| Show sa ro I 1 A yankee schoolmaster named comstock turned a drove of cattle into the cornfield of a farmer in dubuque iowa and during 0 the confusion which this act created in the f family amilya ran away with the farmers daughter and marri edher the jewish chronicle says that there were jews in the austrian army in Ital yand 1 a captain of the jewish persuasion in a late enza engagement gement most the colors of 0 the regiment from the french who had taken them thein thea sugar planter says saya that a young pan man employed as overseer on one of the cotton plantations in mississippi recel recently itly fell heir to a fortune by the death of an uncle in ki georgia of nearly half a million of dollars lie ile had never seen his relative and had been employed as an overseer for some tea ten years at a salary varying from to in south carolina the tre hon N H claiborne died very sud denly at his residence in franklin coun county tyVa va on the morning of the of august 0 in his year he served many years in congress gress anew A new shot gun guu has been perfected at colts cows armory hartford conn which will probably b be e in ln market next winter it is made for five charges on the revolver principle and loaded and fired with great facility at a dancing party near the woman left their babies in the other room with their bonnets some waggish young fellows made a general shift of the babies dresses and mixed up the infants ana when they broke up in a hurry at a late hour nearly every woman went home with somebody elsea baby As they lived scattered over a region of some miles in extent there was a great deal of hurrying 0 to and fro the next mornin morning 0 and it took two days to get the babies fairly unmixed schamyl the noted leader it is baid said has been made a prisoner and sent to I 1 st qt petersburg austria is making 0 great concessions to the protestants A steam plow was tried at oxford park philadelphia last week with entire success it plow plows s at the rate of one acre in twelve minutes it turned in a small circle backe dand went up and down a hill with ease A considerable number of farmers were in attendance the jesuits have been driven out of the town of forli by the people in the pontifical states and their property confiscated for the benefit of the town tow g M ballogh 0 a hungarian asserts that he has mana managed 0 ed to square the circle and has just sent tent copies of his work on the subject which contains numerous diagrams to the academies of science at vienna and paris and to the heads of the universities of Camb cambridge eidge and oxford I 1 during the biege siege ie 9 e of sebastopol sevastopol Seba extending over a period of eleven months the enormous quantity of lbs ibs ibser or 1239 tons of gunpowder was expended by the lin english glish alone tons of shot and shell were fired from 76 pieces redes of ordnance of which only 11 burst igo 60 rendered unserviceable the french journals announce the discovery ry of an artificial light a lit so wonderfully luminous and steady as to be available in all photographing to operations the ile light 0 being contained in a portable apparatus portraits can be taken in private residences at any time or in the darkest rooms wholly independent of the them state of the atmosphere daniel Brewst brewster cr of killed himself by drinking liniment instead of rub bing it on oa his rheumatic ae leg ile he mistook the medicine m for whisky mr nir buchanan is re reported parted to be preparing an elaborate reply to the recent manifesto of mr douglas on squatter sovereignty ana has sent to new york for mr james gordon bennett to him ia in putting the matter in the best forin for the public eye it is on this business that mr bennett has been closeted with the president daily for the last week ai the e death of 0 robert wickliffe of 0 ken tuckel will render necessary the return of col preston now at the court of madrid the estate of mr wickliffe fre is enormous and mrs preston is one of the three heirs who inherit the whole the ne share of mrs preston added to the present fortune of her husband will make col preston resto one of the richest haen men of the age the oni only y revolutionary soldier residing in the state of wisconsin now upon the rolls of the pension office is nathaniel ames of dane county the great eastern beats the ark here is a comparison from an exchange 0 of the sizes of the two putting a cubit at twenty one inches and a half nosha noaha ark art noahs ark great according to according to eastorn eastern Bi stern sir 1 I keau newton n bp watkins walking LengTh between perpendiculars ft it aso SO breadth gilg 83 M dep h b 53 keel or length for tor tonnage 31 02 donnate acco according idIng to old law 1823 2 gen jacksons old horse is dead at last at the age of 41 years for years he has been unable to masticate and was fed with bran ac the defunct carcass of this famous old horse was interred with all due solemnities in the presence of a large concourse of hrs his h old friends 22 major AJ donelson died recently in louisiana of erysipelas mr donelson was formerly in erly the private secretary of president jackson and editor of the washington globe in 1856 he was candidate of the american party for vice president the amount of iron used thus far on the new dome of the capitol in the city of washington is about pounds to complete the first section will require pounds additional making a total of pounds for the first section which is about 37 feet high T the total weight of iron for the whole dome will be about pounds the walls are so thick and extensive that this great weight will only be about fifty pounds to the square inch the daughter of the proprietor of a coal mine in pennsylvania was inquisitive as to the nature of hell upon which her father represented it to be a large gulf of fire of most moat prodigious extent pa said she you get the devil to buy coal of youw you slavery has been abolished at fernando po the new spanish settlement in the gulf of guinea the ile spanish government has refused to give up some fugitive slaves from the portuguese islands of santa tome torne and principe on the ground that at fernando po slavery is not recognized 0 and all men in such countries are cons considered free it is said that the militia of the united stated number of which about are infantry cavalry artillery and riflemen the library of the late baron de humboldt bequeathed by him to his hia old valet has been purchased for thaders th alers the vienna journals state by lord bloomfield minister of england 0 at berlin |
