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NEWS IN BRIEF. -The ine-gros in interest of Call. to fornia yields fully $500,000 annually the revenue of that state. f -In 1870 there were over 262 000 lbs. of tobacco grown in the United States. Estimating the average produc conat about 800 lbs. per acre, we may clude that over 300,000 acres were under this crop. A gentlem in Boston, has just sented to the public library of that funded, city the sum of $1000, which is to be in and the income therefrom expended Amerithe purchase of books relating to can history. -It is stated that the miniature Swiss chalet- present from Fechter, the of ac- his 0 tor-in which Dickens wrote most the later works, has been taken to grounds of the Crystal Palace Company at Sydenham. The Chicago elevators contain at the of time about 4,064, bushels I present 592 295 bushels of corn, 229,265 wheat, of oats, 139,116 bushels of rye, bushels and 1,263,967 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 6,288,945 bushels. -A few months ago the city of Cera, Venezuela, was destroyed by an rebuilt, earthIt is now about to be the quake. upon an entirely new site in esbut below, where several villages on caped plain unseathed, while every town the hillside was overthrown. Great Britain last year imported bushto the extent of 3,533,781 oranges with a money value of $7,733 825 2,379 els, an increase since 1860 of This busbels, is showing that the multiplied consumption 781 in eighteen years has threefold. The receivers of the Townsend have deat New Haven, Conn., Bank, to pay a dividend of ten per Decem- cent. cided about the middle of cent. ($280,000 This will make forty per the deber. ($1,120,009) in all returned to positors. During the last three years charl. about $3,100,000 have been colleeted for London. table purposes by the Mayors of about 1876 the sum realized famine was fund In in 1877 the Indian $190,000; to swell the total to nearly about $2,475,000; helped this year the figures are $425,000. number of the survivors started from the Alice disaster have window Princess to erect a stained glass as project in the Woolwich Union Chapel, preservation thank-offering for their kindness which memento of the officials of and they a experienced from the the Plumstead Infirmary. -During the last war 594,000 Russian Roupoured down through 58,800 soldiers into Turkey Of these, and 62 mania sent back by rail wounded te-Odes were 31,000 sick went home 150 iii, 29,000 are still in hospital, and 000 by sea, laid their bones in Roumania, 99,000 perished in Bulgaria. _While a farmer of Monroe, N. Y., prying open a flat stone in something quarry was his hand touched stone last week and clammy He raised the forty-five cold found a ball made up of matted and black snakes. They were braidlarge as though they had been with a club. ed, together and were separated by beating -Mr. Spurgeon the gift has of $25,000, declined which to aace] congregation personally is raising commemora'e fifth year the completion of histwenty will de as a Baptist minister, establishment but work the amount to the of vote permanent fund for the alinhouses, aged of Metropolitan Tabernacle fourteen in number. The annual report of the Board show of Justices in New York crime city in t) the Police following statistics of ma le by The number of arros:8 78,533, city: the police during the year was The nume 56,404 were men. the of which held was $1,786, 30 ber number of prisoners discharged was 26,717, and cases are still pending. -The old Charter which was granted In 1662 by of Connecticut in the Charles to the colony II, and which office was hung for many Secretary of State's recently been refrainic years past, text has renewed, and was of on State's Satand the hung in the Secretary at Hartford. urday in the new Capitol, oak, from office, The frame is made tree. of solid the charter oak Mr. Walter M. Gibson, a has member just of the Hawalian Mr. T. Parliament R. Gould, of statue Boston. of entrusted work of to designing a bronze of the presKamehameha, the the of founder the Sandwich 181ent government which is to be commemorate erected at an the ands, pense of $10,000 anniversary to of the discovery centennial of the islands by Captain Cook. resident of Melbourne, friend Australia. In the recently -A received package from a of peas which were taken British Museum from the folds in 3000 the cloth years irg of an Egyptian them mummy he placed them old. On receiving of water, where in twentyin a tumbler had swelled considerfour hours they planted them in pots, ably, and they then are now growing vigorously. which where steamer Columbia, for The old last Monday was sold satisfy in Baltimore claims against her, She is is $1000 to along the Potomac. the well known be the oldest steamer in 1828. supposed to She was built in United States. forty-flv years ran She between was and for and Washington. an Baltimore and has been used as six excursion built in 1859, boat for the last five or years. East Litchfield, Conn., and broke boy -An Goodm fell recently his shoulder. named dislocated were an arm after and two of his brothers exploShortly badly injured by The the news premature incautiously was carried sion of father blast. by some one and was affected to their the barn shingling, intedland one breaking He was on that he partially leg and the fell 80 to the severe ground, injuries about one the place. head, dark receiving skull being fractured night, in a stage coach _Lately, with Leadville nine on a passengers warty and Canon and horses passing Col., and and driver between when suddenly passengers coach fell over a bank