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n. ODDS AND ENDS. r, h, -Wisconsin State Fair at Janesville, es opened on Monday, the 10 inst. a -There are 97 Land offices in the Unit. y ed States. -The Capital City Bank, Des Moines, it has failed. Liabilities, $60,500; assets, $75,800. t -Nanking, China, is fearful of starvay tion, on account of the drought. Prayers printed on yellow paper, cover every wall. r -The Teachers Institute at Yankton closed on Friday, the 7th, after an interest. ing session of four days. -Don't turnup your nose at the fact that Dakota raises turnips twenty-five inches in circumference. -The steamer Oder landed at New York the other day with £130,000 in gold coin, and another steamer with $650,000. -Rev. John K. Smith. of Boston, has been convicted of forgery, and sentenced to states prison for five years. -Crazy Horse, the "big Indian," has died from the effects of the cut he received from the hands of his captors. -President Hayes has gone to attend the reunion of Federal and Contederate soldiers at Marietta; from there he will proceed on his southern tour. -On the 3d inst, a heavy snow storm prevailed at Mt. Washington; the first of the season, usually the 1st of August witnesses a storm. -The State fair of Kentucky, opened yesterday with an exhibition by Gold. smith Maid, where she trotted against time. -In respect of the late ex-President Thiers, the national flags floated at half mast all over the government buildings at Washington, on Saturday. -There was manufactured during the year ending July 1st, 1877, 59,912,268 gallons of spirits in the United States, an increase of 2,000,000 gallons over last year. -Saylor, of Ohio, Morrison, of Illinois, Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Sam Cox are candidates for Speaker of the next House of Representatives. ..Mrs. Muloch, the authoress, has been bitten by a dog; fortunately no evil results are anticipated, although the wound is a severe one. -Fairs, State and County, are being held throughout the country, and an unusual amount of interest is manifested in those in progress. -Suleiman Pasha has withdrawn his forces from the neighborhood of the Schipka Pass, and abandoned the attempt on the Russian position there. -As James Magee, a Texas rough, was being carried into the woods to be hung, he killed two of the men and then escap. ed. -A convention of the American bank. er's association is to be held in New York next week, to last three days. Prominent bankers from all parts of the county will he in attendance. -Maine rejoices over one more Republican victory. Connor, Republican, for Governor, elected with a majority of from 8,000 to 10,000. Twenty-nine of the thirtyone Senators, and three-fourths of the Rep. resentatives will legislate loyally. -A newspaper correspondent took a funny ride of 20 miles in a flume in Butte county, Cal. The flume is 160 miles in lenth and cost $160,000 and is built for running lumber down the mountain. -Five steamships left New York on Saturday, for Europe, with 200,000 bush els of grain, 120,000 cases of canned goods, 36,000 boxes of cheese, 13,500 packages of butter, 150 tons of fresh beef and 311head of horses. -At an investigation of the management of the San Francisco custom house that of had entered sugar it was discovered without 1,000,000 paying pounds duty. The matter was rectified by the importer paying $18,000 duty. -The Board of Education, of New York has over three City, hundred schools under its charge. with upwards of three thousand teachers employed. In the year 1875, three and one half millions of doland
