrate for practising prac-tising medicine without a license. Adam Clark, in advising a young Wesleyan preacher, told him on no consideration to hold interviews with wonifn, especially youthful ones, unless un-less in the presence of witnesses. Eastern dispatches have contained repeated mention of Col. Mosby, of Virginia, as one of the officers in the hie raid. The reports were erroneous. The colonel has been quietly attending to his own business in Warrenton. A stump of large size can be removed re-moved at a cost of fifty cents by simply boring a hole through the stump or tree, at the base near the ground, and Eouring a pint of crude oil into the ole and setting fire to it- The fire will soon burn the stump down three feet below the ground. The Canadian blue noses announce that the Fenians needn't expect much mercy from them. The only salvation of thoj'inian cause is to elect" George - "l'he'ii,"greai,feJLajt!ie .White House, what a rumpus would be kicked up instauter. The following advice is from a New York paper : Press on, young man, though you b.) poor. We know a youth who, with only his two hands and a crowbar, opeued a jewelry store, and now he is living in a fine stone residence in Sing king. "Why," said Anna Dickenson, on one occasion, stepping forward to the footlights and commencing a lecture with a lofty flight, "Why was I born?" She paused and a thrill ran through the audience. Again she repeated the question, "Why was I born?" And again she paused that the due impression impres-sion might be made upon her hearers before she answered her own question. "Why was I born" she asked once more in almost painful accents, when a boy in the gallery shouted, "I give it up." Anny wilted. |