Show i CLIPPINGS clid CLIP PINGS the assets of omaha city nebraska are reported to be 1 en engineers inders level 1 engineer transit feet of chain 1 steel tape line 1 lire llie measuring rod twelve feet long 18 feet of railing I 1 desk 2 benches 16 feet long 6 chairs and some city lots lone one of the tha new york fernando wood delegates to the charleston convention as reported has gone over to england to witness the feht fight ct between heenan and sayers instead of attending tending a the convention on st patricks day in the satnos saints church washington city father garvey of pennsylvania preached from the gospel found in the ath cha chapter p ter of john from the to the verses the choir san sang the massof massot mass mabs of mozart the birthday of the hon 8 A douglas fa Is the of april the day for the meeting of the charleston convention the birthday of the hon wm H seward is the of may the day for the meeting of the chicago convention ven tion there was but one death reported from gout in massachusetts during the year 1838 1858 in seventeen years and eight months ending ill in 1858 only 41 persons died of this disorder while died of rheumatism it if the republicans go SEWARD SE WARD in the approaching caness they will probably have to fish without bater sates says some punster who ought to be ketch ed gen barrios has hag been elected president of san salvador the boston aldermen have referred to the committee on the fourth of july celebration the proposition of john la mountain to start from that city with a balloon on the fourth fourths for a transatlantic trans atlantic voyage to europe i new england covers an area of square miles has baa 1400 towns and a population of three hundred women of the town of A Aylesbury y England have forwarded a petition to the house of lords against the legalization of marriage with a deceased cifes sister on the ground that such marriages are calculated to destroy the freedom of family intercourse on the other hand four hundred and twenty eight have signed a petition in favor of the measure th the e german catholics of Cincinnati have contributed to replace in the popes treasury the funds sequestered by the machinations of the usurpers usurp ers of the rights and patrimony of the holy see the impression prevails at washington that the president will appoint charles ria mason masons bons sons of iowa late commissioner of patents to be superintendent of the census the old project of forming a new state out of northern mississippi western tennessee and the extreme western point of kentucky has been revived and the tennessee legislature has given it its sanction the proposed state would be bounded by the tennessee river on the east through the states of kentucky and Tennessee and by the mississippi p on the gestand we stand would contain a population of about they are trying two kinds of iron p pavements ave in st louis the grand jury of jefferson county N Y presents as a nuisance the army of vagrants and petty criminals that crowd the poor house and jail the jury recommend that measures be taken to set them at work and thus lessen the public burdens an afriay affray at jefferson city mo alo between two prison employees resulted in the almost immediate death of both on the it is said that a new roman catholic diocese is to be formed in the northern part of new york the bishop to reside at wat watertown the alabama legislature has passed a law compelling northern insurance to pay 00 to each ea ch town in the states in they effect insurance it amounts to a prohibition hibi tion the town of schiedam in holland hollard has population of about twelve thousand five hundred a large portion of whom are engaged 0 the herring fishery the manufacture of for which it is particularly noted gives employment to over two hundred distilleries there were two shocks of an experienced in various places in massachi s bitts ats about tha th 3 of march in rn the english agricultural papers are advertisements verti of a great company in london who manufacture manure from blood they state that the number of beasts sheep horses calves and pigs piga 0 slaughtered a in 1856 was that the yield of blood from these was gallons of which adams blood ma bla nure company received the artificial breeding of fish has recently been successfully attempted d in canada the ile legislature of canada passed a fishery act two years ago and appointed two superintendents of fisheries the dallas texas herald mentions the death of mrs elizabeth crockett widow of the celebrated celeb rated davy crockett in the year of her age some of the identical lot of tea which was thrown overboard in boston harbor in 1770 is in possession of mr charles hosmer of hartford conn this ibis specimen was gathered up on the beach of dorchester the succeeding 0 day the pennsylvania Pen sylvania delegation to charleston have contracted for the steamer keystone state to take one hundred passengers 0 ers from philadelphia and back between the cf april and the of may and furnish them on board durin during that period for 80 each A merchant who lived at baton rouge bouge louisiana and who was once worth was arrested for vagrancy lately having b in five years gambled away his entire fortune the canadian postmaster general has issued an order to all postmasters in it canada west relieving 0 them from any further obligation to open their offices on sunday the new york legislature have passed a law prohibiting 0 sunday exhibitions in new york city the germans protest captain C P kingsbury V U S A is announced to deliver a lecture in richmond va on the military strength and weakness weak eess of the united states it is stated that the conrad have concluded to M make ake portland the term terminus in us of their line of steamers instead of boston as at present |