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Clippings and Scribblings. A ex-State-Pennsylvania. Good-the ice crop, this year. Louisiana is being bored for oil. Holds-the Government $91,850,000 in gold. Contains-the United States, 285 774 indians. "Ready-the Dublin garrison, for a Fenian aiege. 'Dull-pork in West Virginia, at six cents per pound. The population of Minnesota is estimated at 340,000. Fashionable-baldness among the dandies in New York Fact-the German farmers pickle their hay by salting it down. The estimated wheat crop of Michigan for 1866 is 12,000,000 bushels. Will be used-nineteen and a half acres of glass, at the Paris Exposition. The New York Legislature has repealed the law forbidding railroad companies to issue free passes One hundred dollars was cleared over all expenses by the managers of the Maine State Prison. IT In a bad fix-the lady who got both feet fast in her hoops, whilst perambulating the street, last week The Merchants Bank of Nashville, suspended since the opening of the rebellion has resumed business. Maj. Chas."A. Hosmer, U.S.A., one of the original Ellsworth Zouaves, died lately at St. Paul, Minn. Came off-nineteen weddings, at Concord, N. H., on Christmas day. They must have had a merry" time of it. Every Agricultural Society in the United States. with a single exception, has requested the removal of Commissioner Newton. An observing man. with a large family, says he wonders why grocers and butchers do not, like dry goods men, sometimes "sell below cost." An exchange says that a large number of true Republicans will support Andrew Johnson and his policy kather have said that they are supported by Andrew Johnson. The Omaha (Nebraska) Republican. in announcing the collapse of a cotemporary "Copperhead" sheet, sympathizes by saying "this has been a bad year for snakes." The Democracy of Ohio are going to nominate their State ticket eight months before the election-like the man who said that when he died he wanted tostarve to death, so that he would have a long die of it A chap in Nashville entwining his legs about a street gas lamp post, openly proclaimed that patent stoves were a humbug giving out no heat whatever. He had been imbibing sufficiently to render the hallucination very probable.