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Show CONDENSED MAIL NEWS. An anti-Masonic State convention "is to be held at Normal, Illinois, next month. Three hundred and fifty thousand new books have appeared in England last year. Khode Island has four women to every man, and yet soino of the men go off to Salt Lake. Texas claims to have received one hundred and twenty thousand immigrants immi-grants since September. On the ISth a convention of all the Catholic temperance societies in Iowa will meet in Cedar )apids. The Iowa senate has passed the house liquor bill a measure even more stringent than the Ohio law. Mr. Sayles, of Council Bluifd, com-'mitted com-'mitted suicide at Lincoln while on a visit to a daughter living in that place. A man at Des Moines, quarrelling in a saloon, had an artery severed by a : blow with the list, and bled to death. I Both men strangers. i The narrow guage railroad projected from McGregor to Des Moines has been rechristened, and is to be known us the "Iowa Eastern." M. Thiers is reported (6 have declared de-clared that Franoe should raliy around Catholic interests as Germany was rallying ral-lying around Protestant interests. William Tranmer, of Council Bluffs, offers fifty dollars for the capture of one wife, Ellen, his little daughter, his rival, Harry Strong, and his money, $1,000. One of the most distant points from which contributions were received lor the relief of Chicago was Singapore, where more than $2,000 in gold were raised. A Washington correspondent of the Boston Fast says general Logan asserts emphatically that he is going to Cincinnati Cin-cinnati to do all he can to nominate Trumbull. The Michigan Central railroad has contracted for a double track between Detroit and Vpsilanti, and from Nilcs to Lake Station, to be completed within with-in sixty days. No epidemic has within half a century cen-tury been as general or fatal at Philadelphia Phila-delphia as tho small-pox. It has already al-ready raged there ton times as long as did the cholera. . -. The making of plate glass was suggested sug-gested by the fact of a workman happening hap-pening to break a crucible filled with melted glass. The fluid ran under a large flagstone and was found solidified in the form of a plate. The Nashville, Tennessee, exposition exposi-tion building will be finished hy the 15th inst. The six railroads and all lines of steamboats running to Nashville Nash-ville have agreed to take freight and passengers for half fare. An eccentric individual in Rhode Island is printing verses in Scripture and the Lord's Prayer on the backs of new greenbacks. He thinks thereby to secure the circulation of a sort of tract that will be neither burned nor torn up. The question of building iron bargeB for canal transit is again attracting attention at-tention at Buffalo. The experiment was tried years ago and abandoned on account of the increased cost and the lack of facilities which now exist for repairing re-pairing the iron hulls. The largest iron casting ever attempted at-tempted has been made at the Elswick Orduance works, Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was a huge anvil-block weighing 125 tons, to be used with a 20-ton double-action double-action forge hammer, for forging the 35-ton Armstrong gun. An advertisement appears in a Cork paper announcing that Mrs. Victoria Woodhull and a staff of her Free Love and women's rights supporters are soon to appear in that city and "leo-ture" "leo-ture" the women of Cork on their present state of degradation and slavery. slav-ery. The contract between the North Shore railroad company of Canada and an association of Chicago parties, for the construction of a road between Montreal and Quebec, gives one million mil-lion dollars. The city of Quebec gives one million dollars, and the land grant is estimated to be worth at least ten millions of dollars. Besides the local parishes along the line subscribe liberally. liber-ally. (The work will be begun at once and prosecuted vigorously. |