Show SUMMARY I 1 land has recently been sold near the he royal ex ear change london at the rate of tour sow millions of dol dollars dollare per acre junius brutus bratus booth the well known tragedian died on board a steamer on the way from new or leans to cincinnati dec let 52 the telegraph reports the death of mother in belgium the te insurrection in turkey has assumed an alarming aarm aspect A gentleman of glasgow in four years has made by consignments consign ments of rough goods to australia at giersdorf near a certain herr gros has succeeded in producing a very excellent white paper for writing drawing or printing out of red deal shakespeare Shak speare died on the anniversary of his birth and sadid so did rafaello valuable diamonds have been discovered in south wales the weather in england has been milder this seasor season than for the last forty years I 1 the duke of wellington died possessed of an estate and funds not far short of ten millions of dollars the united states own now to be put in market one billion three hundred and eighty seven millions live hundred and thirty four thousand acres of land which at per acre is worth on wednesday morning last says the panama echo of the of dec the barkeeper of the pavilion hotel taboga not appearing at the usual hour capt mckinney the proprietor of the house proceeded to his room to call him when to his astonishment and horror he be found him insensible and bathed in in blood after the usual restoratives restora tives were applied the barkeeper stated that on the previous evening after retiring he remembered experiencing empei the most delightful sensations as of tanning fanning which soon put him into a deep sleep and he had no consciousness of the attack made upon him till morning it was supposed to have been done by a vampire bat fifteen diffee diffrient ent plans are agitated in washington for a railroad to the pacific apprehensions are evidently felt thou ihnot ai not admitted of a coup de main of napoleon iff against englard england the pope is resolved 0 to o visit france and the consecration required ed of him by the emperor napoleon III the city of mexico has finally decided in favor of the revolution on tile the evening of the january president Pies ident cc valos finding congress refractory played the part of cromwell introduced a large body of soldiers sol diera into the hall ard and cleared it of the members at the point of the bayonet bayo ket iet ta the bos boston ton journal strongly stion gly advocates the introduction of females into the i ranks anks of the medical profession fes sion the production of tobacco acco in algeria is rapidly increasing the provincial court of friesland in holland tried a peasant girl named Moor ars foy for poisoning her father and mother she was sentenced to die the detthof death of the I 1 parricide which consists in being attached by the neck to a post and slowly strangled the punishment is dreadful dreada a the census of iowa for the year 1852 shows the population of the state to be of whom are aliens voters and colored A method has lately peen been introduced in berlin of printing books on linen prepared for the purpose it is the invention of an apothecary named sanger and M is found very usef useful til for books used in large laige schools tor for the poor an experiment was made some time since at the paris hippodrome for directing balloons by means of I 1 a piece of machinery placed in the car and which was to move wings at each side of the balloon working like those of a wind mill the experiment proved failure the machinery being apparently too heavy tor for the strength of the balloon the athens journals jouin als report a terrible massacred massacre of christians at salonica on st SL valentines day letters passed through the london post office some young thieves stole a number of empty bottles 1 I 1 les from the kitchen of a grocer and spirit dealer at AIon trose and immediately afterwards his shop and sold the bottles to their owner there arc in london twenty two hospitals tor for the sick lame and afflicted one hundred and seven alms houses for the maintenance of aged poisons persons of both sexes eighteen institutions for foi the support of indigent persons of various descriptions and thirty dis I 1 pen saries for 1 the gratuitous dis ion of medicines I 1 the number of emigrants who left the Af mersey ersey for america and australia during february was during the past year out of births in paris or nearly one third are illegitimate A new umbrella called the mushroom 22 which lias has no handle and sustains itself over th the e head bead of the he wearer is is said to have been invented in pa paris an adjusting apparatus fastens it to the hat aud when not employed e IT aloyed it may be rolled up and carried in the pocket it is calculated that the weekly supply of cattle taken into new york for the use of the city and tor for export is about 2500 head there are forty two light houses on the english coast seventeen on the scottish and twenty six on the irish coast the city of cincinnati has just abolished its system of volunteer fire companies and adopted in its stead a paid department A quantity of spurious gold dust and nuggets I 1 haye have been manufactured in england and sent to australia they are so well done by the electro gilding process is fraud araud some idea of the commercial marine of great britain may be formed from the tact fact that one english vessel is lost on an average with every tide seven firms in new yoi k annually manufacture I 1 worth woith of umbrellas the amount of mon money e y raised in new hampshire by taxes tor for schools in 1852 was tin in 1850 no less than thirty million pounds of maple sugar were made in the U S the salaries of the various offices within ohp gift of the pi president of the united states amount to upwards of fifty million of dollars a year bedr 1 large bodies of mechanics have struck for wages 1 at new york I 1 11 A respectable merchant of the rue montmartre Mont Montin matre atre paris expired some borne time since in the midst of frightful convulsions induced by having burnt the interior of his ear feel feeling ink an aching in lis his I 1 ear he plated placed a chemical match into int it forgetting in the warmth of I 1 conversation to look which bich end he be had put in unfortunately I 1 imn tely he introduced that which was inflammable won ru bing his ear combustion ensued othero there are white adults in virginia who can net teador write ka french 1 I 1 paper says that snails have become quite