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Show Intelligence Items. One hundred telephones are in use in Savannah, Ga. [Georgia] ---- The women who voted in Massachusetts were mostly middle-age. One of the curiosities of San Antonio, Texas, is a boy born without arms. ---- A baby in Somerville County, Texas, was lately carried off by a panther. ---- Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will be sixty-eight years of age next February. ---- Mississippi's next Legislature will have a Democratic majority of 103 on joint ballot. ---- The Circuit Court in session at Fayetteville, Tenn. [Tennessee], last week, had to suspend on account of a circus. ---- A widow, seventy years of age, residing near Austin, Tex. [Texas], takes care of a stock ranch and 300 head of cattle. ---- The 65,000 dogs of St. Petersburg bring to the city treasury $130,000 per year, $2 being the tax upon each dog. ---- A number of influential newspapers in the South are advocating smaller farms and better cultivation as the surest way to success and prosperity. ---- The colored people of North Carolina, it is reported, are so determined in their purpose to get away from the State, that they are disposing of their effects at ruinous rates. ---- Population of Paris - At the last census taken the population of Paris was 2,037,000; during the last ten years it has increased at the rate of 12,000 a year - a very modest one compared with that of London or New York. ---- The official returns of the cholera epidemic, made up to the 8th of November, disclose the awful character of the visitation, and the still more alarming fact that it is not yet wholly at an end. There have been 160,256 reported cases, of which 91,818 or 58 per cent, proved fatal; 12,695 or 26 per cent, recovered; and 25,713, or 16 per cent, are still under treatment. Very few fresh cases are reported. ---- Dailey's bill for the Education of Colored People recites, that $310,000 have been covered back into the Treasury recently, being the bounty of colored soldiers unclaimed after seven years, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest that amount in Government four-per-cents, the interest to be apportioned to the institutions already in operation where colored people receive their education in the higher branches. ---- According to the Burcan? VERITAS' Report for 1879-80, the sailing tonnage of the civilized world has decreased from 14,218,072 to 14,103,605 - a falling away which shows the decided tendency which now prevails to give steamers the preference over sailing vessels. The total sailing tonnage of Great Britain (which includes the Colonia tonnage) is 5,584,128 - showing that over one-third of the sailing tonnage of the world is under the British flag. ---- Atlanta Constitution. "The permanent fund "for the support of the Hood children now in the hands of the New Orleans committee amounts to $6,817. To this amount is to be added at least $3,000 from Georgia, and handsome sums from the Hood associations at work in Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and New York City. There is every reason to believe that the permanent fund will be at least 20,000 [unreadable] would be thrice that sum. |