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— A revival is progressing in Elizabeth, N. J. 
— A netv public school house was recently 
dedicated in Eiraira. 
— Trave on the Hudson is drawing to a close 
and boats are tying up. 
— Two slight shocks of earthquake were felt 
at Keene, N. H., last. week. 
— The real estate in the county of Indiana, 
Pa., is valued at $11,074,104. 
— A Scandinavian Methodist Church is soon 
to be built in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
— Seventy-five members of the Albany Insti¬ 
tute visited Union College last week. 
— Augusta, Georgia, Is to have a monument 
to the memory of the Confederate dead. 
— The British corvette Challenger, on a sci¬ 
entific expedition, haa arrived at Valparaiso. 
— The Brooklyn police made a raid on three 
policy shops recently, and seized their effects. 
— The Ladles’ National Temperance Associa¬ 
tion proposes to cut off beer at the Centennial. 
— Work was suspended on the new capitol, 
Albany, last week, on account of the extreme 
cold. 
— The Massachusetts Supreme Court has de¬ 
cided in a test case that the license law is con¬ 
stitutional. 
— The Prohibition candidate for Governor of 
Massachusetts, at the recent election, received 
nearly 9,000 votes. 
— The Albany penitentiary is filled to over¬ 
flowing with prisoners, almost every available 
spot being in use. 
— The Chicago Board of Education refuses to 
reconsider the vote excluding the Bible from 
the public schools. 
— A statue of William Garner, founder of the 
Harmony mills, Cohoes, N. Y., was unveiled in 
that vintage, Saturday. 
— By the falling of a tree a resident of Water¬ 
ford, Pa., was instantly killed, last week, while 
at work in the woods, 
— Investigations of savings banks in this city 
are in progress, and it is expected that some 
will go into liquidation. 
— The Virginia City, Nev., Relief Soolety re¬ 
quire at least $100,000 to provide for the desti¬ 
tute during the winter. 
— TheGerman Emplro will have a deficit of 
5,000,000 thalers, in 187ft, unless some new source 
of revenue is discovered. 
— There are about 3,000 Chinese boys in Cali¬ 
fornia—born in the State—who, when of age, 
will have the right to vote. 
— The new Unitarian Church, Troy, will be 
dedicated Dec. 15. Itev. Dr. Bellows of New 
York, will preach the sermon. 
— A movement is on foot to organize a safe 
deposit company in Albany. The amount of 
capital stock required is $100,000. 
— All but,two of the Erie telegraph wires be¬ 
tween Binghamton and Susquehanna were 
broken in two, Monday night week. 
— The exchange by Japan with Russia of the 
Kurile Islands for the sourtheru portion of 
Saghaliau lslaud has been effected. 
— Two hundred and seventeen varieties of 
Iowa apples are being prepared In wax and 
plaster for the National Centennial. 
— Tu Arkansas recently a Judge oooupled the 
bench in a murder case while he was himself 
under indictment for the same crime. 
— Greek Christians at Cappadocia urge the 
expulsion of American missionaries by the Sub¬ 
lime Porte, as they incito to rebellion. 
— The manufacture of plate gloss begun in 
Missouri about three years ,ago, Is now one of 
the most important industries at the State. 
- Fully 6,<)U0 persons, more than half of whom 
were women, attended the Moody and Sankey 
meeting in Philadelphia one eveuiug lost week, 
— D. Appleton & Co. have presented to the 
Public Library In Haverhill, Mass., 450 volumes 
of their choicest publications, valued at about 
$1,500. 
— Scannel, the New York murderer, is to be 
sent to the State Asylum, in Utica. Respecta¬ 
ble insane people will not care for such a com¬ 
panion. 
— It is announced that the preliminary works 
for the Channel Tunuel are to be commenced 
near Calais. A shaft will be sunk to a depth of 
10O metres. 
— Near New Haven a boiler-iron deer is 
arranged to run down an Inclined plane with 
the motions of life. It is to be used as a target 
by riflemen. 
— The offices of twenty-six employes of the 
Boston Custom House have been abolished. 
Other reductions are to be made, amounting in 
the aggregate to $80,000 per annum. 
— One thousand barrels of white fish and sal¬ 
mon trout have been seized at, Owen Sound, 
Canada, by the Government authorities, for 
having been caught during the closed season. 
— A high Uhlan officer of the Prussian guards 
has been sentenced to a year and a half im¬ 
prisonment In a military fortress for being 
married to a young lady who was not of nobie 
birth. 
— San Eranoisco has a whaling fleet of eleven 
vessels, and the catoh this season yielded 16,000 
barrels of oil, 150,000 pounds of bone, and 20,000 
pounds of ivory, the aggregate valuation being 
$500,000. 
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