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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The Oshkosh Daily Times is suspended, as a non-paying institution. -Seven sail vessel and one propeller are to be built at Manitowoc this winter. -It is proposed to separate Detroit from her county town, and create a new county, in Michigan. The scientific men who are to pass the winter on Mount Washington are trying to teach a Newfoundland dog to go down the mountain for their mail and do other errands. Colonel Johnson, who claims to be the owner of a newly-discovered silver mine at Winneconne, has gone to Philadelphia with two barrels of rocks, which he will have tested. -Through the failure of Stanfield, Wentworth & Co., the affairs of the Staffordville (Ct.) Savings Bank have been brought to such a condition that the Bank Commissioner has petitioned for the appointment of a Receiver. -Mr. Gilmore, of Bullock County, Ga., killed his niece about eighteen months ago, because she testified against him in a church scandal investigation. He was acquitted on the ground that the shooting was accidental. -It is not fashionable this season to offer your guests wine when they call on New Year's day. If this rule can be successfully and continually applied, it will abate two great nuisances - fashionable drunkenness on New Year's day, and New Year's calls in the manner they are now made. Good. -Some of the leading men of Winchendon, Mass., propose to emigrate to the West. c. W. Bowker, G. A. Litchfield, and Isaac J. Dunn have already purchased-land-in Michigan for building purposes, and will at once start an establishment for the manufacture of chairs. Eight or ten other gentlemen have signified their intention to join them. -The Springfield Union is a little hard on the Yale boys of the present day, when it says the reason why Professor Tyndall thinks so much of the Yale boys, and so effusively accepts the invitation to lecture before them, is because they afford so brilliant an illustration of his views concerning the inefficiency of prayer. Probably they are prayed for harder, and get salvation slower, than any other set of young men in the country. -At Reedsburg, Wis., two boys of respectable parentage chased and badly frightened a young girl, and on their return from their sport, boasted that they had caught and outraged her, which, it appears, was untrue. But their brutal conduct and actions becoming public, they were arrested on a charge of rape, and were obliged to leave the country to escape prosecution, and probable conviction, on their own unfounded boasts. The sport which ended so seriously occurred on Sunday.
