Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
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given public notice that he IS prepared 10 redeem
Si5,675 of the public debt.
THE MoxraLY RETURN of the banks of South Car
olina made on the 1Ith of March. places the amount
of the four leading items as follows Circulation
S2,29O,429; Specie 1855, 246 Loans S5,91S,496
Deposits 81, 960,227.
CoxTEmPr.-Jesse F. Dow, who was summoned to
attend the Senate in relation TO the assault made up
on Senator's in the columns Of his paper, the lines,
has sent in his bill for the same. charging 50 a day.
Letters from Washington state that Jaseph Gales,
ESQ. the senior editor of the National Intelligencer,
is lying dangerously i'll.
The steam saw mill at Fort Gibson, owned by the
United States Government, was consumed by hre on
the 12tl ult. 1t was worth $4,000 or $4,000
The Democrats of North Carolina have nominated
James B. Sheppard, of Raleigh, for Governor. The
Wing candidate is William A. Graham, the present
Governor.
ELoPED.-Philander Farr, and Miss Melissa A. Tel
Ter, both Of East Chardon, Ohio. Each of the fugi-
tives left a former companion and children IN the
above named place.
A pauper in an Aims House in Pennsylvania has
run of with and married the daughter Of the keeper,
a very pretty girl.
OLD AGE.-Mrs. Ann Lewis died in Boston aged
one hundred years ! She was a widow of a revolu-
tionary soldier, and had been in receipt of a pension
from government.
Archibald Estep, indicted at the present term of the
Union Circuit Court for the murder of Abraham Has
lam, has obtained a change of venue to Fayette Coun-
ty. The Indictment is for murder in the second de-
gree.
There are now FIVE spots on the disc of the sun, the
largest of which, as compared with Mercury at its
transit. cannot be less than ten or twelve thousand
miles in diameter.
DIR. White, the sub-agent of Indian Affairs In Ore
gon, while in Washington, was made an Odd Fellow.
and has received all his degrees. He says he intends
to erect the standard OF Friendship, Love, and Truth,
at the Willamette.
On the night of the 22d nit. the dwelling house o.
Mr.. Sidney Falkuer, near Cane Creek, in Chatham
county, N. c., was consumed by fire, and two of his
sons Zone six, the other three years old) persisted In
the flames.
Five children were burned to death a few days ago
at Fredericksburgh, near Kingston, Canada. The
family went to a wedding party, leaving their chill
dren at home, the Oldest being about thirteen years of
age. On the return of the parents. at a late hour,
they found their home a heap of ruins, and all their
children burned to death.
Gov. Edwards, of Missouri has granted a pardon
to Burr, one of the persons who was sentenced to the
penitentiary five or six years ago, for aiding slaves
TO escape from the services Of their masters. Burr
was from the State of Illinois.
The Richmond Compiler mentions the death in
Cumberland county (ya.) Of Syfax Brown, aged one
hundred and fifteen years four months and FIRE days.
He was for many years the slave and personal SER
want of John Randolph, ESQ, of Mattoax, father of
Inc ate JOhn handolpn OF hOnOake.
The REMNANT OF SEVEN INDIAN TRIBES still live
within the bounds of Western New York, numbering
near 1000 persons. OF these nearly the whole, or
about 5000 adhere to their native religion, though
they pursue the arts of husbandry, and have near
1900 acres of land under cultivation.
A LARGE SHEEP.-The Portsmouth Journal says
that a sheep raised by Mr.. John L. Bracket of Green
land, which weighed when alive lS6 pounds. was
slaughtered this week, and weighed when dressed,
104 pounds. 1t sold in market for $3.50. Pretty
good when common sheep may be purchased for less
than a couple of dollars.
The Presidents house of Harvard College, recently
occupied by President Quincy, is, according to the
most accurate accounts, about one hundred and thirty
years old. The house first built for the Presidents,
and once occupied by old President Dunster, first
President of the College. is still standing. and was
built, 1t Is believed, previous to the year 1910.
-Four MILLIONS OF DOLLARS were expended last
year in carrying on the government Of the city of
New York. The city debt Is Sl2,6Sl, $50. The tax
required this year viii be nearly equal to the rate Of
81 upon every Sl00's worth of property There are
now in the eight institutions belonging to the Aims.
house Department, supported by the city, 4,s2S in
mates.
THE DEBT OF MlcHIGAN.-From a report of the
Finance Committee of the State Senate, it appear
that the recognised Indebtedness of Michigan will
amount, on the first of January next, to S5,022,0
40. There Is besides a contingent liability amount
ing to S2.755.35l 81. The sum of 81, 235, S29 Ii
viii be due and payable in the course of the presen
year. IF the sum of s. 1900, coo is obtained for TIN
railway, the State will be able to pay that amour
without Inconvenience.
RAILROAD TRoUBLEs.-The hands on the railroad
at Troy, ". H., struck for wages and nearly bea
Mr.. Holman, a farmer, to death. They raised al
empty coffin, on which was inscribed 50 For him uh
goes to u1ork first" He knocked down 4 of them
when others coming up behind struck him down witt
an axe, and when down they hacked his head dread
fully. Mr.. Holman has an interesting wife and fam
lily of children.
HoRRIBLE.-At Louisville, KY, a German name
Joseph Jockel, in a fit of insanity and during the al
sence Of his wife, killed his own little son, abou
three years old, by cutting his throat from ear to ca
with a razor, and then put the body in a tub and hi
it under the bed. Jockel attempted TO cut his ow
throat, but was prevented by the n~eighbors.
SAD DEATH.-The Springfield Republican state
that Miss Caroline Chaplin, a lady twenty four yeas
of age, met with a shocking death in that town o
Saturday afternoon. While sitting alone by an ope
fire place, sewing, she was seized with a fainting Fl
and fell on to the fire and when a member of tn
family returned to the room, after an absence of onl
fifteen or twenty minutes, she was dead, her face BIZ
ing burned so much as to be entirely d%isigured.
The WIliamspOrt, Lycoming county, Penn, CT
zette, tells a terrible story of havoc recently mad
amongst the : fair and frail" of that vicinity, by
man, said to be from Binghampton, New York, name
F.. Eastbrooks, who visited Wiliiamsport about /
months ago as a teacher of music, got up sewers
schools, was employed to 8 lead the choir" of one
the churches, etc. He married one Of his victims
get out of Jail, and then sloped.
Alonzo Pennington, charged with the murder
Edward Davis, In Christian county, KY, in May las
and for whose arrest the Governor Of Kentucky ofe
cd a reward of $1,000, has been arrested and plac,
in the Jail at Charleston, S. c., for a requisition.
A difficulty recently occurred at the Sac and low