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— A fatal fever is epidemic at Cedar Keys, Fla. 
— There are gypsies in Western Tennessee. 
— St. Petersburg has been nearly drowned out. 
— Paterson, N. J., Is to have a new city hall. 
— Wild turkeys abound In Ohio. 
— Pork packing has been begun in Paducah. 
— Atlanta, Ga., will pack her own pork this 
winter. 
— Marble Hill, Mo., sighs for a boot and shoo 
maker. 
— White Pine reports itself '* distressingly 
healthy." 
— It takes thirteen gas companies to supply 
London. 
— The real estate oJ Portland is valued at 
$9,000,000. 
— California proposes to revise her State con¬ 
stitution. 
— Leavenworth claims to be the Porkopolis 
of Kansas. 
— The Methodists havo nine bishops and 18,371 
preachers. 
— The Cholera is again marching westward 
from India. 
— Less lumber will be got out in Iowa this 
year than last. 
— Tort Austin, Mich., has less than eight hun¬ 
dred inhabitants but. lias spent $40,000 this year 
for building purposes. 
— A Glasgow firm is likely to get the $800 prize 
offered by Brazil for the best method of preserv¬ 
ing meat for exportation. 
- The copyist of the Prince of Wales Theater, 
London, lias read and copied 2.800 manuscripts 
during ton yea is of service. 
— A Mr. Bourne, who began life as a carrier for 
(ho Prnvidonoo Journal, now returns the second 
largest Income In California. 
— A vessel lclt Now York on tho 23th ult„with 
2,000 kegs of powder of twenty-five pounds each, 
and J,000,000 percussion caps. 
— President McCosh, of Princeton College, has 
a work on Logic In press, soon to be published by 
Carter Brothers, of Now York. 
— The keeper of a peanut stand in Washing¬ 
ton recently (licit, leaving bis daughter, who still 
Curries on the business, $00,000. 
— The voting at the Ecumenical Council is to 
be done with red, white, and blue balls, to ex¬ 
press assent, dissent, and doubt. 
— The Prudential Committee of the American 
Board of Foreign Missions have authorized an 
expenditure of $520,000 next year. 
— There are fifty-two streets In London named 
after the Luke of Wellington, twenty-nine after 
Marlborough, and oloven after Nelson. 
An Illinois professor has collected one hun¬ 
dred and thirty varieties ol' shells, and eighty of 
fossils, in Fulion county, in that State. 
— A eloud of locusts, seven miles by five, and 
four hundred feet deep, passed over the western 
presidency of India lately, odd ate up the crops. 
— The Homan Catholic clergy of France an¬ 
nually receives $0,200,000 gold from the National 
Treasury and the Protestants and Jews $474,800. 
— Tue ship Pride has Just arrived at Bostou 
from Liverpool with six tine cows of the Jersey 
breed, purchased in England for a gentleman 
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