The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-12-20
CLIPPINGS.


Wisconsin eighteen months since. It cost them
lOs. an acre, the fencing 81 an acre, and the
breaking up l4s. an acre. Every item Of expense
alter harvest, shows an aggregate Of So, 1856.
The three hundred acres produced 5000 bushels
OF wheat, which sold for 1920. This tells
good story for Wisconsin lands. To pay for land
and all improvements the first, and have sur
plus LETT, is not common hereabouts. So says
the New York True Sun, and SO say we,
A fact ,corthy the consideration of the present
Congress.-Three gentlemen, says the N. H.
Patriot, who were in the habit Of passing be-
tween New York and Providence once Week
| on the average, carried from Providence 10 New
York 1854 letters, and from New York to Provi-
dence 8O7 letters, making 2,O7l in the whole.
these at 49, cents the present rate Of postage,
would amount to 1888 81, and at cents each,
would give the department an income Of $lO3 SIS,
making SO much saving, for at the lower rate
they all would have been sent by mail.
Governor Porter has issued a warrant for the
execution of James Dolan and Bridget Dolan, on
Friday the 10th of February between the hours
OF 10 o'clock, A. M, and P. M. They were
convicted Of murder in the first degree, in Brad
ford county.
The war steamer Kamscba..aa, built at New
York by Messrs. s.s.uuyler for tn. Russian Gov
eminent Is said to, be- the finest vessel of her
'i"ss RAoat IN Europe.
/. No less than three hundred and ffty-two hnd-
ilngs nave been erected in Milwaukee, w Wisconsin
since The first day Of January, 1870, , Tha ni
dsse now Contains 6,068 Inhabitants.
.he w orcester Palladium of the 18th. saws:
!, A convention for recognizing the human fam-
ly, correcting the abuses that have been creeping
into it for SIX thousand years, and preparing it
for new and better start on the march of exist
ence, is In session to-day at our town hail."
! A man in Huntsville, Alabama, offers piano
forte for sale. and says he'll wait for payment till
Henry Clay is elected President.
Mrs. Wood, the u6calist.-Mrs. Wood appear
ed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, lately, in her
iavorite character of Amina, in the opera of La
Somnambula, previous to her bidding final
adieu to the stage. The Dublin Evening Mail
says, upon her first appearance, she seemed much
agitated and oppressed with the excess Of her
emotions. e
i Mdle. Taglioni is at present at Stockholm.
On the occasion Of her benefit the theatre was
SO crowded in every part, that at an early hour
in the evening" notices were posted at the doors
stating that no more tickets could be issued.
. An immense tree-There is said to be tree
growing in the neighborhood of Saintes in France,
: whose height is sixty feet diameter of trunk
next the surface, twenty-six feet, and at the
height Of six feet above, twenty feet. An apart
ment six feet high and ten deep, with door and
window, has been formed in the trunk. 1t is an
oak, supposed TO be at least two thousand years
old.
A London paper states that a fire now burning
in the hearth of Mr.. Slradling, of Somerset,
was kinded in 1872 by one Of his ancestors, and
has never bppn suffered IN on Ont
II is said that M. Archerau, of Paris, has in
vented a galvanic light, which, incosed in a
glass tube about IL inches in diameter, is cquiva-
lent TO about 20 of the ordinary gas lamps.