The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-11-20

Breach of promise cases are becoming fashlona-
BILE again. We had not heard much OF them for few
pastbu the rage for speculation prevails so ex
tensvely that the ladies have into it with loose
ness 1t is dangerous squeezing hands or casting
thing this evening he may have sheriff after him to-
morrow. The market price OF breach OF promise Is
about S00Obu the rise fall in the article IS often as
rapid and unaccountabe it is in the case OF Malaga
fruit, or potatoes
The wings of Poughkeepsie have had a meeting
express their indignation at the conduct Of the mao
returns from the town of Northeast correctedwhich
correction would have elected f. Crosby the
nsssed some strong resolutions and recommended sim
lar meetings in all the towns in the county.
Mr.. Bancroft has been presented with IA most beau
ful silvermounted ash cane bearing the following in
scrption the head part of the old school house
Newburg. where Gen. Washington, in council Of Off
GERS, crushed the spirit Of sedton March 49, 1882"
October, 1874 to Hon. George Bancroft, his country
historian by the Democratic Association Of Newburgh
New York; tiN J
A prisoner by the name OF Kelly, in Wells QlI)
county jail being unwel last week, not confined to
his cell He got possession OF the shsris Key to the
his horse became frightened broke the wagon to pieces
and injured the thief SO much that he was retaken
and carried back to his old quarters
The st. Johns Ns,v Br4nss,cicker states that
petition getting ready in that city, to be forwarded to
her Majesty praying for the relaxation in the provinces
crop caused much distress among the poorer peo-
pie especially the settlers, and the present tax
-four under existing circumstances, is regarded as an
oppression
Gen Green, in his history Of the Texian expedi-
ton against Ner observes that those Texan soldiers
who had the most bloody notices painted upon their
recollect seeing with liberty death" motto,
who did not take the liberty Of returning home little
too soon.
The late General William Mcdonald has be-
queathed the of $500 the Maryland Colonization
Society; also $500 to the State Bible Society.
The Ypsilanti (Nich.) Sentinel says, that the
barn of Jacob limerick, containing 5000 -four barrels
boring dwellings, was burnt Monday last. The
amount of the loss will probably be between $4,000 and
$4,000. - s4
Mrs. Ann Noble, wife of Mayor Noble, who re-
sides few miles north OF Chicago, was found dead in
her bed few mornings since, with strip OF cotton
tied about her neck either by her hand or that of
some unknown person.
The sportsmen about Trenton appear to be i'm
proving the Two of them returned on Saturday
with 7! ducks of which 81 were brant the spoils of
others byoush head on sa%s
The roll of attorneys in Alabama contains seven
hundred names The Mobile Herald, in making calcu-
aton of the cost Of law to the people othat State sup
poses each ofthese attorneys receive average,
Senior Don Antonio Argotc villalbes, late Spanish
consul at New Orleans retiring for the night fell and
expired the stairs leading to his bed chamber on the
It'll inst. f
The kearsage mountain was capped In snow on
Tuesday morning, and upon other highlands between the
Merrimack and Connecticut the snow was blown into
drifts Of considerable depth.
A Turkish paper says, in stating the fact that the
Grand Seignor is expecting addition to his family,
that contaminated rose bush bud and blossom yield
ing in the happy imperial garden has exh bited
signs Of vegetation.
We learn from the Henderson, Kentuckian that
destructive hre has been raging in the woods Of that
county for several days. which has destroyed much
liable timber.
The amount OF property destroyed at the fire
few days since, at Sag Harbo estimated at from $780,
600 to $lsOO00. insurance effected at various OFF,
ces, to the amount Of $50, 100.
II Is stated, but very doubtful authority, that
the Catholic Church has purchased the Nauvoo temple
and Gil the land and buildings at Nauvoo
two year old steer, raised by Daniel Rowland,
jr of Dartmouth, weighing fifteen hundred and sixty
eight bswas exhibited on Tuesday in the market square
In Bedford.
A man named Spratt was sentenced at Monroe,
Michigan, to pay fine Of $3.50, and year mprison
men in the State prison. for voting illegally at the cleo
ton in 1874
A letter from Princeton, dated Sunday eve
Ming states that Professor bod dangerously ILL., Of
pleurisy. On Monday evening he was thought to be
better.
Samuel b. Smith, aged % years, of South
feet, was lost overheard from the schooner Maren
go, in Vineyard Sound r. l., on Saturday noon, and
drowned aaat n FAX IasI
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