Show P pun YEN i the ahe legislature of Newfoundland has haa beep beeb summoned domeet anthe ad of december next nearly two months earlier than hian the usual time for the purpose among other othel matters of meeting the necessities of those chose short fishe fishery and bad crops have left without resources of their the ir own owns senious serious apprehensions are felt in st si johns jows in co sequence of the almost total failure of the fisher fishery y b and the potato potito crop the me tribune thinks that the ilia 1114 number of ap speeches ee c hes made during the recent campaign n ha bas has 8 been quite equal to that of all that were made in the previous presidential canvasses from 1789 t to 0 1859 inclusive the new york tribune announces that during the week pre previous alig gus pus us to nov there was bix six hundred and twenty seven thousand d copies of that paper printed and circulated circulate d which high w the editor thinks ahin was the largest number ever circulated circulate db bj y any similar establishment gent in t hat that length of time chassaing the great lion ilon arinter recently wounded a lion near algeria which escaped but the next day sprang upon him hira from a thicket and was dragging him away when his bis compan companion ion jon fired at the animal ani maland and coming up took a pistol from Chass chassaings aings belt and finished him the hunters arm was broken like a straw between the terrible teeth col lewis IV washington of jefferson county va was married on the oth of nov nor to ella 31 ni daughter of geo IV bascetta Basc ett esq of hanover county va in this marriage a singular coincidence occurs the groom bein being the great grandson of two brothers of gen washington and the bride the great granddaughter of the only sister of gen washington and also great grand daughter of the sister of mrs general washington among the curiosities to be seen at the mechanics fair in richmond V is a doll which has been played with for five generations a diamond ring years old a book years old and the cradle in which henry clay was rocked general scott is said to be the largest man in the american service he is six feet six inches tall and weighs two hindered hundert hun derod dered I 1 and bi sixty i t pound pounds s ile he is 74 years 0 old oid d yet his heah this good and his whole system apparently vigorous much of which is doubtless owing to his bis temperate habits A company has been teen f formed ormed f for or the purpose of pearl pearI fishing in the gulf of california at the fower tower lower end of the bay pearls earls earis of great value are found in the sha shallow ilov beds Ms it was here that the pearls were found at the close of the last century which formed a necklace for the queen of spain and were so much admired at all the castern courts upwards of fifty thousand miles of telegraph are now iti in operation in the united states which is an aggregate greater than all the rest in the world combined there is an american named ward who fights for the chinese ile he has a troop of and enjoys the rank of colonel lie he fights battles and takes cities by contract for re taking still sung kiang be he received 87 francs tho va ton tai offered him francs to take tsing pow which had been also captured by the rebels and which he attacked att alred alced with great courage but being wounded and loosing most of his men was forced to retire he will soon be in the nield field again late accounts from natchitoches la state that the people of that section acre vere in an actual state of starvation their crops were an entire failure and red river by b which the country is usually supplied WE with the necessaries was dry honolulu papers announce that a demae Haw hawaiian alian allan living ii vin g at lihue hawaii has given birth to he her twenty third child nion Alon montreal treal has been heretofore the great depot for the trade in buffalo robes but during the present season 2758 robes nearly the whole result of the red river hunt have been shipped from st paul pan minn for new york two germans of detroit drank lager beer on a wager recently one drank eighty four glasses glasse sand and the other othen ninety three A cay and fashionable young lady attracted considerable attention on the fair ground atlanta ga gal on oct because of a most handsome and neavely fitting copperas homespun dress and of which she seemed justly I 1 proud she is said to jo be wealthy and of a fine be family the first church built bulit in western utah catholic at carson city was opened for divine service on sunday november lith A lady called on judge L 1 curtis indian indianapolis a recently to engage him im to marry her on inquiring the fee and finding it was 5 objected saying that she had been married be before ore and would then willingly have av paid pad 20 but now thought sa 2 quite enough nouh in I 1 which the good natured judge acquiesced the diamonds belonging to the crown of france are in number weighing hing bing 18 carats barats and worth francs about adam larne who escaped from wyoming penn at the time of the massacre when helas nine years old died recently at galen N Y his father and brother were slain by the indians and he with his mother lay hid bid in the woods so near the line of retreat that th ey could bear the footsteps of the sa savages V wili while passing |