Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-11
GLEANZNGS.

Deaths III w llmlngton during SeptemDer,
twenty Eight.
Wheat recently sold at Indianapolis at
sixty-five cents per bushel.
Hon. ]. w l.. Childers has resigned his
office of Mayor of Mobile on account of Ill
health.
The Indianapolis State Journal, has COM
menced the publication of very neat daily
paper.
The Governor of Texas has refused to
call an extra session of the Legislature.
The esd of November has been fixed up
on for Thanksgiving Day in New Jersey.
Thanksgiving day in Connecticut, on
Thursday, November S0th, by appointment
of Gov. Bissell.
Admiral Keppleman, from London, is at
Albany.
There were fifty-five clearances at the Gus
tom House in Boston, on Saturday last.
There are 1858 licensed houses to sell ar
dent spirits in the city of New York.
There were two hundred and seven deaths
of yellow fever in New Orleans in Septenl-
Der.
There were seven editors and executors
candidates for Congress in Pennsylvania.
Rev. DR.. Jacob Van Vechten, of the Re-
formed Protestant Dutch Church of Schen-
ectady, has resigned.
Two sportsmeu of Livingstone, j.,
brought home one day last week as the
fruits of HINT i'll the Great Swamp, twenty
four squirrels, four birds and coon.
The winter session of Rutgers College,
New Brunswick, opened on the first Mon
day of the month with handsome Access
sion of students.
The University of Virginia, on the 18th
instant had 2SS notwithstanding the lar
gest number ever at the University at any
one time.
Mr.. Charles Lyell late President of the
Geological Society, has received the honor
of knIghthood from the Queen.
The potatoe disease is represented, by the
Dutch correspondent of the Economist, as
very bad in several parts of Holland.
The steamer Cambria left Boston on
Wednesday with sixty-ope passengers for
Liverpool, and seventeen for Halifax. She
took out no speca.
Adrian, Michigan, has produced a squash,
weighing loo pounds, and Palmyra ounce
of twenty-one ounces.
Kendall of the New Orleans Pcayune,
now in Europe, has been seriously indis-
posed at Hamburg, but at the last abvlces
was recovering.
Nine divorces were ordered by the Supe
rior Court of Connecticut, sitting at Dan
bury, last week.
Sir Lucius O'Brien, NJ. P. has arrived at
ClOnme, where he will remain until after
the trial OF his brother.
The New York Evening Post says num-
Der ofyoung and enterprising merchants of
that city are about to establish themselves
i'll California.
Over lO0, 900 bushels of Indian Corn were
shipped from Boston for Liverpool and Cork
last week.
Among the articles on exhibition at the
great Fair Of the American institute in New
York, is dead infant, preserved, in ''Fish's
patent metallic sarcophagus."
The following gentlemen haye been nom
mated by the Governor of Maine to be
Judges of the 5. }. Court-Either Shepley,
Chef j. 5. }. G; John Slenny, aud Joseph
Howard Associate.
The eighteenth anniversary Off opening
of the Fremont House, Boston, celehra-
ted on Monday in a most hospitable and
sumptuous manner by dinner given by the
proprietors.
Richard NJ Hoe, of New York, goes out
to Europe in the steamship Cambria, to SUI
perintend in Paris the fitting up Of his
" Lightning Presses in the establishment of
the La Prcsse newspaper.
H. Batdoe, colored porter at Brewster's
Binding, New Haven, was found dead in
his bed on Saturday morning last, having
been strangled by his cravat which he wore
to bed
An elderly chap, says the Picayune, speak
ing of his great knowledge of the Western
country, the other day, said he had known
the Mississippi River ever since it was a
small creek.
The Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company have declared dividend of three
per cent on the profits of the past three
months, payable on demand.
The ST. Louis New Era states that Mr..
William Walton the son of Judge w alton,
was accidentally killed few days since, by
being thrown from his wagon.
The death of Capt Rosencrants, T. S.
Army, took place on the 18th instant, at Up
SLANT. Michigan, in the 90th year of his
age. lie was in nearly all the battles under
both Taylor and Scott.
1t appeared by the reports at the 37th an
niversary of the New Jersey Baptist Asso-
citation. that there were Z I "A communicable