The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-02-08
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Harry White convicted of being concerned in
burning the Treasury building in March, 1884,
has been sentenced by the Circuit Court ten years
Imprisonment in the Penientiary. HIS brother
Richard the principal, is 10 have new trial.
A correspondent of the n York Express, writing
from Washington, says, Il doubt very much wheth.
er an appropriation for the Exploring Expedition
will get through the House. A part may pass but
the Frigate will probably be kept at home.
| 1t is said that Mr. Holland, one of the aronauts.
who recently made an adventurous excursion in
large balloon from London TO Germany has declar.
| ed his intention of trying an grial voyage from
! Ireland TO America.
! The Editor of the Woon:ocke Patriot, thus
ices some poetical communications. The poecal
effusions Of Irwin" and" Mcgee" are mad
Missile. Reasonable rhyme sounds somewhat
( like pumpkins rolling over barn floor, while some
lines appear to have been measured with yard
stick and others with ten-iool pole
Til. New SENArE.-1he Senate OF the United
States from the 4th of March next will stand thirty
four Demo, rats and eighteen Wings Total So.
! The Anti-Slayery Society meeting at the Ar
tisans Gallery, on Thursday afternoon was broken
upby some miscreanls putting cayenne peper in the
stove, and thus throwing the whole asSembage in
10 4 convulson Of sneezIng.-Boston Adr0eitc
Sir John Herschel says that he has made somo
very important discoveries during his residence at
the Cape Of Good Hope, and that he shall be ready
to promulgate them in .Gc Spring OF 1885, When no
will return to England.
The ship Newport, built in this town ia
1921, mud formerly owned by Capt. Robin
son Potter, was abandoned at sea in sink
ling state, on the 23d Jan, being "a days
out, on passage from Savannah to Boston.
GREAT DEsrArcR.-The Pioneer, which,
, conveys Santa Ana to Mexico, was gotten
ready and Il, sea in the short spnce oftwenty-
four hours.
; We learn tha, Judge Ellis, Charge D.
t.fhf'hirs 10 Mexico, arrived at Norfolk in the
Charleston boat on Saturday morning, and
proceeded to Washington on Monday morn
ing, via Baltimore, in The steamboat Poe
+ ahoutas lie had an interview with Santa
Anna.
DIsnAELI, the author ofVivian Grey, has
published new novel called Henrietta
d Temple.
b The last English papers mention that
l. large quantities of potatoes were beng ship
n ped from Havre for England and Ireland
t The New York Mercantile Advertiser states
IS lha, an order was received from Belfast, by
n the packe, ship Pennsylvania, for potatoes
l. to be sent to that port.
70 Nc1o noUcL-Profes.or Ingraham, the
: author of " l. Lafitte," and Sketches of tho
. Southwest" it is snid is preparing work
;, to be entitled the " Conspiralor," in which
IL / ID. ~ 4. ,I,n al ,bar ,ctar
ID The Siamese twins are in Wilmington,
Deaware-Changh has fallen in love with
young girl there; she says she is willing to
is marry him but objects to taking Eng too.
The Boston Post says, that at the late
:. fire in Howard Street house, two strangers
:. who lodged in the same room, jumped out
'' of bed and grabbed the same pair of breech-
: es; each inserting leg, aud they Siameso-
:, twins like got into the street.
I'd FIRE.-The car house, ut the depot OF
IN the Dedham rail road, at Dedham, was en-
d. ,ire!y consumed by FIRE at 3 O'Clock Tuesday
lie morning, together with locomotive engine
and several cars. Loss estimated at from
ten to fifteen thousand dollars.
x The cotton crop of 1886 in the United
y States is estimated at $4,000 bales, be-
n. ing an excess over the year 1885 of2l0 900
ne bales.
as Societies are forming in several towns for
oc the purpose of discouraging the use of -four
-, until it can be had ut somewhere in the
" nei.hborhood of fair price. We shall all
G have to turn Grahamites soon.
." A writer in the Boston Weekly Refor.