The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-02-16
NEW YORK. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 49, 1885,
Varieties.

Varieties.
The number Valentines received at the Post ONCE.
in this city the lah inst said be between 20 and
IS OO0 and the number delivered about 10 600 At this
rate will be several days before the whole can be deli
vered
Grenvlle Penn, grandson of VIM Penn, founder of Phi
ladelphia, died recently in that city.
The negro Perry belonging to Mr. Stevenson, pilot,
was tried on the 10th ins Savannah before the Justl-
ces of the Inferior Court for the murder Of Stephen
Timmons, and after patient and thorough examination
witness was found guilty, and was ordered for
| ecuton on the 26th inst
Wolf River, which has its the Upper Wis
consn and is discharged into Winnebago Lake proved
to be navigabe The little steamboat Manchester which
plies Winnebago Lake, recently ascended Wolf river
some 200 miles from its mouth. The " mtarrass," a
branch OF the Wolf, is also said to be navigsbie.
donation Of $4,000 to Williams College through the
Rev President Hopkins This makes $40 600 given to the
same institution within the past year.
The China Mission it is limited. will be found to have
cost us nearer $40 than the 600 originally appro-
| prated.
The Odd Fellows Of Philadelphia have collected $40
for the purpose of building hall for their use
Hon. John A. Collier late of Binghampton, is about to
open Law Office in connection with his sons at Al
bany.
rhyming bachelor in the Boston Post, thinks that
sleghridng, in a cold night is not what is cracked
| to be-and concludes his dissertation as follows:
Some love to roam DER the dark sea foam,
| When the wild winds whistle free
But to ride for fun and freeze ones nose,
l. Is not the life for me-"
good deacon making an official visit dying neigh.
Dor who very churlsh and universally unpopular
hs ss n. se y0a
well" said the supplemented Deacon 81 am glad you
| are, for all the neighbors are willing"
The bill to incorporate Railroad from Portland to the
borders of Canada passed be in the
nate of Maine without division, the 7h instant and
in the House the 9Th instant by vote of l04 to TO-
company has just been incorporated by the Legsa.
ture with capital of 900 for manufacturing purposes
at Concord Mass The mills to be located the line
Of the Fitchburg Railroad, which passes through that
| town, and to operate wit b steam power.
Two veins or Of copper ore have been discovered
in Churchtown Lancaster Co., which bids fair to be
there seems to be doubt that il will yield large per
cent OF pure copper.-Bsh. Sun.
An nexhaustible bed Of bitumnous camel coal, of q
free from Ssa
city The vein is said to be about 100 feet
| 80 feet deep.
A Mr. Fuller, of Deer6eld, Mass, is making the cult
walton of cranberries profitable. From two and hall
acres he gathered twenty nine barrels the past
The fruit of first quality Mr. r. states that they
are easily raised on almost any kind OF moist land.
Persons lately applied to distinguished lawyer to in
stitute suit for debt against OF the Clay Clubs when
the legal gentleman advised his client get out letters
Of administration q dead body could not be sued7"
We lately noticed advertisement of a merchant Of
ering rubber overshoes-" for gentlemen with leather
sees and heels and elastic shanks" Rather nimble gen
| temen, those.
The legislature Of Indiana have passed act providing
for the taking of Of the population of thai
/ state between TINS ana the 10Th OF June next.
At supper for the benefit of the poor at ST. Louis il
was proposed to have q cake with ladies' small gold
watch in it, the slices Of which were to be sold for So
piece.
lack OF original matter by saying that he in
| desperate hurry to get off to wedding.
The mere contingent expenses of the Courts of the
United States for jurors Witnesses &c. amount to $780,
600. The salaries $4,000
Major Thomas Alexander, soldier of distinction is the
Revolutionary War, died in Mecklenburg county, N c..
| few days since, in the 92l year of age.
State University is to BIZ established in the village
Oxford Mss sos 900 have been collected and credited
to the seminary fund and it is expected that the will
| be inc eased to $l66 900.
The following is Sir Ashley Coopers chilblain lini
ment =" Take Of camphorated spirit Of VINE, ounce
solution Of the subaceate Of lead half an ounce Mix,
and apply 1t in the usual way"
| the following odd names MIR White, Mr.. Brown, Mr.
Field. Mr.. Town, Mr. Apple, Mr. Cash, Mr. King, Mr.
Sailor Mr. BunD Mr. Painter, Mr. Coates and Mr. Girls
| pin. We looked in vain, however, for John Smith.
The cost Of the National Light House establishment
the present is estimated By the Treasury Report
to be $396,007. There are gu lamps a36 keepers.
The city of Baltimore paid for the supp ort Of
paupers in the Aims House during the past year. The
whole number of paupers in it during the yer 49S
The number Of passengers conveyed the Baltimore
and Susquehanna Railroad, during the year ls4a was
s4s sos 70.
One John McCuen, of Pawtucket Rhode Island, hav.
ing posted his better halt replies the Gazette
follows"My husband has posted having left his
he'd and board wish simply to say that he had
any All the beds to which he lays claim given
me by my father" There! that's the point We think
John will now regret that hs did the ungallant act in
| question.
markethouse Boston, such being the result of queer
wager the Presidential Election Having lost he like
| man, will down with the SAW dust The 4th OF
| March,
The snow OF Kingston, Canada West, on Wednesday
last three feet deep level In many places the
drifts were s to IL feet deep.
Il
the public hotels ladies empying their third and fourth
glass Of wne while masticstng their food The revenue
suffered 600 the past year. by reducing the duty
on the article of rum
Three cotton factories about be started il
Canada
According to late accounts from Baltimore, the unfor
is fast restoring his health and, under his religious in
strucor we hope ne i preparing himself for the fa
| during the present term OF the City court
critic, in reviewing annuals for 1885, saws that every
annual tale which he remember to read at
in The month Of June The sun had scarce sunk beneath
the horizon, when seated under wide spreading oak
| one whose, &C. &c"
Capt Adams of Missouri issues kind Of letter of ad
vice relative to what is necessary for emigrants to do
VINO are bound or oregon, among other things he I'd
pounds to take no nrniture to sell their feather beds
and buy blankets and qus to take tin rather thar
crockery and to let their provision stores be principally
-four, in the shape ofpilot bresd
II is stated that there in the State of Ohio upwards
100 600 children between the ages of and 30 unable
read and the shocking neglect OF the district officers
to make returns, shows growing indisposon to the
character, success and fate Of the schools.
A justice in Of the southw western States being re-
Gently puzzled in examination where the witnesses
point blank against each other dismiss the
and sentenced the witnesses to pay all the cssts.
| THE HYDRAULIC POWER OF THE MILWAUKEE, RI
YER, at present successful operation upon the
canal cut from it, consists Of Touring mill containing
four OF stone; the Wisconsin iron works, consisting
of furnace 90 by so feet, aad workshop for making
ploughs threshing machines horse powers &c the city
hydraulics the basement of which used tor machine
shop and the second story occupied BY machinery