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Show ALL SORTS. ' Orange culture in Gtorgia has b.'i n tried with success. Fiftv now operas wore produced in ' Italy during loTo. '"Henry V" has just been produced ' at McYickcr'a in Cnieago. Mr. John McCullougb will soon ' appear at ihe Boston theatre. Mr. Edwin Booth was last week at Ford's opera house in Baltimore. Failures in the extreme cattiTii cities are increasing in numbers. Tho Charleston Xoc.-.- Hays: No' amnesty; no Centennial appropriation. appropria-tion. Insanity is the plea of the counsel of Landis, who shot Cairuth in Vine-laud. Vine-laud. I The New York Ectniny 1'ost arraigns ar-raigns Kepresenlative Cox for the use ol'the word "aniuestical." j The New York Times says that its circulation and profits aro greater now than they were in 1S71 2. A Montreal physician, asking for the renewal of a note, writes: "We 'are in a horrible crisis; there ia not a i Bick man in the district." One of the revivalists now carrying ' on operations is a converted pugilist; another is a converted actress; an-i an-i other is a converted mins'.er. A fathor in Bradford counly, P.i., 90 years of age, "boxed" his son's '. ears severely lor abusing his wile. The hoy is about GO years of age. They say Mrs. Grantdoesn't look a day older than when she first came to Washington, ten years ago, which is strong indication of a good husband. The cclebraLed racer, "Wildidle," has broken the back tendon of his right fore leg, and will never be able to go on the turf again. He was valued nt $15,000. I Tho New York Sun nays that Judge Van Brunt of that city is now living openly there with his second wife, and iiLknowlcdg'ng her as his wile, while having another wife living. Jclfcrson Davis recently brought suit against Ihe heirs and legatees of his brother, Joseph FJ. Davis, to recover re-cover $70,000 purchase money for property in Warren county, Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Ho was defeated. Condensed beer is the latest wrinkle, it is boiled down, put up in sealed caus. and can be eaten in juuks or made into beer again according accord-ing to tiie pleasure of the operator. In tlio state cf New York there are expended annually more than $100,- 000. 000 by consumers ot liquors, or two-thirds of all wages paid to laborers labor-ers in agriculture and manulicture. anJ twice as much asdhc receipts of all ihe railioads of the state. Commodore Stephen Decatur, who died last week nt Boston, when three ot his neighbors were attacked by ship fever and no one dared to nurse tbem, tended them through their illness, ill-ness, ;uid when they died dug the graves and buried the b;jdics himself, reading the funeral service over the in. James Smith, an old man of 74, lived in one ol the poorest houses in the poorest part of Manchester, Eng. He was lound dead the other day, alone, and surrounded by every indication indi-cation of extreme poverty. Bui when the police searched his house they found a safe containing deeds and mortgage bonds worth 12,000 and 1. '2,(00 in gold. j The Italians make the charge that t American ladies with fortunes not less Itretly than their persons are those who have tlio greatest weakness for titles, and are the most eager in their chase for those who wear liiem; but a Home correspondent the New Ynrt i Times inlimrtt lh:n the impoverished nobles are quite as anxious fortune-hunters fortune-hunters as American ladies are tilie- . hunters. |