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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

An official report gives the following estimate of the gains and losses of the Spa gaming tables for 1865 :— Roulette : gains, £37,585 ; loss, £1515 ; rouge-et-noir, £49,345. The share of profit acruing to the treasury was £33,942, being a sum of £6216 over that of the year preceding. Count Chorinski, who was some time back condemned to imprisonment for life in Germany with his mistress and accomplice, the Baroness d'Ebergenyi, for 'poisoning his wife, has, after manifesting symptoms of mental alienation, gone raving mad, and has to be confined with a strait jacket. The "New York Tribune' says:— "The breadstuff speculators who have combined for years past, by buying and withholding the crops of the country until they could sell at their own prices, have had their day. The western banks are already overladen and weakened by the enormous amount of produce held by them on margin, and will do well, if they navigate through in safety whithout loss. They can give no further help to any combination to keep up prices. The banks of the three great cities Jare also expanded to so great an extent that they can render no assistance. The banks of this city are poorer now than they have been since 1857, and their movements must inevitably tend toward contraction, in order to protect themselves ; and it is well for a", business men to be prudent in new operations and shorten sail before the storm breaks." Gymnastics are all the rage just now with the young men of Cincinnati. They have one association which numbers over a thousand members, and includes the best young men of the city. There is one member, who a year since was quite I sickly, who now with apparent ease lifts his 1,000 pounds. The great benefit of gymnastic exercise can best be understood, when the fact is more generally known that, of over 9,000 names enrolled on the books of the Young Men's Gymnastic Association, not a single one has died with consumption or any other pulmonary disease, and this is the more remarkable, as most of the members are persons of sedentary habits, many formerly even strongly inclined to consumption. The ex- Queen Isabella is becoming familiar to the Parisians. She walks about the streets frequently, accompanied by a lady, or even her husband, and followed by two footmen, who are dressed in the French imperial livery. She attends mass every Sunday, accompanied by her three children and Father Claret. She has purchased for 1,800,000fr. Count Basilewski's spendid mansion on the Boulevard dv Roi de Reme, near the residence of M. Emile de Girardin. Her majesty has paid a forfeit of 60,000fr. to get rid of the two houses which were taken for her in the Champs Elysees. Mr Pollard, editor of the 'Southern Opinion,' published at Richmond, has been assassinated. It would seem that the deceased, who always carried pistols, and had been in several shooting frays, had grossly libelled the daughter of a tobacco merchant named Grant, and was consequently assassinated by her brother in revenge, being shot dead from an opposite house as he was entering his office. The mob loudly cheered young Grant on his way to gaol. The Emperor of Russia, in recognition of the interest shown by the Bang of Denmark and his subjects on the shipwreck of the Russian frigate Alexander Newski, has presented his majesty with such of the cannon as were got up from the wreck. They are 38 in number, and the value is about £12,000. | It would seem that delay in the distribution of prize-money is not peculiar to the Old World, as the distribution of the 100,000 dollars for the I capture of Mr Jefferson Davis has only just been awarded. On the evening of Dee. 3, a lire broke out in Market-street, Philadelphia, in the warehouses of Messrs Morris, Perot, and Co., and after enveloping that establishment in flames, extended to the adjoining buildings, causing a heavy destruction of property in the principal business avenue of the city. Tho loss will not fall short of 500,000 dols. A duel with unbated foils took place on Nov. 28 in the wood of Vesinet, between M. C— — , an officer in an infantry regiment in garrison at Paris, and Viscount de Ccetlogon. The combat had lasted scarcely a minute when the former gentleman received a wound hi the arm, which was completely pierced, and the seconds put an end to the affair. The two adversaries then shook hands and returned to Paris. The cause of the encounter was an altercation which took place in front of the Church of the Trinity on tha occasion of Rossini's funeral. The salary of President Johnson is only about £3700 a year — quite inadequate to the due hospitality of his elevated position. It is though likely that a proposition will be made to raise the salary of the new President to 100,000 dollars, equal in present currency to about £14,320.

7 General Lee has been offered the auperinten- ? dency of a New York assurance company, at a salary of 10,000 dollars. The Swiss poisoning case, which has teen before the Assize Court of Geneva for several days, has ended with the conviction of the accused, a nurse named Jeanneret, who was charged with the murder of no fewer than nine persons whom she attended in illness. The only motire for these crimes appears to hare been the morbid delight afforded her in watching; the sufferings of her victims. She was sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Prussia and Mecklenburg have dispnted since 1600 the suzerainty of the small town of Wolde in Pomerania. Owing to the slowness of the settlement this little corner has enjoyed during 268 years the completest independence. But the two parties have just come to an agreement as regards the military suzerainty. In future the citizens of the republic of Wolde are to serve in the Mecklenburg contingent. M. Errazu, a wealthy Mexican resident in Paris, is dead. For several years his daughters ] have been prominent guests in the most fashionable soires and balls. He was the proprietor of a claret vineyard scarcely second to that of the Chateau Lafittee— the Clos d'Estournel. He j leaves a fortune estimated at 10 millions of ( francs (£400,000). . ! The Russian government has decided upon assisting the starving Finns by sending them out bodily to colonise the Amoor regions. An old German vessel has been bought for this purpo9e at the price of 30,000 roubles, and the emigrants will be carried by instalments from Bremen. Every man is to receive, on his arrival, 200 acres of ground, free of taxes for 24 years, together with the necessary implements, cattle, &c. This stock, as well as the expenses of the journey, is to be repaid in eight years' time, by instalments, to commence after the fourth year. The 24 years over, the colonist will be called upon to pay a tax for his land, at the moderata rate of 24 roubles annually. It is said that the Finns are very grateful, and that both they and Russia are to profit greatly by this colonisation.

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Southland Times, Issue 1134, 2 April 1869, Page 3

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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Southland Times, Issue 1134, 2 April 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Southland Times, Issue 1134, 2 April 1869, Page 3

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