Show I 1 clippings I 1 orto OR to cure poverty sit bit down and growl about it gnot only in england but all over europe there was a failure in the harvest A livera liverpool wl paper says at the present moment the prices of wheat and flour are higher in italy than in great britain I 1 mr A german paper states that a russian at baden ba baden gaper en on the night of the irth alt broke the bank carrying off francs the prince of 0 f henan hanan also broke the hamburg bank on the 2 alt of francs short method of digging gold COSTLY the erie railroad with its equipments q ments cost twenty adred five millions million of dollars W and employs two hundred locomotives locomotive sl FLYING mr rufus porter who has been so long and earnestly earnesti lv engaged upon the or flying snip ship announces with confidence that he shall make an excursion in it from washington to new york some time during the next month flagg of the union sept 24 wat jat j at dover england the town porters claim as a right to carry every passengers bag to the custom house and and even if the traveller perforce per force carries it himself they charge him sixpence KS another fabulous bottle has been picked picked up I 1 at Bell mullet ireland dates purporting pur orting to be from sir john franklin dated may 1853 stating that he be is now resident on an island and the natives wont let him leave W the canada crops to the North northward waid of at montreal are very poor the summer dronet dron drought ht ripened the grain before the hea heads As had red filled the hoppers have eaten the grass ana the cattle have je be been turned into the atte athe the cro crops of indian corn in new HA apshire wince the largest ant ever known in the state the potatoes are all VOW rotting the e hay crop is h small and apples me 49 11 BOW 0 I 1 I 1 t 1 I 1 0 QS A weekly paper in the magyar madvar language I 1 is is to be started in now new york it will be called lafia which mean the hungarian exiles journal OS three hundred and four persons were arrested in philadelphia during the mouth month of august for drunkenness not one in G S L city i 1 W fifthe the emperor of china is is now in in possession of a fleet consi consisting stin of six six ships of war with english names a and g d commanded by ba r englishmen ass W the last news from utah represents the mormons cormons as being very prosperous t f true W ga there was a horse case a very common i case upon our magistrates dockets trying before esquire one day I 1 in ed which esquire dayke happened to be engaged ga ed A siow slow and easy witness had been called to the stand bythe by the plaintiff who in a plain straightforward manner made the other I 1 side of the case look rather blue the plaintiffs attorney being through dayke commenced a regular cross examination which was cut short in the following manner well what do you know about a horse you vou a horse doctor said the barbarian in hi his s peculiar contemptuous and overbearing manner no I 1 dont pretend to be a horse doctor hut but I 1 know a good deal of the nature of the beast 1 that means to say that you know a horse from a jackass when you see them thein said dayke in the same st style 7 I 1 e cooki looking g knowingly I 1 at the court and ila glancing neing triumphantly antly antty around the crowd of spectators with a telegraphic telegraphic expression which said now ive got him ini on the hip the intended victim gazing intently at his hia legal tormenter drawled out ont aco 0 O ye 10 1 as 18 just so pd never take you f for or 20 a horse 1 1 E according to the asiatic re researches a very curious mode of trying the title to land is practised practiced at hindostan hindustan Hind two holes are dug in the disputed spot in each of which the lawyers on either side put one of their legs and remain there till one of them is tired or complains of being stung by insects in which case his bis client is defeated E gy an earthquake took place at cama rea in in venezuela on the of july it lasted about two minutes yet destroyed every house bouse but one in the principal part of a city containing eight thousand people six hundred soldiers with their officers and heads head 8 of the revolution party were among the victims TO KEEP STOVES BRIGHT if you wish to keep a stove bright as a coach body by only two applications a year make weak alum water and mix your british lustre with i it t let your stove be cold brush with the mixture then take a dry brush and dry lustre and rub the stove till perfectly dry should za any part before polished become so dry as to 0 look grey moisten it with a wet brush and proceed as above ey A private letter received in N from N orleans states state 8 that an immense immen 3 e r raft a ft boxed up full of the bodies of those who have died of yellow fever was towed down the river after nightfall and sunk so difficult is it to obtain persons to dig graves or bury the dead atea has the property and see its effects upon women when jbv go 90 to tes tea parties tea parties arties are women sprees and when they eave have taken around a strong cup of tea just drop in and you will find fina them so garrulous and talkative that you would think that the ship which brought the tea from china had brought the I 1 language ang aage also W 16 whilst we keep at an enormous expense an antislavery anti slavery squadron cruising on the african coast and while the stafford house ladies with the earl of shaftsbury shaftesbury Shafts bury at their head are leveling the shafts of reproach at the slave holders of the united states it seems that british merchants have unobtrusively opened a white slave market at amoy the s system is to entice chinese laborers from the 1 interior under various pre bences into the port where they are first stowed away in barra coons and afterwards carriel carried away in ship loads under the name of coolies to the west indies the subject was noticed in the house of commons by mr kinnaird and mr frederick peel could not deny it the american consul it appears has interfered and indignantly protested a against ainest this new traffic in human flesh feng eng ex EXTRACT FROM FROK A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE SAN DIEGO having arrived at this place a few days ago from san antonio texas by way of the gila river I 1 feel it my duty and an act ol of justice ju sice to make an unvarnished statement of my treatment by the colorado ferry company and by the U S officers stationed at fort yuma at the month of the gila previous toua to my arrival I 1 was informed fay by various persons of evil rumors respecting the treatment of emigrants by maj ma J j heintzleman commanding at fort yuma and the colorado ferry company at the same place the rumors were to the effect that the ferry company and maj heintzleman were in in partnership in the ferry and that no emigrant would be permitted to come to the fort or pasture his animals near the same but were driven off and that no person would be ferried over the colorado unless the ferriage fe ariage was paid in cash before passing over and that the prices for ferriage and provisions were enormous now I 1 must say that I 1 ithe hare no cause of complaint con plaint the price of ferriage for a wagon and team was 1 10 0 man ma n and horse 3 cattle 2 and other things thing in in proportion the rate of ferriage I 1 considered reasonable JA JAMES MES CAMPBELL san diego oct 24 1853 ca W the following are the proportions of the mammoth tree this giant of the forest grew near the head bead waters of the stanislaus and san antonio rivers in Ca lavaras county and was feet in height 96 feet in circumference at its it base and supposed to be nearly ears old sections of the bark have been set up so that the natural shape and size of the tree can he be seen together with a transverse section of the timber it is on exhibition in bush street near musical hall san francisco san diego herald A LEGAL ANECDOTE the following anecdote used to be related of the hon jeremiah mason of new hampshire and is said to have occurred at portsmouth there is a well known custom prevailing in in our criminal courts assigning counsel to such prisoners as hwe hive no one to defend them on one occasion the court finding a man accused of theft and without counsel said vo 0 o a wag of a lawyer who was present mr M please withdraw with the oner confer with him and give him such counsel el is as may be best beat for his interest intent t the lawyer and client withdrew land and in fifteen minutes the lawyer returned into court alone where is the prisoner asked the ebirt she he has gone your honor told me to give him the best beet advice I 1 could for his interest and as he said he was guilty I 1 thought the beat counsel I 1 could offer him was to cut and run whisk he be took at once I 1 |