Show CLIPPINGS L I 1 I 1 PIP 1 t heirs to the estate of lord townly are raw now called for through the english paper papers this is one of the largest estates ever left in in england and is now in possession of the government the magic 11 ruffle has the peculiarity of containing no gathering thread the gathers beine beins confined by the same line of machine sti ething that holds it to the strip of cloth to which it is attached A patent was granted to the inventor dated may 8 imo 1860 and a company commenced the manufacture of magic ruffles for the market from one machine and a single operator they now occupy a room 0 one ne P undred hundred by eighty feet have a steam engine for their exclusive use and are manufacturing fac turing n cl m from to yards of ruflin ru ruffling fUin a day recently at petersburg va about worthless free negroes were sold for non pay jentof ment of taxes the buyers agreeing to pay ten cents a day for them admiral lord cochrane whose wife is seriously III ili in paris has resigned 0 his ilia command in the south american waters and taken passage for that city the admiral is now 85 years ears of age his ilia autobiography on which he e has been en engaged amed aged t for some time and of which two volume volumes 3 have appeared is not yet concluded in the official Rep report of the california mint the following passage occurs which illustrates some of the many singular abas phases ea of social life ilfe on the pacific half dimes dimas three cent pieces coppers and nickels are unknown in our commerce and are almost unknown in our mint although a few half dimes were once issued to the great indignation of 0 some people who consider them a dangerous innovation as havin having a tendency tb the price of labor and t the gia gea profits of trade the peach crop in the southern portion of illinois says the galena courier is immense A ridge in union and jackson counties 25 miles long and from five to seven wide vide will produce at least one million bushels A large amount of this immense crop will be distilled at chatham england at noon each day a gun is fired by electricity from the greenwich observatory mrs betsy adams a young damsel of years attended church at new london conn and also the evening service and spoke in the meeting on the fbI following lowing morning she walked half a mile before breakfast farming in south hardwick vt seems to amount to something holton judevine of that place have a pair of oxen that weigh pounds true wel wei weight ht 2 A VV powers has a half blood dur durham bull that weighed when 15 months old 1120 pounds and from one field of 4 acres 14 tons of well filled oats were taken the other day the he memphis tenn appeal says that the peach crop in that vicinity is larger than it has been for six years past it is said that near davenport iowa I 1 there is an 18 acre field of onions that will yield the neat little sum of the present season the expediency of establishing local market fairs at stated intervals as in england is is attracting the attention of farmers in new E england land and an effort will be made to test the te practicability in westchester county the che J apple and other fruit crops of the connecticut valley promise an abundant yield this season the census man in philadelphia found in one of the wards a black ablack woman ill iii yeas years of age formerly a slave in virginia she 1 is 8 still active and offered to dance if the census taker would give her a quarter the the old sarcophagus once the repository of the roman emperor alexander servers Ser verus which was brought to the united states from beirut in 18 1839 39 and intended for a resting place forthe remains of andrew jackson has been removed from the patent office donian institute ithe the roman catholic clergy in austria is said by a catholic journal to comprise 13 archbishops arch bishops 57 0 bishops convents with 2900 monks the total number of clergy amounts to individuals who possess property valued at personal or in trust for the church the verdic tin the case of isaac II 11 russell ot concord N II 11 who isho recently drowned drowne himself is of the real old fashioned sort the jur jury glo plo fio find nd that mr russell voluntarily and fe feloniously ly usi y as a fellon himself did kill and against the peace and dignity of the state 11 the schooner forest city arrived in al bany lany lately she was wall the first sail craft that ever came from the lakes to albany by way of the river st lawrence and atlantic ocean T one oae day as mr C was limping down the thi high street of edinburgh from the court of sessions he overheard a young lady say to her her ber companion rather loudly that is mr C 1 the lame lawyer 11 1 1 upon which he turned round and with his usual force of expression said no madam malam I 1 am a lame man inan but not a lame lawyer jesuits suits have been commenced against four iti citizens Z e ns of richmond va foi to answer the census ceneus takers governor moore of alabama has hag lately manifested his want of deference to the fair sex in a novel way it is reported that finding the penitentiary at wetumpka too full lie he Us has discharged the female convicts to make room for the males the new orleans courier says that the bell everett men and douglas men of louisiana are about to form a combination by which they will run their machine in common the south carolinians are getting uneasy not so much about the state of their ae de fences however ai regarding the appropriated by the last legislature to arm the state A correspondent of the charleston isler iller mercury cuty cury beseeches governor gist to tell what he has done with the money the descendants of the late holland week weeks of salisbury vt whose ancestors emigrated 7 from england in 1630 and who are lineal lideal descendants in the maternal line of john alden the strip plin who first leaped upon ply mouth tHock were to have a social reunion at the house of ebenezer weeks in salisbury on the of september next this will be the fifth gathering of odthe the family since 1840 they meet every five years the relatives being in nearly every state from new england englan T to california in burmah when a young ayoung woman is taken ill her parents agree agree with the physician that if lie he cures the e patient he may have her for his trouble but if she dies under his medicines he is to pay