The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-12-21
Fact aud Fancy
Fact and Fancy.
The dinner which the members OF the Philadel
phia Bar had in been postponed for the
present.

Fact and Fancy.
The dinner which the members OF the Phiadel-
pha Bar had in contemplation been postponed for the
present.
Robert Owen is lecturing in Philadelphia
Thomas M. Foote is lecturing in Buffalo on the
romance oil the Bible
On Monday afternoon, Mr.. Dennson Lathrop.
the post Office Buffalo, fell and broke his thigh very
bad manner The wound Is that he will prooa-
bly, never recover from IT.
A public meeting was held in Syracuse on the 18th
inst to devise measures for furnishing home and for
properly educating orphan and destitute canal boys
There said to be 5000 canal boys in Syracuse
1000 OF whom orphans memorial to the Legisla-
ture read and adopted, and several addresses
made
railroad meeting was held in Chicago on the
statistical information tending to show the importance
and value of railroad from Chicago to Lake Erie and
from Chicago to Galeni and the Mississippi Resoia'
tons were also adopted, and speeches made
An aged man, named Gore, was killed on the Win
chester and Potomac railroad the 18th inst by being
crushed between train Of freight cars and the side OF
bridge, which the deceased was passing on foot
bill for the prevention OF duelllng is before the
South Carolina legislature.
The Richmond Enquirer says WIN. Smith accepts
the office OF Governor.
II is said that there were no printers in the days
when the proverb which saith-"Libor while the day
lasts, for the ght cometh when work"
written.
There is a woman living within fifteen m,brs OF
is mother of children and good tempered
fair, forty, and four hundred
Fifty one pounds and twelve ounces Of WOOL have
been this year sheared from 1--WE sheep in Rutland Co..
Vermont
John Fraser, Esq formerly of Liberty county,
Georgia. was shot ny some unknown assassin on the
night of the 10th uit whilst reading newspaper III
front of the store Of MIR James King at Blounts Ferry
on the Suwannee river. East Florida Mr. Fraser re-
ceiyed two buck.shot wounds, which at first were not
tAarad Aut,u hnt n Ter
minated in death on the 30h ult
The Baton Rouge Gazette, of the 9th inst, says
We have bee visited for the last week with the coolest
weather known in thi region for number OF years
The standing is completely spoiled SO far as sugar
making concerned; the cane that had been drowed
will still yield considerably if the weather does not be
come too warm. Ash wood and stove pipes have beeD
in great demand Green blanket coats are getting IN
fashion, and wild ducks and becasses perfect drug
III the market.
Mr. Philip Flaharty had both of his legs broken
by being run by the Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, on Tuesday merning The accident
happened short distance this side of Ellicot's Mills:
He taken the Mills whore his limbs were set, and
ne is likely to do we'll
The body Of Mr. Daniel O'Harra was found in the
scioto river Ohio, below Salvans dam, the l4th
inst He is supposed to have fallen from his horse
while fording the river the water was about eight or
nine inches deep
The State of Georgia has appointed two Com
mssioners confer with two Others to be appointed by
the State of Florida to ascertain and FIX the line OF
boundary between the two states.
The river opposite Hudson is entirely closed On
Saturday the ice was strong enough to take horses
The steamers run from New Orleans to Galveston
in fifty one hours, easily.
1t is known that Mr.. Bright was elected Senator
to Congress from Indiana. His party had majority OF
of in the State Senate Of which he was President
His election and acceptance OF office made tie btween
the parties Since then they have been trying to elect
a president but after seventy baotngs that body still
remains without head.
The ladies' anti-slavery fair, In Boston, will open
at Faneull Hall, Tuesday evening next Won't it be
a funny AFFAIR."
Ex-Governor Call, of Florida, has presented to
Governor Moseley a specimen of Florida hemp, made
from plant known as bear grass IL is saId to eqee
vanilla heIp The Ex-Governor predicts that this hemp
sill be more profitable than the northern, and as valua
BILE az cotton.
The Cincinnati iiremen are getting civlzed-be-
ginning TO fight.
McKendree College, located at Lebanon, Illinois,
suspended its operations in consequence Of pccuna-
ry embarrsssmen's II was under the patronage OF the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Captain John Lane, for many years engaged as
pilot the western rivers, committed suicide, in
cinnat the soth ult. He was laboring under tenn
porary fit Of insanity, at the time.
The Missouri river closed at Jefferson, on Sun
day, the sOth-wh, the mercury, at daylight was II
Jog below zero.
Madison county, Illinois, contains population Of
IS OIL Alton numbers 607 inhabitants; Upper Alton
ilS4; Edwardsville, go; Highland, 400.
Professor Mitchell, of Cincinnati is in Boston, and
proposes delivering course of lectures on astrono
my
The trial of Edmund Halohan, an Irishman, in
cted for srson in setting .e to the shed Of Mr. Chase
in Blossom street Boston, came the 18th instant be
the Supreme Court II was con,ended by the coun
sci the prisoner that the shed formed part OF the
weng house-and therefore if the act OF setting the
FIR proved he could not be convicted of The
conducted by Samuel D Parker for the govern
nent aud Messrs English aud Wheeock tor the prsor-
The Court sustained the objection, and the prisoner
recommtted to await his trial for the Lesser offence
before the Municipal court.
lnfellluence.