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Postmaster-General Jewell was SO years 
old on the 20th lost. 
Prince Bismarck, by last aeounts was 
suffering from rheumatism. 
AN eminent citizen of Hartford, Hou. Gurdon 
Trumbull, died recently, nqed 86 years. 
Gen, Sheridan was given a banquet at the 
Palace Hotel In San Francisco, recently. 
Gen. Fitzhugtt Lee Is to' be field officer of 
the Centennial Legion for the Southern States. 
Mr. J. L. Motley, accompanied by his 
daughter, sailed from Boston for Liverpool, re¬ 
cently. 
Madame MacMahon collected 24.8S4.405 
francs for the sufferers by the Gironde Inun¬ 
dation. 
John Morrissey of Now York ba9 acaepted 
the anti-Tammany Domination for State 
Senator. 
Major M. R. Delany of Charleston, S. C., Is 
preparing a history of the African race In 
America. 
Tue Rev. Robert Laird Collier of Chicago has 
accepted the pastorate of a church at Leicester, 
Euglaud. 
Prof. James g. Watson of the Michigan 
University, discovered a new planet on the 
18th Inst, 
Mr. Alderman Jessop of Sheffield, England, 
ba: j given $63,000 for a new hospital for women 
In that city. 
Benjamin Wood, a veteran of the war of 1812, 
died at his house la Lafayette Avenue, Brook¬ 
lyn, recently. 
L'.x-SenatohChandler of Michigan has been 
appointed Secretary of the Interior and has 
been sworn In, 
Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, Is one of the 
Republican candidates for the Assembly from 
New York City. 
Charles Revere, a well-known butcher of 
Washington Market, N. Y., committed suicide 
on the 10th Inst. 
Wendell Phillips says that it has cost the 
Government $1,000,000,000, since 1750 to deal 
with the red tneu. 
Carl Sohuhz will begin to deliver his new 
lecture, “Centennial Thoughts,” in New En¬ 
gland on November 1. 
M. Rouhek, in « speech at Ajaccio, on the 
16th lust., attacked Thiers and the Orle&nists 
and censured MacMahon. 
The Right Hon. Lord Houghton was enter¬ 
tained at breakfast, recently, by the members 
of tho Century Club, N. Y. 
John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts is the 
-Democratic nominee for Lieut.-Governor, in 
the place of Gen. Bartlett. 
Prof. Charbonnier has been elected Presi¬ 
dent of the agricultural college connected with 
the Georgia State University. 
Henry C. Fonda, while plowing od his farm 
above Cohoes, N. F., recently, unearthed 
specimens of copper and lead ore. 
The Rev. Brooke Herford of Manchester, 
Eugland, is to succeed Rev. Hubert L alrd Collier 
in Chicago, at a salary' of $8,000 a year. 
Mr. Edward Rowe, President or the Gro¬ 
cers* Bank, New York, has been nominated for 
Mayor of Brooklyn by the Democrats. 
A Frenchman named La Page has been 
arrested la Sunoook, N. H., on suspicion of 
being the murderer of the Laugmald girl. 
The distinguished electrician, Prof. Charles 
Wheatstone, to whom the Invention of electric 
telegraphy Is often attributed, died recently in 
Paris. 
Benj. B. Halleck, a| Treasury clerk, Tbeo. 
W. Brown and Wm.Ottman bave been arrested 
for stealing the $47,000 package from the 
Treastry. 
Harry Camp, one of the oldest forwarders 
and dry goods merchants of Central New York, 
and a residont of Utica, died recently, at the 
age of 88. 
Jcdgk A. Johnson of the New York Court of 
Appeals, lias Lieeu tendered the Circuit Judge- 
ship, made vacant by the death of Judge 
Woodruff. 
Gen. Sol. Meredith, one of the moat promi¬ 
nent of the Indiana Generals during the war, 
died recently at his residence, near Cambridge 
City, Indiana. 
Cornelius L. Everttt of New York, Presi¬ 
dent of the N. Y. Gas Light Co., and for more 
than forty-eight yeais Identified with It, died 
on tbc 17th Inst., aged 07. 
Bishop Littlejohn of New York, sailed for 
Europe recently, to Inspect American Episco¬ 
pal Churches lu Europe, under appointment of 
the presiding bishop of the Episcopal ch urebes 
of the United States. 
Jenny Ltnd-Goldsohmidt has presented to 
the Church of the Holy Trinity, Wimbledon 
Park, London, an elegant Munich window 
representing the transfiguration, as a memorial 
to the late Dr. Wilberforca, Bishop of Win¬ 
chester, England. 
Mr. Frederick Hudson, formerly managing 
editor of the Herald, with which for many 1 
years be was closely Ideuttfied, died at Codcord, 
on tho 21st lust., in consequence of being run 
over and crushed while driving across the 
Middlesex Central Railroad. 
Finn £•- * mazzard cherry 
Seedlings, for tale at 6 per 1,0 o. 
Also, 20,000 No. 1 Angers Quince Stocks at *12 per 
1,000. Cherry and Apple Trees at h.w rates. Apple 
Seed in season. £. p. CLARK. 
Danjville, N. Y. 
PERUVIAN GUANu 
manufactured by 
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CONSIGNEES OF THI. PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT, 
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Ammonia. 10 per cent. 
Phosphoric Acltl, soluble. 10 “ 
Potash.. 2 “ 
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THEIR HISTORY, BREEDING AND 
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