AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 138, 9 June 1875, Page 4

AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

So exact is the control exercised by the Japanese anthorities over the whole people, that every street has its magistrate, who is expected to settle disputes, to know the most minute details of the private and public affairs of every creature within his jurisdiction^ reported to him by spies, nnd to keep an accurate account of births, marriages, and deaths. This magistrate is responsible for the good conduct of the street generally, and fa elected by the popular voice of the inhabitants of the Ptr^t"; be is assisted in his duties by email companies of the principal householders, who also patrol at night. Business is po bad in Panama that dealers in paper collars have raised the price from thirty to forfcy cents per dozed. A bill for the sum of 41,925d015. has been presented to the Brooklyn Board of Supervisors for dinners furnished jurymen io the Tilton-Beeoher oase. A carriage and span of horses was presented to Cardinal M'Gloskey by a few prominent Catholics of New York. A humorous apothecary in Boston exposes a cake of soap in his shop window, with the pertinent inscription, "Cheaper than dirt." Owing to the strike of operatives at Fall. River, six mills stopped their monthly pay, which amounts to over 90,000d015. A lady in Ross, 0., sent a postal card by mail havjng 1590 words plainly written on it, as many as two columns of some papers contain. A very singular and imp artant discovery, it is said, has been made by a market gardener. It is a process by which potato plants can bo made to yield fruit all the year round. Mayor Johnson, of Cincinnati, determined that the rambling-houses in that, city "should be closed and kept dosed," has ordered the chief of police to use all diligence in stopping the illegal business, and .in arresting all offending parties. Chief Justice Morrell, of New York, bas decided that a street railway company has a perfect right to eject intoxicated persons from their cars, and that the company is not responsible for damages .in the event of the fatal injury of a person ejected under such circumstances. The Massachusetts Liquor Bill, as a Bubutitute for the present prohibitory law, finally passed the House. It requires . the orovernor's signature to become law. The Bill prohibits the open sale of liquors over .the bar, but provides for licenses in connection with botch and resturante. It also dispenses with the State police and seizures to enforce it. A farm in California, consisting of 20,000 acreß, has just been let for Qve years at an annual rental of 10,000dolfl. The farm is stocked with 1,900 head of cattle, 100 horses, 50 mules, and 1,500 bogs, costing the lesiee, with crops, 74 ; 250d018. For the past few months tfre Bay of Panama bus been very phosphorescent. In the dark, every wave as it broke on the reefs looked like a wreath of bluish fire, Fißh abbupd in the bay at such times, and the water is cooler than usual. Bomualdo Pacbeco, who suceeds Mr Booth as Governor of California, is the first native of that State who has reached the Gubernatorial chair. He wbb born at Santa Barbara, of Spanish t parents, and was fifteen years of age when the emigrants from the United States took possession of the soil A letter from Commander Lull, in charge of t^e United States Inter* ■'*" A terrible case of fanaticism occasioned by spirit rapping, is now undergoing investigation at Pequardeliro, Havanah. A mother, believing that she was acting under the orders of spirits, has torn out the eyes of her son. Advices from Port-au-Prince state that about two-thirds of that city was destroyed by the fire which broke out there on the night of the llih of March. The loss is about 2,000,000 dols., and 600 or 700 families are rendered homeless.