Show NEWS ITEMS thene THERE is much sickness in melrose township adams county in one neighborhood last friday there lay four persons dead all at one time all adults namely three men and one woman there were at the same time from ten to twelve lying sick in the immediate vicinity the diseases that we heard mentioned were typhoid fever and congestion of the liver there is also a great deal of fever on the bottom road near quincy caused no doubt by the malaria arising from the adjacent overflowed lands sy st louis dispatch oct 14 LARGE barge quantities of sorghum syrup are being made in the vicinity of st joseph mo where it sells at sixty to seventy cents per gallon it is expected that the price will go down to fifty cents in consequence of the extensive r vulture of the cane in that section I 1 THE pareli brings intelligence of ofa a plot to assassinate the tycoon of japan by the anti foreigner party of damlos the conspirators had mined a house which he was to visit and proposed to big blow biow him sky high k A french statis statistician of easu casu casualties casualty alti ies les produced by lightning establishes the yearly average 0 of f men struck by lightning in france at 80 and of women only at 24 and contends that the proportion of women to men is still smaller in england than in france although the electric elec elee trie fluid strikes sometimes in buildings yet yett as a general rule most of the victims are struck out of doors and mostly under trees and as women are more domestic in their habits than men they are less subjected to the fatal nelld fluid the montreal witness says it was the common schools school of the free states that conquered the rebellion and preserved the union A WHIRLWIND which lately passed over the village of dalston england destroyed the church there the structure was composed of iron and fragments above four feet teet in length leng ieng len ien 1 and two feet in breadth were hurled into the air above eighty feet high and carried to a distance of several hundred yards THE port byron N Y times says that several persons near auburn have recently been fatally stung by a large worm that infested tomato vines tines death ensuing within a few hours the worm is about three inches long of a green color and armed with claws and nippers with a black horn extending in ini front three fourths of an inch long THE thin fine new iron bridge spanning 9 the chip river at steubenville Steu benville is completed A vern vein VEIN of plumbago has been struck in hamilton county iowa which the freeman states is equal to any used in the lead pencils now manufactured VALUABLE coal beds have been discovered on the st lawrence opposite quebec THE tin sangamon ili iii presbytery that met at decatur passed this resolution unanimously st bouts louis dispatch huo buo resolved Be jRe solved that in the opinion of this presbytery all interference with the freedom of preaching the gospel by bivil or military authority upon any pretext whatever is a usurpation of the prerogative of the church a practical union of church and state and wholly unwarrantable and that we sympathize with our brethren in m missouri who are now suffering persecution for no other crim crime than that of preaching christ that is what the latter day saints were driven from missouri for ED ay ax exciting race course against time came off at the fashion race course L I 1 on tuesday mr E V wagered to 1000 that the young Hamblet Hamb letonian onlan gelding De dexter itter could not trot a mile in 2 minutes and isec isee ands he was allowed three trials and i went under saddle the horse won the match at the first trial in in 2 minutes and IS 18 15 1 5 seconds thus making the fastest time on record the best time hitherto made anade being neing eing that of flora temple tempie 2191 2191 in harness and butler 2 20 f under un dj saddle sywie raf 1 situ tim THE boston childrens aid society designed to take from the street boys from seven to twelve years of age who are living in exposed and neglected circumstances cum stances is highly prosperous their establishment is at pine farm west newton mass blass fifty two boys were admitted last year I 1 A COAL at cost company has been organized in syracuse with a capital of in shares of 5 each MB MR wm vm epler U S deputy surveyor v arrived in austin last evenin evening g with nive five assistants having just completed a survey of the fourth stan standard dard parallel from the truckee river a distance of one hundred and fifty miles eastward thus completing this parallel three miles east cast of grubs wells which is some forty three miles east eastok of austin ho he commenced this survey on the of september and finished it on the 2 2 4 th dinst mr epler states according to ives observations taken at lake bigler that austin is located in 39 degrees 29 09 minutes 31 seconds north latitude and degrees 4 minutes of longitude west from greenwich and that its ita survey location is township 19 north range 44 east mount diablo meridian merld an reese reese river eiver Be oct 27 the local of the nashville tenn dispatch gives the following as one days record of crimp in that ungodly city 1 1 A spirited dog flitt night fight 1 2 