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Not Quite Ready
Last Sunday's Examiner prints interviews with a number of San Francisco clergymen regarding the advent of Buddhist missionaries in California. They all agree that this country is no place for…
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Naval Notes
Three-fourths of the warships that are now under construction for the United States Navy are anywhere from six months to two years behind the degree of completion called for in…
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The Soda Springs
There is perhaps nothing in the western part of America that has elicited more profound wonder from visitors to natural curiosities than the well known Soda Springs, on the line…
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Looking Backwards
Thirty years ago eggs were three dozen for 25¢, butter 10¢ a pound, milk was 5¢ a quart, the butcher gave liver and treated the kids with bologna, the hired…
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A Grand Whig Caucus
We see by the Intelligencer that the ultra whig members of Congress have held a Caucus in the People’s Senate Chamber, and appointed the 3d of May, 1844, at Baltimore,…
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Protesting Slave Holders Exemption
The enrolling officers all over the State, says the Raleigh Progress of the 4th, are picking up conscripts, and we are glad to see the people yield obedience to the…
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Pursuing the Boers
Jacobsdal, Feb. 14. (Delayed). General Kelly-Kenny is still pursuing the Boers. He has now captured more than 100 wagons. The Highland brigade reinforced him after a forced march. General French…
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Baltimore City Intelligence
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. — On Thursday night one of the through freight trains on the Northern Central Railroad was thrown from the track near the Gunpowder bridge, about seventeen miles from…
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3 Men Devoured By Band of Wood Wolves
Port Arthur, Ont. — A great roving band of hungry timber wolves has devoured three men, according to reports sifting in today from the snow covered trails of the Sturgeon…
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Curious Egyptian Relics
In the catalogue of rare books in possession of and for sale by John Camden Hotten, of London, we notice some Egyptian relics of rare value. There is a manuscript…