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Show EASTERN ITEMS. The democrat have made lare . gains in the 'ew Jersey spring elec The English parallel railway lines J want to unite to save mony on their running expeusi s. Ttie Cuban plantation negroes fire joining the insurgents as they ap- 1 proach westward ly. The New York Sua and Times are receiving subscriptions for the family i ot the late Dan Bryant. 3 Brooklyn is not now a desirable fi place of residence. Rent are lower there this spring than ever belore. The Omaha Herald now sets up for a religious journal, and the new Wyoming Wyo-ming governor has just subscribed for it. An eastern paper regrets to state that among all the families represented repre-sented in the Sorosis club ol the town there is not one baby. Mrs. J. J. Astor sent recently to the office of the New York Children's Aid society $750 to convey fitly home-lets home-lets boys to homes in the west. DiDtheria still continues prevalent in New York city. There wore 250 deaths from the disease for tho six weeks ending tho 10th instant. Sixty Omaha pioneers were enluted for a Black Hills expedition on the ISth of March- It will cost them $75 each, which will iuclude the month's subsistence. Mayor Barnum's speech to the Bridgeporten: "My friends this is a proud moment for me, and I feel just as if every one of you deserved a separate sep-arate cage," Mr. Lovell, the owner of the great trotting mare "American Girl," says that she has wintered well, and looks better than he ever saw her before at this season of the year. A mail route broker has recently come to the front in Kansas, where he informs his friends and the public generally that he hiis sixty-five mail routes to let on private terms. A Texas delegation recently visited St. Louis.1 They reperted business and crop prospects as favorable and a large "migration coming into the Btate. Galveston, as a seaport, is looking up. In reply to a correspondent, the NewY'ork Sun says editorially: "Chief Justice Church travels with free passes as a deadhead; and the fact is not creditable to him. No judge should receive such compliments." Mr. Humphrey is anxious to match "Fullerton" against the California champion "Occident," who is now.in New York. "Fullerton" is still in Pnlifnrnirt hi if. will ha hrnno-hf. nnt in the latter part of May, under the charge of Hickok, the trainer. Arbor day in Nebraska is on April 2oth, and the State Horticultural society has greatly stimulated tree planting by offering premiums ranging rang-ing from $10 to $75 for the largest number of trees plautcd. Under these inducements millions of trees have been planted. It ia reported that when the women clerks ol the New York treasury department de-partment heard that Gen. Spinner was about to leave that ofhee hundreds of them repaired to his room to ascertain ascer-tain ita truth. When they found that they were indeed to lose their friend, they wept till the room resounded with their sobs. It is comparatively easy to raise money if you are a Cuban captain-general. captain-general. Valmasdea sent the other day for the president of the Havana bank, and said that he was going to the interior to pay his troops, and ordered him to advance $2,000,000 in gold. A protest was ot no ue, and the president had to fork over, without even consulting the directors. The eastern oaoers note a ereat increase in the numbers of tramps in the rural districts of the Middle States. Usually they are great hulking fellows who would starve belore they would do an honest day's work, though they will tramp from one tewn to another, begging many of them pilfering when they have an opportunity. It is estimated that there are usually 30,-000 30,-000 ol these vagrants roaming about Massachusetts alone. The New York confidence swindlers, swin-dlers, Bement &, Co., have a new game. They write a letter to a man in the rural districts, informing bioi ' that they have been impressed with ; the idea that they can draw a fine priie in a joint investment with him, and they have therefore bought a $20 lottery ticket, which tbe countryman can have one-half of by forwarding $10, which the swindlers hope will I secure a fortune. Sometimes the trap i so nicely set catches a flat; but re-ceutly re-ceutly a thoughtful farmer sent a letter, which he had received, to a friend, who exposed the rascals, and blocked their little game. |