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The minstrel Abeco, well-known in Australia, died at Chicago on. the 4th. A delegation of Chicago merchants have gone to the City of Mexico on purpose to extend trade. Earthquakes have been felt in Florida. Mrs Anderson, an Englishwoman, walked 2700 quarter miles in as many hours, at Brooklyn, New York. Caleb Cushingis dead. The scarlet fever epidemic is raging at New York. Fifteen thousand Mormon immigrants are expected next month at New YorK. European steamers are delayed in New York harbor on account of ice. Archbishop Purchell, a prominent Roman Catholic prelate in America^ is bankrupt. Specie payments was resumed by the United States on Ist January. Paper was preferred to gold. W. H. Vanderbilt is about starting a line of eight steamers from New York to Europe. Destructive fires on Broadway, New York. Loss nearly 2,000,000d01. A second heavy fire occurred in Worth street. Loss, 2,500,000d01.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3276, 15 February 1879, Page 2
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3276, 15 February 1879, Page 2
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