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Show MAIL NEWS. i Boston spent $1,200 entertaining H.iyes. Wine is made from oranges extensively exten-sively in St. Augustine, Fla. A train of twenty-one cars of tea passed over the Uuion Pacific last week. One murder per day and one hanging hang-ing per year is the present average of New York. One McElliott attempted to rape a child ol Mrs. Reeves, in Omaha and was arrested. A New Hatnpshirn man has buried two wives within eighl months, the last being 17 yeais ol age. Tho Illinois legislature has appropriated appro-priated $50,000 to complete the Douglas monument in course ot erection. A recent investigator says that there are 13,000 Jews in Jerusalem, of whom ovei G,000 are whollydepeudent on charity. Six hundred newsboys were entertained enter-tained by Mr. Cliilds of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger on the Fourth with a fine dinner. The ferries in Boston aro all owned by the city, and a proposition to abolish fares is favorably regarded by the officials. Tlio Montana Herald Ulievos that within five years the wool clip of that territory will exceed the value of the gold product. A Hartford hatter lias just completed com-pleted the journey home from New Mexico on horseback, the distance being over 1,500 miles. Joe Jtfferson has made a tremen-' tremen-' oous hit in Loudon in two or three farce comediee "Lend Me Five Sbillingu" and " A Regular Fix." ) An unknown man, said to be a vic- tim of Gambrinus, attempted todrown i himself in Omaha on Friday evening, but was prevented by two citizens. 1 The new Chicago city directory, 3 which has beon gotten up regardlsss f of expense in ordor to eclipse that f St. Louis, is said to contain 39,000 more names than the mound city i volume. The three citizens of Omaha, who were taken ofl by sunstoke on Friday last were Frank Kohl, driver of a beer wagon, 30 years; Samuel Holmes, 35 years, employed at a stable; J. O. Peabody, laborer in a lumber yard. The annual statistics of the railroads rail-roads of the United States show that I the gross earnings of all the roads in 1S70, amounled to $497,200,000, against $503,100,000 in 1S75, while the net earnings for the respective years were $160,400,000 and $185,-500,000. $185,-500,000. The will of the late Dr. Moyne, who wbs recently cremated in Washington, Washing-ton, Pa., to make sure that all his children Bhall follow his example, pro vides that all his heira shall, before receiving their legacies, make a formal for-mal pledge to be burued after death, Hon. John V. Le Moyne of Chicago, is one of his BOns. |