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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. OUT on the Texas frontier corn is worth $2.50 per bushel. CORN is selling at eight and a half cents a bushel in Quincy, Fla. <br><br> ATASCOSA county, Texas, is enjoying a thirteen months' drouth. FINE cotton picking weather prevails all over the South, and the crop is being rapidly gathered. <br><br> THERE ARE only two Republican newspapers in Arkansas, and both favor the nomination of General Grant.-Louisville Courier Journal. <br><br> IN THE PAST three months, 41,811 barrels of flour, valued at $263,798, were shipped from Richmond to South America. <br><br> JOHN CARMAN, sailor on the privateer Wasp in the war of 1812, lives in Fairfield county, S. C., and wears his hair in a queue. <br><br> WHEN a Chicago man gives his seat in a street-car to a lady, the papers of that place publish it as a piece of news.-Courier-Journal. <br><br> MR. CYRUS Field has erected a monument to Major Andre. Mr. Tilden has also performed a similar job for Cyrus himself.-Courier-Journal. <br><br> IT IS ANNOUNCED that the ex-Khadive of Egypt is worth $5,000,000. But this statement of his financial condition was made before his wives had bought their new fall bonnets.-Ibid. <br><br> "A MEMBER of a London ladies' club was requested to resign for kissing her brother in the dining-room."-Boston Post. SERVED her right. She ought to have been kissing somebody else's brother.-Ibid. <br><br> SOMETHING new under the sun has been found. It is a Chicago lawyer who has thrice refused the nomination for Judge of the Superior Court on the ground that he does not consider himself competent to discharge properly the duties of the office.-Ibid. <br><br> THE HIGHEST chimney in the world is at Mr. Townshend's works, Port Dandas, Glasgow, Scotland, and it is, with the exception of the spire at Strasburg, the Great Pyramid, and the spire of St. Stephen's at Vienna, the loftiest building. It is circular in section, and rises to a hight of 454 feet from the ground. The next in hight is also at Glasgow, at the works of Messrs. Tennant & Co., St. Rollox, the hight being 435 feet above the ground. <br><br> THE CAPITAL invested in hydraulic mining in California is $100,000,000, and the annual output of gold about $3,000,000. This is too big an interest to sweep out of existence. OF THE 7,000 to 8,000 blacks who have arrived in Kansas from the South, not more than a dozen are now dependent on the relief committee. The rest are at work, and some of them are already laying up money to buy farms. <br><br> THE COTTON crop of the present season is estimated at an increase of 500,000 bales over the crop of any previous year in the history of the country. The wheat crop shows twenty to thirty million bushels increase, and the tobacco crop twelve million pounds increase. <br><br> MONTGOMERY (ALA.) Advertiser: Mrs. James Bryant, of Lowndes county, donated last year her colossal fortune of natural black hair for the benefit of the Memphis yellow fever sufferers. It realized several hundred dollars, and has now come back to the original owner, by the kindness of a Boston merchant, who was the last purchaser. It will be raffled for in Montgomery in an evening or two, for the benefit of General Hood's children, and everybody should take a chance. <br><br> THE YOUNG Men's Christian Associations of the United States now number 854. Of these, 56 have buildings of their own, valued at $1,924,770. Building funds to the amount of $231,182 have been collected by 42 associations, and will be expended hereafter upon association buildings. The value of property of all kinds belonging to the associations amounts to $1,295,600. Reading rooms are supported by 310 associations, and 468 expend $316,210 annually for current expenses. |