The Bridgeport Standard announces
that P. T. Barnum la going to build , a
hotel corner of Broadway and Houston
streets, Xew Y'ork, to be kept an the.
European plan, at reduced prices. ,
A Kentucky postofllce, paying a
salary of $23 per year, is sought after by
fourteen different men. They don't
want the money, but are after the big
feeling which every postmaster has.
The number of prominent candi
dates for nomination by the Republican '
party for the office of Governor of Mas
sachusetts reached twenty-seven at the
last meeting of the "Campaign Club." -
A mail was received recently at the
San Francisco Punt Uttice, which had ,
been but fifteen days in coining from
London thither, and but fourteen days
from Dublin. This U ihe fastest Ume
on record. ,
At Wells Beach, Vt., they harbor a
curious superstition that any one who '
will take a dip in the river on June 26th
will be free from sickness for one year,
and on that date hundreds flock to the
charmed waters.
A Richmond (Va.) niusic dealer an-,
uounced that he would receive Confed
erate money in payment for goods, ami '
only a few days ago he sold a piece of
sheet music to a lady customer for $2,
612 in that currency.
The whole number of locomotives
in the world is estimated at a0,(Sa of
wh)-h nearly 15,000 are in the L'nited
Stale, and nearly 11,000 in Great Bri
tain. The aggregate horse power Is es
timated at lo,ouo,ouo.
The consumption of cotton in the.
Southern mills last year is said to have
been 13,000,000 pounds in Geergia; 7,
000,000 pounds iu South Carolina; Ala
bama, Tennessee and Xortii Carolina
each, 6,000,000 pounds.
