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Show LATEST MAIL ITEMS. California has "put up" 2,500,000 ciina of strawberries this year. There aro in Turkey over 40,000 persona in prison for debt due the govern n ic-nt. A number of Virginia city merchants mer-chants -Advertise umt tney will ute tniuc dollura at par. In EngLiud iron is rolled iuto sheets as thin and as flexible as paper and not easily torn. There were 150 Piutes and Sho-tdionea Sho-tdionea in the procession in Austin, Nov., on the Fourth. Between 5,000 and G.U00 persons porishr-d in this country last year, vie tiius ol ken s ne oil accidents. At (be funeral in Boslon of Wm. Si-aver, iniisbeliever in any relijj.cn, Brymii's " r:iiinatof)sie" was read. Dum Ttiiro said that the American crowd at the Centennial was the beet-mrtni;fn.d beet-mrtni;fn.d (Towd he had ever seen in his travels. There were fifty-three cases of small pox in S.m Francisco lant week, and the health oflicer has proclaimed the dita-nso to be epidemic. It is repuricd that the Richmond f-ihvr mining company at Eureka, New, will siupend operations, owing to the decline in silver. In Frmu'C, out of a populatiou of oG, 000,000, only two million live on the revenue of accumulated wealth, the balance depending on the produce pro-duce of labor. S.iid the president to a member of conrcsii, who complained ot tbe heat in iiik .iiium, i wisn u was uuj dej;m s iiiiilier, so you would bo com-peliid com-peliid to adjourn." Dm in ? tho year end i tig March 31st, 1S70; the importations of San Francisco Fran-cisco amounU-d to 833,000,000, ol Boston to $42,000,000, and of New-York New-York to $332,000,000. A missionary in India has sent an order to New Haven for a vehicle which can be traveled m by day, alept in aL nigbt and preached from at any time. It will be furnished with cooking utensils, bedding and books, and six osau will draw it. In tho Pyrenees the following notice is posted in a hotel : "All travelers on their arrival will be entitled, gratis, to a bath with Irictiou and special lutions. These toliuna will guarantee the traveler perfect immunity im-munity from tbe numerjus insects which infect the hotel." Books in which to record subscriptions subscrip-tions for the Old South church were sent out from Boston, and tbe one received re-ceived by a Lawrence clergyman was returned with the following connjont: "I bavo no sympathy in the t-llnrt lo ave 'The Old South.' It is a mere Puritan landmark. Tlie tokens ot Mich a tiith had better be destroyed than perpetuated." |