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NEWS CONDENSER. 
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— The Troy, If. Y., jail ha3 88 female prisoners. j 
— The cold weather has sent up the price of 
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now. 
— Venison la four cents a pound in Bangor, 
Maine. 
—The Unitarians are to buiid a £50,000 hall in 
London. 
— Ohio has its first lodge of Orangemen at 
Cleveland. 
— Illegitimate births in Berlin have reached j 
17 per cent. 
— Colored miners are being employed at New 
Lisbon, Ohio. 
— Boston is the Beoond sugar market in the 
United States. 
— North Adams, Mass., is to have a 10,000 
pound ohlme of bells. 
— It took 4,000 kegs of powder to blast the 
Cayuga Lake Railroad. 
— Large quantities of cheese have been badly 
frozen in Otsego Co., N. Y. 
— The Mlohtgaa Legislature will punish per¬ 
sons guilty of adulterating milk. 
— The West Point Cadets will go to Washing¬ 
ton, March 4th, at a cost of $10,000. 
— Tae Willard Asylum at Ovid, N. Y., has al¬ 
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