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  2. MERCANTILE AND MONEY ARTICLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,648 words
  3. EXPRESS ROBBERY IN OHIO.

    Cleveland, April 1.—A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, this morning, says the office of the Express Company was robbed last night of a large sum of money. The office of the company is in the Great Western freight building. The ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. BRAIDWOOD.

    I BEGIN this letter with dismal news, which not only affects us here, but, I fear, many people in other districts. Our cheering prospects, which the rain that fell during the week before Easter had so much revived, have been sadly ...

    Article : 1,287 words
  5. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

    Pittsburgh (Pa.), April 2.—A Fairmount (West Virginia) special says an incendiary fire, this morning, destroyed twenty-two buildings The entire business block from Bridge-street to Jefferson-street, on the south side of ...

    Article : 62 words
  6. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO. THE steamship City of San Francisco, Captain Waddell, with the English and American mails, arrived in port at noon yesterday. We have European telegraphic intelligence to the 2nd April, from which we take the following items:— THE QUEEN'S TITLE.

    New York, April 2.—The Herald's London special says the Home Rule members of Parliament, at a recent conference, were given to understand tacitly by Bross, the Home Secretary, who was present that, if they supported ...

    Article : 187 words
  7. RYDE.

    MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.—A regular meeting was held in the Council-chamber, Ryde, on Friday, the 21st April, instead of Friday, the 14th, that day being a public holiday. Present—Alderme Wicks, Gallard, Cox, ...

    Article : 621 words
  8. PARKES.

    MINING is dull. The Tiehborne and Wapping are the principal source of attraction in alluvial; however, prospecting is being resumed since the rain, and I trust I may be able to give notice of new leads soon. ...

    Article : 251 words
  9. RETURN OF CAMERON.

    Cameron, the African explorer, arrived at Liverpool on tho 2nd April. An immense crowd of people welcomed him. ...

    Article : 21 words
  10. A SWINDLING BANKER SENT TO NEWGATE.

    London, March 23.—Richard Bonner Oakley, under examination before the Lord Mayor to answer the charge of having, as proprietor and mananger of the Co-operative Credit Bank obtained by false pretences various large sums ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN FRANCE—OVER 30 LIVES LOST.

    New York, March 29.—A London letter says, that the terrible railroad calamity at Ill, France was caused by the breaking of a bridge, owing to heavy rain-storms. The carriages fell on top of each other, and immediately ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. COOMA.

    ON the 17th April, a man, who lately arrived in the colony, was thrown from his horse, and received injuries of such a nature that his recovery is pronounced to be very doubtful. ...

    Article : 148 words
  13. THE TURKISH INSURRECTION.

    London, March 23.—A Standard's dispatch says that heavy snows impede the operations of the insurgents in Herzegovina. The insurrection is, however expected to break out shortly with renewed violence, as volunteers have ...

    Article : 119 words
  14. PARRAMATTA.

    INQUEST AT PARRAMATTA GAOL.—The District Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) held an inquest in the Parramatta gaol, on the 29th ultimo, on the body of Samuel Blackett, Alexander Watt deposed that he was chief warder in that ...

    Article : 520 words
  15. MAURITIUS.

    SINCE the date of my last, the island has on two occassions narrowly escaped very considerable damage from cyclones. The first storm occurred on the 18th ultimo, and did not pass away without leaving traces of its presence in the ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  16. DYKES SWEPT AWAY BY THE FLOODS.

    London, March 25.—The Daily Telegraph's Paris special reports that the dykes protecting Herzozonbusch in Holland have been swept away by the floods. Railway bridges and roads are destroyed, and the town is completely ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. THE CZAR'S ABDICATION.

    London, March 30.—Telegrams from St. Petersburg, proceeding from authoritative sources, confirm the report of the abdication of the Czar. The Czarovitch will be intrusted with the regency and full sovereign powers during ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. THE GREAT FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS— LOSSES OF PROPERTY AND LIFE.

    Worcester, March 31.—The flood by the dam disaster did no material damage below South Worcester. The Blackstone River Valley was not harmed. The losses, in part, are estimated as follows:—City of Worcester, dam and ...

    Article : 288 words
  19. MINING REPORTS.

    WILLIAMS G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports under date of 1st instant:—"540-feet Level: South drive has been j further extended 7 feet; the lode in the face is 9 inches thick, and of fair quality. In the north slopes, Nos 1 to ...

    Article : 607 words
  20. MUDGEE.

    THE annual meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Institute was held last Friday evening, the chair being occupied by the Venerable Archdeacon Gunther. The secretary (Mr. Cassin) read the annual report, which was of a very ...

    Article : 1,276 words
  21. MAITLAND.

    SINCE the removal of the post-office to a more commodious building, the accommodation at the telegraph office has been increased. The room lately used in the old post-office is now devoted to the public, in which they may write ...

    Article : 597 words
  22. MORE CROOKED WHISKY CONVICTIONS.

    Chicago, March 31.—The trial of Pahlmann and Rush, distillers, which has been progressing in the United States Court here for two weeks past, concluded to-day, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty on the first four counts of ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. THE STORM IN ILLINOIS.

    Chicago, March 28.—The greatest snow-fall of the season overtook this region last night and to-day, and now the snow lies probably eighteen inches deep on a level. Reports from as far south as Cairo speak of the storm as ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. THE NEW SOUTH WALES COURSING CLUB.

    FIRST meeting, May 8 and 9. The winner to receive £45 and a piece of plate value £50; runner-up, £30; third dog, £15; two dogs, winners of two courses, £7 10s. each. The entries for the forthcoming inaugural meeting were ...

    Article : 367 words
  25. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSIONS.

    Providence, March 31.—Four of the sixteen boilers of the Fletchcr mill exploded this forenoon, killing two men and wounding, more or less seriously, a number of others. The loss to the millsowners is 25,000 dollars. ...

    Article : 70 words
  26. OUTRAGE IN TENNESSEE.

    Memphis, April l.—At Somerville, Tennessee, on Thursday last, a crowd of masked men raided two Poles named Hirsch, merchants of the town. The gang, fifteen in number, forced themselves into the store before daylight, ...

    Article : 153 words
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