Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-12-25
Summary of News.

OF that city, oil Respectable Ihnbly, VINO;
having been betrayed and deserted by an
artful villain, named Franklin Ward, posi-
lively refused TO take nourishment, and died
of starvation.
Hon. Morgan l.. Martin, is elected Presi-
dent of the Constitutional Convention of
Wisconsin.
Gen. TAYLOR was received in New Orleans
with unbounded enthusiasm, and was COM
plimented with dinners and displays of fire.
works.
John Lightner and family, living near the
falls of St. Croix, were lately poisoned by
taking wild parsnip root, prescribed by a
root doctor. The two eldest sons died.
The Wing majority in the House Of Rep
resentatives at Washington, is six or eight
In the Senate, the Democrats have a ma
jority.
N. P. Willis has issued new and highly
illustrated edition Of his poetry. 1t is dedi-
Gated "To Memory and Hope, my
Mother and my Daughter, these voiced vi
brations of the link between, are affection
ately inscribed"
The citizens of St. Lawrence county, n.
Y, are receiving subscriptions for the erec-
ton Of monument over the grave of Silas
Wright; Benjamin Squires, Of Canton, is the
Treasurer.
The census of our city, says the Milwau-
kee Sentinel, under the law of the last leg
islature, is almost completed. 1t shows an
astonishing increase. The aggregate popu-
lation will not vary much from 1880. On
the ist of June, 1916, only IS months ago,
il was but 9,640; and in 1910, only years
ago, Milwaukee had but as many hundreds,
as she can now count THOUSANDS.
The Telegraph says that the Census just
taken shows the population of Southport TO
he 5000. This is AN increase Of several
hundred within the last two years.
The Rock River Pilot, says "A German,
! by the name of Ferdinand Hertzmann, re-
Gently committed suicide near Hustisford,
Dodge county, by shooting himself through
the bend. No reason is assigned for the rash
act, unless il was found in an expression pre-
viously made by the deceased to his brother,
that he had been eaten by musquetoes all
summer, and expected to starvc To death in
I the winter.n
The Parkershurg Gazette says that up
wards of seventy emigrants, a few days ago,
passed through that town from the Valley OF
i Virginia, on their way, with large number
of slaves, 10 Missouri, and the remainder TO
Iowa. Thus, says the Gazette, is Virginia
peopling the other States, when she ought to
hold her own, and attract immigration from
i abroad.
1 The New Orleans papers announce the
death Of Mrs. Place---the Josephine Clifton
of other days-wife of the proprietor of the
American Theatre. She had been indisposed
/ for week or more, but the immediate cause
/ of herdoath was a violent hemorrhage, which
snatched her away even before those around
her were aware of her death.
The proprietors OF the Church of St. Au
gustine, of Philadelphia, have recovered the
sum of $4,000 from the county of Phila-
delnhia, for the destruction of their Church
during the Native" riots OF 1874.
Steamer Monmouth from the Brazos ST.
Jago, arrived at New Orleans on the S0th
ut. She left on the Goth, and brings no
news. Gen. Taylor and suite came pas
seneers. He was received at New Orleans
by splendid procession on Thursday, ID
/ inst.
The oswego Times says that the Schr.
Ellen, of Cobourg, recently sunk in that
harhor, having $50 barrels of salt and 200
barrels of plaster on board.
1 According to General SCOTS admirable
dispatches, only 5000 American troops cap
tured the grca, city of Mexico!
Hassay s Robinson, shipwrights, Mgiers,
opposite New Orleans, were burnt out ON
the 9th. Loss $1,000 to $4,000.
The steamboat Eureka was sunk on the
9Th inst. in the Mobile river, with Bis bales
of cotton on board, 400 of which were
saved.
The Washington Union informs Us that
United States treasury notes are sought aft
ter in Mexico at premium Of eigh, per
cent.
A poor crazy creature named Indian Suse
was shot by some unknown person in Chill
hcoshe, Ohio, on the leth inst.