1 rob robbery of an actress 3 highway robbery 4 sad case of death from destitution tu tion 1 5 A whole family poisoned with arsenie arsenic 6 A bloody street fight 7 horrible tra tragedy gedy a man kills his wife and is shot by his neighbors 8 another desperate and bloody street fight 9 negro guard killed by a dray driver 7 an exciting 0 horse race also took place in the afternoon art aft ernson and the days entertainment closed with a destructive fire A brave young girl in st malo france heard a boy who was bathing in the sea cry for assistance she immediately swam out to him and managed for a time to keep his head above water when from a sudden panic anic lie clung to the young lady so ti tightly fitly as to render her helpless but boti bote both were subsequent subs subsequently equen t saved in an insensible condition by a gentleman in a boat iris estimated from the returns already made that the population of illinois will exceed AN extraordinary electrical phenomenon occurred in the forest of chantilly france prance recently at 3 in the afternoon a waterspout passed across the forest in less than live five minutes destroying almost everything in its passage for a width of 50 60 yards and a length of nearly five miles about trees many of them oaks of large size were either broken offe off close lose to the ground or 01 torn up by the roots and shivered to splinters IT appears that eliat the japanese who have arrived at marseilles are not ambassadors bass adors but young noblemen selected by the tycoon to learn commerce in europe they are accompanied by a marine engineer zyi de verny who has been instructed by the french government to facilitate their studies they are to go to lyons paris belgium germany and england tim THE fitchburg massachusetts reveille says at tle the september term of the probate court the will of luther carter late of berlin in worcester count county was presented and objection was made to its allowance on the ground that it was dictated by a spiritual medium the objection was admitted by the judge and the will disallowed two more telegraphic lines will shortly connect russia with the north of europe the czar has just given the necessary concession for laying down a submarine cable between Gris lehamn in finland and eystad in sweden via eia the aland isles and another from cronstedt Cron stadt to copenhagen via bornholm tim THE number of cattle carried off by the plague within the last twenty years amounted to no less than two hundred thou sandin the one province of Tobol sk russia the original seat of this terrible scourge A CANADIAN paper says ther the stagnation and despondency lately prevailing in business circles have given place to great activity and high prices the country is blessed with the best harvest for many years WE wn salisbury english journal regret to state that the potato di disease sease is very general in some instances the whole of ot the crop has been destroyed and generally speaking scarcely a tithe of rhe the lre lie emp crops emps 5 wirl will come to habil sa zu ai jv sound condition MR purdys purdy statement respecting poor rates and pauperism shows that in the fourt fourth h week of july last there were in england and wales so far as returned against at the corresponding period of ila lla 1864 of the former number 0 were out door and indoor in door paupers haupers pau pers I 1 THE town of fondo in the tyrol has been almost entirely destroyed by fire houses were burned and families were without shelter the town hall the church and a few houses situated on an elevation escaped the flames the poor peasants lost nearly all the forage for their cattle A fine PINE marble statue of the emperor araan trajan has been discovered on an estate at t ivita civita carinio La by some workmen while digging in a field fro ero FROM froni ni the far north of scotland to th the e south of england and from west to east of the country reports of the cattle plague still continue to bo to received fresh cases are continually occurring and meetings with a view to adopt measures to stay the disease or mitigate the losses felt by owners of cattle are also taking place daily lloyds weekly ive lVe ekly sep 34 24 THE construction of the fortress of konigsberg says the gazette which was commenced twenty two years ago with a view to the defense of prussia on her eastern side is is approaching a its termination the wor works s being pushed on with great rapidity tim THE hants advertiser states that the famous st giless hill cheese and horse fair near winchester england which has been held annually in september for years will cease to be held after the present present year GAS is to be introduced in all t the h e towns in the riviera of switzerland such as CI clarens arens Mont reaux and Verney by a gas company at vevay IV we e like the story of a blacksmith who was requested to bring a suit stilt for slander he said he could go into his shop and hammer out a better chara ehara character eter t han than all th the e courts in the state c could ouid give him the dry goods stores in troy NY N Y are to be closed at seven inthe in the evening during the winter according to an agreement among the proprietors |