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 1887 1858 1889 lS4O Intoxicatioh .. .34, ,23O 4s,l73 4s, 404 25,5l9 Common assault. SC, ,s80 33,90l 26,3O5 20, ,793

 The compiler of this table states, that the appa- rent increase of drunkenness in 1888 is not an ac

 ual increase, but the number is swelied by the great er activity of the police in detecting cases of intox cation.

 En passanf, our own Temperance Society held a meeting on Monday night, which, owing to the dem- ocratic meeting in the Market House, was not SO well attended as might have been expected. The nearness of the time of election should have induced the managersto postpone the meeting for few days

 The Hon.sPArRIcK II. PopE, died in Louisville on the 4th inst, after illness of ten or eleven days, at the age of thrty-three years. Mir. P. was a member of the 23d Congress from the Louisville District. es

 The Legislature of Connecticut met on the 7th inst. and c. J. McCurdy was elected Speaker of the House, and Samuel c. Seidon, President pro fem. of the Senate. The message of the Governor, says the Journal of Commerce, urges the necessity of protective ari and touches little upon the subject of slavery. In regard to the concerns of his own State, he says, after two hundred years of egsls. tion it's statutes all comprised in single volume it's annual expenses do not exceed $soOOO. The State owes nothing; possesses school fund of more han two millions of dollars, well invested, aud yield ing annually the sum of $ll3,OOO, or one dollar and hiry-ve cents to every child. between the ages of our and sixteen. "I'be banks under like super- Iision are, in the main, safely and judiciousy con- jucted. The State Prison thelast year yielded am not exceeding $s,OO0." The Militia of the State are well organized body of $s4O,OOO men. iovernor Ellsworth recommends an extension of the aw for aboshing imprisonment for d, bt to non-res dents. fonteneile, being asked one day, what difference nere was between a clock and a woman, instantly epIed' Ca clock serves to point out hours, and | woman to make us forget them.''