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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1022, 4 November 1871, Page 3

In Connecticut a Russian nobleman, who is a graduate of the Heidelberg and St. Petersburg Universities, and speaks half-a-dozen languages fluently, advertises for a situation as coachman . As a result of the protectionist tariff in the United States, a San Francisco paper ■ays that a suit of ordinary clothes costs 60dol in sold in that city ; while a better suit may be got in Lonkon for 15dol. The New York Times, one of the most reliable of American papers, says the 'violent course of the Irish Catholics in New York is creating a tremendous prejudice against the whole Irish race. The Sacramento insurance companies have united in offering a reward of 500 dollars for each person convicted of incendarism in that city during the next six months. ' - ' -The Washington printers have refused to take'a competent black compositor into fellowship, although the applicant had worked in a Government office, and was folly equal to the duties of his trade. . Immigrants are pouring into the United States at the rate of 40,000 a month. The -larger, proportion of these go to the northwestern States, and into British territory, -along the line of the North Pacific Bailroad. Cooks, it appears, are scarce in Massachusetts. The chef of Parker House receives a. salary of 4000 dollars a year, t.c, 800 dollars more than the stipend of President Elliott, of the well-known Harvard College. A cyclone recently devastated Illinois. The effects of this storm on a prairie were singularly striking. It made a pathway for itself of three miles in length, and from twenty to eighty feet wide. In that,, pathway not a spear of grass, not a stalk of corn or wheat, not a shrub or particle of vegetable, was left alive, while the ground in many places was ploughed up to the depth of six inches.