Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-20

the New York Police Gazette as follows
Americans, GA; Irishmen, 81; Germans, 10;
Scotch, 4; and one each from England,
France. Nova Scotia, and Poland.
Mr.. Richard Mosely, member Of the
Phmnix Engine Company of St. Louis, en-
tered a grocery while the counter was wrap
ped in flames, took from beneath it keg
and canister of gunpowder, and bore them
to the street uninjured.
|. John S. Skinner, formerly Assistant Post
Master General and recently Editor of the
Farmers Journal, died at Baltimore on the
29th uIt.
There is a project on foot in the city of
New York for erecting large theatre there
for histrionic entertainments in German.
The average weight of wheat in Alabama,
says the Mobile Tribune, is IS lbs. to the
bushel.
The entire route of the Central Railroad,
from Boston to Burlington, VT, is to be COM
plcted next spring.
DIR. Coolidge, who murdered Matthews at
WatervilIe, Me-, has committed suicide.
Luckett, who shot Magnor at Quincy, is
acquitted.
senator Huntington, of CT, is reported
dead.
Hon. Daniel Webster is sick in Boston,
Mass.
$500 buffalo robes, &c., were brought to
St. Louis on the 2lst, from the Upper Mis-
souri,.
The Mexican debt to English capitalists
is about s5O,OoO,oOO.
Snow fell to the depth of three inches in
Qncbcc on the 18th inst.
There are said to be 400 stages or omni-
buses in New York.
Last Saturday there was quite snow
storm in and about GaIena. We had
heavy rain storm last Wednesday.
George Green, Esq, Of Dubuque, is APP
pointed one of the Associate Judges of the
Supreme Court Of Iowa.
A young man, riding rapidly along on
horseback, ran against the wire of the tele-
graph line, which, striking hun against the
throat, cut il so as to occasion his DEATH
The wire had been lowered for repairs.
A meeting was held in Birmingham, Oct.
4th adverse to the I" PEEPS bills' of 1871 9 and
1914, and favorable to their repeal, which
means in favor of Bank suspension. TWAS
also stated that Mr.. Barring had gone to Paris
to solicit a renewal of the aid granted by the
Bank of France to the Bank of England in
1889.
Saxony fleece wool is quoted in New York
at 40 to IS cents. Merino do. at 81 to 40
cents. Common at so to 80 cents. Cotton
is selling at 8 to . cents. Flour is selling at
SO 80 per Dbl and is declining. Lead is
worth "a 81.
Contracts have been made IN New York
for the building of steamer, to run on the
Hudson, 400 feet long. The calculation is,
that she will run to Albany and back, daily;
or, in IL or IS hours. The Hendrick EIud-
son is, we believe, the longest boat hitherto
built. She is $50 feet long.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that fifty
thousand dollars have been paid by the Lake
commerce the present season, for lighterage
and detention on St. Clair flats.
Professor Allen, Pastor of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Newark, N. j., recent
~ resigned his ministry and embraced the
Roman Catholic religion.
A lad twelve years old, died a few days
since at New London, of the lockjaw, caused
by stepping on nail
Two droyers were brutally murdered near
Montreal few days since, by some I'M
known villain.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, says" The
Brig New Orleans went ashore in attempting
to make the river on Saturday south of the
South Pier"
James Brooks, Esq, Editor of the EN-
press, is elected to the Assembly from the
city of New York.
ANOTHER RAILRoAp DIsAsrER.-The 5
O'Clock traiu from Boston, on the Western
railroad, came in collision yesterday morning
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