I 1 i a ua 0 equable article of diet in paris the first post office was established in france in im 1462 1 11 I 1 silver was first coined at rome 13 C quills were first used at newcastle upon tyne about 1760 spectacles were invented by a monk of pisa in 1299 the first steamboat was tried on the north river new york in the month of october 1807 potatoes were first taken to england from america in 1563 introduced into ireland in 1586 by sir walter raleigh printing was invented by J faust in 1441 first made public by john Gutten burgh of mentz in 1458 wooden types first used in 1470 brought to england in 1471 by wm win caxton printing in colors was invented in 1623 plays were first performed in england in 1378 within the last ten years the colored popit population lation of new york boik has fallen from afif fifty ty to forty seven thousand nebraska teri ten atory contains square miles with a white population of less than six hundred the soil of siberia Sibe iia at the close of the summer is found still frozen tor for fifty six inches beneath the surface so that the dead having lain in their coffins for one hundred and afif fifty ty years have been taken up unchanged in the least the tailors of belfast Belfa at have in operation aaion a machine which sews successfully all sorts of fabrics in in curved or straight lines or angularly it entirely supercedes supersedes manual operations A conspiracy among the republicans of hanover has been discovered and numerous an aneses ests have been made father newman now study studying irig hard with the dominicans is about to found an order of roman catholic missionaries laries for the conversion of the flourishing kingdom of england A butcher at cincinnati has been convicted of killing and dressing a dog 2 fashion for the I 1 purpose of selling it in the market of that town the city of calcutta is about to be illuminated with gas A railroad tubular bridge is now being constructed across the nil nile le the trains are to run alon along the top of tile the tube the engineers are englishmen the new boik medical gazette states tint that awen ty nine suicides five murders and two hundred and ninety seven cases of insanity are directly traceable to spiritual manifestations A A paper has just been started at columbus ga called the lie corner stone for the avowed purpose of advocating a dissolution of the union the public debt of canada is between and it comprises various loans the longest of which has twenty eight years to run A dyphon for dairymen a is now in use in scotland by means of which the milk is drawn away from the cream instead of skimming the cream from the in milk ilk dr alexander mayor mayer of paris announces that lie he has been able to obtain heat for all the purposes for which heat is now used by means of friction an academy of 0 natural sciences science has been formed at san francisco the first negroes ever seen in europe were brought over by an admix al of the portuguese navy la in 1544 he imported them foi the purpose of converting them to christianity boston has raised and expended for school purposes during 11 the past eleven years the sum of 40 the population of the australian colonies is estimated at colonel colt is rapidly becoming a millionaire from the immense sale of his revolvers two lines of 0 submarine sub marine anarine telegraph between france and algeria are under consideration there are a number of mormon missionaries in canton and hong kong china A writer in therong the hong kong re register gi ster advocates their imprisonment and punishment as criminals the religious faith of the chinese rebels is apparently a mixture of sectarianism mormonism and confucianism secretary mcclelland is now investigating some land warrant frauds to the amount of in which a distinguished head of a bureau in washington a clerk in ins his office and a broker in new york city are concerned bayard taylor writes from china that should the rebels succeed I 1 the probable effect will be to open all parts of china to the world the famous robber joaquin has at last been caught and d slain and his head taken in triumph to 9 ran an fran I 1 isco cisco so says th eAlta californian but the los angelos star contradicts the report other papers confirm it and describe ho hov bow v lie he was surprised and taken in egypt the price of land is thirty dollars per acre and can be bought bou glit only of the pasha there is besides beides s an additional and perpetual rent of three dollars per acre four clergymen of the english established d church in go good od standing and receiving good salaries have recently committed suicide the pacific railroad is now opened for passengers from st louis to franklin county a distance of el 40 miles I 1 an ancient pyramid the work of mens hands bands must anterior to existing history has lately been discovered in the great desert between the river colorado and the sa san n bernardino Bernardi valley it seems to be a perfect counterpart of the egyptian pyrl pyramid mid but of vastly greater age the coincidence is noticed that a destructive earthquake which occurred at shiraz in persia on the let of may last happened at the same tinie time that a slight shock was felt in in washington washingto city A C and hence it is inferred they were identical burn summary ar y from the N X york herald herala the president of the united states was present at the he opening of the crystal palace on thursday july the caucasian provinces are araking themselves and plotting an outbreak against the russian sway the last news from russia announces that prince Mens chikoff had been named governor of crimea as a reward for his services I 1 the cormons mormons of maemae iii in norway have been summoned by the minister of justice to appear before the court of lund and to answer the numerous charges reported against them their chiefs three priests of that sect have been accused of many in camies and sent to prison N Y HER HEBALD ald ecru cru ciby tb em crucify them shoot them they are no better than the two members and martyrs of that sect 11 JESUS CHRIST AND JOSEPH SMITH I 1 the greek government are fitting out three ships of war 11 c to protect the greek subjects in turkey in the event of the affairs of the levant becoming more corn complicated PI 11 in consequence i of a demand from turkey great military preparations are in in pro progress gressi both at cairo and alexandria in egypt the cairo and alexandria railway the first in africa as is partially opened twenty five ave miles of 0 its len length tb being finished |