Ell tta littaiut 6aitttt. GENERAL NEWS. Du. ILtiv WALsratis showing herself in St. Louis in .pantaloons and military looking overcoat. BRIGRAId Yin No's family weighs fifty two hundred pounds, of which Brigham accounts for two hundred pounds. emcee() says there is not a respectable resident of the city who desires the Na tonal Capital to be removed there. PRESIDENT GRANT'S ox, weighing over 4,000 pounds, is on exhibition at St. Louis, for the benefit of soldiers' orphans. Tin= are five hundred and four Con gregational Churches in Massachusetts, with eighty thousand and fifty-seven members. JOSE W. Cazw, who fell into an ex cavation in Washington City, fractiring his leg, has sued the corporation for $lO,- 000 damages. ._ . LATE potatoes are selling at Alton, 111., at twenty-five centa per bushel. One farmer in Madison county reports his crop at 400 bushels per acre. Tan Cleveland Board. of Trade has re-' solved to , petition Congress for the im. provement of the harbor of Aux Ben s Sties on the east shore of Lake Michigan. A. WESTERN writer says if as much at tention was paid to improving corn as is given to grapes, one hundred million bushels might be added to the annual crop. Ix a Georgia mule case recently thirty eight witnesses were called to prove own ership, of whom twenty-one swore point blank on one side and seventeen on the other. Six Sisters of Charity have gone to Helena, Montana, where they intend opening a Female Academy, which will be the first institution of the kind in the .territory. Chinese are about establishing a savings beak at San Francisco, and it is. calchlated that $10,000,000 will thus be re. leased' from its hiding places and put into circulation. . A Mississirrx Judge has just decided that the intermarriage of whites and ne groes lawful in the State of Missis sippi, the law of the State to the contrary notwithstanding." . A LYNCHING party in Wisconsin, who claimed to have done substantial justice in a recent hanging case, propose to ap ply to the Legislature for an act legaliz ing what they have done. lOWA plants every three years a forest of three million trees, and within consid erably less than half a dozen years, twenty-five million-forest trees that there ebeen. 'planted and are now growing . AMY at Elkton, Md., has just ac quitted a young man, son •of a wealthy lamily, who, murdered a negro. It -was only l an, "unfortunate • affair,' and: the young man's "good character" was suffi cient for his successful defense. An Indiana town boasts a giant who I has by his great size vanquished the ague. That embarrassing affliction attacked him the other day and worked four days to shake him all over, but failed and left in disgust. JOHN ORICCOVITH, a, prominent farmer and cattle trader living - near Springfield, Ohio, committed suicide at the Exchange Hotel, in Columbus, on Monday morn ing. His actions indicated mental de rangement. • "InTnavrawrso" public men has be come such a rage with New York report era-;'that the formation of an "interview inetireau" is proposed, at which men anxious to spread themselves in the news papers can call and announce their opinions. In New London county, Conn., the Jewett City Lyceum has decided that it is not prudent for the 'United Staten to in crease her - territory. Canada and Cuba may as well stop "knocking at the door" . until this decision is reversed. A 'man CLERGYMAN, now deceased,. once said : "He had learned to preach not only so that people could understand him if they had a mind to, but also so that They cotud not misunderstand him if they wanted to." - Tan District. • Judge of Monroe, La., has declared a. mortgage drawnin French to be valueless, on the ground that the State Constitution requires all such con tracts to be made and recorded in Eng lish:- The case has been appealed. THE young gymnast who was killed at Cherry Valley, Illinois, a few days since, by falling from a double trapeze, had promised his father to quit the budness as soon as his enent was finished— of which that at Cherry Valley was the last night. IT is a fashionable sport among - the young. girls of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to collect on the, sidewalk and compel their young gentlemen friends to go out in the muddy street, but a local paper calls the, practice "boiled cussedness with the scum on." LEMAN Rawson, of Rumford, Me., for merly Judge of Probate of Oxford county, has been indicted by the Grand Jury of • that county for fraudulently altering a deed of real estate. He pleaded not guilty, and was admitted to bail 'in three,thou sand dollars. • A COLORED woman confined in jail at Savannah, Ga., the other day gave birth to twins—a son and daighter. The daugh ter is as black as the ace of *spades, and the son is as white is any of - the descend ants-of the Puritans who landed at Ply mouth rock a long time ago. THREE years ago a Georgia planter sold his plantation for $9,000; •As the pur - chaser was unable to make the,payments, he was compelled to take the laud back and cancel the bargain.;f.ince then he has made three good crops ,of cotton on the land, and a few days ago , he , sold it for 418,750. •AT EvallSVille, Indiana, a young girl remarkable for , the beauty of her. hair, went into a. wood-bowie of the family -*with which ,:ahe lives, where she , was seized: Buddebly,lly the , hair and` one of her braids was cut off with some iharp instrument by a person who sprang into an alley.and escaped.'