New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-08-08


kangaroo, 9 feet long, weighs 900 lbs. has horns
ike deer, sits on It's hind legs is clothed IN fur
of brown color, and most delicious eating
The inventor of the beast should have steak
ont Of the next one that is caught for his pains.
we cannot tell what paper was first gulled by this
transparent hoax
1g 1t was lately stated in The Tribune, on
what was deemed good authority, that the Berea
Lyccum Association il, Ohio-an attempt on
small scale to combine the pursuit OF Education
with that Of Industry-had declared dividend
of fourteen per cent to its stockholders. Such
was not the fact the dividend Is but screen per
cent.-the first ever declared, though TIE Assocl-
alton has been in operation over two years Even
this is very well, under the circumstances
Nothing can do greater harm to the cause of
enterprises like this than TO hold out the idea OF
cyorbitant dividends as sure to be realized from
their operations.
~ a very numerous and respectable audience
attended the dedication of the new meeting hall
of the Marion Temperance Society, No. lo3
Canal.street on Thursday evening last. They
were addressed BY Rev Mr.. Batch in an eloquent
and appropriate measure, and by E. Downes Con
nery and James C. Parsclls, Esqrs., with great
feelino and effect. The new Marion Choir, con-
sisting Of twenty members sang several aPproprl-
ate songs and odes, among the latter one written
and set to music for the occasion which elected
great and deserved applause
CINCINNATI RIoTs.-A large crowd assembled
on Tuesday night, lst inst, in Cincinnati, near
the scene Of the riot on the previous evening,
with the apparent intention Of renewing the at
tack on Burnett's house The Mayor had how
ever. military force in readiness, with an eff
Gent police. One arrest was made. After this
the crowd thinncd off gradually, and by half-past
10 O'Clock but few were left on the ground, and
all danger was over.
SERIOUS AccIDEST.-Ye sterday as Mrs. Phelps
was walking on the balcony of the house she
occupied at the junction of the Third Avenue and
the Bowerv the balcony gave way, and she fall
ing through to the ground SO severely fractured
one of her legs, between the knee and the ankle,
that the bones protruded through the SKIN. What
renders the accident more painful is that she has
a son in her house also confined with broken leg.
Coon BusIYEsS.It will be seen, by the Official
announcement IN another column, that the Jetter-
son Insurance Company, of this city, have decla-
red another dividend Of eleven per cent, on their
profits for the last SIX months. This Company
has now paid the entire capital back again to lis
stockholders, since August, 1857, and has sull on
hand about $4,000 of surplus.
l. A Sloop containing twenty-seven persons
was struck By lightning near Darien, Georgia, en-
the 18th, and It's mast shivered to sp!lnters and
carried overheard without seriously njuring one
of them though four were lying with Their heads
against It, One was stunned few moments and
had zig.zag streak on his lorehead and 4 child
clothes were set on fire: no other injury.
a. The number Of deaths in this city for the
week ending Aug 9th, was 1873: - men, %
women, % boys and IS girls Of these 81 were
under three years OF age; over 10, and J over
50. 81 died with cholera intantum, - consump-
tion and y dropsy in the head. liz were natives
OF the United States and 40 Europeans.
u An officer from Mobile arrived at New
Orleans on the 3Sth ult., with requisit!on from
the Governor OF Alabama, Tor the person OF Pab-
10 Sal Salvador who was arrested short time
since IN that city, charged with the murder OF an
Italian, named Giovani Cuans, in the city OF Mo