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Show Osr. of the seemingly singular effects ef-fects of the civil war in Spain is a 10 per cent, advance ih the price of cork, and the prospect that it will go still higher. Spain and Portugal arc the cluef cork-producing countries of the world ; these trees, in Spain especially especi-ally being 'cultivated to a great extent. ex-tent. The CarlLsts have at present possession of the cork regions, and exportation is wholly at a stand still, with no chance for. nil impi'ovcuient until the war cuds. After all, Scth Green, the successful suc-cessful piscatorial culturist, is not drowned, annoimt-uj by tiOrymph He is alive and as lively as usu il, and has just written to the President of the California Acclimatizing. Society in regard to tisliy matters. Scth is busily proparing to stock the head waters of the Hudson river with ttvo hundred thousand young salmon at the advent of Spring, and is worth a good many dead men yet. ; He is perfectly satis lied with all of his obituaries obit-uaries that have thus far met his notice. |
