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BSOOBE’S BUBAL WEW-YOBKfB. 
HEWS CONDENSER. 
— Maine’s hay crop of 1873 is worth $40,000,000. 
— The Cornell inquiry is progressing at Ithaca. 
— Ohio is urging Hon. M. R. Waite for Chief 
Justice. 
— The Emperor of Austria is to visit the Czar 
next month. 
— California has produced 1,000 bales of cot¬ 
ton this year. 
— The crew of the Santa Cruz has escaped 
from France. 
— Pacific slope cherry trees are blossoming 
prematurely. 
— Preston Powers took a plastic cast of Prof. 
Agassiz’ face. 
— A. C. Botkin has become editor of the Mil¬ 
waukee Sentinel. 
— Troy’s city tax has increased over 100 per 
cent, in ten years. 
— Complaint is made that the Vienna medals 
are not forthcoming. 
— A new fllllbustering expedition is said to 
have landed In Cuba. 
— The number of lings raised this year in 
Iowa will be about 1,300,000. 
— A Now Hampshire farmer has made 18,000 
bushels of potatoes into starch. 
— Iowa City has sold its public library at auc¬ 
tion in order to invest in a theatre, 
— Ten thousand bushels of turnips are frozen 
in tlio ground in Wallingford, Conn. 
— The Prohibitory law of Massachusetts is 
only executed “ by starts and spurts.” 
— A lead mine has been discovered on the 
farm of 0. S. Passcngor, In Derby, Conn. 
— Five hundred Spaniards were entrapped in 
an ambuscade by tho Cubans and defeated. 
— The last sweet potato heard from weighs 
31?i pounds. It occupies Hardin County. Ky. 
— The Chicago city treasury deficit oontlrises 
to grow In size. It is non’ stated at $507,385.8:1. 
— A horse that was worth $85,000, two years 
ago, is now being driven on a Boston horse car. 
— An Albany genius has patented an Inven¬ 
tion for making seamless paper boxes from the 
pulp. 
— The right of the Virginius to carry the 
American flag has bean denied by our Govern¬ 
ment. 
— The complete official returns make the ma¬ 
jority in Pennsylvania for the Constitution 
115,150. 
—.The “Authorized Dog-slayers” of Cleveland, 
Ohio, report the demise of 1,108 for the “ past 
soison.” 
— Oregon lias a surplus of 5,000,000 bushels of 
wheat this season, and is selling it at $1 per 
bushel, gold. 
— A Milwaukee browing company has im¬ 
ported 180,000 bushels of barley and 300 bales of 
hops from Italy. 
— A Parke County, Ind., farmer has sown 600 
acres of winter wheat. Ilis farms contains 
2,500 acres of land. 
— A Russian Imperial Ukase requires tiiat 0 
men out of every 1,000 inhabitants shall be 
drafted into tho army. 
— A new theatre, to bo called “Ducking- 
ham,” and to cover 13,042 square feet, is to be 
built in New Vork city. 
— Thu Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Common Coun¬ 
cil, witli a single exception. Is composed of 
ultra temperance men. 
— Georgia's crop of cotton will amount, for 
1873, to 600,000 bales of 400 pounds each—worth 
in New York $48,000,000. 
The United .States torpedo boat Ptnta has 
gone to Havana t.i make an investigation of 
the harbor defenses there. 
— The Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat under¬ 
stands a movement Is on foot to establish roll¬ 
ing mills at East Rochester.' 
— Eastern farmers may be astonished to learn 
that stacked between Greeley and Green City, 
Col., are 3,000,000 tons of hay. 
— A Michigan man proposes a benevolent 
plan to prevent dogs from killing sheep. It is 
by extracting their front teeth. 
— Nearly 2,500 enlisted men have deserted 
from their regiments stationed in the Pacific 
States and Territories since 1871. 
— The Methodist Episcopal Church, during 
the past year, is said to have gained la money 
$4,000,000, and In membership 5,000. 
It is announced from Madrid that Minister 
Sickles’ resignation lias been formally accepted 
by the United States Government. 
— For the first time in many years, wheat is 
now selling In Moline, Ill., for less, by 33 per 
cent., than potatoes, bushel for bushel. 
— There is a rumor among the Cuban refu¬ 
gees at Key West that a strong force of tllllbus- 
ters have landed near Manzanillo, Cuba. 
— An attempt to utilize the rise and fall of 
the tides, and apply their force to mechanical 
purposes, Is to be made in St. Malo, France. 
— A debating society in Rochostor is discus¬ 
sing whether there is any moral or statute law 
which prevents a man from marrying his wid¬ 
ow’s sister. 
— Recent decisions from the Utah Bench 
rule, that the simple possession of a patent is 
not, of itself, conclusive evidence of title to 
mining lands. 
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