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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, died January 9, 1878. Gold discoveries are reported from Pennsylvania and New York. Special teachers receive $1,500 a year in the Chicago public schools. Seven thousand men are wanted for enlistment in the regular army. The Hungarians are immigrating to this country in large numbers. The total appropriations made by Congress amount to $186,800,000. St. Louis expects to pay out about $600,000 for teachers' salaries the coming year. One hundred and twenty-six summer hotels are advertised in one issue of the N.Y. Home Journal. College Commencements are as thick as political conventions, and far more likely to benefit the country. During Convention week, Cincinnati brewers sold 70,000 kegs of beer. Reduced to glasses it would be 8,360,000. Cats buried in gardens afford the best sort of nourishment for growing shrubbery. The more cats buried the better. It was estimated that the attendants upon the late Cincinnati Convention left in that city half a million of dollars. Forty of the survivors of the Narragansett disaster have united to secure damages from the Stonington Company. In the Italian quarter in New York the census enumerators found nearly five hundred persons living in seventy rooms. Judge Hilton's park at Saratoga employs several hundred workmen. When it is finished he will present it to the village. The famine in Asiatic Turkey increases. Two thousand persons are reported to have starved to death in Georgia. Gen. [General] Garfield has served more consecutive terms in Congress than any other man of his age that ever entered the House. The pension business is lively. During the last session Congressmen made over 300,000 inquiries relating to claims of pensioners. Mr. Matsudairi, a Japanese gentleman, educated in Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut], has been appointed Secretary of the Japanese Legation to Rome. For the education of negroes at the South, the American Missionary Association has expended $3,000,000 during the last nineteen years. Italy has allowed Protestant preaching only twenty years, but hardly a town of any importance is now without a Protestant church. Two little Illinois girls raised chickens and sold eggs; and after making a considerable sum of money they purchased a monument for their grand mother's grave. The Archbishop of Quebec expects Canadian Roman Catholics to keep the Sabbath. He warns them against excursions, pleasure parties, walks and drives on that day. The striking miners of Leadville managed things with high hand until the town was placed under martial law and invested with soldiers. Then the strikers wisely surrendered. The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed Mrs. Clara Leonard, of Springfield, on the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity - the first woman ever appointed on the Board. The new railroad to the top of Mount Vesuvius cost $100,000, and, as travelers may now reach the summit within ten minutes after starting, it is believed that the increase of travel will pay for the road in a year. Oberlin has a new fund of $10,000 to assist poor young women in obtaining a collegiate education. There have been 514 young men and 435 young women in attendance this year, and a class of 124 has just been graduated. The French Jesuits have been denied an asylum in Spain, so they will be compelled to go further to fare better. It is remarkable that at the close of the nineteenth century the order of Loyola should find itself proscribed in two Catholic countries like France and Spain. -N.Y. Herald. Mrs. Hayes has completed the reform begun at the White House by Mrs. Grant, and has suppressed the use of wine and spirits entirely at the private dinners. In recognition of this, the Women's Temperance Union propose to erect a drinking fountain in Washington city in her honor. |