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Show CONDENSED MAIL SEWS. 1 Baltimore's new city hail will cost $2,500,000. Denver, Col , claims to havo about 11,000 population. Sixty divorce sails are ponding in the courts, at Nashville, Tennessee, The New York city court-house has cost $14,000,000, and is not yet finished. fin-ished. The spool factory at Bradley, Me., has used withiu a year, 3,00 cords of wood. The W'afcrbury clock company is now monufacturing 10,000 clocks a month. Ten thousand cans of milk, it is estimated, are carried into New York, daily. A negro justice of tho peace has been elected in Jersey City, N. J. tho first in the State A gentleman of Selam, Alabama, owns a horse that takes chickens from their roosts and eats them alive. There are three million dead oysters in Jamiaca bay, and they threaten New York with a pestilence. A South Carolina negro harnesses himself to the plow, and hiswite drives him with a goad behind. Key West, Florida, is the centra of a large sponge business. One New York-firm York-firm buys oyer $400,000 worth every year. Two members of the Iowa legislature legisla-ture bought $60 worth of goods in Dos Moines, just before going home, and paid lor them with postage stain ps. Tho model cheese factory of Ulica made last season 21 1.500 lbs. ofcheeso, which sold for $21,776.81. The busi-tosswillbo busi-tosswillbo largely increased another season. It is estimated that tho State of Delaware contains about 5,000,000 peach trees, three-fifths in bearing, and that a million and a quarter baskets may be expeoted this season,. A correspondent of the Iowa Home sUad describes a pear troo which was grafted on the hawthorn in 1808, and which is now abjut fifty feet high, trunk five feet nine inches in circumference. circum-ference. t bears fifty bushels of pears annually. A medical college for the education of women has been charted by tho New York legislature, aud two or three women of wealth have agreed to furnish the college with buildings, and Ecoure its future usefulness by liberal funds. There arc over 050,000 scholars in attendance at the publio schools in Illinois. Teachers number over 20,-000. 20,-000. School houses, log, frame, brick and stone, 10,773. Expenditures for school purposes for the past year, $7,- |