Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-03-23
[PuBLIC-No. 81

PUBLIC-NO. Q.
AN ACT 10 amend An act TO reorCanze the
district courts of the United States in the State
Of Mississippi" approved June eighteen eighteen
hundred and thirty-elght.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentaves of the United States of America in Con.
gress assembled, That the court Of the northern
district OF mississippi, besides the ordinary urisdic-
ton OF district court shall have jurisdiction of all
causes, except appeals and writs of error, cogniza-
bic by law in circuit court and shall proceed
| therein IN the same manner a Circuit court.
Sec Q. And be il further enacted That defend
ants residing in said northern district shall not be
sued IN the circuit court held al Jackson except in
the cases and in the mode prescribed by the fourth
| section OF the act 10 which this is amendment.
/ Sec. 3. And be ii further enacted. That all ap-
peals and writs of error from the decisions of the
said district court, when exercising the powers of
a circuit court, shall be directly 10 the Supreme
| Court OF the United States, in the same manner
and under the same limitations and restrictions
that they are now allowed by law from the Circuit
| court.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the mar
sha OF the several districts in the State OF MISSISSIPPI
p, IN addition 10 The several sale days now allowed
by law, may be authorized TO sell property AT the
court house OF each county on Monday of each
week. and on the first and second days of each term
OF the district court and that he may, at tie written
request of the defendant change the sale of proper-
tyt the place where the United States court for his
districts holden Provided, in the opinion OF the
Marshal, the interest Of the plaintiff would not be
compromised thereby,
Approved, February 10th, 1889.
PHYSIOLOGICAL EvENrs---Philo progenitvc-
ness.--The wife of Mr.. Ream, at Edenton, N. c.
gave her husband new years present in the shape
t..Tf al n..f.nv 49,. n
soon have his full number of quires at this rate.
Adhesiveness-The mail coach from CatskI to
Albany, travelling on the river, broke through the
ice, and the passengers were found sticking the
muddy banks; fortunately none were hurt, only We
ry wet.
Inhabitiveness.A humane society in New York
reports, that in one story house there found
thirteen families, numbering seventy four individuals
most OF them in state Of entire destruction.
Concentratveness A solar microscope magni-
flying three millions times is exhibiting at New Or
leans.
DestrucliVeness.-At one pork house, in LOUIS
vile, $4,000 hogs have been killed and packed this
season; ga were slaughtered and dressed in four
hours and twenty minutes.
Aimentivenes.-Shad, the first of the season,
have been selling at Savannah for Two dollars each.
Acquisitiveness-Th Union bank of CharIestown
has been robbed by person, who concealed himself
il coal vault, on the previous evening, and bored
holes through to the upper story large enough to
admit his body.
Secreiiveness.--A lawyer named Vaudeville, in
N. Y. accused OF receiving and conceang stolen
goods, has been ordered 10 second trial Jury not
agreeing.
Cautiousness.--A man in jacksonville, I'M sold
some powder crackers to some boys, and in show
ing them how TO fire them he took one, fred anc
threw itover his head, spark from 10 falling into
part Of key Of pO,Cder setting on the floor behind
him, open, the front Of the building was blown out,
and all narrowly escaped with their lives!
Eventually. Coleman, black Of New York,
first got drunk then jealous then murdered lis wife
by cutting her throat arrested, tried, condemn
ed, hung, magnelized, dssecied and buried all in
the cous Sc Of human events
Time-A man in England run himself mile in
ten seconds less than two minutes--he must have
had tea kettle in him to increase his steam.
Tuno.-Miss Sheriff, Messrs Segnin and Viii
son, are singing with great applause al the Chestnut
Street Theatre.
Mirhfuiness-The wife Of Geo. Spencer, Of
Accorlac, Va. was taken with fit Of laughing at
the breakfast table, which resulted ia choking her TO
death.
Individuality Hays, the yidocq of the New
York police, can recognise any rogue he has ever
capt his eye on before. He must be generally ac-
quainted with the citizens there.
Form.--A young lady in N. G. born without
limbs, has lately attracted great attention among
| the curious.
Size.--The highest chimney in England has just
been erected in Mr., Musgratt's chemical works in
Newton. 1t is three hundred and nineiy-seyen feet
from the base to the summit.
Wsight.-A child OF W. Mills, at Hebron VT
only one year old, weighs lsOlbs. and perfectly heal
thy.
. A Good Bump.--The Poughkeepsie Tele-
! graph says: a protested Phrenologist who
had been examining The heads Of the young ladies'
Of his acquaintance for the purpose Of selecting
wife. recently found one to his liking, and had
. the Gordon knot lied A friend could not at
first approve the choice, but after finding she had
the bump Of $4,000, he became perfectly salts
fed"