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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 62 words
  3. A FATAL SHOOTING SCRAPE AT PIOCHE CITY.

    Hamilton, August 7th.—A desperate character, named George M. Harris was shot and instantly killed at PiochelastSaturday evening, by D. A. Meyendorff, an assayer. Harris slapped Mayendorff's ...

    Article : 110 words
  4. FRENCH MITTRAILLEUSE.

    The French mittrailleuse recently brought to this city was placed on private exhibition last week, At Congress Hall, on Bush-sheet. It was inspected by a number of invited guests. To the first glance of ...

    Article : 344 words
  5. WEEKLY CALENDAR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 words
  6. A CITIZEN SHOT IN ST. LOUIS.

    St. Louis, July 28th.—About eleven o'clock last night, as Munson Beach, a well-known citizen, was sitting on the steps of his boarding-house, 706, Pine-street, he was shot twice (and it is feared mortally ...

    Article : 162 words
  7. GARDENING AND AGRICULTURAL MEMORANDA FOR SEPTEMBER.

    KITCHEN GARDEN: Sow peas,broad beans,French beans, cucumber,lettuce,cabbage,Swedish turnip,Brussels sprouts, [?], endive, leeks, onions, melons, pumpkins, vegetable Burrow, radishes, spinach, parsley capsicums, tomatoes, &c. ...

    Article : 170 words
  8. OREGON.—DEVASTATING STORM AT WALLA WALLA—A FIRE ON THE PRAIRIE NEAR THE DALLES.

    Portland, August 3rd.—A terrible storm of wind, rain, and hail visited Walla Walle on Saturday evening. The storm passed directly over the town, and its track was less than a mile wide, expending its ...

    Article : 175 words
  9. SUPREME COURT.—TUESDAY.

    The Solicitor-General applied for a prohibition to stay all proceedings under a certain information filed against one Cunliffe, at the Police Court, at Newcastle. The information ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. AN AERONAUT DROWNED.

    A correspondent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, writing from Massillon, July 25th, says:— The circus of G. G. Grady exhibited here on Saturday last, and among the attractions largely ...

    Article : 467 words
  11. STRIKING OIL.

    When oil was struck in Pennsylvania some ten years ago, it was but little anticipated that petroleum would become a principal American staple of export, and occupy such an important position in ...

    Article : 331 words
  12. The Maitland Mercury.

    FROM a short discussion in the Victorian Assembly, last week, upon the item of £60,000 proposed in the estimates for the border customs duties, it seems probable that our Government, ...

    Article : 1,527 words
  13. THE OLDEST INHABITANT—DEATH OF A MAN 134 YEARS OF AGE.

    On Saturday evening last the oldest man in the State, if not the oldest man anywhere, died in Kansas city. His name was Jacob Fournais, but known to ...

    Article : 719 words
  14. CALIFORNIAN MAIL EXTRACTS. [FROM THE "WEEKLY BULLETIN," AUGUST 8.]

    The record of steamboat boiler explosions kept in the office of the Board of Supervising Inspectors in the Treasury Department, shows that there were more lives lost by the Westfield disaster than by all ...

    Article : 234 words
  15. CRICKET.—ECCLESTON v. BANDON GROVE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 345 words
  16. RATE OF INTEREST IN SAN FRANCISCO.

    At a meeting of the Trustees of the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society, held yesterday, it was resolved to reduce the rate of interest on good city real estate to 9 per cent per annum. This is indeed ...

    Article : 2,359 words
  17. DEATH OF THE DOUBLE-HEADED CHILD.

    We mentioned in our columns yesterday, the presence in Boston of a most remarkable child, the offspring of Joseph and Ann E.Finley. It presented the remarkable as well as unprecedented ...

    Article : 456 words
  18. THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF FIJI.

    The proceedings in connection with the meeting of delegates were finally brought to a close on Friday morning, August 18th, by the formal assent of the King in person to the bill, which ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  19. TWO MEN SHOT WHILE STEALING—DEATH FROM GRIEF—FATAL ACCIDENT IN SAN FELIPE VALLEY.

    San Jose, August 4th.—Last night two men, names unknown, were shot, in the foothills beyond Berryessa. The only facts ascertained are that the men were threshers, at work with a machine on a ...

    Article : 207 words
  20. HEART-RENDING SCENE.—A HUSBAND WITNESSES THE DEATH OP HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN POISONED BY HER OWN HAND.

    The most awful tragedy that has stirred the hearts of any community in this section for many a year, if ever before, occurred in Effingham county, about two miles above Station 3½, on the Central ...

    Article : 704 words
  21. LARGE FIRE AT POINT-A-PITRE, GUADELOUPE, 30,000 PERSONS HOUSELESS.

    The Royal Naval steamer Delts, from Bermuda, arrived here last evening, bringing intelligence of a fire at Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, on the 11th ult., Nearly the whole of the town was destroyed, and ...

    Article : 117 words
  22. TERRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTION—THE ROPE BREAKS.

    Thomas M'Giffin, a native of Maine, was hung for murder to-day. About 12 M, the Sheriff entered the cell of the condemned man, and pinioned him by the arms. He was then conducted without the jail, ...

    Article : 689 words
  23. INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 words
  24. HOW COCHISE, THE APACHE CHIEF, BECAME THE WHITE MAN'S FOE

    It is reported that the band of Cochise, the most fierce and dreaded of the Apache Chiefs, has been induced by the agents of the Indian Bureau to come upon the reservation. The family of Cochise did ...

    Article : 397 words
  25. LOCAL NEWS.

    HON. JOHN ROBERTSON.—On the 5th instant, in Mayor of Grafton (Mr. T. G. Hewitt) presented, on, behalf of the subscribers—free selectors on the Clarence, the Richmond, and Tweed rivers—to Mrs. ...

    Article : 5,409 words
  26. PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.

    Indications of Japan's enterprise and progressiveness continue to multiply. The most casual observer cannot fail to note the disposition of the Japanese to avail themselves of all the advantages accruing from ...

    Article : 363 words
  27. A WIFE SHOOTS A WOMAN TOO INTIMATE WITH HER HUSBAND.

    Stockton, July 3lst.—A shooting affray occurred at the Grand Hotel to-night, a few minutes after eight o'clock. Mrs. N. J. Saviers arrived to-day from Carson, and took rooms at the Yosemite House. She ...

    Article : 257 words
  28. BEAR HUNTING IN MONTEREY.—EXCITING ENCOUNTER WITH A FEMALE GRIZZLY.

    While at Monterey last week, says the Castroville Argus of August 5th, we met Ed Logwood, and were furnished by him with the following particulars of an encounter that he and his brother Joseph ...

    Article : 602 words
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