Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 3, 21 January 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

—There are about 200,000 Jsruelites the i United States. | —Ida Lewis, the iNewport heroine, was ! ir«arried htely to \Ym. H. Wilson of Black ; K«ck, Ooiki. Qkcn Victobia paid a visit to the ExKmpress Eugenie at ChiseJhurst, ar»d an afiVcting iot<TFieiv fo!lowed. A i*hiladclphia pa(>er thinks opponents f<>r the next Presideocy, will undoubtedly be Geoeral Gr«nt and Governor Huffiuun. i It n stiited that an erninent London pubi lisber has off<fred j£lo,ooo fnr the exclusive ij right, for ten years, of pub!ishing the re- | ri9ed version of the Bible now in progress. THE MATRIMONIAL iVEUS 1S THK NAME OF| : a foor-cent week!y just started in London, whieh is said to contain niore than two hundred annnuncemeuts from candidutes for marriage. The census of Salt Lake city, the cnpital of the Monnon territory, just cornp!eted, shows the popu!ation to be. 13,454, against 5.236 ten years ago. The great bulk of lhis population is Mormon. —Mr. While of Wes! Rochester, Vt., owns a sp»niel, whieh heshearsas regularly »s a sheep, and the fleece is sufficient to keep a man and boy in niee, sofr, warm stokmgs through the year. That's the kind of a dog to keep. —The Alahima State Journal t .of Mont* gomery, tells of a oatural curiosity on ex-| hībition in tiiat city. It a worm apparently ( | without a head. She is a native of Alahama, . and the exhibitor is also an Alahamian, : though he has a head. ; A uiadman entered a bouse at Lake View, | 111., the other night, and made a stirring im- • promptu discourse, in whieh he exhorted • the inmates to fly to he«ven with all possi-J i ble haste, in order to save themselves from| ī ixnpending dooin. He then proceeded to assist thein oatof the world, and hod injuredl ; several verv seriously before he was driven j : from the premises. | Weston. the walker, has failed to aeeom|plish the feat of walking 400 miles in five days. He couipleted in that time 320 miles, | taking 44 hours for meals and sleep. One | of the miles he walked in eight minutes nnd a haīf. The feat was undertaken from a , "scient'fic" point of view, to show the " wear ; and tear" upon a man s system. Both the English At|antic Cab!es, 0f1865 and 1866, are for the present, thus j rendering it vpry difficult to transmit news. ; The defect is located about 65 miles from ! Heart'sContent, N. F. The French Cable from i Massachusetts church to Havre, is our sole ' reliance, for the time being, fur inforrnation as to the events transpiringin Europe. EfTorts are being actively made to repair both lines. ' The suboiarine cable stretching from Fal« ■ mouth (Eng.) to Malta, via Gilbraltar, is , also broken soinewhere between Lisbon and ; Gibraitar. Kossia.—Kossift*bas 667 cotton factories, einploying 156,000 operatives. Before the ] w *r in America, cotton manufacture had i scarcely commenced in Kussia. During i that period, however, the Kussians began to | manufacture Bokhara, Persian, Indian, and | oUier cotton, Bnd it is said that their fact* | ories are now tbe most magnificent in the : world, eiceedmg in style and completeness . even the English establishments. The pro- ; duct amounts to «50,000,000 annually. Chakges in C«jba.—The recall of Cap-tain-General de Rodas, of Cuba, by the Madrid Government, is accepted here as a eoncessioo to the Volunteer element, whieh» led by VMmased«, has beea the source of mueh trooble to Spain. Valmaseda, it will be re- ; collected, was the perpetrator of some of the greatest outrages on the Island of Cuba, and haa bad to be held in eheek by de Rodas. | There is mueh fear here 4hat Valmaseda's | vieleot tendences will result in complicating . our relatioo6 with Spaia, always very dej licate, aod sometimes on the very brink of ī mpiuie, whieh oo more than one oceasion has only been avoided by the skillful exercise of diplomatic ability on the part of Secreury Fish.