The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-08-18
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res and had sucked out abont ga Hon from each
oafreI' ana IN this account they deducted twenty
hve cents from each hand. The hands all re
paired to justice of the peace. and brought sep
araie snits against the boat. The taking of the
wh'skey was proved. but the plaintiffs introduced
testimony that from time immemoIel il has been
the usage and custom for boat hands to- suck
whlskey from the barrels thus carried as freight
On the proof of this usage, the case was decided
against the boat. and Judgment rendered agains,
1t in each case for twenty FIVE cents An appea
i was taken.
MORE THAN HALF TRUE.--If yon are ever
threatened with handsome man in the family,
Just take clothes FOUNDER while he's vet in the
bed, and batter his nose to pumice From some
cause or other, handsome men are invariably
asses they cultivate their hair and connie xion so
much that they have time 10 think of their
Drains BY the time they reach thir,y. their
head and hands are equally soft. Again we saw.
II you wish 20 hnd an intellectual man lust look
LOT one win lace SO rough that you might use
1t for a nutmeg crater.
The TEA TRApE.-During the last half Of
the year ls45, the tea exported from China Ia
the United States was 1922 1874 pounds, of which
7,2509S2 pounds were green tea. The ouan,it,
expored to Great Britain in The same time wa,
81 ,s53,74O pounds, of which 5.5lS ,9O7 pounds on
~ were green tea So says the Merchants Mag
azine.
ABsCoNDING PARrNER.-Mr Geo. King Of
the firm of Holt s. Co., extensive flour dealers. a,
NO go Front street, had disappeared with some
$50 900 of the funds of the concern tits stated
that the defaulng individual is young man OF
Sumo % years Of aye
| NEWSPAPER PRINTED ON sILK.-In pekin
China newspaper of extraordinary size is pub
Iished weekly silk 1t is claimed To have bsen
IN existence more than one thousand years. Itis
said that in 1877. public officer caused sume
false intelligence to be inserted in this newspaper
tor which he was put To death. Several MIN
oeIs OF the paper are preserved in the bows library
OF PaHs, which are ten and quarter yards long
HISTORICAL PicTURE.-Mr. Albion Floyd
young artist oil great promise, is engaged with the
design OF Capt. Fremont painting our fay ON the
LOFTY summit of the Rocky Mountains, as an elm
oieih OF the dominion OF the republican stars over
thls continent. Ii is intended az pendant for
the " VIciors ot San Jacinto," ordered by some
friends oi annexation a present To one of it,
earliest advocates
HEAVY RoBBERY.-The house of Frederick
M'rang, No. 10 Erie ST. was broken omen on
Monday night, and mahogany portable desk
containing about 81 500 in bills of the Globe and
New England Banks. Boston, was solen there
from: Fifteen or twenty 500 bills, the remain
! der Is small bills. reward Of $500 is offered
Tor the recovery Of the money Boston Alias.
18Th
DEATHS AT ST. LoUIs.-More than the uspaI
quantities of viulent deaths occurred at ST Iouis
the 29h nit. The murderer of Guion, has given
hond IN S5uo Musck, young man, shot in a
Dry good store IN an affray, died. man named
Magnlei. was shot, while quarrelling about carl
body Another. while intoxicated stepped into a
house and grossly insued Mrs. Wilson. Her
cries brought her husband in, who shot the rascal
dead with gun
) A SAILOR ALL OvER.-An eye. witness tells
us The foliowing A few days since jolly sun of
the ocean was about being put on board An ont
ward bound ship, for which he had previously en-
tered, wheu he asked leave to have another run
mp town. Being Informed that he could not lie
permitted 10 go, as the ship was about sailing he
sung out To a man on the wharf, an entire slran.
ger to him, Here my friend throwing him
silver dollar. spend that for me--Pl do as much
Tor you another time Jack never gives up
while there is shot in the locker-Baltimore
Sun.
THREE FisH FOR Dinner A Liverpool pa
per tells this story, as having lis origin in an
American eating house. IL is good one. happen
where II might:
Now, waiter. what's To pay? Waiter-Let
me see SIR; what have you had sir? Diner
Three fish. Wai,er-OnIy brought I'D tso. |
think sir. Dner-No, three had TWO u,acke
rel. and one smeH
Il CoUNTERFEIT MoNEY-One of the mas, cs,
tain and easiest modes of detecting counter felt sill
yer money, is TO draw the edge of sharp pen
KNIFE across the surface. If good, il will cat like
rich old cheese if counterfeit, the edge of the
knife VIII catch, as if il had cune across some
hard substance Any one by making the trial
VIII notjce the difference very plainly.
Alexandra Dumas the celebrated Novelist,
commenced life a clerk in the office of the
Secretary of War, the Duke of Orleans, at a
yearly salary or stipend of 1900 francs year.
Tie makes as much that in day sometimes,
now.
Mrs. Louisa Dsbrow has been arrested (or
Arson. at Stafford, New York, having burned her
husband barn. and attempting to burn his house
STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTAL defective sheet in
the steam chimney of the steamboat Mountaineer
which plies between New Yrok and Peeksk,
+ gave out on her passage up on Thursday after
noon, when near Yonker, causing great alarm
among the passengers. Fortunately no lives lost.
One hremen and The chambermaid were consider
aoIe scalded, and two or three passengers slightly
Mr.. Wheeler Of Staten Island lost fine l;uIe
boy the other day by eating fly poison made Of
Common arsenic, OF rather cobalt, which is of
sweet taste.
young named Harper was asSassinaied
ny another named Ketrerer on The Ord inst, nes
ST. Louis
a LARGE Packet SHrp.-Messrs. Grinoeu.
m'n'ufn & Co., Of New York, have had large
packer ship built for their LiverpooJ Line. called
the New World" Of 1900 tons bnrthen. being
'he largest merchant vessel in the United States
HONE AND FRIENDS.
Oh, there's po,oer to make each borr
As sweet as heaven deso ueI IL
Ho- need we roam TO bring IL bo,Io
Though few there be that find III