{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
Yhe amount of duties paid by twelve auc-


.ioneers ofBoston, into the State Treasury, on


tbe;r sales for two months ending on the 31st


May last, was -, '5o,o0


The census lately taken Of the town OF Prov


;dence. r. l. gives an increase of 3474inhabitants


within the last five years. The whole number is


1898.


The whole Of the Military ofNew-0reans pa


radcd and were reviewed by the Major General


on SUNDAY, the Cd day of last month.


blood beet has been raised at the Aims


J,ousc, Salem, Mass which weighs 25 pounds,


and measures 80 inches III length, and "a inches


in circumference.


On the goth ut. Nr, W. Moss, carpenter


Nv trade, residing at Raleigh, n. G. comln'ted
suicide by hanging himself lie lett u wiie and
eleven children in INDECENT circumstances, 10
struggle for support


The Charlottesville Gazette records the ex-
ccution Of negro boy Isaac, aged only l6 years,
1 for an attempt to commit a rape and murder.
L The western Carolnian mentions the conviction
al negro Jim for u rape. lie WAS sentenced by
Judge Paxton to be hung OIL Friday the 25d De
q ccmbcr next.
4 Seven thousand tracts of land in the state Of
Illinois, are advertised to be sold in the town OF
yandalia, on the LIST Monday in January next, far
tgres These lands are all military bounty lands,
Il granted to the soldiers Of the late war.
Al
ceased, provided in herwill for the emancipation
4 of all her slaves, about 40 in number; and left
$50, GOO TO the College at Danvillc.
"a A report IS spread that an aiddc-camp of Mi


na has been arrested at Olcron, and taken to Pau.
/ II is added that money and suspicious cores
pondencc were found upon him.
Il Pr,lssia.--Such has been the success Of the fl
q nancial operations Of tn" prt,ssian government,
d that more than eleven million of dollars Of the
Il public debt, over and above the amounts of the
regular sinking fund, have been redeemed with
Y in the last five years.


n Gcgmaay.-tireat preparations were making
n for the opening Of the Diet at Presbnrg, al
q which place the Austrian Court would assemble
81 JOHN KNOX.-'rhe London Star OF the 18th
ID Sept. contains an account Of the ceremony o.
M living the foundation stone Of the monument tt
III his ''chiet instrument, under God OF the Rcfor
III nation of Scotland" This monument is to be
VI erected in the Merchants Park, Glasgow nvieN
'x Of the Cathedral


M A man named Ehrni, was bchcadcd lately il
III the Duchy of Wurtemburg, for adulteratins
wine.


An Ordnance Of the King decrccs that th,


anniversary of the 10th. of Oct. 1795, (thc da,


3 on which The Queen Marie Antoinete was exc
"a cuted,) shall be henceforth united with that o
NJ the Dist of January, the anniversary of the tra
f8 gica execution Of Louis XVI.-French pa.