MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 1329, 25 December 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Mr George Pea body is constructing a tomb for himself in Harmony-grove cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts,. He is buildi'g a huge sarcophagus of Quincy granite, and. pioposes to be buried there with his brothers and sisters. The extensive indiarubber manufactory at Chalette, Montargis, France, belonging to M. Langlee, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. Nearly 500 workmen are thus thrown out of employment. The loss i* estimated at 2.500,00r> francs. A woman died reoemly in Trenton, Michigan, in giving birth to a thirty-first child. Among the thirty-one were three pairs of twins and the eldest of th m all, if Hying, would be only twenty-nine years old. Mr Jefferson Davis, the late President of the Southern Confederation, left Southampton for the United States on Saturday, in .he -teamer Baltimore. The Empress of the French, on tVe proposition of the Minister of the Interior, has distributed a sum of 71,000 francs amongst the seventy-eight societies of maternal charity whose organisation has been approved of. Mr Alderman Finnis was robbed recently at Mayence railway station. He was hustled by a party of thieve, who surrounded . lm, completely rifled his pockets of purse, pocki tbnok, .and passports, and then got clear off. In the office of the Government tobacco manufacture s of Vienna the clerks have to write in eleven different languages, according to the places with which they correspond, as follows: — German, in writing to Austrian officers ; Bohemian, to the tobacco factories at Sedlec; Coding, and Jalau ; Polish and Rrthenian, to those in Galicia; Hoven'an, to Klagenfurt; Hungarian and Crotian, to the factories east of the Leitlia ; Italian, to the Son hern Tyrol ; and French, English, and Spanish, to the tobacco offices in France, the United States, and Cuba respectively. — Eastern Budget. Nineteen prisoners escaped last week from Nicosii, in LSicily. The sentinel,perceiving the evasion, fired, killing one, and wounding a second in the arm. The t oops, having been set on the track of the fugitive. 0 , seized on five, and two days after four came and surrendered. Two keepers of the prison have been arrested undej suspicion of complicity.

A duel -with swords took place three dtys back in the woocL of La. Cnmbr«\ Brussels, between M. Henri Hpchfovt and a staff officer of the French National ■ Guard. The latter was wounded. Politics are ?aid to be unconnected with the encountpr. Another startling muder is repor'ed from Toulon. One M. Samson, a local merchanr, was found recently lying dead in his room, his body riddled wih stiletto stabs; his watch and several banknotes lay on the table untouched. A private vendetta is supposed to be at the bottom of this crime. . The journeymen compositors of Havre have presented to the three principal newspapers of the town a declaration to fhe offset that, from the 3rd of October next, they will not wo;k on the seventh day of the week. It is not from leligious scruples that they take this detei urination, but because " the work on the seventh day i* anti-social, and contra y to the constant aspirations of man towards liberty." and because " man has the need and right to rest from toil one day out of the seven."