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The Sutro tunnel has now been ex. tended to a length of 11.721 feel. -A plan is being elaborated in Paris for the recovery of small commercial debts through the Post Office. -The Peaks of Otter, near Lynchburg, ,long supposed to bean extinct volcano, have recently given unmisrable evidences of action. -The widow of the Rev. William Livesy is preaching in the Methodist pulpit in Braintree, Mass. made vacapt by the death of then husband. -At its inte session in Charleston, the South Carolina Annual Conference passed resolution forbidding Methodist ministers atte ading circuses -Although ixty-eight years of are Miss Mary Carpenter, the English philanthropist, has under. taken another tour of India in the interests of prisos reform. -According to a special parliamentary return just published, the mortality in Dabita from Jan.1,1805. to Dec. 31, 1874, was 70,226, or twenty. eight per 1,000. Gov. Counor, of Maine, recommends that juries be authorized to pass ser tence upon crime inals in capital cases, which, be saya, has been success ful in California. -At the next session of the British Par llament a vote of £10,000 will be asked for the defend AIVO works at the paval anchorage at Bermuda When completed these work will have cost £305,000. -An absurd performance was the recent experiment of ball on skates with rollers, at Bright ton, England. The movements of the skaters proved to be utterly inco impatible with the musical require mentast a dance. -Thestatne of Henry Clay in Richmond has been these many years without several ingers, which were knocked off by some wretch. A bill has been latr aduced in the Virginia Legislature for the repair of the damage. -The Rev. Mr. Ransom has been appointed missionary to Brazil by the Methodist Conterence of Tennessee, and an irreverent wag says it voice will soon be heard crying amon the heathen, Return, ye Ransomedsinners,home. -In cycles of 21,000 years the earth has alternate periods of unusual heat and cold, either of which said by the scientists tosaperinduce on it sur face an entirely new and different set of authoris For tubately weare not yet at the close of such a cycle. -Mr. Menzies, who has just published a valuable work on forest trees in England saya that lightning never strikes dead trees, but always selects the strongest, and those full of sap. I ti well worth knowing that the ivy often acts as a lightning coacae. tor. -The Ladies' Seamen's Friend Socia ety of San Francisco, aided by several influential gen leinen, propose asking Congress for the old United States Marine Hospital, at the corner of Main and Harrison streets, for the purpose of securing a home for shipwrecked and desti ut sailors. -The Commercial Bank of San Francisco has suspended d. The nomina capital was $3,000. 000, A reporter for the Chronic learned. however, after considerable Interviewing, that only about $10,000 way ever paid up. The assets are several chairs valued at 81.50 cach. and some desks. -Not long ago Frederick Holices was expelled from the Methodial charch in Reading, Mass. after many years of undoubted piety, upon the evidenee of his niece. The girl has confessed that her story was & He and that her motive in telling it was revenge, her uncie having said that she was too wicked to join the church. --Much amusement has been caused in Parts by the letter from the Bishop of Orleans in which he speake of his election to the Scuate 58 equivalent to his being placed like Daniel in the ficry forgace The University reminda the Bishop that he cought to "acarch the Scriptures, and he would see that Daniel never was in the flery furnace. -Sir Andrew Lusk, the sitting magistrate at buildhall, in London the other day, discharged a girl, apparently of dull intellect, brought before him for being in unlawful possession of milk can belonging 10 the Cranbrook Farm Dairy, maintaining that the-prosecutor had no right to put temptation in the way of thirsty and starving persons by leaving cans of mink in the street. -An avalanche of great magnitude lately occurred in the Little Cottonwood valley. Utah. TWO mining superinter on their way to a social din. ner. were carried over precipies and buried fifty feet deep in the snow. The maxe next swept away a structareoveramine haft, killing the man who was to it. The slite was caused bv deep snow falling on the smooth tcy surface, where it coul not retain hold, -The Rev. Bernard Keenan. of St. Mary's Ca.helle Courch Lancaster, Pa.,18 now the oldest cier. gyman in the United States. He was born in Tyrone, Ireland ninety-seven years ago, and came trs in November 1820, With Dr.Conwoll, who just been consecrated Dishop of Philadeiphia in Loadon Three years later hewent to Lancistor,and hus been pastor of Mary's without Interruption for nearly tifry-four years. insing the esteciti and cont the entire communi 1. irreaped we of religious opinion. -Texas proposes to press a claim aminst the United States Government for $1,658,530.30 of which $1,536,417 .62 is for frontier defence. and night readily beconvert d into claim against the bankrupt trexury of Mexico From the report of the lastadic of seven percent. I Xas gold bonds it appears that the issue of $1,000,000 in bouds cost the State $538,385rather an extravagant brokerage. At prese at the State Treasury isunable to meet promptly any other demands than interest on the public debt and the current expenditures on account of public schools. -The Melbourne A rgus relates a glaring instance of the recklessness with which powder is shipped from London. A captain stated. uponarriving with hisvessel at Melbourne, that he bad in vain applied to the charterera in London for assfe powder magazine. He shipped 400 barrels and 24 case of powder. which were slowed away with other goods They had heavy weather, so that the car2o broke loose. Upon unload ing the vessel It was discovered that 8 barrels and 3 had been smashest, nd that the ship and erow had had most miraculous escape. -A lady at Bradford, N. H. has had a narrow escape fr m being buried alive She 596 been stectfor same time, and had apparently died. Preparationsfor the funeral were made on the third day after the supposed death when it was observed. as placed in her coffin. that one of the eyeawas partly open. Nothing 18 however, thought of this,as is was But ought to be museular contraction Niter death when all the arrangements for the june al were plete. astomiched the attendants by a sud len required to be placed on A comp lete recovery is ex. pected. -The Omaba Herald comes out strongly as a opponent of cabital punishm ut. It CHURK prisonment for life. with an absolute prohibition of the pardo ning power, except in cases where innoce cecan be clearly In Rhode Is land, where there it practically total a-huent-the statute provide the penalty shall only be inflete d per sons while life unders 1er nur commit may imprisonment-the Johing ower is da. Governor and Senate. The Govern r's recom FOR tion and the Senate's consent are necessary The are rare, and generally full -Lieut. Cameron, the Academy SANS, Jinu. will probably arrive in England in the middle o ary. His splendid exploit places him, without dispute, fif in the very first rank of African travellers 11 Ujuinimost stitute, suffering from discase lonciness. Against him were the stupendous ties of the were on his task: side indonitable had devotion to duty, and that gentle courage white aires him the respect and love of tives. There beno stories of bloodshed in the min rative of this gallant n val officer. A glance of came of Africa will once show the magnitude and the impor ance of 618 diacoverthe Silva Porto,1
