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PteceUaneousi 
— The Carlists have laid siege to Berga, near 
Barcelona. 
— The Alabama State Grange was In session 
at Montgomery last week. 
— Two young ladies have entered the Sanskrit 
class In Boston University. 
— It is proposed to increase the number of 
mails between New York and Washington. 
— A State Normal School is to be established 
In Tennessee by the aid oT the Peabody Fund. 
— A lot of assorted fruit trees were shipped 
from New Haven for Constantinople recently. 
— The business portion of Wilton, N. H. has 
been destroyed by lire, causing a loss of $96,- 
500. 
— Only $6,000 Is ueeded to complete the pro¬ 
posed subscription of $100,000 to Bowdoln Col¬ 
lege. 
— A negro murderer In Lowndes County, 
Mississippi, requested a trial by a.jury of white 
men. 
— Patrick Boland, mail carrier, dropped 
dead at Niagara Falls, Nov. 25, while eating 
dinner. 
— James Green of Oswego, caught a pickerel 
weighing tweuty-llve pounds iu Seneca river, 
recently. 
— A private dispatch from Buenos Ayres, 
dated the 23d ult., represents that the revolution 
continues. 
— The public schools of Albany demand a 
budget of $183,000 for their support during the 
next fiscal year, 
— The Postmaster of Moorestown N. J„ has 
been held to bail in $3,000 to answer a charge of 
robbing the mail. 
— It is reported that the President’s Message 
will urge the speedy adoption of a specie basis 
for our currency. 
— An old man In Nevada, 70 years of age, was 
recently aent to jail for twenty years for shoot¬ 
ing a fellow citizen. 
— Kentucky Democrats are urging Congress¬ 
man Beck for the U. 8. Senate, in place of 
Senator Stevenson, whose term expires in 1877. 
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