Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-10
General Items.

zuinas; 'li sleeping on two blankets on a
hard table, and covering with one can be cal
led reyellinE, then | can say | do revcl."-
little poetry in such revels.
About 100000 letters are opened quarterly
in the dead letter Office at Washington.
The estimate for wal expenses for the
ensuing year as made out by the Depart
men', are said to be only sixty millions OF
dollars.
Sir Robert Peel is said to possess an es-
tate valued at ninety millions of DOLLARS
His grandfather was in ordinary c%ircumstan-
ces, but his father, who was a cotton spinner,
left his son a handsome estate which has
since been greatly increased. We are no,
informed how many thousands were made TO
suffer that one might be enriched.
This country usually raises over 10000
hogsheads Of tobacco every year, but this
year the crop has fallen short nearly one half
will hardly. reach $4,000 hogsheads. This
is good news to all who dislike offensive
breaths and filthy habits.
The celebrated Faneuil Hall, Boston, was
built in 17ll-2. The town was without a
market house, and Peter Faneuil, a merchant,
offered to build it one, and over it he erected
a spacious Town Hall. The town, by a spe-
cial vote, conferred the name Of the donor up
on the building.
The Chinese alphabet contains 500, 900
characters. Rather a discouraging prospect
for a learner, but some consolation is TO be
found in the fact that when the alphabet is
learned the entire language is mastered.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has, by pro-
clamation, abolished the punishment ofdeath
in his dominions. The guillotlne was burn
ed in the public square, while the bells Of
the town rang merrily as the flames consum-
ed its blood-stained form.
Daniel Cushwell, who cut the first tree in
the wilds of Ohio always excepting the
work of that kind done by the I%ndians) is liv-
ing in Oneida Co. New York.
A new penal code in Holland Furnishes a
man who sends a challenge with one months
imprisonment and 500 fine; for accepting a
challenge, one months Imprisonment and a
fine Of from $40 to $l5; for e%rciting to a du-
Ell, six months Imprisonment and a fine Of
from $40 to 5000; for killing in a duel from
four 10 seven years imprisonment, or ten to
twelve years Punishment. Alas! what qui-
etuS will this be to the duellist's keen sense
Of honor.
There are nine disiillcries in Claremont
Co. in this State, which daily consume about
275O bushels of corn, from which they man
u~facture 10000 gallons Of whlskey per day.
Not less than $4,000 hogs are fatted every
year on their still Stops, if that diseased, and
bloated flesh which distillery fed hogs and
men both wear, can be called Jai.
The amount Of specie in the United States
is estimated at 500, OOO, 600.
Rubin, a celebrated singer, has an engage
ment to sing in Havana twenty nights, al
$1,000 a night. Those who steal from their
slaves can probably afford 10 pay eXhorbit,
antly for their amusements,
The presence of a priest was not deemed
indispensable to a marriage, until SO decreed
by the Council of Trent in 1909.
There are 5000 miles Of railroad in opera
ton in the United States, which have beer
built al the cost Of $1,000 900.
m, ,,;a,o,r,.y - En,1,,l b.ua 400 nnf
servants; 500, 900 dogs; 100000 horses; ant
their present style OF living must be kept ~
in order to convince the world that they ar,
superior to the common herd who are star
wing around them by hundreds and thou
sands.
The commitment in the churches in Eng
land, spend annually $50 ,OOO, 900 for intoxi
eating drinks; and for the support OF benevo
lent and religious Institutions g., 900, 000.-
This would seem as though there was more
Of the Drunkard than the Christian in thei.
composition.
The number of Post Offices in the United
States in 1920 was IS, in 1915 II, 00S-ave
raging d yearly increase OF more than 235.
The French government is endeavorlng &c
introduce the cultivation of the American
Black Walnut in to France.
The WAY II WoRKs.-Some of the militia
~ companies Of Newark, y. j., thinking II
would be less troublesome 10 themselves, and
less expensive to the government to have 4
little bit Of fight at home instead OF going tc
Mexico in search Of 1t, got up quite a mlnia
ture wat, or riot, as the papers call it, seeing
it was in Jersey, and not in Mexico. Six
companies participated in it, and we suppose
demonstrated their pugnacious qualities full
to their own satisfaction. We have not heaTC