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— The upper Hudson is closed again. 
— The cotton crop will pass the limit of 4,- 
000,000 bales. 
— The year has been mostly one of disaster to 
fruit growers. 
— Twenty-one Illinois railroads are in the 
hands of receivers. 
— China will not send an embassy to England 
until next summer. 
— The British Parliament will meet on the 
8 th of January next. 
— The reconstruction of the Tuileries is 
going forward rapidly. 
— They are talking of holding a Constitutional 
Convention in Mississippi. 
— The mechanics of Ithaca are about form¬ 
ing a Building Lot Association. 
— The musicians of Troy and Albany have 
formed a Financial Protective Union. 
— They are shipping apples direct from Grand 
Rapids, Mich., to Rotterdam, Holland. 
— The French make out o? chicken feathers 
a kind of down, which sells for $2 a pound. 
— CbiDa has decided upon sending out am¬ 
bassadors to reside among the outside barbari¬ 
ans. 
— The First Baptist Church of Hartford, 
Conn., has paid its last dollar of debt, and Is 
happy. 
— Through sleeping-cars are now running 
from Washington to New Orleans without 
change. 
— Over 111,000 barrels of apples were cleared 
at the Canal Collector's office at Lockport this 
last fall. 
— There Is a lamentable and ever-increasing 
failure in the crop of priraa donnas and tenors 
In Italy. 
— New England reports a good hay crop, but 
In other States the quality was much damaged 
by rains. 
— A chime of bells costing $6,000 has been 
put into St. Peter's church, Albany, by George 
Tweddle. 
— The number of hogs killed at Cincinnati 
this season was 289,874; for the same time last 
year, 253,043. 
— Three car loads of silk worm eggs, valued 
at $6,000,000, are en route from San Francisco 
to New York. 
— The Saratoga Supervisors report the fraud¬ 
ulent issue of notes by County Treasurer Mann 
to amount to $118,330.56. 
— There have been 71 murders In the judicial 
dtstrict Including Carson and Fanamint, Nev., 
and not one conviction. 
— The Buffalo Ladies’ Centennial Entertain¬ 
ment Association is perfecting arrangements 
for a grand fancy ball in costume. 
— The names of two streets in Paris are to 
be changed to those of the deceased painter 
Corot, and the sculptor Cnrpcaux. 
— Canes or umbrellas containing swords or 
other weapons cannot be sold hereafter in Paris 
without a permit from tbo Chief of Police. 
— Mr. Swinburne’s new work, “ Ereutbeus,” 
which will be published about Christmas, is a 
play, on the Greek model, of a little over 1,700 
lines. 
— There Is a post-office at Sonoma township, 
Cal., but it |s without a master, because none 
of the applicants could give the $4,000 bond re¬ 
quired. 
— The Erie County Treasurer on Tuesday re¬ 
ceived 16 bids for $125,000 bonds for the new 
oity and county hall, Buffalo, ranging from par 
to 108)*'. 
— Tramps will be plenty in New Haven this 
winter, as the Board of Councllrnen have voted 
to expend $20,000 to furnish work to unem¬ 
ployed laborers. 
— Tbe annual report of the Canal Collector at 
Rochester shows tolls collected during the 
year, $6,932.01, against $16,286,26 last year; de¬ 
crease, $9,354.22. 
— At the Paris Maritime and Fluvial Exhib¬ 
ition, lately closed, England took the greatest 
number of prizes for objects connected purely 
with navigation. 
— The orange crop of Los Angeles, Cal., will 
not be more than one-half as large as last year. 
The lemon orep is also small, and the trees are 
said to be fast dying. 
— A prize has been awarded by the Belgian 
Academy to Karl Marchul for his “ History of 
Sculpture lu Belgium In the Seventeenth and 
Eighteenth Centuries." 
— The largest polished plate ever exhibited 
was the work of the Thames Plato Glass Com¬ 
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