The Arkansas advocate., 1834-11-28
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 Summary.


 7 a' p itiuerant foreign missionary, Thomp-
 ps sbo lately arrived in this country, in F Fl q ''sae s so indecent and yituperative of
 sas9 ss,;,,,i;o,.s, that meeting of the citi-
 . ''s was. convoked, and this impertinent
 ' aer w requested to change his quarters
 pp Lave the town which he accordingly
 rhs incomes of some of the British
 a.n,en. 1t is known, are immense. That 4' ,%s dnke of Buccleugh we have seen
 'aJ I at l250,ooo, that of the duke of 3 l'sH l's%Hbanberland is 100000, and that of
 maros of Stafford is is S$s3ss $33ss99 ,eoo, Or, iii .ssrican currency, $l,S28,ooo.
 i, iron steamboat, PTS tons burthen, s0 feet long, has been constructed 10 run he Shannon; she has four water-tight satbeads, as lile-preseryers, in case of ygdent.
 p,esryERANcE.-W When Dr. Franklin .,Id into Philadelphia with a roll of s.s,d I in his hand, little did he think what a s.rraa his after life would exhibit. And VI h perseverance and industry, he .,.i himself at the table of Princes and sraple chief pillar ill the councils of his rutry. The simple journeman, eating \. mi in the streets. lived to become N1osopher and a Statesman, and, to com nmd the respect of his country and of mankind. What a lesson for youth!
 tWe quote the following for its wit, not i i, ruth. Why are the administration pa- rsrs like cod-fsh in the spring?
 Because they may be found lying about l as bdak!
 l TIE DoGs.-The N. Y. Star, says l A grocery in Grand street, between 1Eldridge and Allen streets, was on Thurs 1 fay night saved from being destroyed by |he, and the life of. young man, by a |iog which was kept in the store. The |dog, finding the store filled with smoke, jumped on the bed of the clerk, and by his pawing and noise, eontrived to awaken him insufficient time to make his escape, and all in aid to check the flames.
 Ifagical cuent.-Ihe greatest horror Fas lately excited in London, by the bloo- ayact of German, an optician, named Ssrberg, who inhumanly murdered his vhde family, consisting of wife and four shllan and then destroyed himself.
 Igeat Rail Road meeting was recently held at Natchez. The proceedings were al spirit and determination. A reso- hton was passed to construct Rail Road from Natchez to some point on Pearl river Elth view to its extension to the Tennes- !ae. A few minutes after the adjournment, |abscripton books were opened, and MORE ELAN S400,00O SUBSCRIBED ON THE SPOT. Newspaper toarards the Rocky Mom- hls-A newspaper, to be called the '' h. @ Advocate" and to be edited by the h. Isaac M'Cay, Is about to be estab- aed in the Indian Territory, tAree hasn- hd miles aeest of H. Louis. This loca- tn we think, must be considered some- Viere in the neighborhood of the celebra- td "far west. ."--.N Y. Courier.
 Not near 1t. He may go thousand niles west of it to the mouth of the Yellow Stone, and he will there meet people still from the west"
 BANKs.-There are said to be in the tinted States nearly seren hundred! local banks, besides the United States Bank and Is twenty-four branches. The capital sock of these Banks amounts to upwards d tlro hundred millions of dollars, upon winch they are authorized by their charters @lssue fear hundred millions.
 Nat. Ban.
 foas.-In excavating the Canal in this cly trough what is called the Deep Cut, 'ne root and trunk of atree, which seems to nave M been blown down, were found by the ,ta %o';ers employed in digging the canal, at ps aepth of about A feet. below the upper s'''ace. The root was grubbed up with s'ne difficulty, and the trunk was large s''uSh' .a when cut up, to make two cords c wood. Nof hi
 Messrs. GILpIN and SULLIVAN, late sOvernment directors" of the Bank of s sS U. States, have received appointments "0' w lne Presldent-the former as govern M m VI Michigan, and the latter to be pay (, uIsat complaints are made at Jamaica, 's. ss Nuts, Demarara, &c. of the black ap- m, msu''ces. They had not broken out in S. rsn rebellion, but refused to work more &'a hours a day.
 ,.a, rom the West Indies we learn that esslal WIT severe shocks of an earthquake ,aa s.0 ielt In Jamaica-but not much dam Dss. sS appears to have been suffered, though ;a,'. S,sS' alarm was caused and some houses