Show NEWS ITEMS THE st louis D democrat nocial says saya that a merchant left that city on tuesday bomm commissioned boned by a half dozen firms to visit th the markets of great britain make purchases of bf carbonate bicarbonate bi of soda sal soda soda ash nah caustic soda eoda scotch pig iron and live liverpool salt ana and charter a vessel to bring the same to new orleans arrangements have been made for one of the steamers of the atlantic and mississippi steamship line to receive the load of the vessel without ita ifa discharge upon the wharf of new orleans it is estimated that the coat cost of freight from liverpool to st lou louis is will not be greater than the cost coat from new york to st louis tue THE knoxville Knox villo tenn mug of sy sep 25 says the avenging angel is wal val walking among the mountains of east tennessee the tho union men who were persecuted by tho the rebels in 1802 and 1863 are turning on their oppressors who now come back to their homes old rebels and youg ones who took a I 1 leading loading part in hunting down the loyalists imprisoning stara starving i ing or murdering them have been spotted and in defiance of amnesty are being held hold fearfully responsible for their crimes some of the most prominent are being boing killed every eveny week cox a malignant rebel and spy for longstreet was shot shoe id iri knoxville the other day by a young man whose father had been one of th jhc thc victims tim TUB once staid puritanical old town of plymouth blass mass the scene seene of the earliest struggles of IQ the pilgrim fathers seems to have fallen in evil days if we may credit its town officials who in a decent appeal to the citizens represent the growing population both male and female as alarmingly immoral and threaten thread a a special police for the suppression of the nightly scenes and bounds sounds of outrageous and disgraceful vulgarity wittness ed upon its thoroughfares THE CHICAGO LAKE tunsel the 1 workmen were wore peste yeste yesterday aday engaged in loading on a scow seow three of the seven iron cylinders to 0 be used in the lake shaft of tile the great tunnel they will probably bo be towed out to their deatina destination today to day and the others loaded should the weather be fine the work of sinkin sinking the cylinders cy will be commenced mencel within three or four days daya the fourth chamber is now being put ili in the tunnel at a distance from the shore of ot Z 1850 1850 feet chicago tribune bop sep 20 A bedford paper says bays we nany may somewhat increase our whaling business but we shall never nover again see as large an art amount of tonnage employed in it as in 1856 the business will flourish but it cannot give employment to our capital nor employment to our labor it certainly cannot not nob support ani and will wiil never create any increase of po population p ula tion 11 1 tue THE dover H N H morning mowing sar tile the organ of the freewill baptists gives some statistics respecting its ita membership she shi p in 1844 1814 when their number was larrest largest st the membership was in 1853 it had fallen off to in 1860 it had increased to and now it is fires are raging in irl the in massachusetts near attle borm boro the flames swept over a valuable tract of woodland several miles in in extent tax mostly covered with oak and antle mapie maple not less than one thousand acres acm have suffered more or less damage LYNN mass blass did a larger business in shoes last month than during any previous month of its history making worth of boots and slices shoes shoeb THE east river oystermen oysterman oy have a sensation they are in a great state of excitement A new Vi et dorado has beon been discovered at the bottom of the sound and all tho the oy hereabouts are on their way thither as rast fast as boreas sees git fit to blow them this bed of oysters is located two or three miles from the shore and is IF nearly opposite shippan point in the town of stamford connect connecticut cut it is reported e ortch to ta exceed in extent the bed w which I 1 ic was discovered opposite norwalk in 1860 10 the oysters are of most mosi excellent quality most of them of the proper age and and growth to make hom hem them fit for immediate use the excitement growing out of the discovery is very great among the 1 people 0 pie who live in in the villages along the coast wany many persons persona are leaving their regular occupations to devote their labor to gathering catherin the shellfish shell fish I 1 and scarcely anything else elfee is talked about but the new oyster bed aa al Y world ane london lancet comes forward as the advocate of the custom of writing prescriptions in english in a leading art article icleon on the subject it points olner out the intense absurdity of the present system of abbreviated latin theres a difference in time you u know between this country and lu europe 11 said a gentleman in new now york to a newly arrived irishman forin for instance your friends in cork are in bed and fast asleep by this time while we are enjoying ourselves in the early evenin evening r always the way exclaim exclaimed d pat ireland niver got justice yit sit |