them her full value it is stated that successful success fil physicians have large families of females who have become their property in in this manner it is reported that the secretary of oregon has refused to issue a certificate ot 0 election to mr shiel lately elected to congress by the democrats as successor to mr stout on account of the election being a premature and unauthorized by law an exchange says that a lady X lady ady in portland stood upon a barrel to get a better view of the wide awakes the nead bead fell in en casing her tier in a double set of hoops she was fished out b by y an accommodating 0 gentleman the invention of a new clock upon the principle of the thermometer by the pressure of air on mercury is creating 11 a great sen sensation sa in paris the cost of the clock which goes twenty four hours and then has only to be turned like the hourglass hour glass is not more than a frank all free colored persons recently come into berkeley county va from other counties have been given ten days by the courts t to 0 leave the southern churchman says the bishops of the episcopal church have unanimously testified that the church canon idies loes does not forbid the lending of an episcopal church to any respectable denomination of christians 11 the Mille rites have been holding their religious services in north wilbraham mass this abis sect now numbers in the united states and the canadas and they gather in camp meeting from nearly every state in the union A portion of the te brethren look for the millennium before the last of march 1861 others are confident that the world win will last ten years and two months longer while others till still predict a universal overthrow in about sixteen weeks in south danvers massachusetts not long iong since a catholic priest it is stated entered a house situated in a part of the town called dublin and spilled two barrels of liquor the owner of the beverage was very indignant at the proceeding A letter received in boston says that a person from foo poo choo china describes the rebel forces as armed for the most part with sharpened bamboos not a very effective weapon certainly in in opposition to the rifled cannon and revo revolvers liers ivers of the anglo french armies it is estimated that the reception of ilis his royal highness the prince of vales wales will provincial government of the canadas no less a sum than independent of the vast amounts spent by the different towns pittsburgh was visited on monday evening sept 3 by a shower of flies which filled the air like snow flakes for nearly an hour to the infinite amusement of hundreds of children who seemed to enjoy themselves hugely in chasin chasid chasing 0 and capturing them the wings wi of the insects were white welte and their b bodies na 0 es which were quite long of a light ight flesh color they actually darkened the air in the neighborhood of the river from which it is believed they were carried off by a brisk breeze which continued to blow towards the city it is asserted that there have been more losses of life and destruction of pro property erty by lightning in canada and the united united states this year than in any previous one new milford tt with inhabitants has over seventy years and it also boasts of three old maids who are each two years younger than they were in 1850 in winsted there is is an active old lady of the hay hair crop in ia northern new york vermont and canada chada is said to be so small that farmers cannot winter nor scarcely summer their stock in england the papers speak of the want tapers of popular political leaders in III this country we seem beem likely to have more leaders than followers THE tiie DIGNITY OF BEIN NIG gers GEns A slaves speech on the raia rala tive tise standing Z of the races and the superiority of slavery to freedom is reported by the petersburg va express of a late date in this wise in front of the central warehouse a philosophical darkey leaning lazily against one of the wheels of a dray thus delivered himself to a brother jehu who was dis disposing osing of himself similarly all diggers ought to feel de dignity of bein biggers nig gers capt free biggers what dunno what dignity am dis minute im auff about fifteen li hundred undred dollars and he g gave ave a demonstrative gesture with his left forefinger and a heap ob oby white folks cant say dat for deys dey eires selves now dar and he pointed to a gentlemanly vagrant Is a white man he turn himself into money to save llis his life moren dat he aint he dunno buffin and he wont do buffin I 1 feels de dignity ob de fack and dats what makes me say what I 1 do say GREAT destruction OF LIFE BY TIGERS the singapore free press mentions the a astonishing fact that since january 1859 fifteen hundred chinese have been carried off by tigers in johon the end of the malacca peninsula the tigers show more than their usual cunning and regularly feed on human flesh they lurk lark close to the narrow jungle paths and spring out from behind on the unfortunate passerby passer by the chinese have immigrated into the peninsula in large numbers and have entirely monopolized the cultivation of gambier and black pepper the refuse leaves of the gambier terra japonica are used as manure for the pepper plant it t is now difficult to induce coolies to work in so great reat reab is the them danger at the present rate of deaths the cultivation must decline the qu quantity antiey of gambier imported into england 0 annually chiefly for dyeing dhein p purposes ur poses is is tons THE BATTLE OF or LIFE the battle of life in by far the greater number of cases must necessarily be fought up hill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor if there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for there would be nothing to be achieved difficulties may intimidate the weak but they act only as a stimulus to men of pluck and resolution all experience of life indeed serves to prove that the impediments ments thrown in the way of human advancement van cement may for the most part be overcome r com come e by steady good conduct honest zeal activity perseverance and above all by a determined resolution to surmount difficulties and stand up manfully against misfortune se self seif if he heip help ap av a V T the best remedy for rheumatism 11 halls hails alls ails sarsaparilla yellow dock and iodide of 8 am |