JULY 31 
OBE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
NEWS CONDENSES. 
— Oregon is without a poet. 
— There is a big crowd at Mount Desert. 
— Chinese Consuls are to be appointed in 
Cuba. 
— In .Missouri women can now be notaries 
public. 
— China will make a great show at the Cen¬ 
tennial. 
— New Orleans has twenty-nine Catholic 
churches. 
— There is a town in South Carolina called 
Sandy Musk. 
— Albany’s population is 84,584, an Increase of 
15,132 since 1870. 
— Several burglaries are reported from High¬ 
land Falls, N. Y. 
— The population of the State of New York, 
is about 5,000,000. 
— Rarey's celebrated horse “ Cruiser ” died 
recently, agydilfi. 
— Rochester's population is 81,100, a gain of 
13,148 in live years. 
— There is an insurrection in Herzegovina, a 
province of Turkey. 
— A new gold mine has been discovered near 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
The American Philological Society recently 
met at Newport, It. I. 
— Connecticut divorces one couple out of 
every nine she marries. 
— The work on the Centennial buildings is 
going forward rapidly. 
— Eight hundred dogs have been shot in 
Washington this season. 
— In Nebraska more than 12,000,000 forest 
trees were planted last year. 
— There are 150,000 sailors cared for annually 
in the Marine Hospital service. 
The public schools of Chicago use $190,000 
worth of school books annually. 
• —lenuila suffrage has been defeated in the 
House of Representatives, Conn. 
— The Bavarian elections have resulted in 
favor of the Ultramontane party. 
— New .Jersey has paid lu $00,000 of the $100,- 
000 subscribed to the Centennial. 
— The clock makers of Connecticut have 
stopped their works for four weeks. 
— An old Roman amphitheater has just been 
uncovered at Fiesole, near Florence, 
—• Gen. Crook lias been ordered to keep all 
mining parties out of the Black Hills. 
— Switzerland has Toted for the Introduction 
of civil marriage— 205,588 against 181,057. 
— ‘•Damfino” is the euphonious title of a 
post-office in the Idaho mining regions. 
— A #15,000 rhinoceros, belonging to a mena¬ 
gerie, died at Bradford, Pa., the other day, 
— Great damage has been done In many 
parts of Great Britain by the heavy rain storms. 
Forty yeurs ago there were only two archi¬ 
tects iu Now York : now there areflvohundred. 
— Eight million baskets of peaches are ex¬ 
pected from Delaware and Maryland, this sea¬ 
son. 
— One death from yellow fever at Key West 
and four new cases were reported on the 17ch 
Inst. 
— About one hundred tons of rock fell from 
underneath the American Palls at Niagara re¬ 
cently. 
The Grand Army of the Republic review 
at Newark, N. J,, on the ‘list inst., was a great 
success, 
— The recent rumor that there has been yel¬ 
low fever in Norfolk, Va., is said to be un¬ 
founded. 
— Freight rates and passenger fares from 
China will be reduced iu aid of the American 
Centennial. 
— A movement Is on foot to establish a 
futuaie college at Columbus, Ga., by private 
subscription. 
Heston now has over 100 tlrst-cluss woolen 
manufactories, all of which have sprung up 
within the last 25 years. 
-The total amount to be raised by taxation 
in the City of New York for 1875 is $33,698,027.80. 
The rate Is $2.97 on f 100. 
— Flagrant violations of the revenue laws are 
reported from California, Oregon arid other 
places on the Pacific coast. 
St. Louis is to have the largest Bessemer 
steel works in tire world, which will give em¬ 
ployment to over 1,500 men. 
— The Governments of Fiance and England 
are considering the project of building a tunnel 
between the two countries. 
— New Ycrk City has bought for $85,(XJO the 
valuable geological collection of Prof. Hall of 
Albany, lor its Central Park museum. 
-A grand council of all the Sioux bands 
known as the “ Agency Indians" will soon be 
held to consider the sale of the Black Hllk . 
— The St. Louis bridge, which coat nearly 
#7,00),000, reports that its grogs earnings for the 
Pait year were $286,000 and its expenses $98,000. 
— Commodore C. K. Garrison gave a banquet 
at the United States Hotel, Saratoga, on the 
loth lust, to the Cornell crews and the captains 
of the other crews. 
(Eduatiumit. 
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