| Show news NEWS ITE ITEM zis 2 I 1 I 1 betten BETTER repol ts are arriving from the bouth and west of ireland which had almost cow eeb elised milhas has im t proved raved f tim tied savannah news says the year just opened finda finds the people of thet that state impoverished of all accumulated means and literally deprived of everything like property except land belladonna the tee london hospital report reports recently published contain accounts of twp twi cases of poisoning 9 pro induced by the external application of belladonna preparations tun tre british government is ing jug an enormous floating iron doek at bermuda it will weigh tons tone and be able to ponderous lift iron of the class out of tho water tim till population of canada last year was iras 2 there are 2148 miles of railroad in canada which cost and tha receipt receipts last year were the te length lenith of te telegraph if raph wires is miles there are 21 hospitals six savings banks and ten fen building societies in III canada anada NEW westminster jan JUA 9 the russian amerlean american Telegraph lino Line worked last night a distance of miles with but six cups of battery at ea ench each h 1 end des despite a rain storm at Ques nefi neti e anu and eort fort stager this is the longest single circuit on the continent and probably in the world THE tiem neb NED NEBRASKA nasea nASKA BILL the bill for the admission of nebraska as a state is as follows whereas on the day of march A D 1864 congress passed an act to enable the people of nebraska to form a constitution and state government and offered to admit said state when so I 1 formed into the union upon compliance with certain conditions therein specified and whereas it appears that the he said people have adopted a constitution which upon due examination is found to conform to the provisions and comply with the tho conditions of said act and to be republican in its form of government ern ment and that they now ask for admission into the union therefore be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that the constitution and state government which the people of nebraska have formed for themselves be and the same game is hereby accepted ratified arnd arid I 1 confirmed cop firmed and that the said state of nebraska shall be and is hereby declared to be one of the united states of america and is hereby admitted into the union upon equal footing with the or orinal original 0 inal inai states in all respects whatsoever SEC 2 and be it further enacted that the said state of nebraska Nebrask shall ashall be and is hereby dee declared lared to be entitled to all the rights and privileges privilege 9 grants and immunities and t be 4 ft abject to all the conditions and restrict i ons ins or of an act entitled an act to the people of nebraska to form a cc n it ution and state government and ico fol tho admission of such state into th vr I 1 i n it ii on an equal footing with the oi 01 igbal states proved approved ap april 19 1864 11 sec 3 and be it further enacted that thia this act shall go ao into effect with the fundamental and alid perpetual condition that within said state of bf Nebraska there shall be no abridgment or denial of the exercise of the ther elective franchise J or oro fany other right to any person by reason of race or color excepting Z indians not taxed the bill for the admission of colorado is the tibo same are killing whales with polop poi pol op messenger says M 1 Thier celm the inventor 0 this polson poison composes it b mixing a salt aalt of strychnine with one due twentieth ot 0 to apply it to whale fishing he makes the compound up into cartridges of one ounce each which is is enough to kill hill an animal of luos kilos weight each cartridge is im in bedded in the gunpowder contained in an explosive shell which is fired off on the whale in a late whaling voyage ten whales received such missiles and and all died within from four to eighteen minutes affen affer tho the infliction of the wound out of these thebe ten whales six were cut up for their blubber and whalebone T their heir ren remains lains fains were handled by c careless men who frequently had so natches swatches and sores on their skin and at not one of them suffered reo the slight test jest t attile attilo ejury a circumstance that shows th that tho the poison cannot be transmitted from the fish to the men bennington bes BEN KINGTON vermont has a new water fountain near the residence of seth B hunt which throws water to the height of one hundred and fifteen feet twenty feet high er than any known foud fountain trAn in the world the aho water is conveyed veye dover doven over a mile in iron pipes and has a fall of three hundred and five feet ex the tife fountains in front of the crystal palace sydenham near london engl eng haw have liw lim jets jots and can throw up gallons of water per minute the highest column of water rising riding to the height of feet when undisturbed by wind bd newsy ewsej I 1 i tm THE official stat statement statement emont just bublis published hed shows that lives were lost at the oaks colliery explosion in england of th the seventy five persons brought out of the pit ons ony ony nive five are now alive and there are bodies now novt in the pit it will probably be some months beford before these cabbe oan can be recovered if I 1 indeed the subterranean nire are has left anything but ashes to be recovered IT is 19 stated that the receipts from the working work int of the atlantic telegraph up td the present time have averaged tala a day including sundays and forty days of stoppage of the tho land lines since november however when the price of the message was reduced from 20 to elo eio lo io 10 the average receipts have been or at the rate of 33 per year |