MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 541, 6 July 1869, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Anti-Gambling Association has in N§w York reported 1094 clerks. From 1804 to 1868, North Carolina wines yielded about $9,300,000 in gold. The value of wool manufactures in the United States was $121,868,000 in 1868. Eight persona lynched at different times are bu.ried in one Indiana cemetery. General Grant has received from Connecticut a cigar 6ft long, weighing 161 b. About 600 women are employed as clerks in the various departments at Washington. There are five steel manufactories in the United States using the Bessemer process. California has 5000 quartz mills, Nevada 168, Oregon 21, Idaho 48, and Montano 601. In New York, fashion has just decreed that brides sha^l reside one year with their parents. Over fifty peppermint distilleries are to be built this spring in Wayne County, New York. There are 1200 distinct fire departments in the United States, with a force of 250,000 members. In 1838 Chicago shipped se.ve_nty-eight bushels of wheat. In 1868 she shipped 40,000,000 bushels. Hundreds of United States soldiers, stationed in Dacotah are said to be married to Indian women, Virginia has nine colleges and two theological seminaries, with 144 instmctors and 2277 students. It is estimated that $40,000,000 of United States Bonds have been sent to Europe since Ist February. A company is being organised at Versailles Kentucky, to engage in the artficial propagation of fish. Over $5,200,000 worth of stolen property were restored to the rightful owners in New York during 3868. After a series of returns in which pauperism showed a decrease upon the figures of last year, the tide has turned, and ah increase is now exhibited. The Poor Law Board furnish the statistics for the first week of April, when there were in the unions and parishes of London 147,086 paupers, in the proportion of 36,464 in-door to 110,622 out-d.oor. This was an increase of 1,549 upon the numbers of the corresponding period of last year, of 6,297 upon those of 1867, and of 42,753 upon those of 1866. Lord Cloncurry committed suicide on Saturday, April 3, at his residence, Lyons Caslle, County Kildare. His lordship had been under restraint for some time, having recently twice attempted self-des-truction by the most extraordinary means, but on the day named he eluded the vigilance of his medical attendant and threw himself from his bedroom window, and survived only, an hour. The deceased peer (Edward Lawless) was the third baron j was born September 13, 1816, and succeeded his father in 1853. He leaves a widow, Elizabeth, only daughter of John Kirwan, of Castle Hackett, and eight children, of whom four are sons and four daughters. In recent shipping news a fact is mentioned which may be recommended to the notice of the advocates of womeu's rights, and the enterprising theorists who hold that women is " undeveloped man." The ship Chieftain sailed from Calcutta for New York. When five weeks out, the captain was incapacitated, and confined to his berth by fever. His wife, Mrs. Maguire, thereupon took charge of the vessel, and brought her safely into port. On a former occasion, under somewhat similar circumstances, a similar feat was accomplished by this enterprising captainess who has sailed the sea for 20 years, and is evidently well acquainted with the working of a ship. Mr. Andrew Johnson, the ex-President of the United States, reached his home at Greenville, Tennesse, on March 20, and met with a warm reception from his neighbours. In reply to some addresses that were presented to him, he said his administration had been stormy, because he had been battling for a violated constitution. Congress he discribed as a body of usurpers. While passing through Charlottesville on his way home, Mr. Johnson addressed the students of the University, and recommended them to study Addison's Cato, for, he said, although it was a dry play, there was a stern virtue and patriotism pervading it, which every student and patriot should ponder over.