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Show LndMii i, to Iniw : ' Vtnldrt'n's tbcairc." 1 j Host,.!! tiiiiiiioii has pn-lu.'-'-l tlir.v crops ot'huy tlii.s ,easoti. Tlio Bwion Jnnrwl clears $100,000 a your. An KulL-h cjuntess had writkn a treatise on the diseased ol' cats. The weakness of the defaulting pest office official in New York was racc-borse.. racc-borse.. A lady of Kvaiwvillo, indiaiia, lately applied for two divorces Iroui the same husband within twenty-lour hours. . Delaware has liii-S season shipped 7fi,yO4,$0O pounds of peaches, iho number of baskets Ls 17. The trades unions of New York arc said to have spent at least $75,000 ou their xrcut ci.irlit-Iiour demonslration iu that c'uy. Sleilin- Sledge, 7:; years of ue, lus been sent to the Virgiuia state prison ior bftccn years, which is bad 'or old Sledge. Tho largest single eoal operator in 1'eiins.ylvauia is A. Pardee, of llazle-ton, llazle-ton, who bewail life a poor man, and is worlh Viob.noo. Victoria's daughter Alice is publishing publish-ing a novel in a Hesse-Darmstadt pi -nodical, written in Herman, on the social life of the higher class of people in South Germany. A pony full inlo it 'M foot well at yioux city, l he other day, and was taken out alive, and so well, too, that Iu; went eating grass (lie moment he vol on top of ground. A New York paper announces the piece of pleasing inlbrmation for travelers trav-elers that the Statcn Island ierry-boat Wesffr.hl "will soon be running again as good as before the laic explosion." The Hartford Times says that the Connecticut tobacco crop is so large that the liiriucrs are actually bothered i to find room to stow it in; and this curious fact has in many places delayed the cutting. A boy named George Ferguson, j ninuteon years old, shot and killed his j brotlior, Thomas Ferguson, a i'ew days I ago; in .Randolph county. The only : provocation was that the hogs of the victim broke into his brother's cornfield. corn-field. Bismarck lias uti . income ol" more than $21)0,000 per annum. He believes he was poisoned by some unknown i enemy during 1 1 is recent visit to b'rankfbrt-on-the-Main. He has lost his appetite, and has been in poor health ever since. A horsc-car in Cohoes, N. Y.( was a few days ago very quickly emptied of all its passengers but two these two being a lady and a obild, the latter suffering from a malignant attack of small-pox, and the former being its mother. Jven the conductor ami the driver ran. . A young man in Maine, who had made all his arrangements to marry the daughter of a hotel-keeper in that Stale, a few days ago, was astounded by a demand from her father for her board during the entire time in which they had been "engaged," four years. The youth suddenly disappeared from town. Among the queer things at Nantucket, Nan-tucket, Massachusetts, is a meat auc tion, which is held on some street corner cor-ner every day. Meat is not kept until it spoils, but what the butchers have left over at night is auctioned the next day, the farmers adding to the stock the remnants left in their carts after supplying their customers. There seems to be rather a dismal look out for the abolition of gambling , houses in Now Orleans, if it be true, asstatad in the Picayune, that police ' captain Duncan owns several of the establishments in question; that a member of the police board is interested interest-ed in a "hell," and that there is another police captain who puts up money at a banking game. It is reported that king Charles of. Sweden is about to marry a daughter i of tho king of Denmark. If so there : will bo a new genealogical puzzlo, for the king of Sweden's daughter is already married to the king of Denmark's Den-mark's son; the new bridegroom will therefore become his own daughter's brother-in-law, and the Danish crown prince will be the son of his own sister. |
