^S>PACT, uff r 
the iti.Ani:, 
Toledo, Ohio 
AUG. 21 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HEWS 00HDEN9EB. 
— Bismarck has fotty-two decorations. 
— There are 709,000 paupers In England. 
— The State debt of Illinois Is over $1,600,000. 
— Constantinople Is threatened with a water 
famine. 
— itidlana crops are damaged $3,000,000 by 
the floods. 
— The yellow fever at Fort Barrancas la di¬ 
minishing. 
— The ex-Emperor Ferdinand left a fortune 
of $60,000,000. 
— Chinese immigration to California is rapid¬ 
ly increasing. 
— The banana Is beingsuccessfully cultivated 
in California. 
— The French war estimates for next year 
exceed £30,000,000. 
— The British Government paid £1,080,715 for 
pensions last year. 
— North Carolina ships annually 15,000 barrels 
of dried blackberries. 
— Severe earthquake shocks have been felt 
at Sebastopol, Russia. 
— Most of the gambling houses In Washing¬ 
ton have been closed. 
— Victor Emanuel sent $4,000 to the French 
inundated Inhabitants. 
— A North Carolina girl, sixteen years old, 
has given birth to triplets. 
— Alabama has voted for a constitutional 
convention by 16,500 majority. 
— The American ltille Team called on Victor 
Hugo at Paris, on the 9th Inst. 
— In Abingdon, Va., the other day, 1,000 acres 
of Texas land were sold for $50. 
— About $30,000 of the $47,000 stolen from the 
U. S. Treasury has been recovered. 
— Egypt promises a grand display of her pro¬ 
ducts at the Centennial exhibition. 
— The now reservoir on Croton River Is to 
cover 450 acres, and to cost $750,000. 
— There was general mourning in Denmark 
at the death of Hans Christian Andersen. 
— Spinoza's autograph recently sold in Paris, 
for 450 francs, and Washington’s for only 22. 
— There were printed 23,000 copies of Napo¬ 
leon’s Life of Caesar, only 150 havo been sold. 
— An appeal Is made in Florida for an Investi¬ 
gation of the cause of yellow fever at Barrancas. 
— A woman was made insane at Lincoln, 
Nebraska, by the sight of her husband drown¬ 
ing. 
— The pal motto tree taken to Boston by the 
youth Carolina infantry has been made Into 
canes. 
— The Massachusetts mills of Lowell have 
received an order for 1,200 bales of goods for 
China. 
— A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Hol¬ 
lister, San Benito County, California, on the 
8th Inst. 
— The jury in the Mountain Meadow mas¬ 
sacre trial were unable to agree, and were dis¬ 
charged. 
— The l'&lu-fall In Central and Southern Ohio 
Is said to be the heaviest known for twenty or 
thirty years. 
— There were 14,298,000 postal cards issued 
during the month of July on the requisition of 
Postmasters. 
— A young man and woman while visiting 
the Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls recently 
were drowned. 
— About oue-flfth of the population uf this 
country, above the age of 10 years is unable to 
read and write. 
— A public library has recently been estab¬ 
lished at Yedo, Japan, for the use of both 
natives and foreigners. 
— The physicians of Kentucky collect only 
about one •half their earnings, and are going to 
adopt the cash system. 
— Cholera is devastating Syria, and has ap¬ 
peared at Odessa, 400 cases being reported at 
Damascus, on 22d July. 
— In the city of Brooklyn there are 225 
churches, whoso aggregate expenditure for 
music is aunually $170,850. 
— For the memorial statue of Charles Sumner 
26 models have been offered, 14 of which the 
Committee rejected at once. 
— England maintains an army of 200,000 men 
In India, of whom 128,447 are natives and 60,613 
British, exclusive of officers. 
— Seventeen bears have been killed In Matta- 
wamkeag, Maine, this season. The State pays 
five dollars for each capture. 
— The Missouri Constitutional Convention 
has made the term of the Governor and other 
State officers four years Justead of two. 
— The French Court of Appeals lias confirmed j 
the Judgment by which Courbet, the artist, was J 
ordered to pay the cost of restoring the Ven- I 
dome Column, at Paris. 1 
— The city debt of Brooklyn has been for ten ] 
years Increasing at the rate of no less than 
$2,630,000 per annum, the yearly expenses of the 
city are about $13,000,000. j 
— The draw of the Montclair Railroad bridge k 
over the Passaic River, between Newark and < 
Bellvllle, N.J., was struck by lightning on the 8 
7th Inst., and entirely destroyed. 
Educational. 
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