The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-05-19
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perance occurred at Vernon, near Rome,
New York, within one week in the month
of April.
The Sirius steam ship is said to have car
red out 1900 letters. More than 20, 900
are said to have been mailed in the Great
Western"
An unknown gentleman, soon after ar
irving in the stage at Lancaster, N. Hamp-
shire, few days since, retired to room,
and destroyed himself, by cutting his throat.
About $50 were found on his person, and
a note payable to firm in Boston.
A person being asked what was meantby
4" realities of life," answered real estate,
real money, and real good dinner.
The annual diridends paid by the banks
very opportunely to stockholders in New
York, amount to 1864, coo.
h,temarrysng ,oih Tengsance.--H
is said that Mr.. Williams, of Doncaster,
York county, England, had two daughters
by his first wife, who was deceased. The
elder daughter married Mr.. John Wiley,
the son, and the younger married Mr..
John Wiley, the father, a widower. The
elder Wiley had daughter by his first
wife, whom old MIR. Williams married, and
by her had son; therefore the elder Wi
ley's wife could say, my father is my son,
and ! am my mothers mother; my sister is
my daughter, and am grandmother to my
brother. This beats all.
g Serued him right" THE New York
Star says--A man by the name of Johnson,
yesterday. between two and three O'Clock,
| p. Nj. came home to his residence in Divi-
sion street; intoxicated, and after sitting
down to dinner; in few minutes rose from
the table and turned too and beat his wife
in shocking manner. She, after short
time submitting TO his violence, seized an
axe in the corner in self defence, and nearly
severed his arm from the body. Her pas
sions, which were justly aroused at the
time, having now subsidized, she is doing all
in her power, in conjunction with the ply
sician, to alleviate the distress consequent
upon the severe wound she inflicted.
On Thursday, the 10th inst. prisoner
by the name Of Judson, made his escape
from Mount Pleasant State Prison, N. Y
but was caught and returned to prison the
same day. On the Monday morning fol
lowing, when the prisoners were brough
from their cells, Judson jumped off the
dock into the river and succeeding in drown
ing himself.
AT public meeting of the citizens o
Brandon, Tennessee, it was resolved, II
give twelve hours notice to all gamblers il
that place to decainp, and committee o
ten persons were appointed to look afte
such as were dilatory in obeying the man
date.
One hundred and thirty vessels arrived q
Liverpool from America during the mont
of March.
The militia of the stale of New Yor
: numbers $4,000 men.
The Pittsburg papers state that some c
the iron manufacturers of that city have dc
# teImined to build an iron steamboat.
In Wheeling Va. the daughter of MI
+ Sciara, French juggler, making an ascer
:, sion on a rope to the top of house, fell an
;, was killed; she was only nine years DID,
!. The father deserved summary punisf
IT ment.
The Pittsburg banks have been payin
specie, for some time past, for all sums III
der five dollars.
BY law of Michigan, the Banks of th
state are required to resume specie pay
ments on or before the 10th of June.
e The Fmemen Of Lancaster had d graz
e parade on the 10th inst. 1t is said to hay
'e been one Of the most splendid pageants e
& er got up in that city.
n A Mysterious Death.-An inquest was held
G the I'd inst. ON the body of white found dei
| .. II IL. IL D.,