Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-11-25
NO. go.


Coon LucK.-The following from the Lon
don Sporting Magazine for August, furnishes
striking instance Of good luck
=" Tho hate Luke White, the celebrated Irish
millionaire, commenced life as an erfand boy to
book stat, and finished it by representing 10 his
own person and those Of his three sons, four
counties ia Parliament. Having succeeded in
scraplng together as murh as enabled him TO pur-
chase few pamphlets, as lrihes Of stationery, be
! tied wallet to his back and set up himself as i
Pedar His tour performed, and his nerchan-
disc disposed Of, he turned his steps once. moro
towards Dublin, TO rePlenish his knapsack and
| add to his store. When some thirty miles short
of hts destination, he retired into field adjoining
the high road, 70 dine OF crust ard wash i
down from the nvulei upon whose banks HE hum
| bic meal had bsen made. That ovsr.he renew
| cd has curaey, arriving towards tho evening Of
the following day at his destination. The sue
cceding morning saw him sally forth in quest of
new merchandise, when 10! his bitter won earn
ngs were gone The greasy canvass bag, his
then strong box, had vanished, and he was again
! u beggar.
Ahaost in despair, his desperate search was
made IN lAe cellar wherein he had slept, but in
valni at length the llea flashed upon him, 'conld
he have dropped It where, by the river side, no
had dlned and stopped 10 drink from the strcarnlv
Instantly he road was retracsd, and at the end Of
the fifth day, half starved and dead with travel;
the bag aud its contents were found upon the
briuk OF public path, within few yards Of the
turnpike road. After this, il is mol surprising
that in few years wo find him in prosperous bn-
slness as a bookseller in Dublin. II was during
the period when the mania for lottery speculation
was at its height Like others in his line, he
dealt IN tickets, and, upon the particular occasion
TO when this alddes, he had disposed OF all his
shares save two halt tickets, which he was in the
act OF enclosing back, as dnsold, 10 London,
when young womun entered his shop aud in
quited for a sixteenth. lie told her how the
case stood, that he had but two halves remaining,
which he was about sending Oft at that moment.
After intcrchanging some badiaGge, Come
said the biblpole. "you shall buy one Of the halves
and will keep the other, and should the ticket
turn up to be prize, we will marry and join our
selves and our tickets together" So il was; and
the ticket was twenty thousand pound prize.
and they Were married, The fruit Of the union be-
ing the three senators already spoken Of.
THr WORLD eUTnoNE - Beat this, Mr. Jour
nal, or any body else. ifyou cani
Mr.. George Gilbert, "a good democrat by tho
way,) ofJeferson township, Montgomery coun-
ty, Ohio, raised this season, from one seed, six
pumpkins, which weighed respectively 1856, lac,
100, 80, 81 lbs, in all, Csc lbs. We say beat
il who can The largest one measured IN cir-l
conference seven feet and eight inches.
Hurruh for leetic JeiIersop!-- Ohio Herald.
9 Quick woRK.--On Sunday week, Baltic
I. Clarkson, Selkirk, sat down 10 dinner IN a pair
a ofinexpressiblcs made OF wool, which That very
) same morning was growing on the back OF the
sheep, In the brief space Of eleven hours and n
half, the fleece was shorn from the animal, scour.
cd, dyed, curdcd, spun woven, and made into
pair Of breechcs for hac!--6Ndsgow paper.
EioRsE.RADIsn cut into small pieces and chew
cd in the mouth, is an excellent remedy for hoars-
, ness, coughs, colds, and cases Of incipent con
: sumption. Several cases Of its successful appf-
cation have been known.
EPIToME OF THE WIG SPEECHES IN Con-
GREss.-Wc will do nothing--wo will propose
no rcmedy--and We will vote against any remedy
that you propose.
Sublime and exalted patriotism How worthy
arc such men TO be entrusted with tho desnes Of
the ration.Treaton Emporium.
! The Rodney, Brandon. Vcksburg, and Match
cz banks, are advancing from $50 or $40 balc
on new cotton.
During the space Of twenty years, in which
steamboats, have beenplyng between Norfolk and
Baltimore, not an acciden, has occur ed by which
a passenger was injured, except the bursting of
the boiler Of the boat Potomac, some years since,
which resulted in the death Of two Of her crew.
baltimore paper.
RAGS ron rue rEorLE.--This Is too bad.
The thought--iho very thought, is chilling to tho
country Rags for the people the hard listed
mechanics and farmers! Over such darnning in
justice the rag barons shed floods Of tears NJ.
yer mind gentlemen Cease mourning. The
evil can be remedIed Let the banks pay their
notes 10 specie, and the dear people will have as
good money as any in tho wmld. VIII they not
Louisville Public .4drgtisyr,
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC CAsAL.--Itis stated
\ in the New Bedford Gazette that tho survey on
the left side Of The river San Juan for a canal from
Lake Nicaragua to the ocean has been compile.
ted. The authoriiles of Central America have
taken hold Of the enterprise, with Gctermnation
to carry it through.
ENFORCEMENT or Russia ON MExIco.--A
Mexican paper states that the Russians ore ST
ently extending their possessions on the North
western coast of America, and thus encroaehiDg
on Mexican territory. Formerly, the Russian
possessions did not extend beyond Nootka, that
IS TO say. 40 deg. IS long. north latitude; at pres
ent they advance even TO the port Of Bodega 3Sd
% long. Of the same latitude; thus the Russians
havcusurpednear two hundred Acknowledgements
OF territory, and now must be at the mission of
San Francisco, or within sixty leagues Of Monte
rey, capital Of Upper California.
In 1884, Russia had already limo fortified