The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-20
GENERAL ITEMS.

GU. McNULTY. find the following
paragraph in relation to Mr.. McNulty, late
clerk of the House of Representatives, in
Congress, in the Cincinnati Daily CONNER
cial of the 22d inst:-
awe understand from one of Mr.. MeNul-
ty's friends, day or two since, that the Col,
had succeeded in making good his deficit
with the government, and that he weuld re.
turn to stand his trial this summer at least
more than half atoned fer
or The Cashier of the Bank of St.
Clair was in Cleveland short time ago, and
redeemed several thousand dollars of st.
Clair money, by giving due bills payable in
pine lumber at the market price. The
Plain Dealer thinks that pine is rather soft
banking basis, under the circumstances butas
good as can be expected.
THE FIRE AT QUEBEc,-Seventeen dead
bodies had been found among the ruins on
Saturday evening, and more it is supposed,
would DO discovered.
The number of houses destroyed is 1880,
besides out-houses. &c. In Is of the 80
streets, the scene of the fire, not single
house remains.
Fer the relief of the sufferers, the sum of
f7000 had been raised in Quebec, and
about G5000 in Montreal.
Never look at the girls. Oh, no, they
can't bear to be looked at; they regard it as
an insult. They wear their fine feathers and
bustles merely to crafty their mammas-
that's all.-Salem ADD.
The editer of the " Advertiser has been
indicted for the above, and will be tried on
next Valentines Day.
PITTSBURGH CoNTRIBUT1oNs.-Th Pitts
burgh American says.-A long and able re-
port has been made by the committee Of
councils appointed on this subject, (the fire.
It recommends the Immediate distribution of
the money in gift to the suferers-all ex-
cept the State donation, which it purposes
to return to the treasury. The amount thus
farreccived is Sl32, 100 65, besides the $780,
900 from the State.
ET0H1F"I will give you my head, if you are
not wrong" exclaimed dull and warm ora
tor to the President Montesquieu, in argu-
ment. "Iwill accept" replied the phioso-
pher, Z" any trifle among friends has its value"
VEGETABLE PILLs.-The New Orleans
Picayune states, that a scheming Yankee
has been selling "pursly vegetable pills"
through the southern country at great rate,
On undergoing analysis they were found TO
be purely uegetabIes, indeed. They were
nothing more or less than common garden
peas, dipped in solution of powdered IL
quorice.
GF The most unparalleled piece ofimpu-
dence ever we have heard of, is that the Br-
tish Consul at New York is striving to erect
church in which prayers are to be offered
for the Queen and Royal family.
~ The Findlay Democrat contains the
remuneration ofwhiggery ofMr. James Henry,
of Hancock country He says his reasons
for the change are various, g but their course
in creating worthless banking institutions is
alone sufficient for me to renounce them
forever. shall support the dem ocratc
ticket hereafter" The bank and tax laws
of last winter, will open the eyes Of thou
sands.
W The drought is truly distressing in
this county. There are acres of ground, we
are credibly informed, on which the wheat
is SO parched and withered, that it would
burn up if fire was applied to it,-Fmmer
Findlay June 8.
CRePs IN lLLINoIs--The Warsaw Sigma
says, from present appearances, the crops il
this section promise to be unusually large
I'm, Ca, hn, loo
ONO SrocKs.-The Journal of Saturda,
congratulates its readers that Ohio stocks
bearing six per cent. interest have advanced
TO 9Sa cents on the dollar 1t fails, however
to state that their six months interest will be
due in July, which, taken from the amount,
would leave Ohio SKIES at but 954. 1t fails,
also, to inform its readers thatwhen whig-
gerry took possession of this State last fall
Ohio stocks in the New York market were
above par.-Ohio Statesman.
The Ohio Statesman in reply TO an article
, in the Ohio State journal, has the following
CoNTEMPIBLE LYING" The Journal
says that Jesse Smith, the red dog banker, is
, a democrat A baser falsehcod was never
, found in the columns of that profigats sheet
Jesse Smith, democrat? Why he was the
very head and front of Licking county whig
gerry. In lS4o he furnished the most of the
funds, upon which whiggery, in that couatry
{ guzzled hard cider and built mock log cabins
) After the election of" Tppecanoe and Ty.
I, Ter teo," this same red dog banking establish
!. ment furnished the materials used by the
ceons in building bonfres to exhibit thei
: Joy. The store of Jesse Smith, as late as
. ls42, exhibited large handbills glorifying
I. over the result of that demoralizing and dis
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